Iran to review woman's stoning verdict

Yahoo News "Human rights activists and other officials, however, warned that Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, a 43-year-old mother of two, could still be hanged."

George Will uses Obama quote to crush liberal's attack on Sarah Palin

Newsbusters "On the vapidness meter, that ranks nowhere near, "We are the ones we have been waiting for," which was Obama's way of flattering the self-esteem of his supporters.
"Bravo!"

Malik Shabazz Praised Bin Laden In 2002

Sweetness and Light "“Let’s talk about this brother, because he’s a bold man… Usama Bin Laden, Mr. Bin Laden. Gotta give him his respect. He’s not bowing down. He’s not cutting [?] the tap dance… Mr. Bin Laden standing up. There’s a man born in Saudi Arabia bringing reform, Mr. Bin Laden. But you’re not supposed to say these things about him. I thought we had free speech.”
"More from one of Mr. Obama’s earliest supporters."

White House: Berwick Appointment 'Too Important' to Wait for a Hearing

ABC News   "This morning on ABC News’ "This Week," Senior White House Advisor David Axelrod insisted that President Obama’s recess appointment of Dr. Donald Berwick to be the administrator of The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services was simply “too important” to wait for a Congressional hearing."

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Progressive Paradise; Nannyism on steroids

Investors.com "The progressive paradise by the Bay, where the left's still-beating heart never left, lately has whipped up a whirlwind of nannyism — the notion, virtually synonymous with liberalism, that political government was designed to control the lives of the people for their own good."

Health care law's massive, hidden tax change

CNN Money "An all-but-overlooked provision of the health reform law is threatening to swamp U.S. businesses with a flood of new tax paperwork."

HAS THE LEFT DEVOLVED INTO ABSURDITY? YES!

Astute Blogger Nevertheless, the Left maintains some appeal among the electorate. WHY? SIMPLE: [they] control the Academy and the Media and are therefore able to continuously indoctrinate a new generation - and retain a fairly high percentage each year.

Krauthammer: I believe Obama may be a tad narcissistic

Hot Air "Krauthammer refers to a pattern that many have noticed about Obama, his repetitive self-referential language in speeches and remarks that far exceed anything seen from his predecessors — even the man we used to call The Big Me, Bill Clinton."

'The Crisis at Which We Are Arrived'

William Kristol "So fear not the Tea Parties. Be open to fundamental reforms. Belt-tightening and program-trimming, more transparency and greater efficiency, are not enough. The danger for Republicans isn’t that they will address the current crisis too boldly. It’s that they won’t be bold enough."

Are You an American, or Do You Just Live Here?

American Thinker "These people who do not respect our country enough to enter the country properly and legally. They do not care that we have laws, and they bring their own culture here. Many of them do not respect our flag; in fact, they burn it and spit on it in public, periodically."  Heather Carlton
But they do vote Democrat.

What will be the October Surprise?

Atlas Shrugs "But the party of haters, infiltrators, anti-capitalists, anti-freedom, anti-individual rights is going to have to pull off something really catastrophic to stay in power this November. And they will, because they despise the premise of America and they mean to replace it with statism, the source of untold, incomprehensible human misery for centuries. Ayn Rand wrote of statism:"

The political expression of altruism is collectivism or statism, which holds that man’s life and work belong to the state—to society, to the group, the gang, the race, the nation—and that the state may dispose of him in any way it pleases for the sake of whatever it deems to be its own tribal, collective good. The Objectivist Newsletter, Aug. 1962, 35