Juan Williams Pushes NPR Over the Edge

Guy Bensen, National Review, on Juan Williams:

I have great admiration for Juan Williams. Although we rarely agree on issues, his arguments almost always strike me as thoughtful, measured, and ideologically unpredictable. Having had the pleasure of meeting Juan

It would appear that the rock Obama is going to continue looking for another commerce Secretary.  The senator Judd Gregg has withdrawn his name for consideration.  From a news release on his site, we find the following:

Sen. Gregg

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Obama’s press conference. What can be said? Nothing, and yet everything. It’s a target rich environment, as I said this monring, and

As a candidate Barack Obama created a terrible box for himseslf.  He could placate his leftard base and abandon an effective war on terror, or he could placate his base, and thus imperil both the nation’s safety and his own

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An interesting weekend, and lots on the horizon to discuss. Let’s get it.

• PROKULUS: Obama is scheduled to beg and plead for his Porkulus

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• It is jolly well amazing to me that Obama should be resorting to the politics of fear so quickly.  There’s a simple reason

Explain why this is a good bill. I double dog dare you. And if you can’t or won’t, explain why I shouldn’t be siding with the GOP in opposition, despite how crazy they are

John Cole, Balloon Juice, via James

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This is the “Under The Bus” edition.

• What about the rest? With all the activity on Obama’s appointees and taxes, it shouldn’t shock

First off, you’ll pardon me if I don’t shed any tears over Tom Daschle. Hopefully, he’ll be staying gone for good this time, though I doubt that’ll happen.  He’s too deep in the councils of the Democrats to stay gone

WASHINGTON (CNN) — Nancy Killefer on Tuesday withdrew her nomination to become chief performance officer, a new post in President Obama’s administration, a White House spokesman told CNN.

Officials said privately the reason for the withdrawal was unspecified tax issues.

Fox News is reporting some democrats want to “gut” the Pelosi-Reid-Obama debt bill:

Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson, who sits on the Senate Appropriations Committee, said Republicans and Democrats alike want to gut the nearly $900 billion program of

We have yet another tax issue showing up on the list of people nominated for service in the Obama administration. There seems something of a pattern, here. Jake Tapper and Jon Karl at ABC say:

ABC News has learned

From the office of Representative John Carter, Texas Thirty One:

 All U.S. taxpayers would enjoy the same immunity from IRS penalties and interest as House Ways and Means Chairman Charles Rangel (D-NY) and Obama Administration Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner,

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Yes, we’re still trying to shovel out from under the snow, but we’ll carry on with a little wishful thinking. Forgive me, but I

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