Abortion Provider Murdered – Politicking Already Underway

Sad news:
[George] Tiller, 67, was shot just after 10 a.m. in the lobby of Reformation Lutheran Church at 7601 E. 13th, where he was a member of the congregation. Witnesses, a city official and a police source confirmed Tiller was the victim.
Sadder news: Kathryn Jean Lopez of National Review Online says the following has already [...]

Saudi Arabia—Land Of Sheiks, Sand, Camels, Oil, Beheading and Crucifixion

Saudi Authorities Behead And Crucify Criminal

North Korea Thumbs Its Nose At The “International Community”

North Korea Doesn’t Care What The “International Community” Thinks

Obama Is Even Losing the Left

File this under “Columns I Never Thought I’d See.”
Ted Rall… yes, cartoonist and columnist Ted Rall, he who compared US Armed Forces members to SS members, among other ultra-lefty statements , is calling on Obama to resign.
I’d say, Mr. Obama, that when you lose Ted Rall, it’s clear that your support among the far left [...]

Democrats And The Culture Of Corruption, Part Nine

And yet another Democrat is included in the PMA Group mess:
Rep. Pete Visclosky (D-Ind.) has been subpoenaed by a federal grand jury looking into the PMA Group, a once-high flying lobbying firm that collapsed after a federal raid in November.
The Visclosky subpoena is the first formal indication that the criminal probe into PMA extends to [...]

Liberty University Isn’t Living Up To Its Name

Apparently, Liberty University (founded by Jerry Falwell) doesn’t believe in liberty on campus. They’ve removed official recognition from a group of Democrats who were meeting on their campus.
Now, this is probably gonna surprise some of you (but I hope not my fellow bloggers here), but I think Liberty is absolutely wrong on this one.
Liberty means [...]

Three Months Later: How Is “Stimu-less” Working Out?

It’s Almost June And Very Little “Stimu-less”

Another Lefty Double Standard Exposed

All the usual leftymedia suspects and lefties in gubment are going bonkers over how wonderful Sonia Sotomayor is.
However, it’s worth considering how many of those same lefties, including the one now in the Oval Office, treated a prior Hispanic judge nominated to a high position: Miguel Estrada, who was nominated to the US Court of [...]

Why Are Auto Makers Flirting With Bankruptcy?

Chrysler and GM Considering Bankruptcy

Obama National Security Advisor Says U.S. Is Safer Now

U.S. Is Safer Under Obama

North Korea Threatens To Invalidate 1953 Armistice

North Korean Sabre-Rattling

As “Promised”, Obama Nominates Leftist Radical For Supreme Court Seat

Obama Nominates Sotomayor

North Korea Tests Nuke—Obama Talks

North Korea Tests Nuke

Even The New Republic Doesn’t Believe Gitmo Causes More Terrorists

Uh-oh, Mr. Obama… even the infamous New Republic, which published the Scott Thomas Beauchamp anti-Iraq-war lies, isn’t believing your claim that Guantamo Bay is helping recruit:
The president has made a point both regarding the torture and other wanton abuse of Arab and Muslim prisoners. His argument that the very place, Guantanamo, and photos of prisoners [...]

Democrats and the Culture of Corruption, Part 7D

Here we go again…
Over the past five years, a local defense contractor with close ties to Rep. John P. Murtha, a Democrat who has represented southwestern Pennsylvania for three decades, has selected several small police departments in the region to receive $10 million in Justice Department grants.
The company, Mountaintop Technologies, was selected by the [...]

Memorial Day Open Thread

Here’s a spot where anyone and everyone can post stories about military heroes they’ve known, whether their heroisms are great or small.
Please, no anti-war, anti-enhanced-interrogation, or anti-Bush diatribes.

Obama Wants Fast-Track For Unknown SCOTUS Pick

Politico:
Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee are resisting President Barack Obama’s call for a swift confirmation of his choice for Supreme Court, opening a rift between the parties even before the nominee has even been named.
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Obama has told the Senate leadership he would like a confirmation vote by the monthlong August recess, which is scheduled [...]

Obama Administration Incoherent On Torture

I rarely link directly to the New York Times, but this story is definitely worth it:
WASHINGTON — The United States is now relying heavily on foreign intelligence services to capture, interrogate and detain all but the highest-level terrorist suspects seized outside the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, according to current and former American government officials.
The [...]

Islamist Extremists Exploiting An Environment Of Hate And Malice

Islamists Exploit The U.S. Penal System

Pay No Attention To Pelosi’s Many Lies

That seems to be the message from House Democrats:
House Democrats on Thursday defeated a Republican push to investigate House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s assertion that the CIA misled her in 2002 about whether waterboarding had been used against terrorism suspects.
Republicans Ron Paul of Texas and Walter Jones of North Carolina joined Democrats in voting 252-172 to [...]