What’s More Important Than Being Electable? Being Able To Govern

Adam Graham, PJM "There are three basic questions conservatives should ask themselves: Does the candidate have a coherent agenda that will make the country better?"...."Does the candidate have the necessary skills to get his agenda passed?"...."Does the candidate have the ability to make executive decisions?"...."A Republican presidency that betrayed the core principles of the people who brought it to power is responsible for the lingering divisions within the GOP. However, thanks to opponents that took the wrong lessons from the Bush years, Republicans could be given another chance in 2012."

Don’t Worry, Honey, It’s Just Another “Isolated Extremist”

Claudia Rosett , Pajamas Media "...despite U.S. efforts to bring “an end” to “Overseas Contingency Operations,” there is still a risk that an “isolated extremist” might “allegedly” attempt to bring about a “man-caused disaster.” (In which case, the “suspect,” if caught, will be treated as a common criminal, read his Miranda rights, provided with the best available medical care if needed, and offered a stage in a U.S. court)."

Rush Limbaugh: an essential voice of protest in America

UK Telegraph "Rush Limbaugh is a hugely influential and tremendously patriotic voice of protest in the face of an intensely partisan administration that does not take very kindly to dissenting views, and which often seems to expect the media to kowtow to its agenda. Freedom of speech, even in a free society, must never be taken for granted, and Rush Limbaugh’s role as a prominent defender of it, is a vital one."

Spy chiefs turn on President Obama after seven CIA agents are slaughtered in Afghanistan

UK DailyMail "[Obama] lauded the victims as ‘part of a long line of patriots who have made great sacrifices for their fellow citizens and for our way of life’. Yet the previous day he had blasted ‘systemic failures’ in the CIA and other U.S. intelligence agencies for failing to prevent the Christmas Day syringe bomb attack " "Syringe bomb"?

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."