Has War Really Changed?

Victor Davis Hanson "If our leaders today could consult great generals like the Roman Scipio Africanus or William Tecumseh Sherman — who won what were once near-hopeless wars — they might receive the following advice: Prepare the public to shoulder human and financial costs. Be candid about why enduring the horrors of war now is preferable to risking even costlier violence later. Talk always of winning, never leaving or quitting a war. Have no apologies for crushing the enemy. The quicker the enemy loses, the fewer get killed on both sides. Inform the public of the other side's losses just as you do your own. And be magnanimous to the defeated -- after the war, not during the fighting."

Is America a Deer in the Headlights?

Pajamas Media "I haven’t a clue who will win in 2012. But millions will never again vote for a Chicago politician and his coterie of insiders like Emanuel, Axlerod, Jarrett, etc. They will value experience at governance, not gimmicky hopey/changey bromides. The voters want a Truman/Eisenhower sort of figure to talk no-nonsense, be tough with our enemies, supportive of our allies, and one who will pay down not expand the national debt."

"Smoking gun" Iranian document proves military component to nuke program

Rick Moran , AT "This is very, very bad. I won't say that Iran has duped western countries. The fact is, the US and others have fooled themselves. They substituted political calculation and wishful thinking for honest, hard headed, realistic analysis.And the price we may pay for that stupidity could be incalculable."

In Touting 'Climate Justice' Protesters, Networks Oblivious to Communist Participation

Newsbusters "Network journalists who were quick to see racists, haters and extremists amongst the “tea party” protesters were oblivious on Saturday to communists in the “climate justice” march in Copenhagen whose cause they trumpeted -- even as the video they showed included brief shots of marchers waving red flags displaying the Soviet Union's hammer and sickle." Maybe because they looked like Obama supporters.

Blagojevich's lawyers seek FBI interview with Obama

Chicago Sun-Times "Rod Blagojevich's lawyers want the FBI to give up details of interviews conducted last year of President Obama, his chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, White House adviser Valerie Jarrett and others as part of the investigation into the former governor."

Poisoned wells

American Thinker "Entertainment in America today is as political as the entertainment of Russia in the worst days of Stalin. Law and Order must instruct us not only which individuals are killers, but which political class of people in America are killers. We cannot stop, relax, chat, and take a cool drink together as friends from a village well. We cannot sit and laugh together at innocent fun. Entertainment has become to television what objective science has become to global warming: convicted, condemned, and banished."

Does Sexual Equality Require Preferential Treatment?

Pajamas Media "Will the movement for gay rights follow the same trajectory as racial equality — from non-discrimination to preferential treatment based on sexual persuasion?"

What Senators Think They Know about Health Care (isn't so)

NRO "The Senate floor debate on health-care legislation has included a lot of confident assertions — many of them false." Pretty much the way most of 'em got elected, I suppose.

Michael Moriarty: The Increasingly Left ‘Law and Order’

Big Hollywood "...recent events have Law and Order just begging for my reassessment. I hardly expected my old television series to be the clown act that leads the American viewing audience into an increasingly predictable pile of hard left propaganda." "Michael Moriarty ... starred in the landmark television series "Law and Order" from 1990 to 1994."

MAD MEN TO THE PODIUM .. IN THE NAME OF GLOBAL WARMING

Nealz Nuze "This is all about getting the evil America to pay up ... and Obama is just fine with that. Oh and by the way, Obama is expected to be at these meetings on Friday." Look at what happened to one journalist who dared question a panelist about the Climategate emails. h/t to Neal Boortz

Fistgate VII: Explosive… After Years of Silence Massachusetts Teacher Speaks Out About What She Saw at Fistgate (Audio)

Gateway Pundit "The teacher claims that there is “no way” that Obama’s Safe School Czar did not know about the pornographic and sexually explicit material that was presented and discussed at the conference. Kevin Jennings is the founder of the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN)."

Did White House try to cover up [first lady's] connection to Walpin firing?

Hot Air Hillary got away with the travel office firings, so we can have an idea how this one will go.