Privacy and Obamacare (Remember Joe the Plumber?)

By Rick Moran "The Joe the Plumber example is instructive. Anyone who speaks out against the government - Republican or Democrat - could find their personal information plastered all over the news. Just the fact that such a possibility exists chills free speech. "

The Science of Islamic Terror

by Moorthy Muthuswamy "By understanding the roots and motivations of jihad, we can begin crafting strategies to defeat it."

Fake hate crime in Denver: Dems stand by smear, vandal’s story gets weirder

Michelle Malkin "Republican Chairman Dick Wadhams has condemned the act and said he doesn’t believe the Democratic Party had anything to do with it. But he said Waak’s suggestion that the vandalism was somehow connected to the health care debate was appalling. “It’s impugning anybody who is exercising their free speech and opposing the president’s proposal,” he said."

Race-baiter Democrat Rep. Diane Watson praises Cuban health system, Castro & Guevara who “kicked out the wealthy”

Michelle Malkin "She attacked Ward Connerly for marrying a white woman. She bragged about Washington, D.C. being a “chocolate city.” She polluted the Hurricane Katrina aftermath with race card-playing nonsense."

Ezra Klein's Confusion Over "Rationing"

Reason "But through the usual lack leftwing lack of imagination and a truly touching and naive faith in the efficacy of top/down government "solutions," Klein ends up advocating for government rationing and for imposing a government monopoly on health care, instead of for more competition and choice."

Lockerbie bomber 'set free for oil'

UK Timesonline "Gordon Brown’s government made the decision after discussions between Libya and BP over a multi-million-pound oil exploration deal had hit difficulties. These were resolved soon afterwards."

Five Major Faults with the Health Care Bills

Heritage "The following five provisions are the cornerstone of the House and Senate bills and unavoidably result in legislation taking health care reform in the wrong direction."

The Soviet era memo showing Ted Kennedy working against American interests

Rick Moran, AT "...no major media outlet ever pursued the story which is significant in and of itself. Obviously, they were afraid of what they might find if they dug too deeply. ....It is also significant that not one major media obituary on Kennedy even mentioned it. Protecting the reputation - even after death - of a liberal icon appears to have trumped honest journalism once again."

Holder's Decision To Probe CIA Hints At a New Dynamic

Washington Post "Holder notified the White House that he was reluctantly leaning toward naming a prosecutor to review whether laws had been broken during interrogations -- the very thing Obama had said he wanted to avoid. And the word Holder got back, according to people familiar with the conversations, was that the decision was up to him. "

Eric Allie cartoon

Townhall

America’s Influence Declining in Middle East

Pajamas Media "The new administration in Washington has projected weakness, resulting in many pro-Western Arab leaders moving away from the U.S. and towards the perceived “strongman” Iran and its satellites."...."American influence in the Middle East is in decline, and it threatens the global order."

Judging Ted Kennedy

Pajamas Media "But isn’t Kennedy then also responsible for the dark underbelly of the welfare state? The unintended consequences of his “compassion” led to a riot of disasters including the creation of a permanent underclass, the breakup of the black family, the disgrace that is public housing — this too, and more, is Ted Kennedy’s legacy of caring." ( The article is more balanced than this pull-out quote I chose would indicate. Ed.)