Why Rashid Khalidi is Happy: The Obama Middle East Policy and the Palestinians

Ron Radosh "Friends of Israel should be deeply concerned that Israel’s sworn enemies now see hope in Obama’s policies."

Tea partiers fight Obama’s culture of dependence.

Michael Barone  "Paul Lazarsfeld saw politics as just a matter of dollars and cents. But the tea-party movement reminds us of what the Founders taught — that it has a moral dimension as well. They risked all in the cause of the culture of independence. The polling evidence suggests that most Americans don’t want to leave that behind."

SCUDs and Syria

Elliott Abrams  "But the best message we could send right now does not require an ambassador in Damascus, just clarity in Washington: Sending SCUDs to Hezbollah will not be tolerated, and Israeli military actions taken to prevent it will have full American support."

WaPo Promotes Maddow Special on How McVeigh Echoes in 'Rising Tide of Anti-Government Extremism'

Newsbusters "Nine years after his execution, we are left worrying that Timothy McVeigh's voice from the grave echoes in the new rising tide of American anti-government extremism," Maddow says at the outset of her MSNBC special Monday night called "The McVeigh Tapes: Confessions of an American Terrorist."

Wall Street suspects Goldman charges 'not coincidental' to financial reform effort

NY Post "Barclays banking analyst Roger Freeman comes right out and blasts the SEC effort as “a well-timed, and perhaps not coincidental, effort to sway some on-the-fence Republicans” to get tough on financial reform."  Then this: MANUFACTURING A CRISIS  ;  Obama’s Newest Villain: Goldman Sachs : "Careful observers will note that Team Obama is never content to argue the potential benefits of their increasingly dodgy legislation (e.g. Stimulus, Healthcare, Cap and Trade). Obama is no fool; he understands that his wealth redistribution schemes, his desire to grow government, to provide new kickbacks to Unions, and to crush small business growth are so antithetical to most Americans that passage and support require that a villain be found that can be blamed for any and all possible evils."  All this is not to say that Goldman Sachs is an innocent victim but is this all another Reichstag burning?

Here it is: The Contract from America

contractfromamerica.com/  "The Contract from America is a grassroots-generated, crowd-sourced, bottom-up call for real economic conservative and good governance reform in Congress. "....
"During the past several months, hundreds of thousands of Americans have debated thousands of ideas to solve our nation’s most pressing problems. 454,331 votes were cast. It has been an open process and has provided a genuine opportunity to give voice to a broad cross section of concerned Americans."

Bill Clinton and Timothy McVeigh

Blackfive "Bill Clinton has been back at the game of trying to tie patriotic dissent with violent extremism. As Byron York points out this is a sleazy stunt he has pulled before."  More here: Clinton Running the Old Playbook  and here: Clinton Continues To Lie About Limbaugh

The List of Obamacare Taxes

Heritage "Check out the list HERE, from Heritage.org (hat tip to Brenda Bowers). Taxed enough already?
This administration doesn't think so." Via Infidel Bloggers Alliance

Conventional Wisdom About Iraq Proves Wrong

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON "Meanwhile, Iraq's democracy has for some time now proven itself independent from the U.S. — and that old anti-war accusations that we entered the war to control Iraqi oil were false. Last June, the representative Iraqi government held its first oil auction — featuring transparent negotiations in which no American oil company was awarded an oil concession."

Mike Ramirez cartoon

http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/IBDEditorials.aspx#

ABC’s Republican Character Under Siege from ‘Conservative Purity Police’ and ‘Ultra-Conservative Yahoos’

Newsbusters   " “It’s just the conservative purity police trying to purge the party of lily-livered Republican moderates.” Kitty complains to her sister, “Sarah Walker,” played by Rachel Griffiths: “I am fighting for my political life with a bunch of ultra-conservative yahoos who want my head because you decided to fall in love with a guy who has immigration issues.” "  Emphasis added.

Allee Bautsch’s Mother Speaks Out – Says Daughter Was Attacked by Leftist Political Protesters

Gateway Pundit   "It’s no coincidence that the only major conservative media outlet to have accurately covered the story belongs to Andrew Breitbart, because he actually has some guts. The rest of the conservative media still seem to be afraid that the MSM is going to say something bad about them. " Jim Hoft