November 16, 2009 • Vol. 15, No. 9

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Democrats to Allow Up-or-Down Vote on Stupak Amendment Does the House Bill Fulfill Obama's Pledge to Bar Abortion Funding? Gibbs Won't Say Happy Hour Links Who's Really Sweating? Gibbs: Can You Imagine if, 5 Years Ago, People Had Protested With Hitler Pictures?!? Filicide on Suicide Watch Majority of Americans Oppose ObamaCare Shooting in Orlando Office Building Leaves 2 Dead, 6 Injured Obama Searching for the Root Causes of Ft. Hood Massacre Politico: Jones Went Way Off Script at J Street Major Breakthrough: Iran Experiments with Advanced Nuclear Weapon Design Heart-Ache: Hoyer Says Health-Care Vote May Be Delayed Obama's Underfunded Military Time To Man Up, Mr. Obama Officer Who Shot Hasan Identified, In Stable Condition "Furious Backlash" Sparked by Brad Ellsworth's Phony Abortion Compromise Amendment Unemployment Hits 10.2% Nancy Pelosi Owes Joe Wilson an Apology Fort Hood Shooter Alive, In Stable Condition (Updates) Crist or Kerry? Pelosi Breaks Pledge to Put Final Health Care Bill Online for 72 Hours Before Vote Happy Hour Links Shooter in Fort Hood Massacre Identified Anbar Province: "A Hot Place to Invest In" The Rising Tide of the GOP Youth Waiting for Obama What the Israelis Found on the Ship Twitter of the Day Eric Alterman, PhD: I'm Rubber, You're Glue Whitman Out to a Big, "Growing" Lead in CA O'Toole Confirmed, Get Ready for the John Murtha Center for Biosecurity Real Cost of the Health Care Bills: $1.8 Trillon Over 10 Years Meet the New Warsaw Pact Bing West on Afghanistan: 'Leaving your enemy intact is not a smart idea in any war' TNR: Fire Gration Major National Ad Buy Ties Vaccine Shortage to Health Care, Gitmo Graham Amendment: No Funding to Try 9/11 Conspirators in US Pelosi Likely to Allow Vote on Phony Abortion Compromise Ellsworth Amendment (Update) The Daily Grind Stimu-less? "Never, ever..." Charlie Crist on the Stimulus Now: "I didn't endorse it"; Charlie Crist in February: "I support it" Happy Hour Links Source: Hold Lifted on O'Toole Process is All Merkel Talks Tough Barone on the Hidden Numbers Battered Presidents Syndrome Stupak, Denied Up-Or-Down Vote on Abortion Funding, Vows to Block Health-Care Bill New York Times Suddenly Defense Procurement Experts A Victory in NY 23 for Conservatives Video: White House Remarks on a River in Egypt Goldstone, The Souvenir MSNBC Showed a Re-Run at 10 on Election Night Headline of the Day Who Voted to Condemn the Anti-Israel Goldstone Report? For Your Viewing Pleasure: The New Jersey and Virginia County Maps The Daily Grind (Election Spin Edition) We're Back! Scozzafava Spoils Doug Hoffman's Run? Maine Voters Repeal Same-Sex Marriage in Referendum Early NY 23 Results Favoring Democrat Owens; Update: Owens Wins Whoa: GOP Takes New Jersey 92 Percent of Pro-Goldstone Vote is Dems Exit Poll Madness! Happy Hour Links Barnes: Obamacare's Big Problem is Small Public Support Doug Hoffman: The Awkward Accountant Conservatives Have Been Waiting For? Is Obamacare on the Ropes? Tracking Turn-Out in New Jersey and Seeing Some Promise France Will Sell Russia the Rope... Paging Glenn Beck Observations From the Virginia Race That is in No Way a Referendum on Obama New CIA Docs Show Effectiveness of Enhanced Interrogation The Political Violence You Won't Hear About Russia 'Simulates' Nuclear Attack on Poland Further from Peace Dem Spin: Obama Didn't Even Know Virginia Was Having an Election, Frankly. The Daily Grind Kristol: Is The Bush Hangover Over? Re: "Only Power Can Protect Peace" Fred Thompson Draws Larger Crowd than Joe Biden Does in NY-23 N.J. Democrats Paying for Third-Party Robocalls Re: "Only Power Can Protect Peace" To Paraphrase