Afghan firefights

Blackfive "I just got this video which happened not too long ago. If you ever wondered what it looks like to be in a firefight, here you go." Uncle Jimbo.

Disfigured Afghan Girl To Get Surgery In CA

Sweetness and Light "Activists and human rights workers say they are glad that Aisha is getting treatment but thousands of other women are victims of domestic violence in Afghanistan.
"Perhaps these activists and human rights workers should stop complaining and join the US military and volunteer for combat in Afghanistan.
"After all, what other meaningful force in the world stands opposed to these miscreants?"

Japan tanker was damaged in a terror attack, UAE says (drilling off US waters still banned.)

BBC "A statement signed by a "battalion" of the Abdullah Azzam Brigades, which is linked to al-Qaeda, said one of its suicide bombers was responsible for the blast.
"The claim, posted on a website used by Islamist militants, could not be independently verified, and the group has made false claims in the past."
HOW SHOULD WE RETALIATE AGAINST THE JIHADIST'S ATTACK ON THE JAPANESE OIL TANKER - AND HOW CAN WE PREVENT FUTURE ATTACKS?

INCREDIBLE IMAGE OF SPACE

Astute Blogger "MAYBE WE SHOULD STOP CALLING IT SPACE - WHICH IMPLIES EMPTY-VASTNESS.
"I THINK WE SHOULD CALL IT ... HEAVEN:"

http://jewishworldreview.com/strips/mallard/2000/mallard1.asp

Dumb Policies Just Keep Coming

Paul Driessen  "Meanwhile, Congress remains intent on mandating low-water toilets and washing machines, and steadily expanding ethanol diktats. And EPA wants to crack down on dust from livestock, combine operations and tractors in farm fields.
"“With Congress,” Will Rogers observed, “every time they make a joke it’s a law, and every time they make a law it’s a joke.” If it had been around in 1934, he would have added EPA. Let’s hope for some change."
Paul Driessen is senior policy adviser for the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT), which is sponsoring the All Pain No Gain petition against global-warming hype. He also is a senior policy adviser to the Congress of Racial Equality and author of Eco-Imperialism: Green Power - Black Death.

Regaining a Realistic Foreign Policy

Hoover Institution "Obama seems to view himself as somehow uniquely capable of transcending international differences, partly through his sheer existence, and partly through what might be called the transformational power of unilateral diplomatic outreach. His basic foreign policy instincts are not so much realist as accommodationist. All the more reason for Republicans and conservatives to develop a cogent critique of Obama’s foreign policies — not one based upon a reflexive defense of every past feature of the Bush doctrine, but one based upon a greater dose of skepticism and tough-mindedness. In other words, Republicans need to reclaim their own history, and then they will be able to reclaim mastery of American foreign policy."

Shut Up, He Explained

Bill Kristol "[Mayor Bloomberg's] remarks will be read with curiosity by future generations of Americans, who will look back in astonishment at the self-deluding pieties and self-destructive dogmas that are held onto, at once smugly and desperately, by today’s liberal elites. Our liberation from those dogmas, and from those elites, is underway across the nation. But it’s worth taking a look at Bloomberg’s speech, if only to remind us of what we need to ascend from so our descendants can look back with curiosity at the ethos to which we did not succumb."

Will Holder investigate Obama pal for providing material support to Hamas?

American Thinker "Jonathan Schanzer writes a very good , brief article in the Weekly Standard regarding efforts by some Americans -- including Barack Obama's old friend, Rashid Khalidi -- to send a ship to break the blockade of Hamas-controlled Gaza. This is a blockade designed by Israel to prevent Hamas from continuing its terrorism against Israel. He quotes Andy McCarthy, who had previously asked the same question, and focuses on one point in particular raised by McCarthy:"...

New Film “I Want Your Money” Due this Fall; Trailer

Weasel Zippers "Wow! Here is a trailer for a film due out this fall called “I Want Your Money,” which looks like it will just be amazing. It takes a look big Government spending, and lampoons Barack Obama and the Democrats for their socialist economic agenda."

Obama message booed at the Boy Scout national jamboree 2010

Youtube Better watch this before they pull it.

Obama: Not the Great Stone Face

Victor Davis Hanson "After 19 months, a once cool, laid-back Barack Obama — beloved by Oprah in his mesmerizing ability to make the enraptured faint at his sermons — now polls about 45 percent approval and 50 percent disapproval — nearly a 20-point swing in less than two years. Currently, a generic Republican challenger enjoys on average a six-point edge in the polls — quite a turnabout from the twelve-point spread that Democrats mounted in January 2009. Public approval of Congress ranges from about 10 to 20 percent — the Democratic-led Congress getting even lower marks than the pre-2006 Republican one."