What Does Obama Like About America?

We know all the things the Obama administration dislikes about America: Banks, business, journalists who ask actual questions, investors, entrepreneurs, unintimidated voters, traditional alliances, military tribunals, Gitmo, the private sector, the middle class, cities that are still thriving, or trying not to turn into Detroit, people who make more than federal workers while working within [...]

Random Must-Reads

Collected in my tab-bar since I started feeling cruddy – might as well share with you all the things I have either read or “been meaning to get to reading…” All submitted mostly without comment, because I’m still not 100%. “We are at war…”: The president went on to say that while America will strengthen [...]

The No Jihadi Litigator's War

Yesterday, Ed Morrissey looked at this piece by Peter Beinart: Peter Beinart makes an interesting, if somewhat contradictory, argument at the Daily Beast regarding Dick Cheney’s argument that the Obama administration doesn’t really think it’s fighting a war against terrorists. On one hand, Beinart argues that the Obama administration successfully rebuked Cheney through its reference [...]

Terrorist not Talking; Obama Cruises Yemen – UPDATED

Noted at The Corner: To see the danger we face because of Obama’s return to a law-enforcement approach to terrorist interrogation, read today’s front-page story in the Washington Post. At the very end of the article, the Post notes: Abdulmutallab remains in a Detroit area prison and, after initial debriefings by the FBI, has restricted [...]

Is WH Crashgate hinting at dysfunction? – UPDATES

At the news that a couple had “crashed” a White House gathering, I was concerned: is the president safe? I may disagree with him, but he’s the American President, and it is important to know that he is not easily accessible to persons who may wish to do him harm. According to this story in [...]