Operation “Together” Has Commenced

Max Boot "Casualties are inevitable among the attacking troops, but there is little doubt they will achieve their objectives. The real challenge will come in Phase Two, when the troops will have to garrison Marjah, keep the Taliban from infiltrating back in, and get government services up and running. That will require a sustained commitment that President Obama’s dispatch of 30,000+ additional troops makes possible." And this: The Battle for Marjah from Blackfive. "These stories all contain grains of truth but none of them is even close to telling the real story. Here it is: when the Marines crossed the line of departure today, the battle for Marjah had already been won."

Olbermann: Captured Taliban Leader Should Get Show On Fox News

Newsbusters "In his Worst Person in the World segment on Tuesday's "Countdown," the MSNBCer went after Fox's Glenn Beck for statements he made about Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar on that morning's "Fox & Friends"

GOP Risks Being Swept Away Unless They Adopt Tea Party Principles

Pajamas Media "Republicans are playing with fire if they continue to ignore the call for fiscal conservatism and respect for traditional values."

Is Heckling a Right?

InsideHigherEd "All of this raises the question: Is interrupting a campus speaker ever a legitimate form of free expression?" And this by Max Boot: Hooligans, an Ambassador, and a General .

Not Just Anti-Incumbency, Jonathan: Anti-Liberalism

Newsbusters "1.Health care "reform" that would have compelled every American to join a government-approved system and fined those who didn't. 2.Cap-and-trade, imposing a huge tax on energy. 3.Closing of Gitmo.-----Dems are currently projected to lose something on the order of 5-10 Senate seats and perhaps 25-40 House seats. What would those numbers, and PBO's poll ratings, be today if the above agenda had gone through?

TV Backlash: Sponsors Rebel Against Salacious Content, Create ‘Family Friendly’ Programming

Big Hollywood "P&G and Wal-Mart ‘s decision to make their own movie and stuff it down the Peacock’s gullet is just one of the first tremors in an earthquake that will shake Hollywood to its foundations. The next shake-up will come from the Right. "

Covering Up for Jihadists in the White House

Atlas Shrugs "Sure. It’s just “anti-Muslim discrimination” to be concerned about Rashad Hussain’s support for Al-Arian, a vicious suicide-bombing supporter who chanted “Death to America” and “Death to Israel,” and clearly meant it. When two Islamic Jihad suicide bombers killed eighteen people in Israel in 1995, Al-Arian called them “two mujahidin martyred for the sake of God.” "

Keeping the U.S. in the space race

Washington Post "NASA GOES AFTER CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: It’s unusual for NASA to attack a critic by name." Via Instapundit.

Toyota and the Union-Backed Government-Led Witch Hunt

BigGovernment "Toyota’s U.S. operations are extremely successful, not saturated by inefficient union monopolies, and are in direct competition with the now government-owned General Motors."...."These artificially inflated costs, bound by forced union contracts, are sinking other US auto industries. Toyota has managed to rise above that, not by being anti-union, but by believing in and enforcing a corporate-wide model based on efficiency and improvement."

BIG FAIL. One Year Ago Today Stimulus Signed into Law- Since Then US Lost 2.74 Million Jobs

GatewayPundit "Republican leader John Boehner wrote the obvious today– Taxpayers aren’t getting their money’s worth. Just 6% of Americans believe the Obama-Pelosi trillion dollar stimulus bill has created jobs."

The case of Rashad Hussain

PowerlineBlog "I guess there's a fast track for Muslim-American lawyers, at least those with connections to Paul Soros and sympathy for Palestinian jihadists."

The “System” Failed or the Liberals Did?

Commentary "So no one is responsible, or everyone is. And it’s all a generic downer. But is this right? It seems that the essence of leadership — what Obama is supposed to be providing — is to forge an agenda, corral Congress, and get stuff done. All this smacks of Obama’s “It is hard” complaint about the Middle East. Well, yes, but he also isn’t up for the job, based on what we’ve seen."