Holder: Aiding al-Qaeda

Andrew McCarthy " When critics contended that Americans had a right to know whether lawyers who chose to donate their services to al-Qaeda were now in charge of counterterrorism policy, Holder wailed that the patriotism of Justice Department lawyers was being attacked. The legal profession’s heroic self-image notwithstanding, there is nothing patriotic about volunteering to represent terrorists; that something is legal doesn’t make doing it patriotic. But the patriotism strawman is neither here nor there. The point has always been a commonsense one: When you do something you don’t have to do — as Holder did as a private lawyer in 2004, filing an amicus brief on behalf of al-Qaeda terrorist Jose Padilla — that is a free choice. We are entitled to weigh what that choice tells us about where you’re coming from.
"In taking up Padilla’s cause, Holder was not acting out of obligation. He was acting out of passion, out of ideology."

Piercing a California Democratic Congressman’s Liberal Cocoon

Ed Driscoll "Kaus didn’t actually invent the term, but he did help popularize it. And eight years after the above description, the cocoon is arguably screwed down even tighter around the MSM, which during the naughts basically defined itself as “Not Fox News.”
"So let’s watch how painful it can be to a liberal when the cocoon gets pierced:"

Whatever It Takes: Obama Sidesteps Law to Halt Domestic Energy Production. Twice.

Pajamas Media "It is disturbing, to say the least, how little deference the president and the administration give to the strictures of the Constitution and existing law. Whatever suits Obama’s partisan political interests takes precedence, regardless of the cost to us. However, it is heartening that judges are increasingly unwilling to let this rampage continue.The most recent example involves the planned nuclear-waste repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada."

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Confidence in Obama reaches a new low

Ed Lasky  "Do the Americans who still support Democrats do so because they support a redistribution of savings in America that has nothing to do with growth of the economy or individual merit but are a response to the demonizing of free enterprise that is Obama's wont and the promotion of the view that Other People's Money is really theirs?"
Cartoon: http://townhall.com/cartoons/cartoonist/GlennFoden

MSNBC online "poll" is a trap!

American Thinker  "But the law's opponents want Americans to think that Arizona police will be stopping people just for "looking" illegal; it's not so.So the MSNBC poll is based on a false premise; what a surprise!
"And to participate in the poll is to validate its false premise. If the majority of respondents check "Yes, it's a good idea", MSNBC will no doubt report that a majority of respondents "favor racial profiling".
"In other words, this "poll" is a trap! Let's not any of us forget that we are battling against some true masters of propaganda and manipulation! "

Immigration, Reconsidered "The problem with this is that it isn't geography that makes a nation, but people. Replace Americans with Mexicans or Muslims and you no longer have America -- you have Mexico North or Iran West. Thus, if you believe Western culture is an evil force and aim to destroy it, our current immigration scheme perfectly suits your agenda.
"And the proof is in the pudding. Approximately 80 percent of new legal immigrants, once naturalized, vote as our culture-rending leftists do (for leftist Democrats). For a specific example, consider that first-time Hispanic voters cast ballots for Bill Clinton by a ratio of 15 to 1."

Another Democrat Congressman Loses Temper on Camera

Breitbart TV "Maybe if Democrats want more votes this election they should stop yelling at their constituents."

NASA AND MUSLIMS (Updated)

Boortz "So yesterday, Obama's chief mouthpiece Robert Gibbs gets up there and says that Bolden "must have misspoken" when he said that one of his top priorities is reaching out to Muslim countries. Gibbs says, "That's not his task and that's not the task of NASA." Maybe Bolden got the wrong training manual. It's more likely that the Obama crowd got the message from the American people and did a bit of a rewrite."

It Cannot Be That NASA Has Nothing Better To Do "First, is the recent record of NASA so sterling that now, in a time of record deficits, we have manpower and capital to invest in public relations with the Muslim world? And if so, why not with Latin America, or the African world?"

The Bush Tax Cuts and the Deficit Myth

WSJ "President Obama and congressional Democrats are blaming their trillion-dollar budget deficits on the Bush tax cuts of 2001 and 2003. Letting these tax cuts expire is their answer. Yet the data flatly contradict this "tax cuts caused the deficits" narrative. Consider the three most persistent myths:"

Government issuing new order suspending deepwater drilling

CNN ""To date, and despite assurances from the White House and the Interior Department, about one-third of the shallow water fleet has been idled by the application of what can only be called a de facto moratorium," said Jim Noe, senior vice president and general counsel of Hercules Offshore. "Unless Interior changes course, and matches their action with their rhetoric, another third of the fleet will be idled and thousands more workers will be furloughed within the next few weeks.""

The Obama Tax and Spend Threat to Economic Recovery

Heritage "Remember President Barack Obama's promise to the American people not to raise taxes? Forget about it. While the President has already raised taxes on cigarettes and tanning beds, none of that compares to what could happen in January. If you earn income, your taxes are about to go up. If Congress does not act to preserve current law, even the lowest 10 percent bracket will rise to 15 percent. Throw in tax hikes on capital gains, dividends and other tax code fixes, and the American economy is staring straight down the barrel of $3.2 trillion tax hike over the next ten years.
"It doesn't take a genius to realize that raising taxes by $3.2 trillion dollars would be an economic recovery killer."

NAACP Leftists Claim “Hardcore White Supremists” Are Behind Tea Party Movement

Gateway Pundit "Shameful. This once respected organization is now openly promoting lies to further the radical leftist agenda. Disgusting."

Blackout: MSM Continue to Bash Tea Party, Ignore New Black Panthers "Stunning that the MSM still fosters the impression that the Tea Partiers are a hotbed of armed, racist resentment, when a group that actually is a hotbed of armed, racist resentment sails blithely beneath the mainstream radar..."

Michelle Obama to NAACP: “America Is Still Unequal