Saturday, August 29, 2009

The Get-Cheney Squad

By Pat Buchanan “Men sleep peacefully in their beds at night because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.”.... "But why is Obama yielding to the clamor of a left that will not be satiated until Cheney and Bush are indicted as Class A war criminals? Is that in the national interest? Is it in Obama’s interest to tear his country apart to expose and punish these CIA agents?"

Cheney: Obama Team Should Be Debriefing CIA Interrogators, Not Investigating Them

Fox News "Watch the entire interview with former Vice President Dick Cheney on "FOX News Sunday," airing at 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. ET on FOX News Channel. Check local listings for "FOX News Sunday" airing on FOX networks."

Bill would give president emergency control of Internet

CNET "CNET News has obtained a copy of the 55-page draft of S.773 (excerpt), which still appears to permit the president to seize temporary control of private-sector networks during a so-called cybersecurity emergency."

A military solution for Afghanistan?

BLACKFIVE "IN Kabul these days, those wishing to sound knowledgeable fire one phrase at visiting reporters: "This has no military solution!" One hears it from President Hamid Karzai, UN "experts" and diplomats. Yet they appear stuck when asked: What precisely is the "this" that has no military solution?"

Friday, August 28, 2009

Ted Kennedy's Soviet Gambit

Forbes "Kennedy proved eager to deal with Andropov--the leader of the Soviet Union, a former director of the KGB and a principal mover in both the crushing of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and the suppression of the 1968 Prague Spring--at least in part to advance his own political prospects."

Update: More Than 700 International Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made Global Warming Claims

Senate.gov "The explosion of skeptical scientific voices is accelerating unabated in 2009. A March 14, 2009 article in the Australian revealed that Japanese scientists are now at the forefront of rejecting man-made climate fears prompted by the UN IPCC." How's this for a source?

Did the White House Green Light Lockerbie Bomber's Release?

Fox News "We are only seven months into this new administration. The early indications are not good that we have a seasoned and serious team manning the helm of the ship of state. For the sake of the country we all serve, let's pray they learn quickly."

New Jersey politicians say no to Qaddafi

Arab News "Opposition to his stay in a New Jersey suburb is so strident that the United States now says it is considering barring Qaddafi from staying on property owned by the Libyan ambassador to the UN."

On Health Care, ‘Obstructionist’ Charge a Big Miss

Pajamas Media "But the new definition of bipartisanship seems to be: “We get to write a controversial bill exactly the way we want to, and you get to say ‘yes’ to it.”"

Let's Celebrate Oil's 150th Birthday And The Value It Adds To Our Lives

IBD "Yet today people increasingly label oil a pollutant that damages rather than enhances our lives and, even worse, an addiction — likening our consumption of oil to a junkie's self-destructive heroin habit. This is profoundly ignorant, not to mention unfair to the petroleum industry that tirelessly innovates, year after year, to find more oil and extract it more efficiently."

Video: Beck interviews Limbaugh on the threat to free speech

HotAir "To pull off something like that would require a complacent right and a broad independent middle energized with Hopenchange fever. Thanks to ObamaCare, we now have the opposite."

No more privacy under ObamaCare

American Thinker "So much for the "Constitutional right to privacy" -- your privacy is only important when it serves progressive objectives, but worthless when they want to seize power."