America's flawed sex offender laws

UK Guardian "The Jaycee Dugard case illustrates how America's sex offender registries hurt efforts to stop repeat sex crimes."

Peace between Israel and Palestine – a Task Too Difficult for Obama?

By Ana Ilie, Romania "...However, this would signify that the conflict started in 1967. The conflict has deeper roots, since the foundation of the Israeli state in 1948, if not from the arrival of the first Jewish people determined to reconstruct their country in the last years of the nineteenth century."

China alarmed by US money printing

UK Telegraph "The US Federal Reserve's policy of printing money to buy Treasury debt threatens to set off a serious decline of the dollar and compel China to redesign its foreign reserve policy, according to a top member of the Communist hierarchy."

Tens of Thousands Protest Chávez in Venezuela

WSJ Online "Anti-Chávez protesters, many of them wearing white, filled the streets of Caracas, denouncing recent arrests of opposition members for alleged violence during protests and a new education law that critics fear could lead to indoctrination in schools." Buncha bleepin' nazis and astroturfers organized by Republicans. Oh, here's this: Stone film says U.S. demonises Chavez, other leaders. But wait! There's more! "Capitalism is evil," says new Michael Moore film .

Good Morning, Bias:Diane Sawyer’s Liberal Spin

Media Research Center "She derided the Bush administration’s “massive tax cuts,” championed campaign finance “reform,” and even asked then-candidate Barack Obama to judge whether America is “more racist or more sexist.”"

'We tried to kill Carter and Blair'

Jerusalem Post "He also disclosed that his men had planned to kill Carter and Blair, both of whom he dubbed "infidels," during their recent visits to the Gaza Strip. "The hands of Carter and Blair are stained with Muslim blood," he said. "It was our duty to kill the two." Taleb said that Hamas foiled the assassination plots and arrested the men who had set out to carry them out."

Another Snowe Job

IBD "Health Care: In the wake of a public outcry effectively killing the "public option," who comes along to try to revive socialistic health reform? The definitive Republican In Name Only — Sen. Olympia Snowe."

Thank Madonna For Standing Up to Islamic Thugs, Raising Israeli Flag

Debbie Schlussel "Recently, I told you how the typical anti-Israel thugs were demanding that Madonna cancel her planned Israeli trip and concert. Although I’ve been a frequent Madonna critic, I lauded her for ignoring them."...."That’s brave for her, and I give her credit and props for that. And now she’s under attack from every segment of the Muslim and extremist world, not to mention nutty YouTube commenters (though that could be redundant)."

How far left will Obama have to go?

Beltway Confidential "Obama is facing an uprising from his base amid reports that he is considering a watered-down version of the Democratic health care bill that would not include a public option unless health insurance companies refused to lower costs and make coverage easier to attain and keep."

Obama’s weakness issue

By Dick Morris "In the meantime, Obama’s pathetic performance vis-à-vis Iran and North Korea cannot but send a message to all of America’s enemies that the president of the United States does not believe in using power — that he is a wimp and they can get away with whatever they want. A dangerous reputation indeed."

A Dangerous Delusion/ We go to war to defend our interests, not to encourage democracy.

By Andrew C. McCarthy = "Have you taken a look at Iraq lately? We went there to topple Saddam; we stayed to build an Islamic “democracy,” and the result is an Iranian satellite. The new Iraq is a sharia state that wants us gone, has denied us basing rights for future military operations, has pressured a weak American president into releasing Iran-backed terrorists, has rolled out the red carpet for Hezbollah, allows Iranian spies to operate freely (causing the recent ouster of the intelligence minister, who was an American ally), tolerates the persecution of religious minorities, and whose soon-to-take-power ruling coalition vows “not to establish relations with the Zionist entity” — a vow that would simply continue longstanding Iraqi policy, as Diana West points out. If that’s success, what does failure look like?"

Airstrike creates Taliban firestorm

Blackfive "Prep yourselves for another round of dead civilians or dead tangos. Sadly the narrative has been spun out so far towards the idea that anyone killed is called a civilian that we suffer some hearts and minds damage regardless."