AP picture of wounded Marine sparks debate

Yahoo News "...showed Lance Cpl. Joshua "Bernie" Bernard, 21, lying on the ground with severe leg injuries after being struck by a grenade in an ambush on Aug. 14, his fellow Marines tending to him. Bernard later died of his wounds."

'Green Jobs' Adviser's Past Could Stir Trouble for White House at Critical Time

Fox News "He's won plaudits from former Vice President Al Gore, who declared, "I love Van Jones," in an interview with The New Yorker. Actor Leonardo DiCaprio penned the write-up on Jones when the presidential adviser was featured in Time magazine's 100 "Most Influential People." "...."The White House has voiced great confidence in Jones, announcing in March that the "green jobs visionary" would in his new role advance the goal of improving energy efficiency and tapping renewable resources."

Appeasing Syria /The Obama approach to the Arab world and to dictatorships is failing.

by Elliott Abrams "Watching the smiling Mitchell shaking hands with Asad, Syrians knew that any hope of American pressure for human rights progress was in vain as well. Neither Mitchell nor Obama has ever mentioned the subject publicly, and if Mitchell has asked Asad to release any particular political prisoners that fact has been kept secret. In fact the president of the Syrian Human Rights Organization, Muhanad Al-Hasani, was imprisoned on July 28, four weeks after Mitchell's last visit."

Van Jones, the Red Green Czar, Is a Truther Too

by Clarice Feldman "By the time you read this, if the Obama administration is smart, Van Jones and the guys who vetted him will be leaving government to spend more time with their families."

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

Townhall

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.