Excused Horrors

By Walter E. Williams "Professor Kors asks why are the horrors of Nazism so well known and widely condemned, but not those of socialism and communism? For decades after World War II, people have hunted down and sought punishment for Nazi murderers. How much hunting down and seeking punishment for Stalinist and Maoist murderers? In Europe, especially Germany, hoisting the swastika-emblazoned Nazi flag is a crime. It’s acceptable to hoist and march under a flag emblazoned with the former USSR’s hammer and sickle."

EXCLUSIVE: CIA Secret 'Torture' Prison Found at Fancy Horseback Riding Academy

ABC News "Where affluent Lithuanians once rode show horses and sipped coffee at a café, the CIA installed a concrete structure where it could use harsh tactics to interrogate up to eight suspected al-Qaeda terrorists at a time." A little more Here .

A failed presidency is now unavoidable

By Monty Pelerin ""Not a very good first year for America, or the world, under a new leadership that promised a new respect, a new start, and a new way of doing business. It's new alright - it just isn't any good."We have a failed presidency that cannot be retrieved.".... "For the Democrats, it is a more difficult problem. Ultimately, I believe they will abandon ship. Politicians of both parties are like rats; they are survivors. All politicians will take that course which they believe gives them the best chance for individual survival. Loyalty be damned."

A top psychiatrist at Walter Reed warned Fort Hood about Hasan

By Rick Moran "Hasan's supervisor at Walter Reed sent the memo to the Walter Reed credentials committee. It reads, "Memorandum for: Credentials Committee. Subject: CPT Nidal Hasan." More than a page long, the document warns that: "The Faculty has serious concerns about CPT Hasan's professionalism and work ethic. ... He demonstrates a pattern of poor judgment and a lack of professionalism." It is signed by the chief of psychiatric residents at Walter Reed, Maj. Scott Moran. When shown the memo, two leading psychiatrists said it was so damning, it might have sunk Hasan's career if he had applied for a job outside the Army."

Palin's Pro-Israel Positions are a Michaya

Atlas Shrugs ""Palin supports the Jewish homeland against Islamic jihad and has been consistent on this. Here and here and here ....I have many links. Jewish leadership was wrong not to back her - they actually disinvited her to anti-Ahmadinejad rally in NY before the election. ...I am so behind Palin for president because she represents America's true hope of a noble, moral, exceptional country."

Obama Shrinks Chanukah Celebration at White House

Atlas Shrugs ""The guest list is expected to be shrunk by more than half, according to the Jerusalem Post. "Though several Jewish leaders expressed understanding ...they acknowledged that it would likely help feed feelings in some quarters of the American Jewish community that the White House is giving them the cold shoulder." The move comes on the heels of Obama's cancellation of an appearance before the General Assembly of North American Jewish Federations last week."

$50,000 to clean up a 2 oz mercury spill

American Thinker "The use of compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs) will soon be mandatory in the United States. And CFLs contain what? What? Say it louder: MERCURY. You can expect the cleanup crew in the picture to be coming to your house- to help you clean up a broken light bulb."

Miranda Rights on the Battlefield Unconstitutional?

American Thinker "Soldiers have been ordered to issue battlefield Miranda rights to captured enemy combatants. Rick Moran does an excellent job explaining the trouble with issuing Miranda rights to terrorists."

AT THE END OF THE DAY, DIVERSITY HAS JUMPED THE SHARK, HORRIFICALLY

Ann Coulter "Mohammed's military tribunal was already under way when Obama came into office, stopped the proceedings and, eight months later, announced that Mohammed would be tried in a federal court in New York."

Holder's testimony and Andrew McCarthy's rebuttals

NRO "They are in recess after opening statements and initial rounds of questions. Here are some of the Attorney General's whoppers so far:"

Dean of Harvard Medical School: Health 'Reform' Gets a Failing Grade

By JEFFREY S. FLIER WSJ "Worse, currently proposed federal legislation would undermine any potential for real innovation in insurance and the provision of care. It would do so by overregulating the health-care system in the service of special interests such as insurance companies, hospitals, professional organizations and pharmaceutical companies, rather than the patients who should be our primary concern."

Krauthammer: Obama offered al-Qaeda 9/11 Act II

Hot Air "“I believe that this is a decision that comes as a result of the president making the decision, or if not making the decision, allowing an attorney general to do what he normally doesn’t have the authority to do, and could only do at the acquiescence of the president,” the former AG and former Missouri senator argued."