Ed Koch, How’s She Doin’? Civility Quiz Biden Talks Lifeguarding, Global Warming, and GOP Extremism Before 200 Dems in NY-23 The Swine Flu Democrats (Cont'd) White House Surrenders to Fox News? "Only Power Can Protect Peace" Rolling Stone: Afghanistan Surge is Really About Gen Petraeus' Presidential Aspirations New Jersey Dems: Fired Up and Ready for Salisbury Steak? Londonistan Lives Up To Its Name 111 New Federal Bureaucracies Created by Pelosi Health Care Bill Kristol: Why Pelosi May Fail The Thrill Is Gone "Healthy Turmoil" Clinton's Mideast Mess Siena: Hoffman Leads Owens 41-36%; Undecided up to 18% Lieberman Blasts Public Option, Vaccine for Terrorists but Not Pregnant Women Biden Packs 'Em In The Daily Grind Scozzafava Shakes Up the Race? German General: NATO Exonerates Bundeswehr in Kunduz Tanker Air Strike Scozzafava Endorses Democrat Bill Owens Kristol: Obama's "Compromise Solution" Annual Medicare Fraud: $60 Billion; Annual Profits of Top Ten Insurance Companies: $8 billion New Excerpts from CIA IG's Report Contradict Enhanced Interrogation Critic Tom Friedman: The Long War is Over NRCC Had Already Stopped Running Pro-Scozzafava Ads Congressmen Decry Obama Admin's Move to Give Scarce H1N1 Shots to Gitmo Terrorists House GOP Leadership Endorses Hoffman; Update: NY GOP Chair Endorses Hoffman; Update: Gingrich Too Poll: Hoffman Leading Owens? Scozzafava Drops Out of Congressional Race Why the Public Doesn't Trust Journalists, Part 5393 The Swine Flu Democrats (Gitmo Edition) Marriage Obama-Style Happy Hour Links Barnes: It Could Be Worse... Marriage Saudi Arabia-Style Video: "Legislative Activity" $230,769.23 Spent Per Stimulus Job "Created or Saved" J Street Adviser Morton Halperin Goes to Work for Goldstone The Daily Grind Pataki Endorsement: "Doug Hoffman can win." Of Smart Power and Monkeys Overtaken By Events Surprise: J Street Opposes Resolution Condemning Goldstone Bayh, Lieberman, Kyl Statement on Iran Sanctions NRCC Chairman Sessions: We Would Welcome Hoffman With "Open Arms" Taxpayer-Funding of Abortion Doesn't Send Thrill up Chris Matthews's Leg FBI: Radical Islamist Group Ruled by Inmate in "Supermax" Jail Corker Amendment Shall Not Be Introduced NY-23 Poll: Owens 33, Hoffman 32, Scozzafava 21 1,990-Page Health Care Bill Pays for Abortions, Cuts Medicare, Raises Taxes, Fees, and the Deficit Fun Facts About Pelosi's 1,990-Page Health-Care Hodge-Podge Life, Liberty, and the Subsidization of "Quality Health Care" J Street Officials Contradict Each Other on "Pro-Israel" Label Beijing Withstands "Smart Power" Assault The Daily Grind NJDC Chief Weighs in on Hagel Appointment (Update w/RJC in Response) Kristol: Breaking News: Pelosi Tries to Lead Democrats off a Cliff NJDC: Obama Appointee Has "Questionable Israel Record" President Obama Greets Special Envoy Richard Holbrooke John Kerry Weekly Standard Say: Jeff Flake Has Leadership Role in Future Dirty Jersey Lieberman Shows the Way For Northeast Republicans Project Valour-IT: Give a Wounded Vet a Lifeline This Week What I Learned at Columbia J-School Obama to Split the Afghan Baby Cheney to Campaign for Hutchison Behind Closed Doors Pew Political IQ Poll: Republicans Consistently More Knowledgeable Good Reads Obama Administration Accepts the Inevitability of a Nuclear Iran State Department Official Throws in the Towel over Afghanistan The Daily Grind Scalia Gets Misquoted, Badly Sucking Up to Khaled Meshaal Jones on J Street Lieberman Public-Option Push-Back Brings Out Snowe and Lincoln GOP Say: Get Down to Business! Alan Grayson Calls Female Federal Reserve Aide 'Whore'; Obama Calls Grayson 'Outstanding' Joementum 2012? Kristol: Former NRCC Chair Tom Cole Endorses Hoffman in NY-23 Dean Barnett, In Memoriam The Daily Grind Dissing the Dalai Lama Dropping the Pro-Israel Pretense Kristol on the GOP in 2012 Auto Executive in Chief Gibbs Admits Bush Team Left Behind "Helpful" Review of Afghan War Elie Wiesel Mocked at J Street Conference Happy Hour Links The Space Between Pro-Israel and Anti-Israel Harry Reid Pushes for Govt.