The Republican Party is showing some starch

Dick Morris "The Republican Party is showing some starch by standing up to Harry Reid on the financial regulation bill. We can only hope they keep it up."...."The financial regulation bill is a disaster in three major respects:"...

Times Square car bomb: Alert street vendor summoned police over smoking SUV

Jihad Watch  "A veteran rises to the occasion all over again. On the other hand, as for Comedy Central, it is clear their act of cowardice did not protect anybody from those who are determined to attack. Will they respond with more censorship, or decide now is the time for the gloves to come off? "

Obama overstretch

Thomas Lifson  "Will President Obama's attempt to bring "fundamental change" to America backfire and ultimately push America to the right? Although far from certain, the possibility grows, as the tea parties symbolize a growing public awareness that government is expanding rapidly, at the expense of individual liberty, the private sector, and our standard of living."

Police checking surveillance cameras after car bomb fizzle in Times Square

Rick Moran in AT:  "The New York Times is reporting that police believe the bomb was a fizzle:

Inside, they discovered three canisters of propane like those used for barbecue grills, two five-gallon cans of gasoline, consumer-grade fireworks - the apparent source of the "pops" - and two clocks with batteries, the mayor said. He said the device "looked amateurish." Mr. Browne said: "It appeared it was in the process of detonating, but it malfunctioned."

Political Cartoons by Brian Farrington

http://townhall.com/cartoons/cartoonist/BrianFarrington/2010/04

Malevolent Neglect

 American Thinker  "In America, our insurance companies and hospital groups have a market incentive to provide the best possible care for their customers. As with any capitalist venture, a poorly performing hospital or insurance company will soon find its revenue in a raisin-like condition, leading to both reforms and a subsequent boost in performance, or to Chapter 11 and new ownership. The ObamaCare legislation upsets this balance, weighing heavily on the side of regulatory bureaucracy." Related: ObamaCare: An Unmitigated Disaster "Finally, officials are owning up to what most Americans already knew. ObamaCare means higher costs and lower quality; ObamaCare means rationing and higher taxes - including a Value Added Tax (VAT)."

Yet another socialism success story

American Thinker "Socialism is premised on a faulty view of human nature, and fails every time it is used. Too bad nobody in the press corps has ever asked President Obama what he sees wrong with socialism, if anything. "

Environmentalists Prevent Cleaner Power Plant Construction

Pajamas Media "The truth is that no matter what we do, it’s never enough. Drive a hybrid? No good, it still uses gas. What about electric? No — byproducts of battery construction are toxic. They even put roadblocks in the way of wind farms on the grounds that they use too much land — and might kill birds.
Wind of course has it’s own issues. Kansas currently generates more than a gigawatt of electricity via wind power and is ranked behind only Texas in potential for generating electricity in this fashion."

Does Obama Bear Some Responsibility for Intimidation of Comedy Central?

Pajamas Media " “President Obama’s speech in Cairo projected a vision of American weakness where people think they can make violent threats and get away with it. He does not make strong statements that America will not tolerate these threats, but instead is conciliatory.” President Obama is sending out the wrong signals. Instead of political correctness, there should be statements and actions that make clear the government will protect its citizens’ rights."

Illegal Aliens: Law and Sovereignty in Arizona

Andrew C. McCarthy   "The law is clearly constitutional. Yet the Obama administration, having buried unconsenting Americans under avalanches of debt and inscrutable, unconstitutional mega-statutes, is mulling a court challenge, casting its lot with lawless aliens against besieged Arizonans. A government destructive of our citizens’ basic rights to know, to determine, and to have the protection of the law cannot endure. This one will not. The only question is how much more damage we will allow it to do."

What Arizona Must Live With

Mark Steyn   "I spoke this week to a lady who has a camp of illegals on the edge of her land: She lies awake at night, fearful for her children and alert to strange noises in the yard. President Obama, shooting from his lip, attacked the new law as an offense against “fairness.” Where’s the fairness for this woman’s family? Because her home is in Arizona rather than Hyde Park, Chicago, she’s just supposed to get used to living under siege? Like Gillian Duffy in northern England, this lady has to live there, while the political class that created this situation climbs back into the limo and gets driven far away."

Coulter: I've Never Seen Any Issue Lied About As Much As Ariz. Immigration Law

The Right Scoop 'The problem that’s made reaction explode against this bill, according to Coulter, is simply poor reporting on the actual facts of what the law does and doesn’t do. She accuses almost everyone in the MSM of lying about the bill and perpetuating this anti-immigration law sentiment. '