Obama retreats on climate change

Denver Post "... comments by Obama and fellow leaders at a hastily arranged breakfast meeting here on the sidelines of an Asia-Pacific summit served to put the final nail in any remaining expectations for the December summit."

Morality Without God?

By Marvin Olasky "...Ronald Reagan's logic was that if a hunter sees movement in the forest and doesn't know whether it's a deer or a person, he should not shoot. But [ this Dartmouth professor] suggested in his book Moral Skepticisms (2006) that since we don't know whether abortion is morally wrong, it's unfair for employers to insist that health plans not pay for abortions."

The KSM Trial Will Be an Intelligence Bonanza for al Qaeda

WSJ "Prosecutors will be forced to reveal U.S. intelligence on KSM, the methods and sources for acquiring its information, and his relationships to fellow al Qaeda operatives. The information will enable al Qaeda to drop plans and personnel whose cover is blown. It will enable it to detect our means of intelligence-gathering, and to push forward into areas we know nothing about."

Canada’s healthcare disaster

By Dick Morris "After more than a decade of public healthcare with mandatory coverage, so many Canadian doctors have left the practice and so many young people have entered other fields that Canada ranks 26th of 28 developed nations in its ratio of physicians to population. Once, Canada ranked among the leaders in the number of physicians, but that was before government healthcare drove doctors out of the practice in droves."

Japan expert to ABC: Yes, Obama’s bow made him look like an idiot

Hot Air "So much of an idiot, in fact, that according to Tapper’s source, at least one Japanese paper isn’t running the photo out of embarrassment. This tool actually groveled himself into a minor international incident." Other world leaders greeting the emperor Perspective; always perspective.

President Obama takes heat on Afghan timing

Politico "In a tough column in Sunday’s Los Angeles Times headlined “Obama must rethink rethinking Afghanistan,” Doyle McManus said the deliberations were “starting to look like dangerous indecision”..."

Charles Krauthammer: Medicalizing Mass Murder

Townhall "Have we totally lost our moral bearings? Nidal Hasan (allegedly) cold-bloodedly killed 13 innocent people. In such cases, political correctness is not just an abomination. It's a danger, clear and present."

NYT derisive over Jewish claims to Temple Mount

American Thinker "As for Muslim behavior on Temple Mount, there's nothing in Kershner's article about how the Islamic Wafq, which administers the site, has for a long time set out to destroy artifacts that might connect the site to the Second Temple, even using a bulldozer to vandalize this holy place and consign precious relicts(sic) to garbage heaps where Israeli archaeologists have had to rummage through to rescue invaluable relics."

Fort Hood and the Academic Apologists

By Cinnamon Stillwell    "The rush to judgment against those who express valid concerns about Islamism only adds to the self-censorship that was in large part responsible for allowing Hasan to remain in the military and murder his fellow soldiers in cold blood."

Is Fort Hood Really a “Tragedy?”

By Victor Davis Hanson  "And do we need another Western “thinker” writing that our armed forces attacking suspected al Qaeda and Taliban in Predator strikes is the equivalent of Hasan shooting uniformed soldiers — as if those in uniform of a democratic state, training for or in war, are the same as those out of uniform committed to theocratic absolutism through the deliberate killing of civilians or the unarmed?"

Obama’s “Bush Did It” Narrative

By Victor Davis Hanson  "Obama is a product of his education and early life, in which America being culpable for a variety of sins was the gospel , as we see from his associates like Ayers, to his minister like Wright, to the general force of his community organizing in Chicago, to his most partisan voting record in the Senate

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Obama's botched bow

Thomas Lifson  "I suspect the poor Emperor was so shocked by the faux pas that he just pretended it didn't happen. That is one way Japanese people deal with breaches of etiquette, especially from the powerful who are also ignorant. But the end resilt is that Obama has been snubbed royally."