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Matt Burden has a must-read message as we head into Memorial Day weekend. He e-mails “a pre-emptive strike on the attempts of the media to project victimhood. I can’t speak for all of the Fallen, but I know what my three brothers would have wanted me to do on Memorial Day: Honor them by ensuring [...]

When your salary is funded by Big Labor, you must sing Big Labor’s tune. Very sad to see this pressure being put on the San Diego Union Tribune editorial board, one of the few large center-right boards that exist in the country. Or…existed: The union representing Los Angeles police officers is pressuring the owner of [...]

President Obama left the impression yesterday that Supermax prisons are ready, willing, and able to house Gitmo detainees. Supermax officials in Colorado say otherwise: Moving any large number of terror detainees from Guantanamo Bay to Colorado’s Supermax would require either shuffling current residents out of the Florence prison or expanding its capacity and resolving a [...]

Photo source: NYPost The jihadi virus in our jails by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2009 President Obama’s speech on homeland security was 6,072 words long. Curiously, he chose not to spare an “a,” “and,” or “uh” on the New York City terror bust that dominated headlines the morning of his Tuesday address. Did the [...]

Enviro-nitwit of the week.

Make sure you read this post by Caleb Howe at RedState. Then make sure you contact Ogilvy here. Enough.

Two items from today’s CYA Congress: 1) House Democrats block Republican call for probe of Pelosi There was political theater, drama, but no surprise ending on Thursday on a topic involving spies, torture and truth in the Democratic-led U.S. House of Representatives. Republicans again ripped into Speaker Nancy Pelosi for accusing the CIA of misleading [...]

Well, he didn’t say exactly that. But he might as well have. The SEIU has organized a front group of “people of faith” to harangue Congress into passing card-check because it’s a “moral imperative.” Where are all the church/state separation zealots now? Details of the Big Labor hosannas in the highest, via the SEIU website: [...]

Liberty Belle blogger Keli Carender, who organized the first porkulus protest in Seattle back in February that presaged the Tea Party movement, is mobilizing grass-roots activists against the Obama health care takeover. The Funeral for Health Care will be held on May 30. More info here. What are you doing in your neighborhood? Noteworthy: Seattle [...]

Shorter Obama: I am against preventive detention (Bush’s), except when I am for it (mine). I am for transparency (“torture/”interrogation memos), except when I am against it (“torture/”interrogation photos). I am against the power to order enhanced interrogation techniques, except when I assume that power myself. I am against “extended re-litigation of the last eight [...]

Alert! Alert! TOTUS malfunction. Allahpundit: “When you’re distracted by the business of governing 57 states, gaffes are bound to happen.”

A reader forwards a DNC solicitation sent out this morning in Bozo the VP’s name: Three weeks ago, my friend Senator Arlen Specter added one more feat to his long and impressive career — he became a Democrat. Over the years, we’ve certainly had our disagreements. During that time, however, Arlen has been my friend, [...]

Scroll for updates… It’s the Obama-Cheney showdown this morning. I, for one, am gratified to see this White House forced to put national security on the front burner. If not for the forceful public defenses by Vice President Cheney of the aggressive, proactive measures the last administration took to keep us safe, the current commander-in-chief [...]

The Right is up for a fight. Ready? Today, some of the best conservative legal and national security thinkers/doers will discuss the battle over the Harold Koh nomination. Bloggers can join the call. Go here for more info and make sure to bookmark the website of the Coalition to Preserve American Sovereignty. A few things [...]

“Misplaced anger.”

1 in 7.

I noted earlier this afternoon that the Senate voted 90-6 to deny Obama funding for his Gitmo closure plans. Here’s the roll call vote. The Gitmo Six Democrats: Durbin (D-IL) Harkin (D-IA) Leahy (D-VT) Levin (D-MI) Reed (D-RI) Whitehouse (D-RI)

Consume as they say, not as they consume. Today’s eco-hypocrisy of the day comes to you via the Toronto Star with a schadenfreude-licious hat tip to Don Surber: How much packaging does it take to promote energy conservation? Lots, evidently, if you’re Toronto’s Better Buildings Partnership. The partnership, which provides incentives for energy conservation in [...]

A telling exchange this afternoon between staunch fiscal conservative Sen. Jim DeMint and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, via WaPo: Geithner was hammered by a Republican senator decrying Treasury’s growing power over the American economy. “This is not mission-creep,” said Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.). “This is a stampede of any traditional understanding of constitutional boundaries.” DeMint [...]

First, this just in: A federal judge rules that the US can continue indefinite detention of enemy combatants And also just in: The Senate amendment scrapping funding for Obama’s Gitmo closure has just been passed by 90-6. Victor Davis Hanson sums up Obama’s sound and fury on Gitmo: With the Democratic no-go on Guantánamo (I’ll [...]

Going Galt.

Photoshop: Shieldsnet Uh-oh. Someone needs to check Sandy Berger’s sock drawer. ASAP: Federal authorities are investigating the disappearance of a computer disc from the National Archives containing Social Security numbers and Secret Service procedures from former President Bill Clinton’s administration, congressional officials said. Among the files on the disc were 100,000 Social Security numbers, including [...]

In flames.

Photoshop credit: Leo Alberti My syndicated column today takes another whack at the New York Times. Outside of the blogosphere and Fox News, the Fishwrap of Record’s admission that it spiked an election eve story on the possible illegal coordination between the Obama campaign and ACORN’s canvassing arm, Project Vote, has gotten zero scrutiny. Fortunately, [...]

From the most ethical Congress ever, yet another investigation into Democrat cronyism. Sister, sister (via Roll Call): The House ethics committee is reviewing whether the chamber’s rules were broken when Rep. Linda Sánchez (D-Calif.) put three of Rep. Loretta Sanchez’s (D-Calif.) aides on her own payroll in late 2006 because of a budget shortfall in [...]

Cue “Had a Bad Day:” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid became the latest Democrat to stray into rhetorical trouble Tuesday, botching statements on three subjects in one news conference—including the fragile health of the chamber’s most senior members. The Nevada Democrat reported that one of them, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., was absent because he was [...]

Photoshop: Doug Powers Hey, remember that bullcrap about how if we forked over billions in tax dollars to bail out the auto companies, we’d not only get our money back, we’d actually make a profit? Yeah. Never mind: General Motors Corp’s (GM.N) plan for a bankruptcy filing involves a quick sale of the company’s healthy [...]

I know. It’s a shocker. The crapweasels at CAIR act like…crapweasels. And Arlen Specter still smells like one. Via Philip Klein at the American Spectator: Sen. Arlen Specter backed out of speaking at a Tuesday conference on the global effort to silence speech critical of Islam, citing a scheduling conflict, but the Council on American-Islamic [...]

Dingy Harry Reid’s home state constituents are growing as weary of him as the rest of us. Hope for change lives: Nearly half of Nevadans have had enough of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid as the powerful Democrat heads into his re-election campaign, a new Las Vegas Review-Journal poll finds. About a third of the [...]

The House GOP conference picks the perfect background music for Nancy Pelosi’s stammering, stuttering and verbal pirouettes: the Nutcracker Suite. Perfect: Dan Collins dubs it “Dance of the Sugarplum Failure.”