-Run Insurance Plan With Opt-Out Provision Sen. Levin: On Second Thought, Bush Was Right on the Surge The Goods on Goldstone Hoffman Takes the Lead; NRCC to Spend $300K on Scozzafava The Daily Grind Notes From the Eternal and Undivided Capital of the Jewish People Dan Senor on Soldiers and the Economy NATO Defense Ministers and UN Official Back McChrystal Before Obama L'affaire Sarkozy Biden Team Drafts Its Own Counterterrorism Strategy After Defense Dept. Declines Did the Bush Administration Sit for 8 Months on a Request for Troops? A Marine's Family Says Kay Hagan and J Street (Updated and Confirmed) Will J Street Back Ros-Lehtinen/Berman Resolution on Goldstone? Annals of Neoconservatism An Ominous Sign for EFCA Bring Back the Peacekeeper Quote of the Day (So Far!) Elie Wiesel to Keynote CUFI Conference Sunday Breaking: Palin Supports Hoffman Escalation: White House Tries to Exclude Fox From Press Pool Interview Happy Hour Links Cheney on Missile Defense Earth to J Street "Down to Build" Rahm vs. Reality Three Tweets for the Web? Good News: Cheesecake Not Yet a Human 'Right,' Even in Obama White House Where's NATO? Senator Kyl: Kill the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Anti-Israeli Series Continues on Turkey’s State-Owned Television Consensus: Global Warming Is Not Man-Made The Daily Grind Another J Street Speaker Engages in "Use and Abuse of Holocaust Imagery" Livni Writes a Letter Happy Hour Links Ron Kampeas Pulls Out of J Street Conference Cheney's Speech Tonight A Small Bill, Anyone? Rep. Geoff Davis Disappears from J Street Program GWOT vs. LGBT Former SECAF: F-22 "A Symbolic Target for a Populist President" Nobel Exceptionalism J Street's Anti-Israel Poets Fire Back The Daily Grind A Dozen Pro-Israel Members of Congress Ditch J Street AP: Nope, McCormack Didn't Yell at Scozzafava Alexander to Obama: Don't Create An Enemies List Happy Hour Links Human Rights Watch Founder Blasts Organization for 'Lost Perspective' in Middle East Incompetent or Duplicitous? If This Is What Winning Looks Like... White House's Battle With Fox News Comes to the Press Pool Palin on Oprah The $245 Billion Question Kerry and Oren Bail on J Street Supreme Court Will Hear al Qaeda-Trained Terrorists’ Plea HuffPo Columnist Laments: Why Do We Dislike the Russians? Maddow Finally Apologizes for Saying Limbaugh Wanted MLK's Assassin to Get Medal of Honor J Street Loses Another: Rep. Howard Coble Out Kristol: A Reporter Does His Job The Daily Grind Scozzafava Calls the Cops Did WH Pressure J Street to Drop Poetry Slam? Kristol: Gates Blindsided by Rahm How Many Uninsured Are There? The Goldstone Tears A Better Catastrophic Option Sen. Kerry’s Colossal Error of Judgment McCain Still Upset Obama Was the Edward Cullen of the Campaign They Want to Believe: Media Outlets Fall for Climate Hoax J Street Cans Anti-Israel Poetry Slam Losing: Helen Thomas, NYT, and The Nation Object to White House Fight With Fox News A New Lawsuit against Turkey More on Obama's Bogus Election Excuse The Daily Grind Kristol: Reckless Rahm The “Parenting Gap” Major New Appeasement Initiative Set for Monday Keep MSNBC Afraid J Street: Pro-Goldstone, Anti-Israel J Street Loses Another Two Dems Think Progress Ambushed by Facts Jones Street Tina Brown and the Female Nature of Hillary Clinton A Specious Ruling Senator Blanche Lincoln Drops J Street Scozzafava to Switch Parties? (Updated) “A