What Happens Without Checks And Balances

From Jen Rubin at Commentary:

Jake Tapper appears to be one of the few (only?) mainstream reporters keeping current on the Chas Freeman story. You would think it would be hard to ignore the growing tidal wave of protest

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 This is the ‘Because I can’ edition.  Well, mostly, because, well, you know.  And also, because that seems Obama’s attitude about spending our

As I said earlier this morning:

 I can’t help but wonder if we aren’t at or beyond a tipping point  against Obama and the Democrats… even from people who supported their election. The amazing part is,  whereas it took Bill

I wrote some weeks ago at Pajamas Media:

For all the vitriol that has been coming from the left, and specifically out of President Obama’s mouth during the campaign, there’s a difference in tone coming out of the Obama camp

If there is any indication that the Barack Obama and his foreign policy and homeland security efforts simply cannot be taken seriously it is the appointment of Leon Panetta as the director of the CIA.

Mr. Obama owes the American

The New York Times is mourning the loss of one of it’s heroes…

W. Mark Felt, who was the No. 2 official at the F.B.I. when he helped bring down President Richard M. Nixon by resisting the Watergate cover-up and

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Yet another Monday, and only three shopping days left until ‘Black Friday”.

• Thanks for the feedback abot the new latout.  It pleases me

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Snow on the ground, today… first of the season.  Just what I needed to brighten my spirits. Not…

• I know David has

One of the constant running memes from 9/11 until now has been that GWB was warned offficially about al-Qaeda threats.. That the warnings were not actionable in any way doesn’t seem to matter much to those pushing the idea. So,

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• Remember Obama’s charge that someone at a McCain rally had yelled “Kill him”? Yeah, Obama’s been mouthing that tale as has the Oobama

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• So, the press has been doing it’s leftist duty, in promoting into the White House, Barry O.

The supposedly peace loving liberals among us must feel blind sided as regards the middle east these days, as they are a great many things. Because of Bill Clinton’s bumbling in the middle east, we’re now closer to war than

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Lots to cover today, as always and as dictated by events, most of it to do with the bailout which at this point (About

Reposted from 9/13/01

It is recorded in our history books that when he looked down at the ship full of smiling, victorious faces… faces of his flyers, just having returned from Pearl Harbor, Japanese fleet Admiral Yamamoto was quiet, pensive,

Yeah, I saw some of it last night. I turned it n last night just in time to see that thing under Bubba’s big red WC Feilds nose, say to the country what a great president he’d been.

My reaction: