Hayden: Obama on ‘Wrong Path’ With Terror
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Political Quote of the Day
My favorite recent political quote is this one by John Edwards: On many nights, my phone would ring and I would hear the senator [Edwards] on the other end. Sometimes he sounded petty and irritated by ordinary events. He especially hated making appearances at county fairs, where ‘fat rednecks try to shove food down my face. I know I’m the people’s senator, but do I have to hang out with them? ’ ” [emphasis added] Actually, it’s hard for me not to sympathize with Edwards here at least somewhat
Ailes Defends Beck, Palin; Slams Huffington on Nasty Talk
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The thrill is gone for Obama girl
The truth will set you free.
Obama Proposes Huge Hike In War Spending, Will Media Revolt?
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Less than two months after receiving a Nobel Peace Prize, the President is proposing a huge increase in war spending. Despite his campaign pledges to the contrary, Obama’s new budget calls for expenditures associated with the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq to increase to levels only ten percent below the average of former President George W. Bush’s last two years in office. Given the media’s anti-war predilections, it’s going to be fascinating to see how the following numbers revealed by Politico a few hours ago will be reported in the coming days: President Barack Obama’s new budget, to be released Monday, forecasts two consecutive years of near $160 billion in war funding, far more than he hoped when elected and only modestly less than the last years of the Bush Administration. In 2011 alone, the revised numbers are triple what the president included in his spending plan a year ago.
Haitian health care two step
Feds dumping the cost of treating Haitians on the states.
Nine Days Before Election, Boston Globe’s Pierce Ridiculed Notion Brown Could Win
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In a contribution to the Boston Globe Magazine published nine days before the January 19 Senate election won by Republican Scott Brown, veteran Globe Magazine writer Charles Pierce ridiculed the idea Brown could win, in a piece formulated as a letter to Brown: Well, we’re almost here, aren’t we? The end of a long, arduous, four-month campaign for a Senate seat that you have approximately the same chance of filling as you did the pilot’s chair of the Starship Enterprise. The cocky Pierce wasn’t done, writing in his weekly “Pierced” column toward the front of the January 10 magazine: The notion that Massachusetts would elect a Republican to fill the seat left vacant by Edward Kennedy was the property of people who buy interesting mushrooms in interesting places. You might as well expect the House of Windsor to be succeeded on the British throne by the Kardashian sisters
Obama Bows Again- To Tampa’s Mayor… For What Reason Is Anyone’s Guess
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OK. This is getting really weird. Obama bowed to Tampa’s mayor this week. The caption reads: U.S. President Barack Obama bows to Tampa Mayor Pam Iorio at MacDill Air Force Base on Thursday, Jan. 28, 2010 in Tampa, Fla.
State Dept. Official: Obama Violated Pledge
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Air Force Academy to Open Outdoor Worship Circle for Wiccans and Druids
Networks like ABC have hyperventilated about the “outrage” of “endangering” soldiers with rifle sights with “secret Bible codes” on them. They worried about Christian proselytizing on the campus of the U.S. Air Force Academy. Will these TV reporters notice as the Air Force responds to the liberal-media complaints by opening an outdoor chapel space for Wiccans and Druids ? If Christians in the military were emblematic of George W. Bush, would the media suggest that this great Pagan Opening is symbolic of the Obama era? From an offical Academy press release: The Air Force Academy chapel will add a worship area for followers of Earth-centered religions during a dedication ceremony, which is tentatively scheduled to be held at the circle March 10…. Tech. Sgt.
Interrogating the CIA
I just finished up the initial draft of an essay for the Weekly Standard on drone warfare, self defense, and the CIA, riffing off of my chapter in Ben Wittes’s book . One of my observations is that the Obama administration (and really the whole US government) seems to be remarkably sanguine about the other shoe dropping regarding the emerging “soft-law” campaign to undermine both drone warfare and, remarkably, the very idea of CIA covert action. So I was interested to see this closing paragraph in former CIA director Michael Hayden’s Washington Post op ed on the Christmas bomber non-interrogation: In August, the government unveiled the [High Value Detainee Interrogation Group] HIG for questioning al-Qaeda and announced that the FBI would begin questioning CIA officers about the alleged abuses in the 2004 inspector general’s report. They are apparently still getting organized for the al-Qaeda interrogations.
Ahmadinejad: Regime Will Deliver Harsh Blow to Global Arrogance on Feb. 11
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced today that the killer regime will deliver a harsh blow to global community on February 11. Iran Press TV reported: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says the nation will deliver a harsh blow to the “global arrogance” on this year’s anniversary of the Islamic Revolution. “The Islamic Revolution opened a window to liberty for the human race, which was trapped in the dead ends of materialism,” Ahmadinejad said during a cabinet meeting on Sunday. “If the Islamic Revolution had not occurred, liberalism and Marxism would have crushed all human dignity in their power-seeking and money-grubbing claws. Nothing would have remained of human and spiritual principles,” he added. Ahmadinejad said that in the three decades of its history, the Islamic Revolution had inspired some great developments in the world. The Iranian president made the remarks as the 31st anniversary of the Islamic Revolution approaches.
White House Projects (Another) Record Deficit — By: Daniel Foster
The Obama White House will predict tomorrow a $1.6 trillion budget deficit for FY 2010, according to Reuters sources. That number is a record, and represents the largest deficit as a percentage of GDP since the Second World War. It is also significantly higher than the last CBO estimate, which predicted a $1.35 trillion deficit just last week. The new White House budget, also to be released tomorrow, will reportedly project a $1.3 trillion for FY 2011. And what of the spending freeze? In his budget, Obama will propose a three-year freeze on some domestic programs to save $20 billion next year and $250 billion over the coming decade. But that will not be enough to get deficits down permanently to the 3 percent of GDP that most economists consider sustainable
Roscoe Pound, Glenn Beck, and Judicial Restraint: A Quick Response to David B.
In response to David’s bewilderment that I would be bewildered by Glenn Beck’s segment about Roscoe Pound , I think it’s helpful to distinguish two very different claims. The first claim is the one that Glenn Beck appears to be making in the clip, which is that Roscoe Pound invented the concept of thinking of the law and the Constitution as cases interpreting the law. David describes this claim as “bizarre,” and I agree, which is why I posted the clip. The second question is whether Roscoe Pound was good for American law or bad for American law, which seems to be the question that David is more interested in. David asks for my own views on Pound, and the truth is that I don’t have an opinion one way or the other: I don’t think I have read any Pound since law school. I did read an interesting discussion about how Pound has been often misunderstood in Brian Tamanaha’s new book , but that’s the sum of my exposure to Roscoe P. in recent years. To the extent David’s broader concern is with judicial restraint, here he and I simply part ways.
Calculating Jobs a Muddled Mess – Press Presents it as Fact
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The White House continues to throw out random numbers in their quest to convince the public that their behemoth stimulus bill is saving jobs at a massive rate. The confusion has even seeped into the President’s biggest support group – the media. CNN recently announced how the stimulus plan funded nearly 600,000 jobs this past quarter. In their article, which parrots the numbers provided by the administration’s Recovery.gov Web site, CNN hints that these figures may actually be low, in that they do not include jobs created ‘indirectly’ (emphasis mine throughout): “It does not tally jobs created indirectly through companies buying supplies for stimulus projects, people spending their tax cuts, increased unemployment benefits and the like.” Would adding the number of indirect jobs have provided a boost to the stimulus numbers? Not quite, according to a source CNN can likely trust – themselves … Two days prior to the above article, CNN ran a piece about the nation’s first stimulus project, in which they similarly define indirect jobs as being created in the following manner: “…supplying the steel, pouring the concrete and boosting the local community’s economy.” However, the article points out that federal officials had estimated that the project would create 220 of these indirect jobs. This despite a statement from agricultural economist, Michael Sykuta, who surmises “that a single construction job normally spins off two or perhaps three indirect jobs at most.” An expert claims that 3 jobs are created indirectly at most, and the feds somehow estimate 220 – a mere increase of over 7,000%
About last Friday
I’ll be on vacation this week, both from work and from blogging. But before signing off, I want to comment on President Obama’s appearance in Baltimore on Friday before the House Republicans. It was, as just about everyone agrees, an impressive performance by Obama, a performance that I think confirms my view that Obama remains a force to be reckoned with. Conservatives who think his extraordinary communications skills vanished with the end of the presidential campaign and that he is now a spent force are deluding themselves, in my opinion.
Grammy West Coast Open Thread
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Michael Moore To Receive Taxpayer Subsidy He Criticized In 2008
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Michael Moore’s schlockumentary “Capitalism: A Love Story” has been approved for a taxpayer-funded subsidy he once criticized. According to the Mackinac Center for Public Policy , a nonpartisan Michigan-based think tank, Moore’s 2009 film is set to receive an undisclosed amount of money from the Michigan Film Office. Yet Moore, who ironically advises the state-run Office, told a forum in July 2008 that he was opposed to such subsidies (video of MCPP’s findings on this matter embedded below the fold along with highlights from its January 28 press release ): “While we don’t blame Mr. Moore and his production team for taking what is offered, it’s striking that a movie focused on the inequities of granting taxpayer dollars to private enterprise would apply for and receive taxpayer-funded incentives,” said Michael LaFaive, fiscal policy director at the Mackinac Center. “Government should not be bailing out or subsidizing Wall Street banks or main street filmmakers.
White House: We’re One Vote Away from Ramming Obamacare Through Congress (Video)
The White House says they are one vote away from ramming Obamacare through Congress. The radical democrats didn’t learn a thing from the Virginia gubernatorial election. The radicals didn’t learn a thing from the New Jersey gubernatorial election. The radicals didn’t learn a thing from the Massachusetts election for US senator. They’re going to ram Obamacare through Congress no-matter-what.
Adam Andrzejewski Surges
Gateway Pundit brings news that Adam Andrzejewski has the big mo and has surged into second place with just two days to go in the Illinois primary. This is terrific news. Learn more about Adam here .