classic Swift Boat move” The Politics of Gitmo Shouldn't the Republican Establishment Help a Republican Win a Congressional Seat? On Twitter, CNN's Rick Sanchez Retracts Limbaugh Smear HuffPo Retracts False Limbaugh Quotes; When Will CNN & ThinkProgress? Evacuation Continues: Cochran Flees J Street Another Congressman Evacuates J Street Obtained: J Street Conference Schedule Another Postpartisan Tom Weighs In Crist's Job Approval Below 50 More J Street Evacuations: Gillibrand, Schumer Drop Out Human Rights Groups Unhappy With Nobel Laureate's Sudan Appeasement Counterinsurgency, Not Counterterrorism HuffPo May Retract Libel of Limbaugh at 6:00pm; Will CNN's Sanchez Follow? UPDATE: HuffPo Retracts Lessons in Civility, With Chris Matthews Rep. Mike Castle Evacuated from J Street Hillary More Likeable than Obama? Limbaugh and Double Standards, Cont. The Daily Grind Dem Governor: Obamacare Could Cost State $3 Billion in 5 Years Happy Hour Links Clinton in Russia Obama Speaks About Creating Jobs, CBO Says Cap-and-Trade Will Kill Them Retreads Iran Sanctions Pass the House Another Former President Who Hides From Hillary The MSM Fails Me Once Again With Irresponsible Coverage of Shirtless Obama General Keane Makes the Case for COIN Obama Stands Alone On Yemeni Detainees Growing Bipartisan Support for Gen. McChrystal Nepotism French Style: Le Système Sarkozy? Special Interests Feeling Strategically Reassured What's the Matter with New Jersey? The Washington Post Has a Tenuous Grasp on Idea of 'Incivility' Does the Reset Button have a Reset Button? Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Pakistan, Cont. The Lady is For Turning ... 84 On Roger Goodell and Standards The Daily Grind CBO: BaucusCare's Costs Would Triple in Its 2nd Decade The Baucus Middle-Class Tax-Hike Bill Keep America Safe 'The Real Afghan Lessons From Vietnam' Happy Hour Links Lobbying for Khartoum Kagan to Obama: Avoid Blackhawk Down II The Grand New Party McConnell: The Baucus Bill Will Never Reach the Senate Floor McConnell Keeps Hammering Obamacare's Tax Hikes The Future of Obamacare Snowe Supports Committee Bill When Al Qaeda Doesn’t Strike Grassley: Snowe Probably a No; Update: Snowe a Yes on Committee Bill Lieberman Opposes Baucus Bill Senate Finance Committee Vote: The Ballad of Olympia and Blanche The Daily Grind Happy Hour Links Mankiw on the Baucus Bill's 20% Marginal-Tax-Rate Hikes Inconvenient Truths Hassett on Baucus's Middle-Class Tax Hike The Blackhawk Down Option Against "Stamokap" Senator Dianne Feinstein Supports General McChrystal Friendly Reminder from the BBC: There's Been No Global Warming Since 1998 Baucus Plan Would Cost Family of Four $20,000 Over 10 Years in Premium Hikes Obamacare Vulnerable on Taxes (Cont.) Let Obama Be Clear: He Will Repeal DADT Someday Contra Richard Haass Vulnerable on Taxes Nobel Laureate Knocked by Human Rights Groups Happy Hour Links Insurance Premiums Could Skyrocket 40% to 60% Under Baucus Bill Harvard Is Proud! Russia Still Unhappy with Missile Defense Will Obama End Up Like Kellogg and Briand? Can We Defeat Al Qaeda Without Defeating the Taliban? Harry Reid: Obama Earned It Commes des garçons! Obama's Nobel Peace Prize Remarks Obama 'Looking Forward' To Accepting Prize in Oslo DNC: Republicans Have Thrown In Their Lot With Terrorists "Oslo Beats Copenhagen"? (Updated) Obama Wins the Masters! Kristol: Liberalism's Gorbachev? Meet the People Who Were Passed Over for Obama RNC: 'What Has President Obama Actually Accomplished?' Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize: Some Thoughts and Laughs Kristol: Thank You, Nobel Committee, For Making My Job Easier Not A Parody Thanks, Yanks Happy Hour Links "One of the Largest Muslim Countries in the World" Graham Amendment: No Funding to Try 9/11 Conspirators in US The Gay Ambassador CBS News: U.S. Commanders “Not Allowed To Comment Publicly” On Lethal Iranian Aid White House Still Clinging to Missile Defense Myths The New Yorker Throws Tibet Under the Bus Whiskey Tango Foxtrot “Aggressive and Meaningful” Sanctions on Iran The Surreal Al Qaeda: In Bed With The Taliban? When Will Feminists Stand Up for Afghan Women? Assumptions and Misunderstandings Seven Democrats & Lieberman Call for Posting of Health Bill Online 72 Hours Before Vote Democrats Vote to Bring Gitmo Detainees to U.S. McConnell Statement on CBO Report Tom Shales Manages To Write Something Worse Than His Obama Press-Conference Reviews Reporter Sends Email Calling GOP Candidate a 'Nimrod' Gibbs Misleads on Abortion Funding in Health-Care Bills CBO Releases Baucus Bill Preliminary Score Churchill Motivational Posters Fighting in Afghanistan's "Injun Country" Obama Received McChrystal Troop Request Last Thursday Gitmo Detainees Coming to the U.S.? (Updated) Kayfabe Breakdown Your 'Not a Parody' Obama Story of the Day The Biden Plan: "Just Air-Raiding Villages and Killing Civilians" House Debates Resolution to Remove Rangel from Committee Chairmanship The Biden Plan The Real Lessons of Vietnam A Real Debate The U.N. Blood Libel We Meant To Do That: White House Will Keep Olympic Office Open 'Permanently' General Biden The Philip Larkin Boomlet Conitnues The Daily Grind Homage to a Government Obama Doesn't Mention Afghanistan in Counterterrorism Speech Palin: We Must Win in Afghanistan How Do You Teach the Holocaust to Holocaust Deniers? The War Over McChrystal Cantor: Obama Still Deliberating Whether We Need to Defeat Taliban Sunday Times: Ivan Helping Iran Go Nuclear 59 Percent Say No Taxes on Those Under 250K to Pay for Obamacare Mike Castle Will Run for Senate in Delaware CNN Fact-Checks...SNL Skit Critical of Obama Cindy Sheehan to Take Up Residence Outside White House The Daily Grind Regime Change in the Obama Administration Burned Imaginary Quote of the Day Gates Backs McChrystal The Ghailani Precedent "Charlie Crist Ought to Start Worrying" White House Divided on Goal of Defeating Taliban Happy Hour Links Gourmet Bites the Dust Gibbs Still Won't Say if Obama Will Read Entire Health Care Bill Lieberman, Sessions Fight for Missile Defense Funding China Appeasement Now Officially Under Way Go Back to Egypt Dem Whip Clyburn: "We have not taken a position on Gitmo.” Obama Insider: McChrystal Too Honest in Military Assessments IAEA Chief: Israel's Nukes "Number One Threat" to Mid-East Snowe's Insistence on CBO Score May Put Off Senate Finance Vote on Health Care Congress Still Saying No on Gitmo Human Shields Rent-a-General Jim Jones Flail Jim Jones Doesn't Play Politics? Really? Jim Jones: Nothing to Worry About in Afghanistan This Is Not Your Father’s School Safety Obama's Olympic Failure Will Test the Washington Press Corps White House: Opposing Obama's Olympics Lobbying Is Unpatriotic or Something Why Does the NYT Hate Obama So Much? Happy Hour Links Iranian Diplomat Denies Uranium Being Shipped to Russia The Devil’s Bargain Patron Saint of American Proletariat Makes Movies With Non-Union Employees Mugged by Reality Chicago Loses (Update: Rio Wins) Half-Measures Won't Work Obama vs. Biden? Obama Finds a Few Minutes for the Good War The Daily Grind Obama Meets with McChrystal on Air Force One Happy Hour Links The Role of Sanctions in Burma Meet the Advanced Tactical Laser “So Far, So Good” Are We All Anti-Statists Now? Rumint: Hagel to Replace Gates By End of Year Carl Levin Was For A Counterinsurgency Strategy Before He Was Against It All I Really Want Is Girls Arianna in Israel In Which H'wood Obliges