Miss Him Yet?

Weasel Zippers "Socialism only works in two places: Heaven where they don't need it and hell where they already have it." 'Here's my strategy on the Cold War: We win, they lose.'

Oddly, we would feel better and safer with these folks in charge:

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Truths We Dare Not Speak

Victor Davis Hanson "There are a number of things we simply no longer talk about. The silence is partly due to intellectual laziness. Or maybe it is because of political correctness—or even attributable to ignorance and the absence of curiosity. In no particular order, I list five propositions that simply have become taboo."

Harry Reid's Negro Problem

Ann Coulter "The "whereas" clauses can include the Democrats' history of supporting slavery, segregation, racial preferences, George Wallace and Bull Connor -- and also a precis of their treatment of dark-skinned Clarence Thomas."...." President Bush appointed the first black secretary of state and then the first black female secretary of state. Meanwhile, the closest black woman to Bill Clinton was his secretary, Betty Currie. The one sitting black Supreme Court justice, Clarence Thomas, was appointed by a Republican."

The D Handicap

Jennifer Rubin "Michael Barone thinks Martha Coakley showed her true stripes and may have tipped the race by ignoring the shoving of reporter John McCormack in front of her eyes."

Brandon Darby foiled terror attack, but the men convicted of plotting against 2008 Republican Convention win recognition

DailyCaller "Darby has learned that if you disrupt a terrorist attack on Americans by Islamic fundamentalists as Dutch tourist Jasper Schuringa did on Christmas Day, you’re a hero, but disrupt a terrorist attack on Americans by left-wing fundamentalists and you might as well be a terrorist yourself."

More disgrace at NPR

PowerlineBlog "The cartoonist, Mark Fiore, obviously is doing what he accuses Tea Party movement members of --substituting name-calling for argumentation. Fiore is calling members of the movement ignoramuses. As Tim Graham puts it, "Conservatism is 'satirized' into a form of political retardation." It's doubtful whether Fiore has ever talked to any of member of the Tea Party movement. I have and can assure him that these folks do not lack substantive arguments against Obamacare. Fiore obviously doesn't agree with these arguments, nor would one expect an NPR commentator to. But it is disgraceful for him to pretend that the other side lacks real arguments."

We Report, We Get Pushed

Weekly Standard, John McCormack "As I walked down the street, a man who appeared to be associated with the Coakley campaign pushed me into a freestanding metal railing. I ended up on the sidewalk. I was fine. He helped me up from the ground, but kept pushing up against me, blocking my path toward Coakley down the street."

Fatima Shrine defaced with Muslim graffiti

JihadWatch "In the John Paul II Plaza, statutes of Popes John Paul II and Paul VI were painted. In the Pius XII Plaza, statues of Pope Pius XII and Bishop José Alves Correia da Silva were painted. The graffiti includes the words "Islam," "moon," "sun," "Muslim" and "mosque."..."

Miep Gies, Who Hid Anne Frank, Rest In Peace

DebbieSchlussel.com "I always paid extra attention to the Anne Frank story and what happened to those who helped the Frank family because my own Holocaust survivor grandfather, who was a concentration camp inmate at Bergen Belsen (where my mother was born), remembered seeing the gaunt, anorexic Anne Frank when he was there toward the end of the Holocaust. This woman, Mrs. Gies, was a saint on earth."

Memo to Steele: GOP will win

The Hill "Pessimism is no more attractive in a party leader than it is in a high school cheerleader. And in the case of Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Michael Steele, it is unwarranted as well. Despite his prediction, on Fox News, that GOP congressional control will not come “this year,” the Republican Party has a very, very good chance of taking both houses of Congress in 2010."

... U.S. Commanders in Afghanistan ‘Confused’ about How To Handle Captured Terrorists Now That Some Are Tried as Civilians

CNS "Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), just back from a fact-finding trip to Afghanistan and Pakistan, said he and other senators found operational "confusion” among U.S. military officials on how to handle detained enemy combatants."