Point/Counterpoint: Petition to Dismiss Charges against Navy Seals

Atlas Shrugs "The three, all members of the Navy's elite commando unit, have refused non-judicial punishment — called an admiral's mast — and have requested a trial by court-martial. Ahmed Hashim Abed, whom the military code-named "Objective Amber," told investigators he was punched by his captors — and he had the bloody lip to prove it. Now, instead of being lauded for bringing to justice a high-value target, three of the SEAL commandos, all enlisted, face assault charges and have retained lawyers." However....Snopes calls it a waste . Only real letters are effective.

Bill would give undocumented legal status

RogueGovernment ""Illegal immigrants currently occupy 8 million jobs. Those stolen jobs rightfully belong to citizens and legal immigrants. We could cut the unemployment rate in half simply by enforcing immigration laws!" said Texas Rep. Lamar Smith, the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee. An immigration reform bill proposed by Gutierrez seeks to legalize undocumented immigrants by requiring them to register with the federal government, pay a $500 fine for each adult, learn English, pass background checks and meet other requirements."

Obama admits infidelity to Constitution, takes hiatus

Washington Examiner "The president's unfaithfulness to the Constitution became public knowledge as his dalliances with centralized government control of the economy became increasingly open."...."Obama's statement noted that in January he had made a solemn vow to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States" but that his now very public transgressions "simply prove something about me that my supporters will find difficult to believe ... that I am human." Top White House officials acknowledged, off the record, that the president has conducted a series of "extra-constitutional affairs" perhaps because he had become such a celebrity that he felt invincible."

Mass. school denies suspending student for drawing

Breitbart "The Taunton School District said in a written statement Tuesday night that the second-grade student was never suspended over the drawing. It also said a drawing circulated to reporters by the boy's father, Chester Johnson, is not the same one that was discovered by the teacher. The district says the boy's teacher never assigned students to draw something that reminded them of the holiday season, as Johnson told reporters Tuesday. " Mea culpa for those of us who perpetuated this.

Copenhagen climate summit: Al Gore condemned over Arctic ice melting prediction

UK Telegraph "Mr Gore said new computer modelling suggests there is a 75 per cent chance of the entire polar ice cap melting during the summertime by 2014. However, he faced embarrassment last night after Dr Wieslav Maslowski, the climatologist whose work the prediction was based on, refuted his claims."

Edwards’ contacts with witnesses raises red flags

Hot Air "Maybe if the news media took as much interest in the hypocrisy, disloyalty, and potential corruption of a public official as they do in the sexual antics of a professional athlete, they may have caught Edwards taking favors from a potential witness in the grand jury investigation. That seems like actual news.".... "Instead, we get daily focus on the latter story, eleven reporters assigned to dissect a political memoir by another VP candidate, and no one but the local media reporting on a story of alleged payoffs by a politician from campaign coffers to keep his squeaky-clean Two Americas image burnished."

Focus on the Family Hits Media 'Gossip' On Tiger Woods

Newsbusters "Focus on the Family President Jim Daly blasted salacious coverage of the Tiger Woods scandal in the mainstream media, offering assurances that he would refrain from the kind of commentary that often turned into "exploitation." In a column published last Monday called simply "Tiger Woods," Daly encouraged readers to look in the mirror before judging and "pray for those, like Woods, who are hurting." "

ABC’s Martin Bashir Attacks ‘Brutal Regime’ of Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Assails ‘Racial Profiling’

Newsbusters "On Monday’s Nightline, co-host Martin Bashir conducted a one-sided, hostile profile of Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s "brutal regime" and attacked his crackdown on illegal immigration as "racial profiling." The 11 minute investigation of the Maricopa County law enforcement official was almost totally negative."

How the Senate Health Bill Punishes Businesses That Hire Low-Income Workers

Heritage "Suppose you wanted to prevent single parents and people from lower-income families from getting a job. How about imposing a $3,000 tax penalty on any employer who hired such a person instead of an equally qualified, equally paid person from a higher-income family? Would that do the trick? It would do the trick quite nicely--but since no decent person actually wants to make it hard to escape poverty, it's a really bad idea. But that is exactly what the Senate health care bill does."

Atran’s Silly Thesis

Max Boot "He adopts the “accidental guerrilla” thesis propounded by Dave Kilcullen, which holds that it is American military action that is driving the Pashtuns into the Taliban’s hands. This flagrantly ignores the historical record which shows that the Taliban were far more powerful back in the 1990s when there was not a single American soldier on the ground in Afghanistan. In those days, too, the Taliban cemented a close alliance with al-Qaeda, which they have never renounced even though it would have been to their advantage to do so."

Needless climate regulation

Dick Morris "But while the world divides into those who demand global regulation to fight climate change and those who say it isn’t happening, there is now an inconvenient truth — the market is taking care of the problem on its own."

Political Cartoons by Scott Stantis

Townhall

Socialism in Stages

NRO "If the hard socialism of Communism produces economic and societal collapse quickly, Mises theorized, the soft, incremental socialism of the West ...would produce poverty in stages. Every bureaucratic intervention in the market reduces long-term wealth creation, even if it provides a temporary boost to the economy. In time, this reduction of wealth is blamed on the inefficiencies of the remaining “unfettered” market, which provokes calls for greater intervention, ad infinitum."

Senate Health Care Bill Would Force Some Middle Class Families to Pay $15,200 Yearly Insurance Fee, According to CBO Analysis

CNS News "A family of four—two parents and two children—earning $88,200 would be at 400 percent of the poverty level this year, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. A family of four earning $88,201, therefore, would not be eligible for a federal subsidy to buy insurance under the Senate health-care bill."

"Law & Order" trashes ACORN videos

Big Hollywood "Perhaps 20 years is too long for any series, but “Law and Order” has devolved into the cheapest form of left-wing paranoid delusion. It is so obvious, it gives left-wing propaganda a bad name. Maybe Karl Rove planted a mole. I now watch it for its comedic satirical value, as one would watch “Saturday Night Live.”"...."But the real action is how “conservatives” are portrayed and characterized. As implied above, the show makes more sense as a parody of the left-wing view of the right than it is effective propaganda for the left."

Massachusetts Second-Grader Suspended, Ordered to Under Psychological Evaluation Because He Drew a Picture of Jesus on the Cross

Weasel Zippers "Being Massachusetts, if the boy drew a picture of [gay sex] it would be celebrated as a model of diversity.... "

THE DEBT LIMIT: When Is Enough Enough?

Heritage "Government borrowing reduces resources available for private investment, leading to lower productivity, wages, and economic growth."

Obama team picks Illinois jail

Politico "The Obama administration has settled on the Thomson Correction Center in Illinois as a destination for a "limited number" of Guantanamo detainees, an administration official confirmed Tuesday."

FIGURES LIE AND LIARS FIGURE

Neal Boortz "The left is getting desperate. This "hundreds of thousands of people" dying shows just how desperate. How did the statists come up with that number? Glad you asked. I just happen to have the answer. Well .. .Michelle Malkin actually did the work here, I'm just going to summarize it for you:" More here. "Oh ... and don't expect to read any of this in The New York Times or see it anywhere on television other than on the Fox News Channel. "