Conservatives By Aggressively Fulfilling Every Stereotype of the Morally Unmoored Entertainment Industry Where Oscar-Winning Rapists are Defensible Negroponte Didn’t Buy the 2007 NIE on Iran’s Nuclear Program Either McCain's Take on 'Going Rogue' The Daily Grind What's the Timeline on Iran? Lieberman on Iran McChrystal In His Own Words Muddling Through "Grayson’s Dark, Sarcastic Sense of Humor" Running Scared Happy Hour Links Senate Panel Keeps Subsidized Abortion Coverage in Health Care Bill At Webb's Junta Love-In, Cont. Dem Congressman: U.S. Health Care System = "Holocaust"; Republicans Want You To "Die Quickly" Gold Stars and Smiley Faces for Sudan Now State Dept. Issuing Visas for Iranian Officials Supreme Court to Rule on Chicago Handgun Ban Challenge At Webb's Junta Love-In Bin Laden on Georgia The Wisdom of Jewish Crowds Finger Lickin' Good Dozens of Monks Crash Webb's Junta Love-In What Palestinians Want Good Question What Makes Liberals Liberal Why Not Give Him the Nobel Peace Prize, Too, While You’re At It? Who He’s Losing So Far—A Brief Survey Happy Hour Links Liz Cheney Is All That Stands Between You and Al Qaeda "Wildly Irresponsible" White House: Don't Worry, Obama Gets a Weekly Memo from McChrystal Senate Panel Kills "Public Option" 15 to 8 Beyond Parody Obama to Afghanistan? The People's Empire State Building A Verdict on iPower U.S. Intel Agencies Stand by 2007 NIE Report that Iran Halted Work on Nukes Another Week, Another Obama Comic Book Thomas Friedman's Love Affair with China, Cont. Obama Foreign Policy Goes From Carrots to Cookies Happy Hour Links The Rest of the Story State Department: Gitmo Detainees Are "Refugees" Obama's Olympic Lobbying -- Undermining a Key Relationship Obama's Confused Honduras Policy A Failure To Communicate Gibbs: Less Robust Missile Defense is Actually Smarter Gibbs: Afghanistan Decision "A Number of Weeks Away" Why COIN Is the Only Option Iran Mocks West, Flaunts Nuclear Program Doesn't a Thesis Need to be Defended? Webb Jets to NYC to Meet Another War Criminal The Chicago Machine Rasmussen: Obamacare Support Hits New Low Obama has Only Spoken with Commander USFOR-A Once Obama’s Search for Leverage And the Winner Is... "And Bush was right." Colorado Public Television: US Government Behind 9/11 Déjà vu: Afghan Surge Skeptics Same As Iraq Surge Naysayers Election Eve in Berlin What To Do in Afghanistan The Exciting World of German Campaign Finance Notes from a Berlin Rally Happy Hour Links Counterinsurgency and Killing People TV Worth Watching Perry on Israel, Chavez, and Secession About that 2007 National Intelligence Estimate on Iran . . . The Economist on Irving Kristol One-Year In Jail or $25,000 Fine for Not Buying Insurance Under Obamacare Lieberman, Bayh, and Kyl on Iran: "Whatever It Takes...Crippling Sanctions" Down the Rabbit Hole Osama Betting on a U.S. Withdrawal from Afghanistan Berman Hits Iran Nuke News, Says Resolved to Push Sanctions The Dreaded Lobby Strikes Again Medvedev Says He'll "Consider" Stronger Iran Sanctions It Takes An Al Qaeda Villiage Iranian Facility Has 3k Centrifuges 'Working Woman' Lefty Protesters Get Violent at G-20, No One Frets About State of Republic MoveOn Wants Out of Afghanistan Revisiting Iran’s Mocking Response So Maybe the Iranians Do Have a Nuclear Program... Cantor: Start Over on Health Care (Updated & Bumped) CBO Makes $600 Million Mistake Obama, Sarkozy, and Brown on Iran's Secret Nuclear Site Friday News Dump Comes Early: Obama Gitmo Policy Collapses Krauthammer on I. Kristol Happy Hour Links Group Wants Answers About Lockerbie Bomber Release Did Obama Tell McChrystal to "Scrub" His Report? Just a Co-Author From the Neighborhood? More Bibi at the UN Jim Webb's Weekend With a