Blowing Smoke at Terrorists

Terence P. Jeffrey "Abdal Rahim al-Nashiri, according to the 9-11 commission report, was the mastermind of the Oct. 12, 2000, attack on the U.S.S. Cole that killed 17 U.S. sailors."...."CIA officers blew smoke in Nashiri's face, according to the report, and they used cigars."

Obama Goes After CIA to Gain Cover on the Left

Dick Morris & Eileen McGann "The exposures he is likely to make will dominate the headlines even as Obama disingenuously retreats from his campaign commitments on Iraq and on foreign policy in general." Says he.

An Ivy League Huey Long

George Will "In August our ubiquitous president became the nation's elevator music, always out and about, heard but not really listened to, like audible wallpaper."

TAXING THOSE EVIL PROFITS

Neal Boortz "Question: Who should make the decision as to when to buy or sell a stock? The government? Some union hack? Hey! Here's an idea! Let the person who owns the stock decide when to sell it! And let the person with money decide when to invest! I think there's a word for that ... "freedom," I think. But then we're talking about unions, aren't we?"

British courage, then and now

Ethel C. Fenig "The bomber served a week and a half for each person massacred on the Pan Am flight. More bleak hours for the country are to come as the consequences of this continue. Will we have to bail them out? Ah, but we are a different country also; while Gordon Brown is certainly no Winston Churchill, President Barack Obama (D) is definitely not President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (D). "

The Two 9/11's

Kyle-Anne Shiver "So, there will be two 9/11's this year, but only one will really count. May the counterfeit 9/11 die quickly in the dustbin of history, where all good socialists return to the maggots from which they came." Amen. Keep preachin'.

Iraq: suspected bomber recently released by US

Google.com "The suicide truck bomber who targeted Iraq's Foreign Ministry in one of the most deadly attacks this year had recently been freed from U.S. custody, an Iraqi investigator said Sunday, raising fresh concerns that former detainees will return to violence." Duh.

Experts see double-digit Dem losses

Politico "...“the situation this summer has slipped completely out of control for President Obama and congressional Democrats.”"

'Senator High And Mighty'

Victor Davis Hanson "What has most hurt the leadership of the Democratic Party was its transformation into a ruling aristocracy, with entitlements of wealth and privilege that insulated it from the effects its advocacy of high taxes and government mandates have had on others less refined and blessed. But well before John Edwards, Al Gore, John Kerry and Nancy Pelosi sermonized one way while living quite another, Ted Kennedy had already mastered that paradoxical art."

Israel, Iran and Obama

WSJ online "Conflict is inevitable unless the West moves quickly to stop a nuclear Tehran."...."The mullahs understand that the only real challenge to their nuclear ambitions is likely to come from Israel. They've long concluded that the U.N. is no threat....They can also see that the West lacks the will to do anything, as the Obama Administration continues to plead for Tehran to negotiate..."

Princess Diana's Death Offers Lessons for Health Care Debate, 12 Years Later

ABC News "The horrific accident illustrated the difference between the French and U.S. approaches to emergency care -- a relatively small piece of the French medical system, but deemed by some people to be the best in the world and often cited as a model for U.S. health care overhaul."

Afghanistan is now Obama’s war

Financial Times "The issue has not yet come to the boil but Mr Obama’s position is as difficult as it could possibly be. This is now his war. He asserted ownership again only recently, calling the conflict for the hundredth time “a necessary war”, unlike his predecessor’s supposedly needless “war of choice” in Iraq."

Enough is enough, Harry/ Stop the childish bullying

Las Vegas Review Journal "For the sake of all who live and work in Nevada, we can't let this bully behavior pass without calling out Sen. Reid. If he'll try it with the Review-Journal, you can bet that he's tried it with others. So today, we serve notice on Sen. Reid that this creepy tactic will not be tolerated."