Netanyahu will not attend nuclear security summit in Washington, DC

Jerusalem Post via Heritage. "Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu had said he would be at the conference to underline the danger of terrorists acquiring nuclear weapons. Officials in his office said Netanyahu reversed himself because some nations planned to use the conference to target Israel over its barely concealed nuclear weapons program." Obama's statesmanship is a gift that just keeps on giving. Republicans welcome Netanyahu's US trip cancellation "The American Politico website described Netanyahu's decision as "an embarrassing distraction on the eve of a high-profile meeting the White House has sought to carefully choreograph."

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Red Tape Rising: Regulation in the Obama Era

Heritage "Yet, explicit taxes and spending are only part of the total burden that government places on Americans. The rest comes in the form of hidden taxes imposed by government regulations. These "regulatory taxes" appear on no budget or balance sheet, but are very real--costing Americans an estimated $1 trillion or more each year."

Airline Bomb Scare Diplomat Was Traveling To Visit Imprisoned Al-Qaida Agent...

AP via Weasel Zippers "The diplomat, Mohammed Al-Madadi was going to meet Ali Al-Marri in prison, according to a State Department official and another person close to the matter. Al-Marri, a citizen of Qatar, is serving eight years in prison after pleading guilty last year to conspiring to support terrorism."

Waxman Plans Industry Show Trials

Big Government "Democrats understand that passage of Obama’s healthcare “reforms” will probably hurt them in November, so they’re doing everything they can to dampen the anger directed at them and turn it against someone – anyone – else."...."The hearing will be a nasty show trial. It is intended to vilify, not find fact: to shift the blame from congress to the industry executives who are trying to do their jobs in accordance with the law." Waxman again.

Petraeus’s Israel Problem

Andrew McCarthy "The State Department with which [General Petraeus] anxiously partners is the institution of government foremost dedicated to the view that we must be absolute neutrals in the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. No material distinction is to be drawn between one side’s construction of housing and the other’s suicide bombings."

Obamas to Appear on "American Idol"

FoxNews "The President and First Lady took time out of their busy schedules on Wednesday to sit down for a taping with "American Idol" as part of the hit show's fundraising event set to air next week."

Iran's President Warns Israel against Invasion of Gaza

FARSNews " "And you (Zionists) should know that an attack on Gaza will end your inauspicious and filthy life," the Iranian president warned. " FARS is Iran's independent news agency. Whatever "independent" means.

Obama's credibility crisis

Thomas Lifson "The most valuable tool in a president's political arsenal is slipping away from Barack Obama. Once people believe a leader is a liar, it is very hard for that person to be effective in his role."

Some in MSM Cry Uncle

American Thinker "CNN just the other day ran a story: "Disgruntled Democrats join the Tea Party". And this just in from CNN, an African-American producer who went on a tour with the Tea Party to report on what actually happens at the rallies. Here are some of his remarks. " ...Ann Kane

Five things we learned about Obamacare after it passed

Washington Examiner "House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., famously said that about President Obama's health care reform package. She was right. We are just finding out what was contained within that Obamacare law that Obama signed weeks ago." And this: Could Health Care Law Bring Down Sheriff Joe? "A provision in the newly passed health care law could give the Justice Department an extra tool in investigations of state-run institutions and prisons — including in its high-profile probe of an obstreperous Arizona sheriff under scrutiny for his law enforcement record." H/t to Neal Boortz

Barack Obama Bans College Internships, But Only in Free Enterprise

Redstate “Barack Obama is opposed to an individual’s right to make the individual’s own decisions about what is in the individual’s own best interest.”