The Threat of Lawful Islamism

Islamist Watch "Lawful Islamists advance their cause through lobbying politicians, intimidating the media, threatening international boycotts, making predatory use of the legal system, advancing novel legislation, influencing the contents of school textbooks... They advance their agenda in incremental steps, each of which in itself is minor but in the aggregate point to fundamental changes in society. Here is a sampling of such steps taken by non-Muslims to accommodate Islamists:"

Summary of Republican health care plan

GOP Leader Found at GOP.gov along with a pdf of the entire plan which the Democrats claim the GOP doesn't have.

Top 10 Ramirez Cartoons of 2009

Investors.com "IBD Editorial Cartoonist Michael Ramirez picks his favorite cartoons of the year."

Mayo Clinic in Arizona to Stop Treating Some Medicare Patients

Bloomberg "The Mayo Clinic, praised by President Barack Obama as a national model for efficient health care, will stop accepting Medicare patients as of tomorrow at one of its primary-care clinics in Arizona, saying the U.S. government pays too little. "

Police Shoot Axe-Wielding Al-Qaeda Terrorist Entering Danish Cartoonist’s Home

Gateway Pundit "Police shot and wounded an axe-wielding Islamic Al-Qaeda-linked terrorist who entered the home of Danish Mohammad cartoonist Kurt Westergaard. The cartoonist was hiding in his “safe room” with his 5 year-old grandson during the break-in."

It Didn't Start With Climategate

Powerline "The whistleblower at the University of East Anglia who leaked emails and other documents that reveal the fraud that is being perpetrated by the world's leading global warming alarmists did us all a great service. But it is important to realize that the deception didn't just begin: rather, the global warming hysteria movement has been shot through with fraud from the start."

Limbaugh: Tests show no ailments after chest pain

YahooNews via Drudge "Limbaugh, 58, was released from The Queen's Medical Center two days after he was rushed there during a vacation. Doctors said he did not have a heart attack or heart disease. "The pain was real, and they don't know what caused it," Limbaugh said, adding his best guess was he had a spasm in an artery. Limbaugh said he was not taking painkillers."

A Humpty-Dumpty View of the World

Victor Davis Hanson "A president comes into office after record high energy prices have nearly crippled the American economy, and he ignores new drilling and brushes off nuclear power — only to wax about wind and solar that provide less than 5% of our energy needs, and crushing cap-and-trade taxation to come."...."In such mythologizing, and without any knowledge of the grubby world of oil rigs and dirty pipeline laying, we could have all the clean power we wished if only an Exxon just weren’t so greedy. So the narrative emerged that we need not drill for more oil here in the U.S. New natural gas fields still meant bad carbon fuels. Coal, burned daily, was still politically taboo. Nuclear plants were always referenced in terms of Chernobyl and Three-Mile-Island."

The Most Important Three-Year Period in History?

American Thinker "The choices we have made in the past and the policies that we are in the process of ratifying may well achieve what the Civil War, the Great Depression, and World War II did not: the downward spiral of the American people and nation."...."This is a great nation -- not just as a result of its founding documents, but also because of its citizens' willingness to defend the principles espoused by its founders. We must now summon up the same courage and determination that animated those at Concord, Valley Forge, and Yorktown and be certain the United States remains the greatest country in the history of mankind for many generations to come."

Power to the (Conservative) People

Robin of Berkeley "I'm now a conservative who has purchased her first Bible. I am blessed with many new conservative friends in person and online, most of whom are religious. Given that God has taken center stage in my life, I decided it was time to celebrate another Christmas. Having been rejected by the Berkeley Episcopalians, I remained undeterred in my pursuit of a Christmas Eve service. I searched the internet and found a large Catholic church the next town over. My plan: come early and sit inconspicuously in the back row. For one, I didn't want to make a fool of myself. I'd never been to church, and I had no idea what to do. "

The Year America Lurched Left

Investors.com via Lucianne:"But the election of this charismatic and well-spoken new leader may be momentous in another way, we added. "We may have elected not only one of the least experienced candidates in our history, but also one who may be guided by some principles different from what we're used to and on which the nation was founded. "In fact, we may be installing the first president who openly favors change that, as unaccustomed as we are to the word, can only be described as socialistic." He was, however the choice of 9 out of 10 celebrities including Bruce Springsteen.

Charles Krauthammer: War? What War?

NRO "Obama reassured the nation that this “suspect” had been charged. Reassurance? The president should be saying: We have captured an enemy combatant — an illegal combatant under the laws of war: no uniform, direct attack on civilians — and now to prevent future attacks, he is being interrogated regarding information he may have about al-Qaeda in Yemen.Instead, Abdulmutallab is dispatched to some Detroit-area jail and immediately lawyered up. At which point — surprise! — he stops talking."