Jimmy Carter: North Korea's consistent message to the U.S.

Washington Post  "No one can completely understand the motivations of the North Koreans, but it is entirely possible that their recent revelation of their uranium enrichment centrifuges and Pyongyang’s shelling of a South Korean island Tuesday are designed to remind the world that they deserve respect in negotiations that will shape their future."  Mr. Carter has excelled at giving respect to evil regimes.

"Britain and France had to choose between war and dishonor. They chose dishonor. They will have war."
Winston Churchill

US Teen Muslim Arrested after Trying to Explode Car Bomb Moments before a Christmas tree-lighting ceremony

Atlas Shrugs  "The suspect is said to have driven a van to the crowded event, parked and tried to detonate a device using a mobile phone.

"However, the supposed explosive was a fake, supplied to him by FBI operatives.

"Mohamud shouted "Allahu Akhkbar" (God is the greatest) and tried to kick agents as they swooped in on him, prosecutors said.

""The device was in fact inert, and the public was never in danger," the US Attorney's Office has been reported as saying.

""This defendant's chilling determination is a stark reminder that there are people - even here in Oregon - who are determined to kill Americans."

Job-Killer Obama Sets Aside 187,000 Miles For Overpopulated Polar Bears

Gateway Pundit  "Designation of crucial habitat does not in itself block economic activity or other development, but requires federal officials to consider whether a proposed action would adversely affect the polar bear’s habitat and interfere with its recovery.

"It’s decisions like this one that make Obama the worst jobs president since the Great Depression."

Whoopi Goldberg's Ignorance

American Thinker "Since I'm well aware of how leftists' claims of erudition are as empty as their ideology, not many of their failures surprise me. But an exception came last night when Whoopi Goldberg was interviewed by Bill O'Reilly. The two were discussing their differing views on the nature of the Islamic threat, with O'Reilly maintaining that we have a "Muslim problem" and Goldberg insisting that, no, we have a "terrorist problem." In typical leftist style, she even went so far as to rationalize away the threat, implying at one point that terrorists were as likely to be white guys as anyone else. But as ridiculous as this denial of reality is, it was followed by an admission of ignorance that was truly staggering. It occurred during the following exchange: "

World Magazine

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Newsbusters

Charles Krauthammer Rips Liberal Media for Being Obsessed with Sarah Palin

Newsbusters "After Krauthammer scolded the "editorial judgment" of the producers of PBS's "Inside Washington" for week after week prominently displaying her as the "only representative of conservatism of any importance" in this nation, the Washington Post's Colby King proved his point (video follows with transcript and commentary):"...

Our lethally uninformed civilization

Mladen Andrijasevic  Quoting  Haaretz: 

"I strongly believe that it's 1938 all over again," he says in a telephone interview from California, when the world groveled before Germany, hoping to appease the looming Nazi monster. "The difference is that this time the consequences would be much worse than World War II. The West had the opportunity to overthrow this regime in Tehran without firing a single bullet last year when the mass uprising happened, but now I truly believe it will be war whether we want it or not, and for that reason I think we should determine the terms of it. The question to ask ourselves is: Do we want to confront them now or when they have the nukes? That's going to make a big difference to the millions who will lose their lives once they get the nukes."

'Iran is a latter-day Nazi Germany'  "After turning his back on the Revolutionary Guards and becoming a CIA agent, an Iranian known as Reza Kahlili insists Israel has the best intelligence about his homeland."

Meanwhile American pacifists sport "COEXIST" bumper stickers and fashionable "peace" symbols  that encourage all who would stand against Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, terrorists and the Norks to disarm.

Despite Latest Propaganda… Doctors Forced to Cut Elderly Patients Due to Medicare Costs

Gateway Pundit  "How about a checkup from geriatric specialist Michael Trahos? Expect to see him every six months: The Alexandria-based doctor has been limiting most of his Medicare patients to twice yearly rather than the quarterly checkups he considers ideal for the elderly. Still, at least he’ll see you. Top-ranked primary care doctor Linda Yau is one of three physicians with the District’s Foxhall Internists group who recently announced they will no longer be accepting Medicare patients.

"“It’s not easy. But you realize you either do this or you don’t stay in business,” she said."

The Washington Post article here.

International Criminal Court: Torture, Evidence-tampering, Beatings, Bribes, Blackmail

Atlas Shrugs  "President Obama is a fan of the ICC. Our internationalist President is relinquishing American sovereignty to international law, appointing transnationalists to unprecedented positions of power (Harold Koh, State Department; Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagen, SCOTUS).
"Julia Gorin brings us the latest on this totalitarian kangaroo court."...

The Food Police Take Aim

NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE  "True, the food-police killjoys at the Center for Science in the Public Interest haven’t yet taken aim at Mom’s stuffed turkey and candied yams. But they do target restaurant meals they think should be off limits. This year’s edition of the CSPI’s annual finger-wag, Xtreme Eating 2010, cites such familiar villains as The Cheesecake Factory, P. F. Chang’s, the D.C. burger mecca (and Obama favorite) Five Guys, and other chain restaurants for offering high-calorie menu items."

South Korea has to respond to the North's aggression

American Thinker "What if the United States or China launched non nuclear missiles at the other's territory and killed soldiers and civilians alike? What good would restraint do then? What would a failure to respond tell either country's antagonists and how would that prevent further attacks and loss of life? How have President Obama's policies of conciliation, appeasement and containment towards North Korea contributed to the situation and how do the lessons learned pertain to the Middle East and Iran?"

Rocking Obama’s World "And just to top off the show, as Stephen Bosworth, US President Barack Obama’s point man on North Korea, was busily arguing that this revelation is not a crisis, the North fired an unprovoked artillery barrage at South Korea, demonstrating that actually, it is a crisis.

"But the Obama administration remains unmoved. On Tuesday Defense Secretary Robert Gates thanked his South Korean counterpart, Kim Tae-young, for showing “restraint.”

"On Thursday, Kim resigned in disgrace for that restraint."

What To Do With North Korea’s Dictators? Show Them the Fruits of American Military Technology  "Already there are been repercussions in South Korea over the weak response to North Korea’s military strikes. Hong Sa-duk, a member of the ruling party in Seoul, was quoted as saying, ”Let me say a word about those bastards at the Blue House [presidential home in South Korea] who advised the president to say the situation should be managed to avoid a full-blown war. They must be fired for advising the president to have such a weak response.” And indeed, the South Korean defense minister has resigned."

The Sixty Years War  "Yet the nuances of the Obama administration’s position have little to do with the severity of punishment and everything to do with the speed of capitulation. Almost as quickly as the Obama administration expressed its determination not to reward “bad behavior,” the White House announced its intention to do just that. "   Stephen F. Hayes

Sleepwalking Through History

Ed Driscoll  " What a president should ideally have, and what I think we all agree Mr. Obama badly needs, is an assistant whose sole job it is to explain and interpret the American people to him. Presidents already have special assistants for domestic policy, for congressional relations and national security. Why not a special assistant for reality? Someone to translate the views of the people, and explain how they think. An advocate for the average, a representative for the normal, to the extent America does normal.
"If Mr. Obama had a special assistant for reality this week, this is how their dialogue might have gone over the anti-TSA uprising."... Pajamas Media.