In Egypt, We Cannot Afford to Repeat Past Mistakes

Max Boot  "America’s role, as the champion of liberty, should be to usher Mubarak out of power as quickly and painlessly as possible in order to avert further bloodshed and to make it harder for malign elements to take advantage of the disorder for their own nefarious purposes. We did not do enough to aid democrats in Russia in 1917 or in Iran in 1979; in both cases, we stuck with a discredited ancien regime until it was too late and reacted too slowly to revolutionary upheavals. Let us not repeat that mistake in Egypt."

Krauthammer Questions Obama’s Need To Make Ambiguous Public Statements On Egypt  "Although Krauthammer did praise the strategy of being ambiguous in public and specific in private, he still thought it was not advisable for Obama to be injecting himself into the story and questioned “why does he pop up on television right after the President of Egypt speaks? He did that on Friday and he does it again today.” Expressing general solidarity with people in the streets is fine, but Krauthammer feared “it looks as if it was our decision, our pressure, and I’m not sure that we want a direct connection between our President and Egypt.”"

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Who Tossed Egypt (to the Wolves)? "Still, it appears that the Obama Administration has been “reaching out” for some time to the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt among other places, including here in the United States.  Most obviously, as Sean Hannity noted on his program with me and Egyptian expatriate author and former Muslim Nonie Darwish last night, President Obama insisted that Muslim Brotherhood representatives be included in the audience for his speech in Cairo in June 2009."

Daniel Pipes: Turmoil in Egypt; Why the military, not the Muslim Brotherhood, will come out on top   "But revolutions are hard to pull off and I predict that Islamists will not achieve a Middle East-wide breakthrough and Tehran will not emerge as the key power broker. Some thoughts behind this conclusion:"...

Thoughts on Chaos, Revolution, and Radicalism  "In short, at some point soon, we are going to have to come out and express our support for a non-Islamist constitutional state, period — without any Carter-esque talk of “moderate” Islamists."

Thomas Sowell: Spilled Milk

National Review Online  "But not everyone understands that any power given to any bureaucracy for any purpose can be stretched far beyond that purpose."
"In a classic example of this process, the EPA has decided that, since milk contains oil, it has the authority to force farmers to comply with new regulations to file “emergency management” plans to show how they will cope with spilled milk — how farmers will train “first responders” and build “containment facilities” if there is a flood of spilled milk."
(Emphasis added.) Is there no limit to how stupid liberals can be?

Mike Ramirez on the Green Movement

http://townhall.com/cartoons/michaelramirez

Obama Bumper Sticker Removal Kit (from 2010)



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Youtube  "You were drawn in by the promise of hope and change -- so much so that you decided to broadcast it on your car's bumper. Back then, you were proud to be seen in your Obama-mobile. Lately, however, you've gone from hopeful to woeful, and now you're stuck with a bumper sticker that you just wish would go away. You got change, but not one that you can believe in.

Like the bad tattoo that you got in college, your Obama bumper sticker is an embarrassment that seemed like a good idea at the time. Fortunately, now you can finally do something about it.

Top 10 Responses to Obama Bumper Sticker Removal Kit  With Brad Stine

Valerie Jarrett's Arrogance

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Thomas Lifson  "During an exclusive dinner hosted Monday by the Alfalfa Club, Obama adviser Valerie Jarret(sic) ...was seated at the head table along with several other big-name politicians and a handful of high-ranking military officials. As an officer sporting several stars walked past Jarrett, she signaled for his attention and said, "I'd like another glass of wine."

"Garçon!"

GOP senators force vote on health law repeal

Washington Times  "The repeal effort was made a day after a judge in Florida ruled that Congress breached the Constitution when it enacted the measure last year. U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson was the second jurist to say that Congress exceeded its powers by requiring Americans to buy insurance, known as the "individual mandate."

"But the Florida judge went further, saying that if the individual mandate is unconstitutional, so is the entire law."

ObamaCare; now what?  " But Democrats have an easy fallback for that, which will be their argument from now until the cows come home ... repealing ObamaCare will be a deficit-buster. Yup! They will say that they cannot support the amendment because they are conscious about our deficit problems. We've already blown this argument to smithereens, but the fact is that deficit concerns will continue to be a fallback"....
 "Let's just recognize that the Democrats recognize that Americans are very upset about the lack of jobs out there, so pretty much any bill they try to pass is going to be called a jobs bill. They could pass a bill requiring you to wash your hands 10 times a day and they would call it a jobs bill because somebody has to manufacture the soap."  Emphasis added.

All GOP senators now on board for Obamacare repeal  "The following GOP senators were the last ones to sign on as co-sponsors of S. 192: Lamar Alexander (TN), Thad Cochran (MS), Susan Collins (ME), Chuck Grassley (IA), John Hoeven (ND), Richard Lugar (IN), and Lisa Murkowski (AK).
"Certainly, Judge Vinson's ruling on Monday helped to sway some of these stragglers."
Even the RINOs came on board.

http://www.pritchettcartoons.com/rino.htm

Obama, Not Egypt, is Biggest Threat to U.S. Energy Prices

Heritage  "Government policies that ban economically feasible energy development while subsidizing economically unsustainable ones only raise energy costs rather than lowering them. What the U.S. economy really needs is a truly free-market energy approach, one that includes (1) real nuclear energy reform, not more loan guarantees; (2) predictable and sensible coal regulations; (3) reduced regulation on renewable energy; (4) an end to all energy subsidies; and (5) common-sense limits to environmental litigation."
This story has gone viral in just a few hours and the TW is just one of many blogs carrying it.

Mini adventure: how far can an electric car go?

BBC News  "Brian Milligan drove a Mini Cooper Electric from London to Edinburgh in four days with

nine stops for up to ten hours to recharge its batteries. A stage coach used to make the same journey in two days and two nights." Article and cartoon from Rich Terrell

http://terrellaftermath.com/

The Egypt Crisis in a Global Context: A Special Report

STRATFOR intelligence report  "Mubarak’s failure to design a credible succession plan guaranteed instability on his death. Since everyone knew that there would be instability on his death, there were obviously those who saw little advantage to acting before he died. Who these people were and what they wanted is the issue."

 

Global Nerdy  "The article, which appeared on China’s official Xinhua News Agency’s English news site on Monday, displays text about a new genetic discovery relating to MS, attributed to “agencies.” Alongside is an x-ray rendering of the diminutive brain of the cartoon character Homer Simpson, attributed as a “file photo.”"  

 Hat tip to Jeff Hayden, Plano, TX


D'oh! Homer 'photo' exposes Chinese media piracy  "Despite the foreign-language polishers, the writers and editors who produce English and other foreign-language content for Xinhua and other state-owned media organizations do not have the cultural awareness necessary to avoid errors like the misuse of the Homer Simpson illustration,"...


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The Mubarak Mirage and the ElBaradei Conundrum

Max Boot  "I am by no means trying to minimize the possible dangers ahead or to wish away the problems with ElBaradei. But the reality is that he has become the only realistic alternative to Mubarak, at least in the short-term. If he does the job right, he could preside over an interim government that would lift the state of emergency and allow the emergence of genuine political parties. Hopefully, we would see the emergence of popular leaders who would not be beholden to the Muslim Brotherhood. But for now, our options are severely limited."

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Israeli leftist admits: Human rights is a business

Israel Today "An Israeli journalist and filmmaker deeply involved in the liberal-driven human rights movement wrote in a blog post earlier this month that he has come to the sad realization that the movement he was so ideologically beholden to is little more than a great way for a lot of people to make money."