Bride-to-be set to say 'I do' — to herself (Oh, well...why not?)

MSNBC  " "I was just hoping that more people would love themselves," said Chen, who will go on a solo honeymoon to Australia. " 
Has she written her vows yet? Will they be made public? Did she do a pre-nup? Can she be forced to testify against herself in any future trial? How about pre-marriage counselling? (Well, obviously not that last one.)

Wikileak’s Papers Reveal US Troops Did Find WMD in Iraq

Danger Room  "The WMD diehards will likely find some comfort in these newly-WikiLeaked documents. Skeptics will note that these relatively small WMD stockpiles were hardly the kind of grave danger that the Bush administration presented in the run-up to the war.

"But the more salient issue may be how insurgents and Islamic extremists (possibly with the help of Iran) attempted to use these lethal and exotic arms. As Spencer noted earlier, a January 2006 war log claims that “neuroparalytic” chemical weapons were smuggled in from Iran." Via Gateway Pundit: Wikileak’s Papers Reveal US Troops Did Find WMD in Iraq

Wikileaks: how Iran devised new suicide vest for al-Qaeda to use in Iraq In one of the most tantalising documents, they also hint at Iranian involvement in al-Qaeda suicide bombing. Via Lucianne.

The New York Times Hearts WikiLeaks, Again "It’s rather ironic that in chronicling documents that are supposed to expand our knowledge about the Iraq War, Tavernise and Lehren actually detract from any public understanding of this vital subject." By Max Boot  in Commentary

Learn Your Lincoln, Mr. President

Hands Off Texas!  "On Wednesday during a speech in Parma, Ohio, President Obama decided to quote a former President to help justify his policy initiatives:

“But in the words of the first Republican President, Abraham Lincoln, I also believe that government should do for the people what they cannot do better for themselves”.

"I assume he was paraphrasing this actual quote from President Lincoln, but unfortunately he left out the most important part:"...
   Hat tip to Gateway Pundit : Shameless Obama Twists Lincoln’s Words to Support His Socialist Agenda.

The World Has a Muslim Problem

Orson Bean in Big Hollywood  "I used to watch Bernie Goldberg in his early days on Fox trying to retain what he could of his liberal beliefs. As he came to see the savagery of the left he slowly came around to being more conservative. It will be interesting to see the same thing happen to Williams. Both of them were decent liberals who found that the ground moved out from under them."

Obama’s Destructive Foreign Policy

Big Government "President Obama seems to think that every global policy problem is a result of misunderstanding, miscommunication, or mixed signals perpetuated through the Bush presidency. If we could just get the world to like the United States, Obama argues, these problems will solve themselves. Multiple unenforced ultimatums for Iran and Obama’s inflated faith in personal diplomacy fail to instill much confidence for the future." Includes video interview with Victor Davis Hanson.

Cool: Audience at Congressional Debate Insists on Saying Pledge of Allegiance

Townhall  "A goosebumps-inducing moment at a Congressional debate in Illinois' 8th District:"...(video and sound)

Rich Galen: On Juan Williams (Updated)

Townhall  "Here is a short list of what I suspect are DOs and DON'Ts at NPR:
-- DO say good things about medical marijuana. DON'T say good things about cigarettes.
-- DO say good things about Palestinians. DON'T say good things about Israelis.
-- DO say positive things about "green jobs." DON'T say good things about manufacturing companies.
-- DO say wonderful things about Barack Obama. NEVER say anything good about ANY Republican."
Rich Galen has been a press secretary to Dan Quayle and Newt Gingrich. Rich Galen currently works as a journalist and writes at Mullings.com

Juan Williams Firer a Soviet Fan?  "Ms. Schiller is suddenly infamous as the National Public Radio executive with Soviet-style values on display in the firing of Juan Williams.
"Where would an American media executive ever learn that dissent is not to be tolerated?
How about a film project called "Portrait of the Soviet Union?" "


PBS Sends Senior Editor as Presenter to CAIR Conference on ‘Defaming Islam”   "To make this clear: PBS apparently sent Schwartzberg to train “CAIR leadership” at a conference held specifically to “do something about” the alleged problem of “Islam defamed.” The use of the concept of “defamation” of Islam should be a red flag alert to Congressional funders of PBS: CAIR’s conference publicity followed the instructions of the Organization of the Islamic Conference to enforce Shariah blasphemy and defamation laws in the U.S. – in this case, with the support of publicly funded PBS staff."

