The Kennedy Rule: No GOP Senators Allowed

Wall Street Journal "The Boston Globe now notes Mr. Kennedy's current request "puts lawmakers in a delicate position." They "are nervous about being accused of engineering a self-serving change to help their party" just a few years after ramming through a similar self-serving change."

The Truth About Death Counseling

By Charles Krauthammer RealClearPolitics "...So why get Medicare to pay the doctor to do the counseling? Because we know that if this white-coated authority whose chosen vocation is curing and healing is the one opening your mind to hospice and palliative care, we've nudged you ever so slightly toward letting go."

SHOOT AROUND

By Neal Boortz "Just some quick short attention span comments on the current crisis in government here in what may not be for much longer the greatest nation in the world."

Traffic Noise May Impede Sex Lives of Frogs

CNS News One more thing to worry about. Now watch for those "Save the Frogs" activists.

GOP Should Shut Down Senate If Dems Use Procedural Tactic to Ram Through Health-Care Bill, Says Conservative Leader

CNS News "Reconciliation is an option that was created in the 1974 Congressional Budget Act to allow Congress a way out of intractable budget battles.Wesleyan University government professor Elvin Lim said it was invented as a way to achieve a balanced budget--not to force through highly controversial legislation."

Post-Partisan Promise Fizzles

Wall Street Journal "Anti-Obama paraphernalia has hit stores in competition with the still-hot-selling pro-Obama accoutrement: "Don't Blame Me. I voted for McCain" on bumper stickers and "So...How's That Whole 'Hopey Changey' Thing Working Out For Ya?" on T-shirts. Three of the top five books on this week's New York Times best-seller list are anti-Obama tomes."

Obama: Republican conspiracy out to kill health reform

Washington Times ""I guarantee you, Joe, we are going to get health care reform done," he said to one caller. "I know there are a lot of people out there who've been handwringing, and folks in the press are following every little twist and turn of the legislative process, but having a big bill like this is always messy."" Or so he's been told by those with Senate experience.

How to Influence a Liberal (But Not a Lunatic)

By Robin of Berkeley "For instance, if I say, "What in the world made you vote for Obama? Didn't you see all the warning signs," the person will get defensive and dig in his or her heels. But if instead I remark, "I think the media has been negligent in giving us the honest facts about Obama," or, "I remember voting for so and so and being sorry about it afterwards," then you help them save face." Well, I voted for Jimmy Carter on the same hopes, so its easy to understand those who voted for Obama.

MS-NBC’s Racist Lie Must Not Be Allowed To Stand

The Sundries Shack "...The whole “when will the angry white people take a pop at the brave black president” commentary went on for a couple of minutes. I’m pretty sure that more than a couple people walked away from the report honestly thinking that the anti-Obamacare protesters are a bunch of insane, racist would-be assassins. As it happens, that’s exactly what MS-NBC(sic) wanted." More here: with a picture of the "gun-toting racist. See why I spend zero minutes watching MSNBC.

Who Cares About Human Rights? Not the Obama administration.

by Elliott Abrams Weekly Standard "...handshakes and smiles for dictators are a bad policy for the United States, while support for democracy and human rights will ultimately vindicate our interests as well as our principles. The happier Mubarak was about his visit, the less reason we have to be about this week in Washington." If you like Castro, you'll love Mubarak.

Is Racial Profiling Racist?

By Walter E. Williams "...Should doctors and medical insurance companies be prosecuted for the discriminatory practice of routine breast cancer screening for women but not for men?"

GOP Should Shut Down Senate If Dems Use Procedural Tactic to Ram Through Health-Care Bill, Says Conservative Leader

CNS News "...“I think it goes to the heart of America. Think about it – what was the first political debate Americans ever had? It was about the state – how are we going to trust a federal government and how much power are we going to give to it. The health-care debate sits exactly on that tectonic.”