First, Do No Harm

Commentary "After Israeli media reported yesterday that White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel had threatened to curtail U.S. involvement in Israeli-Palestinian talks, the White House rushed to deny it. That’s a pity — because curtailing U.S. involvement would be far more helpful than what special envoy George Mitchell is actually doing."

Iran's al Qaeda connection in Yemen

Washington Times "The Obama administration, eager to curry favor with the Islamic regime in Tehran, has downplayed the Iranian connection to al Qaeda in Yemen. In December, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Jeffrey Feltman noted "theories" of Iranian involvement in Yemen, but said the United States does not have "independent information" corroborating them."

Who Is the Enemy?

Victor Davis Hanson "Radical Islamists sense, fairly or not, that this administration is angrier at prior officials who kept us safe than it is at those who wish to destroy us for who we are. Given his adoption of the Bush protocols, Obama might show the same magnanimity toward his predecessor that he does toward the Muslim world."

Modern men have lived through 20 sudden global warmings.

Pete Du Pont, WSJ "Here in America, Mr. Obama, Congress and the Environmental Protection Agency all seem committed to regulating our behavior and consumption under the guise of addressing a crisis that is not a crisis. They will do so in a way that will not meaningfully reduce global temperatures, but will substantially hurt the economies and opportunities of the world's people."

What conservatives should be FOR

RealClearPolitics by Heritage "It's seldom a good idea to raise taxes. But jacking them up as the country is struggling to recover from recession could push us back to the brink of economic disaster. As this election year kicks off, conservatives have a chance to lead by listening to the American people. They should draft a new "Contract with America" that promises to do what Americans want their leaders to do: Reduce spending, fix health care, keep us safe and hold the line on taxes."

Taking Terrorism Seriously

CATO "But the criteria U.S. intelligence agencies use for determining when to put a suspected terrorist on a watch list or a no-fly list, Crovitz shows, are adapted from a landmark law-enforcement case, Terry v. Ohio, concerning local traffic stops: “Mere guesses or inarticulate ‘hunches,’” the standard concludes, ”are not enough to constitute reasonable suspicion.” Is it any wonder that the dots were not connected. They won’t be until we start taking this war seriously."

Mike Ramirez cartoon

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Repeal the Health Bill

American Thinker "Over the last century, our liberal friends had one great advantage: Their naked power plays were written up by liberal journalists and historians as the very essence of progress and justice. Woe betide the dissident conservative who attempted to tell a different story. But then, in the fall of 2008, a political blessing came. The Democrats won the presidency, and eventually a filibuster-proof majority in Congress. They had the opportunity to ram through legislation that their liberal base wanted and that the American people hated, and they took it. "

No, These Aren’t Health Care Reform Fairy Tales

Pajamas Media "In plain English, those two sentences mean the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force and the new “health choices commissioner” will determine what preventive services, including mammograms, are covered under the health insurance plan envisioned in the House health care reform bill." Better known as a "death panel", wouldn't you say?

California: Drop dead

DailyMail “53% say the state should cut back on welfare programs, health services and the state payroll,” Rasmussen noted. Many a business today has empty desks. There is no reason a state government should be immune from this reality."

Olbermann: Hume Tried to ‘Force’ & ‘Threaten’ Tiger Woods into Christian Conversion

Newsbusters "The Countdown host introduced the segment, contending again that Hume had tried to "threaten" Woods into becoming a Christian: "Brit Hume of Fox News has not only not apologized for his bizarre on-air attempt to threaten Tiger Woods into converting to Christianity, he`s actually gone further."" Why MSNBC is the network for the left. More on Olbermann: "This is part of the infantilism of the left. If you disagree with their policies it means you "hate." Just the mere use of this world is all the evidence you kneed(sp) that Olbermann is a vacuous and shallow ObamaMyrmidon with no working familiarity with rational thinking processes." Neal Boortz

Sarah Palin Schools Obama: It’s War Not a Crime Spree

Gateway Pundit "President Obama was right to change his policy and decide to send no more detainees to Yemen where they can be free to rejoin their war on America. Now he must back off his reckless plan to close Guantanamo, begin treating terrorists as wartime enemies not suspects alleged to have committed crimes, and recognize that the real nature of the terrorist threat requires a commander-in-chief, not a constitutional law professor. "