From Bill Roggio at Long War Journal breaking tonight: Al Qaeda has announced that its top leader in Afghanistan and chief financial official was killed in a US airstrike in Pakistan ten days ago. Mustafa Abu Yazid, who is also known as Sheikh Saeed al Masri, was killed in the May 21 Predator strike in […]

**Written by guest-blogger Doug Powers The word “sacrifice” is often used in a wildly exaggerated fashion (for some of us, it’s a “sacrifice” to lose cable for a day), but those who make very real and sometimes ultimate sacrifices are some of the reasons that the rest of us are in the enviable position of […]

Paying tribute to those who fought and died to keep America free:

**Written by guest-blogger Doug Powers We spend Memorial Day weekend honoring our heroes past and present, but I thought an “on the lighter side” story would be appropriate, provided it featured one of those heroes. Via HotAirPundit, here’s one Marine who’s pretty impressed with “the hottest cougar in the Republican Party”: So it is, however. […]

From reader S., a YouTube Memorial Day video tribute set to “Arlington,” by Trace Adkins: *** President Obama, as you know, is enjoying basketball and barbecue this Memorial Day weekend in Chicago. Let’s hope his staff has straightened him out on the difference between Memorial Day and Veterans Day by now.

Taps Day is done, gone the sun, From the hills, from the lake, From the skies. All is well, safely rest, God is nigh. Go to sleep, peaceful sleep, May the soldier or sailor, God keep. On the land or the deep, Safe in sleep. Love, good night, Must thou go, When the day, And […]

**Written by guest-blogger Doug Powers This past week, Art Linkletter and Gary Coleman died, and this morning came news that actor Dennis Hopper has passed after a long battle with cancer: LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Hollywood actor Dennis Hopper, best known for directing and starring in the 1969 cult classic “Easy Rider,” died Saturday at […]

**Written by guest-blogger Doug Powers Tis the season for giving instead of receiving… for a change: The problem for Bill and the Obama administration is that “job offer” might have saved its clothes in a closet and told a friend about it. The White House is now hoping everybody believes that they were unaware Sestak […]

Today, it’s the barriers around the bogus Financial Crisis Commission. The Washington Examiner editorial board reports: When Congress created the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission in 2009, it tasked the group with digging into the origins of the global economic meltdown that began in 2008. The 10-member commission is scheduled to issue a report in December […]

**Written by guest-blogger Doug Powers Bill Clinton met with President Obama yesterday — reportedly to discuss how to handle damage control from the oil spill in the Gulf — but it’s a good guess that a heaping helping of “getting our stories straight” was the featured item on the lunch menu: President Obama’s chief of […]

Hmmm.

Wake up, buttercup.

**Written by guest-blogger Doug Powers James Carville yesterday on CNN: “This president needs to tell BP: ‘I’m ya daddy! I’m in charge!’” Then today at President Obama’s press conference, with what is sure to be a t-shirt slogan for years to come: “Did you plug the hole yet, daddy?” Coincidence? I think not. Obama had […]

After nearly an hour, FNC’s Major Garrett got the last question and finally squeezed in a direct question to President Obama about what the administration did or did not do with Democrat Rep. Joe Sestak. Obama: “There will be an official answer from our administration…coming out shortly…in weeks or months.” More: “I can assure the […]

Who ya gonna call?

Scroll down for Obama press conference updates… News leaking ahead of President Obama’s scheduled 12:45pm Eastern press conference today: the first head has been delivered. Via AP: Democratic sources say the Obama administration has fired the head of the U.S. Minerals Management Service in response to blistering criticism over lax oversight of offshore drilling. The […]

The Sestak scandal is just one piece of the Democratic culture of corruption puzzle — and the White House denials are just more thick pieces of the Great Stone Wall of Obama. Case in point: I’ve covered DOJ/AG Eric Holder’s obstructionism in the New Black Panther Party case since June 2009. The indefatigable Judicial Watch […]

You’ve no doubt read about the Palin family’s snoopy new neighbor, author Joe McGinniss, who has rented a house 15 feet from the Palins’ backyard to conduct binocular-aided research for his Random House book. I’ll share more thoughts later on the media ethics issues and media double standards involved. For his part, Todd Palin wasted […]

Last night, a community board in Manhattan approved a mosque/sharia-compliant “party space” at Ground Zero, two blocks from where the 9/11 hijackers mass-murdered thousands and brought down the World Trade Center. Enraged 9/11 families protested the move and spoke truth to power: After four hours of public debate, members of Community Board 1 finally voted […]

My column today focuses on the White House lawyer behind the Sestak stonewall: Bob Bauer — a familiar figure if you’ve been reading this blog closely. He’s the hubby of former White House Fox-basher-in-chief Anita Dunn and a veteran Democrat legal fixer. In related news, here’s a new video contrasting Sestak’s accusations with Team Obama’s […]

**Written by guest-blogger Doug Powers Isn’t this the same guy who is all for deporting homeless people out of his city limits? From Fox News: New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is blasting U.S. immigration policy, calling it “national suicide.” Bloomberg said Tuesday that Arizona would likely be hurt by its new immigration law. It […]

Scroll for updates… Photoshop credit: Applecross Media and Big Fur Hat The most glaring sign that President Obama’s announcement of border funding and National Guard troops is one big, phony charade? He apparently didn’t even bother to let the governor of besieged Arizona, Gov. Jan Brewer, know about it. Via Yahoo News: The Obama administration […]

Back to School

**Written by guest-blogger Doug Powers President Obama went to Arlington Cemetery to lay the wreath last year, but this year Obama’s handing the wreath to Plugs and heading off to the more welcoming political climes of Chicago: WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama plans to spend a long holiday weekend in Chicago. The White House […]

Former top federal prosecutor Andrew C. McCarthy has been one of America’s bravest and most stalwart warriors against Islamic jihad. He’s battled them in court. He’s exposed them here at home and around the globe. His new book, The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America, is out today, and I urge you […]