Barack Obama Admits: " I Chose My Friends Carefully… Marxist Professors and Structural Feminists" (Audio)

Gateway Pundit "Barack Obama laughs off charges of socialism. Joe Biden scoffs at references to Marxism. Both men shrug off accusations of liberalism. But Obama himself acknowledges that he was drawn to socialists and even Marxists as a college student. He continued to associate with Marxists later in life, even choosing to launch his political career in the living room of a self-described Marxist, William Ayers, in 1995, when Obama was 34. Obama’s affinity for Marxists began when he attended Occidental College in Los Angeles." Related: B-Cast Interviews Dr John C. Drew On Obama’s Early Marxist Years

How to destroy a soldier’s life

Hot Air "I came across an article on Salon entitled “How to leave a soldier” that has apparently been making ripples across the blogosphere. It absolutely infuriated me, and I knew I had to write about it."...."But that’s exactly what this woman did. Meet Courtney Cook, an extraordinarily shallow and callous woman."...."They’re over there fighting for their lives, and she thinks it’s a smart move to saddle them with this while they’re in the middle of that?"

Leftists Disinterested in Real Conflicts of Interest

Pajamas Media "The takeaway is that to the left, any conservative with a potential conflict, even in someone’s fevered imagination, is presumptively evil, regardless of results. But when one of their own has a drop-dead obvious conflict, it’s supposed to be no big deal. What their conflicts really represent, as seen above with “Government Motors” and ACORN, are opportunities for legalized mischief."

The New Conformo-radicalism

Mark Steyn "...all the men in the Audi ad are the usual befuddled effete new-male eunuchs that infest all the other commercials. The sort of milksop who’ll buy the TDI and then, when the Green Police change their regulatory requirements six weeks later, obediently take it back to the shop and pay however many thousand bucks to have it brought it into compliance with whatever the whimsical tyrant’s emissions regime requires this month."

Obama Officials Wrong on Padilla

Thomas Joscelyn in The Weekly Standard: "Al Qaeda terrorist Jose Padilla started talking only after he was designated an enemy combatant." Before that: "The FBI questioned Padilla for several hours but got nowhere. A copy of the FBI’s 302 memo written after the initial questioning of Padilla shows that al Qaeda’s man gave the bureau nothing."

Pleasing None of the People, None of the Time

Commentary "Moreover, it is a reminder that electing someone very new to the national stage is quite a gamble. Unfortunately, it hasn’t paid off for his supporters. And we all must live with the consequences."

Obama’s starting to be “not believable” on coal

Hot Air "Referring to Obama’s pledges to support coal, the senator complained that, “He says it in his speeches, but he doesn’t say it in (his budget proposal). He doesn’t say it in the actions of (EPA Administrator) Lisa Jackson. And he doesn’t say it in the minds of my own people. And he’s beginning to not be believable to me.” "

No Compromise on Enemy Combatants

Andrew McCarthy "The only people actually offended by Gitmo are leftists who regard it as a symbol of Bush-style counterterrorism. Those people are projecting their own obsessions onto our enemies. As is too often the case, Republican moderates are itching to placate these ideologues in order to show how they rise above the fray, reach across the aisle, and transcend all this partisan bickering. That is nuts. "

Forced Unionization

John Stossel, FoxNews Michelle Berry runs a day-care business out of her home in Flint, MI. She thought that she owned her own business, but Berry's been told she is now a government employee and union member. It's not voluntary. Suddenly, Berry and 40,000 other Michigan private day-care providers have learned that union dues are being taken out of the child-care subsidies the state sends them. "Via Rush Limbaugh

Closing the New Frontier

Charles Krauthammer "The Russians may be new at capitalism, but they know how it works. When you have a monopoly, you charge monopoly prices. Within months, Russia will have a monopoly on rides into space. By the end of this year, there will be no shuttle, no U.S. manned space program, no way for us to get into space. We’re not talking about Mars or the moon here. We’re talking about low-Earth orbit, which the U.S. has dominated for nearly half a century and from which it is now retiring with nary a whimper."

Planned Summit Is Just an Infomercial in Disguise

Jonah Goldberg "Boycotting the event, as some have recommended, would rightly be seen as a sign of cowardice. However, there’s no reason why the GOP has to play to the White House’s script. Republicans should be respectful and serious, but they should also designate one or two representatives to speak for them. " Via NRO.

Following the Crowd

Steve McGregor, AT "This plea should sound familiar: We're the only major industrialized nation not to sign up for the Kyoto Protocol emissions targets. We're the only industrial nation that doesn't guarantee its workers any paid vacation. We're the only G-20 country without a federal VAT or Goods and Services Tax. It's such a familiar refrain that when asking a friend of mine about the current "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" controversy, his first response was to point out that "the U.S. is the only major Western military..." I interrupted with "so what?" "