We can’t return to our special relationship with the United States

The Globe and Mail, Canada. "U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton went out of her way to highlight differences between Canadian and American government positions on the Arctic, Afghanistan and abortion. The comments themselves were not particularly novel or provocative, but they gave Canadians another opportunity to clash over whether the two countries share a “special relationship,” and what that means for our foreign-policy priorities."

Join the Arizona BUYcott!

Gina Loudon "...protesters like Al Sharpton are asking for a Boycott of the State. In response, Patriot groups around the country want to support the rights of the people of Arizona and are calling for a BUYcott of the State. ".... "Organizers are asking all participating patriot groups to email their receipts of Arizona expenditures to gina@stlouisteaparty.com so that we have quantitative data on our impact in this battle."
More here: Preserving American Liberty has announced Fred and Jeri Thompson, Liz Cheney and J.C. Watts will join Sarah Palin at the Independence Events Center, Saturday, May 1, 2010 for the Winning Back America Conference.

The real reason liberals accuse Tea Partiers of racism

Roger L Simon "You don’t have to be Nostradamus to see that relations, in the immediate future at least, between ideological adversaries are going to be increasingly hostile. In the battle to maintain power — and equally as importantly to maintain self-image — many strains of the left will redouble their efforts to define the Tea Party movement as racist, further splitting our society and racializing it. They will seize on any isolated incident of the slightest prejudice as a pretext. And it is not unlikely that they will find what they need somewhere, because any movement of millions contains someone who exhibits some form of racism some time. "

Want Proof of Media Bias, Here It Is: A Tale of Two Cases

Big Journalism "I read though the emails… ALL OF THEM… before I posted, and what I concluded was anticlimactic, there was nothing there, nothing incriminating, nothing that would derail her campaign as I had hoped, all I saw was personal stuff, some clerical stuff from when she was governor…. And pictures of her family." David Kernell, Palin email hacker and son of Tennessee Rep. Mike Kernell

Supreme Court says Mojave cross can stand

LA Times "The Supreme Court gave its approval Wednesday to displaying a cross on public land to honor fallen soldiers, saying the Constitution "does not require the eradication of all religious symbols in the public realm."  Speaking for a divided court, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy said the 1st Amendment called for a middle-ground "policy of accommodation" toward religious displays on public land, not a strict separation of church and state."

We Didn’t Deregulate

National Review  "Obama won’t have to create a new regulatory system from scratch: For all the lamentation of our allegedly scanty policing of Wall Street, the financial industry already answers to a host of regulators, including the Federal Housing Finance Agency, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Reserve, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Office of Thrift Supervision, and, not least, the Securities and Exchange Commission. In fact, as Peter J. Wallison of the American Enterprise Institute explained in 2008, “almost all financial legislation, such as the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Improvement Act of 1991, adopted after the savings and loan collapse in the late 1980s, significantly tightened the regulation of banks.” In other words, we’ve had regulation, not deregulation."

Financial reform; Democrats demonize GOP

Boortz "Home Depot was then. Obama is now. The type of entrepreneurship that allowed these two amazing men to go from scratch to $30 billion dollars .. leaving millionaires scattered in their wake ... is pretty much gone, and it will be finished if Chris Dodd and Barry get their way. So long entrepreneurship. Hello government-controlled economy. You're gonna love this stuff folks."

California's Man-Made Drought

Investors.com "It started with a 2008 federal court order that stopped water flowing from northern tributaries on a supposed need to protect a small fish — the delta smelt — that was getting ground up in the turbines of pump stations that divert the water south. The court knew it was bad law, but Congress refused to exempt the fish from the Endangered Species Act and the diversion didn't help the fish. After that, the water cutoff was blamed on "drought," though northern reservoirs are currently full. Now the cry is "save the salmon," a reference to water needs of the state's northern fisheries."

Mike Ramirez cartoon

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

Open Borders Moonbats Boycott Arizona Ice Tea

Moonbattery "Look out, JCPenney. The progressive brain trust is liable to go after Arizona jeans next. At least now that liberals are boycotting their product, Arizona Ice Tea won't have to print OPEN OTHER END on the bottom of the can."

How Could They Do That in Arizona!

Victor Davis Hanson "The politics of illegal immigration are a losing proposition for liberals (one can see that in the resort to euphemism), even if they don’t quite see it that way. Here are ten considerations why."...

RAILIN' ON ARIZONA

Neal Boortz "Here's the portion of the law that seems to have everyone's thong in a wad:

"For any lawful contact made by a law enforcement official or agency of this state...where reasonable suspicion exists that the person is an alien who is unlawfully present in the United States, a reasonable attempt shall be made, when practicable, to determine the immigration status of the person."

DISPELLING SOME OF THE MYTHS  Now Attorney General Eric Holder says that the federal government may challenge Arizona's new immigration law. My response? Bring it on. The Heritage Foundation argues that there is a constitutional case to be made for Arizona:

"Under the Tenth Amendment which preserves the traditional police powers of the states to control their own jurisdictions ... The Heritage Foundation has advocated for extensive innovation at the lowest levels of government in terms of immigration enforcement. A 2009 report of Matt Mayer highlights how "state and local governments must [and can] do more" to do something about the illegal immigration problem - a conclusion that came from a series of THF roundtables aimed at talking to state and local officials about pressing public policy problems."