An Obama-GOP Entente on Terror

WSJ "This crucially important corner of the Obama presidency deserves the support from Republicans and conservatives. The Reid-Pelosi Democrats obliterated Sen. Arthur Vandenberg's useful Cold War dictum that politics stops at the water's edge. That was one of the most dangerous casualties of the past decade, telling the al Qaeda network we were hopelessly divided about our own security. Republicans have a chance to show the Democrats, and the American people, how a responsible opposition handles national security and foreign policy. No opposition should roll over for a president, but rolling over its own country is worse. As with the support for the president on Afghanistan, an Obama-GOP entente on terror is in the nation's immediate national interest."

Mike Ramirez cartoon

IBD Editorials

Faintest Signs Of Double-Standard Detected In Media Overculture

Ed Driscoll "...If by “racist,” you mean somebody who feels antagonism toward black people, then Harry Reid isn’t a racist. Harry Reid thinks we are racists. If by “racist” you mean somebody who would use other people’s feelings about race in a purely instrumental way to amass political power, then Harry Reid is a racist."

Miss Him Yet?

Weasel Zippers "Socialism only works in two places: Heaven where they don't need it and hell where they already have it." 'Here's my strategy on the Cold War: We win, they lose.'

Oddly, we would feel better and safer with these folks in charge:

BigGovernment

Truths We Dare Not Speak

Victor Davis Hanson "There are a number of things we simply no longer talk about. The silence is partly due to intellectual laziness. Or maybe it is because of political correctness—or even attributable to ignorance and the absence of curiosity. In no particular order, I list five propositions that simply have become taboo."

Harry Reid's Negro Problem

Ann Coulter "The "whereas" clauses can include the Democrats' history of supporting slavery, segregation, racial preferences, George Wallace and Bull Connor -- and also a precis of their treatment of dark-skinned Clarence Thomas."...." President Bush appointed the first black secretary of state and then the first black female secretary of state. Meanwhile, the closest black woman to Bill Clinton was his secretary, Betty Currie. The one sitting black Supreme Court justice, Clarence Thomas, was appointed by a Republican."

The D Handicap

Jennifer Rubin "Michael Barone thinks Martha Coakley showed her true stripes and may have tipped the race by ignoring the shoving of reporter John McCormack in front of her eyes."

Brandon Darby foiled terror attack, but the men convicted of plotting against 2008 Republican Convention win recognition

DailyCaller "Darby has learned that if you disrupt a terrorist attack on Americans by Islamic fundamentalists as Dutch tourist Jasper Schuringa did on Christmas Day, you’re a hero, but disrupt a terrorist attack on Americans by left-wing fundamentalists and you might as well be a terrorist yourself."

More disgrace at NPR

PowerlineBlog "The cartoonist, Mark Fiore, obviously is doing what he accuses Tea Party movement members of --substituting name-calling for argumentation. Fiore is calling members of the movement ignoramuses. As Tim Graham puts it, "Conservatism is 'satirized' into a form of political retardation." It's doubtful whether Fiore has ever talked to any of member of the Tea Party movement. I have and can assure him that these folks do not lack substantive arguments against Obamacare. Fiore obviously doesn't agree with these arguments, nor would one expect an NPR commentator to. But it is disgraceful for him to pretend that the other side lacks real arguments."

We Report, We Get Pushed

Weekly Standard, John McCormack "As I walked down the street, a man who appeared to be associated with the Coakley campaign pushed me into a freestanding metal railing. I ended up on the sidewalk. I was fine. He helped me up from the ground, but kept pushing up against me, blocking my path toward Coakley down the street."

Fatima Shrine defaced with Muslim graffiti

JihadWatch "In the John Paul II Plaza, statutes of Popes John Paul II and Paul VI were painted. In the Pius XII Plaza, statues of Pope Pius XII and Bishop José Alves Correia da Silva were painted. The graffiti includes the words "Islam," "moon," "sun," "Muslim" and "mosque."..."