Friday, September 4, 2009

EXCLUSIVE: CIA asks Justice to probe leaks of secrets

Washington Times "...a growing number of disclosures of highly secret programs, tactics and other information had caused "irreparable damage" to the U.S. intelligence community. "They foil our attempts to carry out classified missions," Sen. Christopher S. Bond said in an interview. "They tell our intelligence community: We don't have your back; we're stabbing you in the back. Our allies ask us, 'How can we trust you to deal in classified matters in private, when the details are leaked to the press?'""

Reid Celebrates Obama's Yucca Mountain Decision

US News from Feb 2009 "Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid reports in a message to Nevadans that President Obama has ended the government's bid to store nuclear waste in Yucca Mountain and that instead, Obama will try to come up with another plan. On his Senate website, Reid reports..."

Yucca Mountain project

Energy Dep't Background info from Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management.

Republicans Should Blow Up Party, Not Marriages: Amity Shlaes

By Amity Schlaes "The single most-profitable franchise for the Republican Party is growth, the kind of growth that sustains the relative competitiveness of the U.S. Instead of being the GOP, the Republicans should become the POG, the Party of Growth. This growth franchise is Republicans’ for the taking because the Democratic Party leadership is in hot pursuit of other franchises -- the green biz, civil rights and their dearest goal, more government health care."

Editorial: Mideast peace

Arab News "Having let everyone believe that he was different to previous presidents and that he would bring peace to the Middle East, Obama has to deliver."

Mike Ramirez cartoon

Dust off that Obama 'pledge' for your kids

By Ethel C. Fenig "And as for Ashton Kutcher who pledged to be more neighborly and loverly? According to Andrew Breitbart less than two weeks after the video was completed..."

Charles Krauthammer: Van Jones being a Truther is Devastating.

RedState "...we need to stay focused on Obama and not get distracted by Van Jones. Obama picked him and obviously condoned his communist beliefs. The question is, will the media hold Obama accountable for this obvious dereliction of vetting?" More Here.

Montel Williams has a murder wish for Rep. Michele Bachmann

Link/ (On the video) WILLIAMS (1:30:32): Michelle, slit your wrist. Go ahead… or, do us all a better thing [sic]. Move that knife up about two feet. Start right at the collarbone.

Health care reform means more power for the IRS

By Byron York "Under the Democrats' health care proposals, the already powerful — and already feared — IRS would wield even more power and extend its reach even farther into the lives of ordinary Americans, and the presidentially-appointed head of the new health care bureaucracy would have access to confidential IRS information about millions of individual taxpayers."

Controversial Obama Administration Official Denies Being Part of 9/11 "Truther" Movement, Apologizes for Past Comments

ABC News "Jones and other young activists in 1994 formed a group called Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement, or STORM, rooted in Marxism and Leninsm."

Rangel Plays Race Card, Says Obamacare The Victim

Channel 2, New York "Already under fire for a wide range of ethical questions, Rangel played the race card in a health care forum the other night, saying racial bias against President Obama is behind opposition to health care reform.