Israel, Iran and Obama

WSJ online "Conflict is inevitable unless the West moves quickly to stop a nuclear Tehran."...."The mullahs understand that the only real challenge to their nuclear ambitions is likely to come from Israel. They've long concluded that the U.N. is no threat....They can also see that the West lacks the will to do anything, as the Obama Administration continues to plead for Tehran to negotiate..."

Princess Diana's Death Offers Lessons for Health Care Debate, 12 Years Later

ABC News "The horrific accident illustrated the difference between the French and U.S. approaches to emergency care -- a relatively small piece of the French medical system, but deemed by some people to be the best in the world and often cited as a model for U.S. health care overhaul."

Afghanistan is now Obama’s war

Financial Times "The issue has not yet come to the boil but Mr Obama’s position is as difficult as it could possibly be. This is now his war. He asserted ownership again only recently, calling the conflict for the hundredth time “a necessary war”, unlike his predecessor’s supposedly needless “war of choice” in Iraq."

Enough is enough, Harry/ Stop the childish bullying

Las Vegas Review Journal "For the sake of all who live and work in Nevada, we can't let this bully behavior pass without calling out Sen. Reid. If he'll try it with the Review-Journal, you can bet that he's tried it with others. So today, we serve notice on Sen. Reid that this creepy tactic will not be tolerated."

Acknowledging the Obvious/ Is the mainstream media coming around?

Stephen Hayes "One key source is former CIA Inspector General John Helgerson, who acknowledged that two of the CIA’s “most powerful” enhanced interrogation techniques “elicited a lot of information." "Certain of the techniques seemed to have little effect, whereas waterboarding and sleep deprivation were the two most powerful techniques and elicited a lot of information," he said in an interview with the Post. "

Politically correct mumbo-jumbo in our schools

Las Vegas Review Journal "Young was discussing what she thought were the qualifications most important in a good teacher, and was asked where she would rank a teacher's knowledge of subject matter among those qualifications. Young said that actually knowing what you're supposed to teach ranked somewhere between fifth and eighth, far behind making kids comfortable in class, being able to understand their feelings, and being able to tell whether they're eating properly."

Cheney Urged for Military Strike On Iran

Atlas Shrugs "Former Vice President Dick Cheney hinted that, in the waning days of the Bush administration, he had pushed for a military strike to destroy Iran's nuclear-weapons program."....""I thought that negotiations could not possibly succeed unless the Iranians really believed we were prepared to use military force," Mr. Cheney said. "And to date, of course, they are still proceeding with their nuclear program and the matter has not yet been resolved.""

How a Detainee Became An Asset/ Sept. 11 Plotter Cooperated After Waterboarding

Washington Post "Speaking in English, Mohammed "seemed to relish the opportunity, sometimes for hours on end, to discuss the inner workings of al-Qaeda and the group's plans, ideology and operatives," said one of two sources who described the sessions, speaking on the condition of anonymity because much information about detainee confinement remains classified. "He'd even use a chalkboard at times." "

Cheney Slams Obama's 'Politicized' Probe of CIA Interrogations

Fox News "In blunt, unsparing language, former Vice President Dick Cheney accuses President Obama of setting a "terrible precedent" by launching an "intensely partisan, politicized look back at the prior administration," seeming to question Obama's fitness as commander-in-chief."

Lockerbie Lessons/ True Versus Misplaced Compassion

Mark Earley, Breakpoint "Should dying prisoners be released early on grounds of compassion? In some cases, absolutely. In the case of the Lockerbie bomber, that is a wholly different matter." Audio and text.

Glenn Foden cartoon

Townhall

The Age of the American Lust Child

By Armstrong Williams ( Mr. Williams will guest-host for Rush Limbaugh one day this week) "Some would question why it matters. What does society care whether or not children are born to wedded mothers at all? After all if the parents are together but not married, or single but wealthy enough to support the child, then no big deal right? Wrong..."