CBS's Schieffer Accuses Limbaugh of Breaking White House's 'Truce' with FNC

Newsbusters "Rush Limbaugh's tough criticisms of President Barack Obama on Fox News Sunday “broke” the White House's truce with Fox News, Bob Schieffer suggested during an interview with Obama's Senior Adviser, David Axelrod, on Face the Nation."

Memo: It's officially safe to criticize Barack Obama

By Byron York "Among politically-crucial independents, [Obama's popularity] has fallen from 75 percent in January to 52 percent today. Numbers like that mean Obama's intimidation factor has disappeared. Luntz's memo gives health-care opponents a road map for taking advantage of that fact."

Adam Baldwin: Anguish of the Apostate: Second Thoughts Are Best

Big Hollywood "As a young & liberal parent, I’d discovered Rush Limbaugh. I’ve been a dedicated listener ever since. Rush’s countless words and twenty years of wisdom, provocations and humor is an inspiration to me and his tens of millions of listeners to read and investigate further controversial issues, current events, history, and philosophy." Adam Baldwin, actor: Related to the Baldwin brothers

It's the follow-through that matters in New York's special race

Washington Examiner "The GOP establishment is worried -- rightly -- about the risk of a Perot-style insurgency in 2012. Ross Perot's 1992 candidacy tapped authentic populist dissatisfaction and anger, even as it doomed the Republicans and handed the White House to Bill Clinton. Nobody in the GOP wants to go down that road again."

Palin on Scozzafava’s withdrawal: Now we must unite

Hot Air "Totally true, and precisely Gingrich’s point in endorsing Hoffman so quickly after Team Dede threw in the towel this morning."

Blogging Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals: Prologue

Pajamas Media "Self-absorbed, [Alinsky] seems completely unaware that during the social upheaval of the 60s and 70s, millions of people were leading quietly ordinary — and often sacrificial — lives: getting married, working, raising families. They thought themselves happy, productive, and satisfied. But what did they know?"

Truman and the Principles of U.S. Foreign Policy

By Victor Davis Hanson "President Obama often invokes the supposed mess abroad — especially in Iraq and Afghanistan — left to him by George W. Bush. But Mr. Obama's inheritance is mild compared to the myriad crises that nearly overwhelmed the rookie President Truman."

Unfortunately, Failure Is an Option

Weekly Standard "Barack Obama faces a choice in Afghanistan. The safe middle ground may be the most treacherous."

McChrystal Lite / How to lose a war by splitting the difference.

Weekly Standard "The biggest problem, though, is that a half-surge cannot produce a meaningful result in a timely manner; we should remember that the McChrystal plan proceeds from his assessment that the next year--several months of which have already been lost--is critical to regaining the initiative from the Taliban. "

The Vietnam moment

Financial Times "To put it another way, splitting the difference and announcing 20,000-plus new troops might look like the least risky choice. But it would satisfy neither liberal nor conservative critics of Mr Obama back home. And it may do little to convince the Taliban that America is in this fight for keeps."

White House visitor records

WhiteHouse.gov "As part of President Obama's commitment to government transparency, we are providing records of White House visitors on an ongoing basis online. "

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