Nashville Flood 2010: The Disaster You May Not Have Heard About

Newsbusters "Several of my readers have asked me to post the following video. I cried most of the time I watched. See if you can control your emotions better than I did (video follows with a list of some charitable organizations involved in storm relief, multiple hat-tips to readers in the area):"...Noel Sheppard is the Associate Editor of NewsBusters.

Key to U.S. growth is building wealth, not entitlements

Politico "Progressives* have been reluctant to champion a pro-growth, pro-business, pro-wealth agenda — particularly in the financial meltdown of the past 18 months. But if Democrats are going to remain politically relevant and govern effectively, there are three reasons to organize around expanding the economic pie. "
* Liberals, leftists

"There Will Be No Apology"

RealClearPolitics "The fact is, Americans are increasingly fed up with the racially divisive, politically correct insanity pulsating through the country today. After years of being pressured and browbeaten by the left-wing PC police about what they can say, do, think, and wear, many Americans have had enough. And they're especially furious with being asked to apologize for things that aren't or shouldn't be in the least bit offensive."

OBAMAMEDIA DISTORTS ARIZONA

Nealz Nuze "OK .. we have one dead rancher in the past few week and, in case you didn't know, one shot cop. That's right ... a few days after the Arizona border protection law was signed by the governor an Arizona deputy sheriff was shot in a confrontation with illegal aliens. It's not good when illegal aliens shoot a cop, so the ObamaMedia is doing what it can to come up with an alternate story. Yup ... now we're starting to get stories that the shooting of the deputy was staged in order to gin up support for Arizona's law. Newsbusters describes the report from MSNBC: (where else?) "...

Miranda and Public Safety

Charles Krauthammer   "My view is that we should treat enemy combatants as enemy combatants, whether they are U.S. citizens (Shahzad) or not (the underwear bomber). If, however, they are to be treated as ordinary criminals, then at least agree on this: no Miranda rights until we know everything that public safety demands we need to know."

Mike Ramirez cartoon

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The President and the Politics of Civility; Barack Obama should lead by example.

Karl Rove "If Mr. Obama is serious about his commitment to courtesy and respect, then he will need to demonstrate presidential leadership and rein in the verbal excesses of the leaders of his own party. He could start by having a conversation with Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who condemned those with different views on health care as being "un-American." He might also share a word with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who recently accused Republicans of being "anti-American" and wanting to continue to "make love to Wall Street" by pressing for changes in a bill regulating the financial industry."  Related, if you think about it: Lester Kinsolving: White House press corps pit bull "He did not mince words with the Bush White House. And he is not mincing words with Team Obama." Unfortunately he got a dose of White House disrespect.

Yes, Words Do Matter!

Victor Davis Hanson   "Bottom line: Words matter. While we may think the “reset button”/“I’m not Bush” Obama rhetoric will win hearts and minds abroad, and give us new parameters of operations, our enemies may well look far more to words than to deeds — and see in them a radical loss of our deterrence ability. So the Hasans, Abdulmutallabs, and Shahzads of the world interpret our new philological magnanimity as weakness, regardless of whether it is or not. And that seems to me very dangerous indeed. Maybe the president can drop the “tea-bagger” slurs and forget Fox News and Rush Limbaugh, and instead warn radical Islamists to knock it off — or else."

Failure-in-Chief

Newt Gingrich "The controversies over the Arizona immigration plan and the Obama Administration’s response to the oil spill in the Gulf may not seem related, but they have a key common characteristic: both originate in the failure of Washington. In both cases, President Obama faces a real danger of a political backlash from which he will be unable to recover. "  Then this:  “Countries and Terror Groups That Were Absolutely Terrified of Bush Now Think Obama Might Apologize to Them”…   GOP Rep. Peter King

TEA PARTY PERCEPTIONS

Neal Boortz "Have you noticed how the ObamaMedia has managed to pull this one off? They have managed to marginalize the Tea Party movement and put it on the defensive .. Tea Partiers are having to spend far too much time trying to explain to bed-wetting liberals that they are not racists. In a sense, the Tea Partiers are guilty until proven innocent in the eyes of the ObamaMedia - it will be assumed that if you are a Tea Partier, you are a racist. That is, unless you can prove otherwise... and to a liberal there is no way for anyone with a conservative point of view to prove they are not racist."  And this:  JUST IGNORE THE "R" WORD  .  So much for the post-racial president.

Was the Times Square bomb a test?

Neil Braithwaite  "But I guess the most important question has already been answered - for American citizens and Islamic terrorists: Can a car bomb be successfully planted at will in a large, densely populated city in the United States in 2010?"   Neil Braithwaite writes political commentary and satire and is a regular contributor to PoliticalDerby.com.

Reviving the White House Press Corpse

American Thinker "When Lester Kinsolving, WorldNetDaily reporter and member of the White House press corps, recently asked Robert Gibbs why President Obama has not held an open press conference since July of 2009, Gibbs launched into this lengthy, mocking tirade . It would have been no shocker if Gibb's blast had concluded with the admission that Obama was giving the press corps an extended time-out. "