Fire Juan Williams Right Now!  Our Sneering Liberal Culture in a Nutshell:
 "The Juan Williams Firing — Or a Primer on Elite Liberal Thinking
"There were lots of slants on NPR’s firing of news analyst Juan Williams that reflect how surreal cultural liberalism has become. Let us walk through ten of them."....
"... Does NPR see that it is now in an entirely untenable situation: it simply cannot retain the CEO who slandered Williams, but fire Williams who slandered no one — and retain any shred of respect?"
 Victor Davis Hanson

National Pathetic Radio  by  STEPHEN F. HAYES  "On its website, NPR proudly touts the fact that Totenberg is a panelist on Inside Washington, a talkshow distributed to public broadcasting stations. But the bio for Mara Liasson, NPR’s national political correspondent, doesn’t mention the fact that she is a Fox News contributor.
"Why the double-standard? Mostly because NPR execs disapprove of Fox. But there’s something deeper, too."
Stephen F. Hayes is a senior editor at The Weekly Standard. He is also a guest panelist on Fox News Special Report With Brett Baier  and the author of the following post as well.

Is Nina Totenberg Next?   by  STEPHEN F. HAYES 

Schiller said Williams' firing is not a reflection of his comments (on Fox News Channel) that he gets nervous when he sees people in Muslim garb on an airplane. She said she has no problem with people taking controversial positions, but that such opinions should not come from NPR reporters or news analysts.

"If that’s true, NPR legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg might want to start looking for a new job."

How America Can Stand By Arizona

Russell Pearce, Townhall  " Even Democrats like Georgia’s Roy Barnes say they’d sign such a bill. Of course a politician’s promise isn’t worth the paper it’s written on.
"Even if they would in fact sign the bill, they must also pledge to fight the Obama administration and its far left buddies like the ACLU and Mexican American Legal Defense Fund who are sure to file lawsuits and do whatever they can to block implementation of the law."

The New York Times discovers Democratic dirty campaign tactics

American Thinker  "One of the tactics we have been highlighting is their sponsoring of third parties or faux Tea Party candidates to siphon away votes from candidates challenging Democrats. Finally, the New York Times follows our lead-and the lead of other bloggers in uncovering these dirty tricks ..."

Government as a Threat

Big government is a threat no matter who is running the show in Washington.  "...46% of Americans believe the federal government "poses an immediate threat to the rights and freedoms of ordinary citizens."
Only 46%? The fact that less than half of our country does not recognize the imminent threat of our ever-growing imperial federal government leads me to believe that we will never be able to overcome our love of government. " Neal Boortz

Fox Guarding the Hen House: Trial Lawyer Who Repeatedly Sued Food Companies Now Regulating Them"He was one of the “Johnnie Cochrans” of ag law: “Got a chicken? Got a case.”"

What Grows An Economy?  "If America wants to recapture its 3.3% average rate of growth it has enjoyed since World War II, it had better get serious about removing the tax and regulatory barriers for these kind of startups with the potential to scale."
These regulations and taxes are liberal policies. But liberals cannot see- cannot be made to see- their fault in this.

First Amendment: to protect unpopular individuals from retaliation - and their ideas from suppression.

MakeNoLaw Blog   "I wonder if Gibbs thinks the NAACP was such a sinister group in the 1950s when it fought the State of Alabama over its membership lists.  In a landmark decision the Supreme Court unanimously concluded that the state’s attempt to compel the NAACP to produce the lists violated the right to freedom of association."

Obamacare Defenders: Your Very Existence Is a Commercial Activity

InsiderOnline  "The Constitutional question that’s been presented in about 20 lawsuits is whether the Commerce Clause allows Congress to regulate behavior that is not in any way commercial at all. People who have chosen not to buy health insurance would not seem to be engaged in commerce, and thus would seem to be beyond the reach of Congress’s power to regulate commerce. Emphasis added.

ObamaCare's Incentive to Drop Insurance   The Democrats are getting just what they wanted with Obamacare. It's happening as we speak.

It’s the Mandates, Stupid  "Hewitt Associates recently projected that health insurance premiums will rise 8.8 percent in 2011. That follows a 6.9 percent in increase in 2010. One reason Obamacare may be failing to make health insurance more affordable is that the law does nothing to address one of the major drivers of rising health care costs: government itself."

Will America Accept Bureaucratic Rationing of Healthcare? "The numbers are as startling as tragic. According to the Daily Mail, “Up to 20,000 people have died needlessly early after being denied cancer drugs on the NHS, it was revealed yesterday. The rationing body NICE has failed to keep a promise to make more life-extending drugs available.”
"British cancer patients are routinely denied access to critical life-extending drugs because of their costs. "