NPR pressures [Mara Liasson] over her Fox News appearances

Ethel C. Fenig , AT "The White House campaign against Fox News is bearing some poisonous fruit--censorship. Josh Gerstein of Politico relates how executives at National Public Radio (NPR), which proudly labels itself as "listener supported," exerted pressure on one of its major correspondents to forgo her appearances on Fox News. "

Criminalizing profit?

Rick Moran , AT "Needless to say, such a broad mandate opens the door to political machinations in prosecuting companies and executives who might not toe the Obama party line. After all, if they are going to act before problems "peak," that could be interpreted as just about anything they want to criminalize."

Tiger, Barack, and the Law of Transitivity

By Lisa Schiffren "And while it doesn't matter if another athlete is an adulterer, it matters a lot if the president is revealed to be an inexperienced, excessively ideological, and weak man who is naïve about the world and uncomfortable exercising American power during a time of war. It matters if nothing in his training would have equipped the president to understand what it takes to stimulate job growth, or ameliorate a recession, or to end an overseas conflict successfully." Hat tip to Rush Limbaugh.

Shhh! Don’t confuse Reid with history while he’s playing the race card!

Michelle Malkin "It was the GOP that fought slavery and the Democrat Party that battled to preserve it. It’s the Democrat Party, not the GOP, that boasts an ex-Klansman among its senior leaders. But don’t confuse Harry Reid with history while he invokes slavery to lambaste the GOP for opposing the government-run health care takeover."

Watermelon Marxists

By John Griffing , AT "But as a tool for watermelon Marxists -- green on the outside and red on the inside -- climate change orthodoxy represents an opportunity to achieve age-old dreams of Communist wealth redistribution. Don't take my word for it. Listen to Cass Sunstein, Obama's new regulatory czar and perhaps the most powerful bureaucrat in America:"

Time for Sarah to Grapple

Pajamas Media "Palin must confront her fundamental weakness: conveying to the public that she comprehends and can handle presidential-level problems." Good primer for speech and debate students.

What to Think about Global Warming

Kevin Williamson , NRO "Given the stakes in the global-warming debate ...conservatives should not simply dismiss the Copenhagen talks, even though the revelations of Climategate may tempt us to do so. The debate is polarized, and it is natural to throw one’s lot in with one camp or another — The World Is Ending vs. Global Warming Is a Hoax — but there are more than two propositions to consider. And those propositions are not mostly scientific in character, but political. We should examine them in ascending order of unlikeliness:

Man Chucks Tomatoes at Sarah Palin at MOA

MyFox "Bloomington Police report that Bloomington Commander Mark Stehlik was struck in the face with one of the tomatoes and may face charges for assaulting a police officer. Olson was booked at the Bloomington jail. He was arrested for suspicion of assault and disorderly conduct."....

Voting Present on Iran

Victor Davis Hanson "President Obama should tread carefully and take note. As history shows, even a trivial gesture can result in dire unintended consequences. Secretary of State Dean Acheson's inadvertent 1950 remark that South Korea lay outside the American "defense perimeter" in Asia may have emboldened the North Koreans to invade later that summer."

Healthcare raises taxes

Dick Morris "The Obama healthcare initiative will be the biggest unfunded federal mandate on the states in history. It will force dozens of states, particularly in the South, to abandon their low-tax ways and to move toward dramatically higher rates of taxation. It may even force Florida and Texas to impose an income tax!"

Who Are the White House Party Crashers?

Fox News "But there appears to be another side to this couple that includes a warning to consumers by the Commonwealth of Virginia to beware of their charity solicitations, and at least one socialite questioning the use of their "charity" funds, calling them "litigious," even suing the Washington Redskins -- the team Michaele Salahi once tossed sideline pompoms for as a cheerleader." Meet Tareq Salahi and the ATFP "Tareq Salahi is a prominent Arab-American who until recently sat on the board of the American Task Force for Palestine or ATFP. What is ATFP, you ask?..."

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