It's that Silly, Politically Correct Holiday Season

By Sammy Benoit, AT "And to my Christian friends: Please don't go get assimilated on me either. That tree in the mall is a Christmas tree, not a holiday tree. Santa is not a secular character; he is Saint Nick. You have a nice tradition. Don't try to make it politically correct by taking away its religious nature. Or as Judge Judy would say, "Don't pee on my leg and tell me it's raining!""

How far will Ayers turn against Obama?

Jack Cashill , AT "After months of dithering, Obama turned his back on his leftwing base, Ayers included, and grudgingly consented to a troop surge. Ayers is not pleased. On Wednesday night, he took to the streets of Chicago to protest. Never shy about using stark language, Ayers told an interviewer just what he thought about his protégé's policy."

Democrats Vote to Cut Half a Trillion Dollars From Medicare

Gateway Pundit "“Medicare is already in trouble. The program needs to be fixed, not raided to create another new government program,” said Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky."

Oh my: Al Gore bails on lecture at Copenhagen

Hot Air "Nor do I think he’s ducking the lecture because he’s afraid to face questions about Climategate. Why should he be? He’s already got two pre-packaged “rebuttal” arguments to choose from, the savvy and the schmucky. Just today the UK’s climate secretary went the latter route by warning people not to be distracted from the crisis by skeptic “saboteurs.” That spin will be plenty good enough for a roomful of true believers, I’m sure."

'Job Summit' Ignores Job Creators

InvestorsBusinessDaily "It was no surprise that not a single White House in more than a century has had a smaller ratio than the current administration. Only the Kennedy — less than 30% — and Carter — just over 30% — administrations were close to the Obama mark of less than 10%. It is the height of hubris for an administration in which fewer than one in 10 Cabinet appointments have private-sector experience to hold a meeting with the goal of creating jobs."

Political Cartoons by Michael Ramirez

Townhall

Any wonder why Mr. Ramirez no longer draws for the LA Times?

Climategate – it ain’t just about the weather

Pajamas Media "Climategate is about a lot more than climate. It’s about science and its relationship to politics and profit, the academy, the state and, perhaps most importantly, information control. The manner through which we learn (or thought we did) important knowledge about key aspects of our existence, the way things are hidden, has been exposed in this one instance like the Wizard of Oz."

Reversing Obama on the KSM Trial

Andrew C. McCarthy "We absolutely can get President Obama to reverse this [KSM trial]decision. We’ve done it before. This spring, outraged Americans made their voices heard when the Obama administration attempted to disclose top-secret photographs said to depict the abuse of prisoners in U.S. custody. The president backed down, reversing his attorney general’s decision not to appeal a disclosure order. On Monday, that popular national-security resolve paid big dividends when the Supreme Court ruled in favor of keeping the pictures classified. Much to the chagrin of DOJ’s pro-detainee activists and their friends at the ACLU, the photos will not see the light of day."

Obama's surrender will end in blood

Matt Patterson , AT "They say that the U.S. Military Academy at West Point was an odd venue for President Obama's Afghanistan speech. And indeed it was - after all, surrenders are usually offered to the enemy on the battlefield. For that is exactly what the President proposed Tuesday night; surrender, abject and total."

AfPak response to Obama's speech; fear

Rick Moran , AT "In Pakistan, Mr. Obama's declaration fed longstanding fears that America would abruptly withdraw, leaving Pakistan to fend for itself. Many in Islamabad, Pakistan's capital, argued that the short timetable diminished any incentive for Pakistan to cut ties to Taliban militants who were its allies in the past, and whom Pakistan might want to use to shape a friendly government in Afghanistan after the American withdrawal. "The most serious issue, as far as we see it, is the exit date," said a senior Pakistani security official who spoke anonymously because he was not allowed to speak publicly. "It will have serious implications."

Searching in Vain for the Obama Magic

Der Spiegel "Never before has a speech by President Barack Obama felt as false as his Tuesday address announcing America's new strategy for Afghanistan. It seemed like a campaign speech combined with Bush rhetoric -- and left both dreamers and realists feeling distraught."

OBAMA'S JOBS SUMMIT? IT'S A JOKE

Boortz Small business owners -- Not invited. U.S. Chamber of Commerce -- Not invited. Andy Stern, President of the Service Employees International Union -- Invited. National Federation of Independent Businesses - Not invited. United Steel Workers union president -- Invited Teacher's union president -- Invited Anna Burger, SEIU .. invited. Big Obama Donors. Invited. Opponents of Obama's stimulus spending. Not invited

Boxer ("Senator" Boxer to you.): Hackers should face criminal probe over 'Climategate'

The Hill h/t to Lucianne. "Boxer, the top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, said that the recently released e-mails, showing scientists allegedly overstating the case for climate change, should be treated as a crime."You call it 'Climategate'; I call it 'E-mail-theft-gate,'" she said during a committee meeting." WHITE HOUSE HANGS ON TO THE GLOBAL WARMING HOAX "Cap-and-tax gives Obama and the Democrat yet another way to hamstring the free marketplace and to produce revenue. This is a tax scheme, nothing else." Neal Boortz

Cadets await Obama's speech

Yahoo News

Cadet reads "Kill Bin Laden" as he waits with other cadets for U.S. President Barack Obama to deliver an address on U.S. policy and the war in Afghanistan at the U.S. Military Academy.

In defense of Barack Obama

Jerusalem Post "Misguided, perhaps. But to declare the Obama administration to be anti-Semitic is just wrong. Let's keep the debate in the area of policy. Unfortunately, there'll be no shortage of topics to discuss."

It’s Getting Lonely Around Obama

Süddeutsche Zeitung, Germany h/t to Watching America "Nowhere outside America has the percentage of people concerned about a threatening environmental collapse sunk lower than it has in the United States, where it now stands at about one in five.To try to force new environmental laws through Congress under such conditions is, to put it mildly, courageous. It may even be political suicide."

The Left's Climategate: A Scandal for Journalism, Too

Media Research Center "The media’s current silence is made worse by the decades they spent promoting the Left’s alarmist global warming agenda and excluding any doubters from the discussion, as documented by numerous MRC studies:"

Political Cartoons by Michael Ramirez

Townhall

Obama's Afghan Strategy

Blackfive "Afghan Security Forces (ASF) are not going to be ready in 18 months. Certainly we can train the grunts in that period of time to some level of competence. But it is the leadership that is key. You don't develop an NCO corps or an officer corps in that period of time. And it appeared the key to this strategy is standing up a competent ASF capable of defending itself and the country against the Taliban."