Obama team picks Illinois jail

Politico "The Obama administration has settled on the Thomson Correction Center in Illinois as a destination for a "limited number" of Guantanamo detainees, an administration official confirmed Tuesday."

FIGURES LIE AND LIARS FIGURE

Neal Boortz "The left is getting desperate. This "hundreds of thousands of people" dying shows just how desperate. How did the statists come up with that number? Glad you asked. I just happen to have the answer. Well .. .Michelle Malkin actually did the work here, I'm just going to summarize it for you:" More here. "Oh ... and don't expect to read any of this in The New York Times or see it anywhere on television other than on the Fox News Channel. "

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Jobs or Snow Jobs?

Thomas Sowell "But government creates no wealth. Ignoring that plain and simple fact enables politicians to claim to be able to do all sorts of miraculous things that they cannot do in fact. Without creating wealth, how can they create jobs? By taking wealth from others, whether by taxation, selling bonds or imposing mandates."

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.