Breakfast Scramble (Thursday)

Jimmy Carter has the Norks all wrong, former and disgraced President Jimmy Carter wants to appease North Korea for their recent temper tantrum, from the Washington Post:

No one can completely understand the motivations of the North Koreans,

Dumbo’s delusions, Barack Obama is, at best, a very ordinary man, with a very extraordinary ego, from Ralph R. Reiland, Pittsburgh Tribune:

That might be the problem at the White House.

U.S. Rep. Marion Berry, D-Ark., made public

Dumbo miffed, by Carol E. Lee, Politico:

Asked by CBS’s Chip Reid about complaints heard from other leaders during the summit, Obama shot back: “What about compliments?”

He appeared thin-skinned about the characterizations of his time at the

Thought for the Day I, from Michelle:

Take Your Olive Branch and Shove It, Democrats

I don’t necessarily agree with Michelle, but I understand her frustration Mrs. Pelosi locked the republicans out of the process and Obama demonized them. 

It is the economy stupid, from Mary Beth Schneider, Indy Star:

The same slogan that Bill Clinton’s presidential campaign made famous in 1992 is driving this year’s election: “It’s the economy, stupid.”

No issue is more important to

An article at News Busters raises an interesting point: The morons out in Bell California who got busted on corruption charges… nobody bothered to mention they’re all Democrats.

Nobody. Doe snayone doubt for a split second tha the Lamestreamers

Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. directed a major political fund-raiser to offer former Gov. Rod Blagojevich millions of dollars in campaign cash in return for an appointment to the U.S. Senate, sources said the fund-raiser has told federal authorities.

The allegation

White House science adviser John Holdren is really dumb, from Fox News:

The White House wants the public to start using the term “global climate disruption” in place of “global warming” — fearing the latter term oversimplifies the

I won’t try to speak for the guy in Florida arranging for the very public burning of the Koran.

Nor, by the same token, will I attempt to speak for the  foreign-funded groups attempting to put a Mosque at or

Is there nobody telling this guy how far offbase he is?

Apparently not…

Look, I knew the guy was senile when he endorsed Obama in the first place.

STFU, General, from David Nakamura and Javed Hamdar, Washington Post

KABUL – Gen. David H. Petraeus on Tuesday denounced plans by a Florida church to burn copies of the Koran this weekend, saying the demonstration could “endanger troops” and

Mere words, from Salon:

Tonight at 8 p.m. President Obama will deliver a speech from the Oval Office on the end of “combat operations” in Iraq.

The first thing to know about this is that combat operations are not

The candidate was outraged – just outraged – at the country’s sorry fiscal state.

“We have managed to acquire $13 trillion of debt on our balance sheet,” he fumed to a roomful of voters. “In my view, we have nothing

Year of the Woman? By Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Slimes:

GOP primary voters, a deeply conservative bunch, don’t appear to have much of a problem with strong women in public life anymore. Not only that: The GOP is consciously

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