A Crisis of Competence in the Gulf

Heritage "...Worse, Obama administration regulators continue to deny Louisiana officials permission to build up barrier islands between the coast’s marshes and the gulf. Federal regulators have so far refused to permit the state to act, fearing the unintended long-term damage to local wildlife. So instead of action, the oil continues to float on shore threatening the livelihoods of millions of Louisianans."

Obama's Ticking Time Bomb

Political Wire "The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico appears to have reached a public relations tipping point, with pundits and ordinary people turning against President Obama's response."
Cartoon: http://townhall.com/cartoons/cartoonist/EricAllie

Democrats won't call THIS guy a racist.

Les Phillip.com  First heard this on the Mark Davis program this morning. You've gotta love his "They won't call me a racist" comment.

Admiral Sestak Needs Loose Lips To Save His Sinking Ship

Legal Insurrection  "Keep it up, and Sestak may end up on the receiving end of a special prosecutor, likely as witness not target, but one never can be too careful. Just ask Scooter Libby. (Eric Holder apparently is refusing to appoint a Special Prosecutor, but I do not expect that refusal to last.)"
Look Who's Behind the White House/Sestak Stonewall  "After three months of zipped lips and feigned ignorance, the Obama White House is finally taking real heat over Pennsylvania Democratic Rep. Joe Sestak's consistent claims that the administration offered him a job to drop his Senate bid. Now it's time to redirect the spotlight where it belongs: on the top counsel behind the Washington stonewall, Bob "The Silencer" Bauer."

Death of the Postmodernist Dream

Victor Davis Hanson   "The more provocation is ignored in one region, the more it is pursued in the other. The new audacity is predicated on the universal notion that the new United States either cannot or will not fulfill its retrograde function of deterrence — or might even privately sympathize with the assorted grievances that serve as pretexts for ignoring the sanctity of the border, selling missiles to terrorists, pursuing the bomb, or aiding in uranium enrichment."

Europeans Miss Cowboy Diplomacy

Commentary  "The about-face in the Obama administration is not going unnoticed among our allies and our enemies. The latter are learning to play us — as Russia did in extracting a free pass on UN sanctions. Our friends (Israel, Eastern Europe) are learning not to trust us. And those despotic states like Syria, China, and Iran realize that it’s not such a bad thing to be a foe of the U.S...."  Jennifer Rubin.

The 'Gringo Mask' and Political Correctness

David Paulin in AT;
"According to the ad agency's web site:

"We understand from your responses that some people might equate the word "Gringo" with an ethnic slur. We do not. It is simply a slang term used to describe Caucasians, and we don't assign any negative connotations to it."

Oh, well, OK then.

Photo from the Palm Beach Post

Obama on beheading: 'It captured the world's imagination'

Greg Halvorson in AT; "Imagination is captured by triumph. Redemption. Beheading doesn't qualify, nor does it "remind us" of anything besides evil. The President's refusal to acknowledge evil empowers evil. What he should have said is, "The killing of this man of Jewish faith, this American, offended all who love freedom. It reminded us that liberty must be fought for and protected." But we all know that he'd rather appease. "

Memo Complicates Challenge To AZ Law

Sweetness and Light "In the legal battle over Arizona’s new immigration law, an ironic subtext has emerged: whether a Bush-era legal opinion complicates a potential Obama administration lawsuit against Arizona. "

"The document, written in 2002 by the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, concluded that state police officers have "inherent power" to arrest undocumented immigrants for violating federal law. It was issued by Jay S. Bybee, who also helped write controversial memos from the same era that sanctioned harsh interrogation of terrorism suspects."

Emphasis added to point out the guilt-by-association demagoguery technique. How subtle.

Constituents Using a Forum to Register Displeasure With Representative: Spooky!* 700 Angry Protesters on a Bankster's Front Lawn: "About damn time"

Reason  "I thought about that Congressman this past Sunday as I watched more than 700 protesters from National People's Action gather on the front lawn at the home of Gregory Baer, deputy counsel for the Bank Regulatory and Public Policy Group at Bank of America. [...]"
Now lets discuss those violent TEA-partiers...
DC Bank Protest: So, SEIU Now Owns the Cops Too? "Last week, 500 union thugs descended on a private home and terrorized a teenage boy. They violated someone’s most personal space, their home. And they attacked their most precious gift, their child. The police in two jurisdictions knew about this. They did nothing."

Some Arizona Latinos Embrace Immigration Law

NPR Wait! What? NPR?  "Though Latinos in Arizona and nationwide have mobilized in protest against the state's new immigration law, not all Hispanic Americans are opposed to it. In Arizona, many Latino voters see it as a much-needed crackdown." H/t to Weasel Zippers

Terror by Lawsuit

Bill Burck and Dana Perino    "Will Congress ease the way for terrorists to sue U.S. officials?"...."...the prosecutors themselves, and even high-level officials in Washington, could personally face lawsuits from Shahzad if a bill sponsored by Sen. Arlen Specter in the Senate or a similar one by Rep. Jerrold Nadler in the House becomes law. Congressman Nadler’s bill will be considered by the House Judiciary Committee as early as next week and could hit the floor not long thereafter."