Early "returns" good for Republicans

Powerline Blog "CNN's David Gergen: The folks in the White House just must be kicking themselves right now. They thought that coming out of Baltimore when the President went in and was mesmerizing and commanding in front of the House Republicans that he could do that again here today. That would revive health care and would change the public opinion about their health care bill and they can go on to victory. Just the opposite has happened."

Jihadis Incite South African Blacks to kill all Whites

Atlas Shrugs By Adriana Stuijt. "Members of my Facebook site recently alerted me to a number of ‘Africanist’ websites in volatile South Africa where radical islamists are very actively inciting black South African members to ‘kill all the whites’ there. This incitement to kill all Europeans is often targetted towards the increasingly besieged Afrikaans-speaking minority -- but has also been targetting all the Western football fans planning to travel to the World Cup 2010 tournaments in South Africa in June."

An Orchestrated Campaign Against Toyota in Overdrive?

Pajamas Media "Let’s be clear: If the company is proven to have seriously erred and knowingly compromised driver and public safety, it should be made to pay an appropriate price. The developments of the past weekend, though, seem much more sinister, supporting the idea that the goal of many critics is really to drive the company’s public perception, and perhaps the company itself, into the ground."...."I do hope that the folks at Toyota fully appreciate the ugliness they’re up against."

Terrorists’ Lawyers at the DOJ

National Review Online "...they’re not serving their client well by returning our country to the September 10 approach to counterterrorism, meaning prosecution in the civilian courts. In such an approach, the Justice Department is the most significant agency. With the United States still at war and our enemies still plotting to carry out more 9/11s, the American people are entitled to know what attorneys at the Justice Department worked for the enemy combatants detained at Gitmo."

Terrorists in the Military: The Legacy of Political Correctness

BigJournalism "Our government is blindly working with Islamic front groups to try to find ways to prosecute the war on terror without offending Muslims. They’re telling them our tactics and secrets. No wonder they think they can beat us."

How Israel's Biggest Drone Could Take Out Iranian Nukes

Popular Mechanics "But in a "big war" operation, when enemy radar and missiles are robust, as they are in Iran, the way Israel could use its UAVs is worth watching. Israel's long-distance Eitans are not that new, but the way they could be used during a complex air raid could be groundbreaking. Literally and figuratively."

Is Obama a Muslim or an Apostate?

Translating Jihad "Through these Islamic judgments, in comparison with the autobiography of President Barack Hussein Obama, we find that this president is either a Muslim or an apostate from Islam according to the strongest viewpoints of Islamic jurisprudence." By Mu'ammar Ahmad 'Abd-al-Latif Rajeh, for the Watan Voice, 30 January 2010.

American Support for Israel at Near Record High

Atlas Shrugs "And in any war between the civilized man and the savage, you always side with the civilized man. Obama, OTOH, ................... better get a clue. The country does not share his anti-semitism."...."Even on this longer-term basis, support for Israel among Democrats has been relatively flat. And the Jews cling to the Democrat party, like the Gazans cling to "occupation." "

ObamaCare Strategy Sabotages Bipartisan Summit

Big Government "Furthermore, the American people explicitly reject ObamaCare and don’t want it. So much for consent of the governed. This Summit is going to be a day long press conference for President Obama and the ObamaCare Cheerleading Squad to try one last time to sell the President’s health care plan that includes unpopular mandates, higher taxes and cuts to health care providers."

Too Little, Too Late, Too Cynical

Victor Davis Hanson "But the problem is that a now jaded public believes that Obama is changing both course and tone not because he wants to for the country, but because he is forced to for his own survival.In other words, the “hope and change” of last year’s messiah has devolved into this year’s “whatever it takes” of a cynic."

Flashback: Obama, Reid Blasted Idea of Majority Rule in the Senate

American Spectator "BreitbartTV has posted a great compilation video of the arguments that top Democrats, including President Obama, made against the prospect of Republicans using the "nuclear option" to break Democratic filibusters in 2005. Their words stand in stark contrast to Democrats current statements ..." H/t to Boortz.

What the GOP Should Say at the Health Summit

Karl Rove, WSJ "The congressional Republicans at today's televised health-care "summit" at the White House naturally want to prevent the president from turning it into a PR stunt. This is no easy task. They'll not only have to point out problems with his plan and offer their own ideas, but correct the president when he makes statements that are not true. The GOP participants appear ready for the first two tasks."