Don’t Tap the Strategic Petroleum Reserve

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Morning Bell  "According to White House chief of staff Bill Daley, the administration may tap into the nation’s oil safety net – the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) – in order to bring down the cost of fuel. Big mistake. While most folks want to pay less at the pump, dipping into our oil reserves is a short-sighted political ploy that papers-over a much bigger, long-term problem: the Obama administration’s continuing refusal to grant America access to its domestic oil resources." Also here.

A crude idea: Tapping the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to ease gas prices  "...President Bill Clinton's election-year use of 30 million barrels in 2000 - prove the rule: It's best to interpret the 1975 law limiting use of the reserve to "severe energy supply interruption" strictly - lest global oil speculators start trading on U.S. gas-price politics along with all the other factors that roil the markets."

Dick Morris' take: Suspend the gas tax  "There is no better way to force Obama and the Democrats to battle for higher taxes than to raise the issue now and push it home."

Peter King and His Hearings: Why Do Liberals Believe in Scrutinizing Conservatives But Not Islamists?

Rep. Pete King

Big Peace  "Since when does simply inquiry result in bigotry? The King hearings focus directly on ideology–not on individuals. These are hearings about a belief system. Thousands of individuals around the world are engaging in acts of terrorism based on a certain set of beliefs. Shouldn’t we try to understand them? These hearings will give members of congress a chance to address the ideas behind radical Islam. As Richard Weaver put it, ”Ideas have consequences.” And Islamist ideas have everything to do with understanding the threat we face today."

Rep. King discusses the radicalization of the Muslim community as demonstrators protest his hearings.   Video.

Flashback 2008: Who Did Nancy Pelosi Blame For High Gas Prices? "2 Oil Men In The White House" (Video)

HotAirPundit "Price at the pump under Barack Obama: When he took office the price was $1.87 a gallon, today it is in the area of $3.55. I wonder if the media will ask Pelosi about her comments in 2008?"

Obama Goes From Blank Slate to Empty Suit

RealClearPolitics  "Mr. Obama has backtracked on many of the campaign promises he made in 2008, such as closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay and imposing no new taxes on the middle class. He has even reneged on his implicit promise to be a racial healer. His administration has been the most racially polarizing since Woodrow Wilson's."

Bill Clinton’s Private Island Rendezvous with Sex-Offender, Teen Girls

Verum Serum   "It’s no secret that Bill Clinton has long been friends with convicted sex-offender Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein has contributed to both Bill and Hillary’s campaigns. But no one knew about the night Bill spent on Epstein’s private Caribbean island with three underage girls until now:"

And this from the UK Daily Mail.

Its just Democrats. Nothing to see here, move on.

NPR execs caught on hidden camera trashing conservatives, sliming Jews

American Thinker  "At the Café Milano lunch, Schiller said he's "very proud of" how NPR fired Juan Williams. "What NPR stood for is non-racist, non-bigoted, straightforward telling of the news and our feeling is that if a person expresses his or her opinion, which anyone is entitled to do in a free society, they are compromised as a journalist," he said. "They can no longer fairly report.""

Politico Whines About, and Whitewashes, Leftist Thuggery Captured on Video

Big Journalism  "They blame FreedomWorks (a Koch-linked organization) and complain that tea party patriots are trained to ask such incendiary questions as, “Who are you?” “Do you want a Constitution?” and “What brought you out here today?”
"Here’s a prime example of the far left harassing a gay black tea party protester at an event last week:"
The Good Guys hit the trifecta with this one.

If Obama Was Going to Let Iran Go Nuclear, He Should Have Just Said So

Omri Ceren in Commentary  "Now Iran’s going to go nuclear, and the U.S. will seem impotent on top of everything else. At least signaling accommodation — which is de facto what this president has embraced, the blustering rhetoric aside — would have seemed less naive. Still impotent and disastrous. But less naive!"

Rich Terrell, lord of nuance.

The case of the missing Iranian nuclear threat in new NIE  "Out of sight, out of mind is the Obama administration's motto when it comes to the Iranian nuke program that they have done precious little to stop since coming into office. Ineffective sanctions, weakness in the face of Iranian intransigence, humbled by Iranian arrogance - Obama and his crew appear to have resigned themselves to the reality of an Iranian bomb." Rick Moran 

Critics Slam ABC Pilot 'Good Christian Bitches' for 'Inappropriate,' 'Damaging' Title

Fox News  "The dramedy, based on Kim Gatlin’s novel of the same name, will be brought to life by famed “Sex and the City” and “90210” executive producer Darren Star. The plot centers on the life of reformed “mean girl” Amanda, played by “Talladega Nights” actress Leslie Bibb, who returns to her hometown of Dallas to find herself fodder for malicious gossip from the women in the Christian community."

The show's website

Critics Slam ABC Pilot ‘Good Christian Bitches’ as ‘Misogynist’

Romney Can't Withstand Obama's Kiss of Death

American Enterprise Institute "If Romney can't make that case, his road to the Republican nomination will make an Everest climb look like a Sunday stroll. The facts suggest he has a steep path ahead of him.
"Romney's 2006 remake of health care in Massachusetts represented an attempt to provide universal health coverage without a full government takeover of the industry. Its central feature is an individual mandate, requiring all citizens to purchase health insurance if they can afford it. Those who don't face steep fines. Sound familiar?"

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$61 billion in cuts in perspective

CATO  "I recently put the $61 billion in cuts in perspective by comparing it to this year's projections for total federal spending, the deficit, and interest on the debt. Cato's Multimedia Producer, Caleb Brown, turned my chart into a slick video:"

From Baghdad to Benghazi

Charles Krauthammer  "For Libyans, the effect of the Iraq war is even more concrete. However much bloodshed they face, they have been spared the threat of genocide. Gaddafi was so terrified by what we did to Saddam & Sons that he plea-bargained away his weapons of mass destruction. For a rebel in Benghazi, that is no small matter.
"Yet we have been told incessantly how Iraq poisoned the Arab mind against America. Really? Where is the rampant anti-Americanism in any of these revolutions? In fact, notes Middle East scholar Daniel Pipes, the United States has been "conspicuously absent from the sloganeering." "

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