War Criminal Obama Admin Sends Vietor to Deliver Bad News The 7/7 Connection Wolf vs. Obama "What a Disgrace" Another Foreign Policy Head Scratcher Pelosi: I "Absolutely" Support Putting Health-Care Bill Online for 72 Hours Before Vote Baucus: Stop Delaying the Passage of My Questionable Health-Care Bill With Your Salient Points It's Not Their Fault, They Were Taught to Smear Obama's Man in Honduras Sees Jewish Conspiracy Major Obama Appeasement Offensive Set for China The Daily Grind A Partei-Loving People Obama at the UN, Part III ACORN Sues Undercover Journalists When in Stuttgart… The Obama Administration and State Secrets Obama at the UN, Pt. II Senate Democrats Kill "Read the Bill" Amendment Lieberman Calls for Tougher Sanctions on Iran Obama at the UN Obama Gets Rolled in the Holy Land More on Irving Kristol A Novel Idea: Give Congress a Chance to Read Legislation Before Voting On It Qaddafi Says Something Twitter of the Day Levin: The Most Intellectually Dishonest Senator? The FPI Forum: "Engagement Is Toast" Sen. Webb Hands Junta Another Diplomatic Coup; Scores US Visa for Senior General Live from the Bundesrepublik Obama "Impatient" With 5,000 Year Old Conflict Gov't Tries to Silence Insurance Company Concerned about Obamacare But, But, But…Sunnis and Shiites Can’t Cooperate Cracking the McChrystal Code Who Leaked Against Obama? Hoyer Agrees with Boehner and McCain: McChrystal Should Testify Before Congress Mock Executions, Rape of Prisoners in Iran Problems With Using Predator Strikes Alone Missing Details On Suspected Terrorists Kagans Release Comprehensive Strategy for Afghanistan Happy Hour Links Jeb Bush Hits National Republicans for Endorsing Crist Obama Ready to Slash Nuclear Arsenal Obama’s Popularity Abroad Does Not Equal Gains for America Webb Goes on the Record on Burma WaPo's Odd Justification for Killing European Missile Defense Our Choice In Afghanistan Preaching Jihad In NYC The McChrystal Report: A Make or Break Moment for Obama Remembering Irving Kristol, Cont. Obama on Afghanistan Obama Gets Peace Process Back to 2007 (Not Even) Brezinski Calls for Obama to Shoot Down Israeli Jets; "A Liberty in Reverse" Update On Iranian Missile Intelligence Iran vs. Honduras Quote of the Day FPI Conference with McCain, Gingrich, Romney and Kyl Irving Kristol on Leo Strauss (Updated) Tributes to Irving Kristol Seven Former CIA Directors Tell Obama to Rein in Holder (Updated) Senator Lieberman Honors Irving Kristol Remembering Irving Kristol Irving Kristol, 1920-2009 The Great Eastern Retreat Let Them Eat Kale Words = Different, Music = Same Lech Wałesa Blasts Obama BMD Surrender Street Fighting Man Re: A Book Worth Reading Disgrace: Afghan Troop Decisions Delayed to Suit Obama's Political Needs A Curious Justification Gallup and Rasmussen: No Bump for Obama on Health Care Happy Hour Links Shameful 28 Senators Call for ACORN Hearings in Letter to Reid Van, We Hardly Knew Ye Polish PM Won't Take Hillary's 3 AM Phone Call A Book Worth Reading House Votes 345 to 75 to Strip ACORN of All Federal Funding (Update) Even Appeasers All Appeased Out ISAF Is Its Own PR Nightmare Video: Pelosi Chokes Up, Warns Opponents They Must "Take Responsibility for Any Incitement They May Cause" Czech Reax: 'Not Good News for Czech Freedom, Independence' Remember When Sebelius Got a Mink Coat From Trial Lawyers? Obama Serves Up Georgia, Too Pelosi Punts on ACORN: A Few Bad Apples? Pelosi Congratulates the Administration on BMD Surrender Obama Admin Smears Missile Defense Lieberman Blasts Obama Missile Defense Plan What We’ll Lose Kyl Blasts Obama Missile Defense Surrender (Updated x 2 & Bumped) Sources: Admin Officials Head to Poland, Czech Rep. to Kill Missile Defense Happy Hour Links Vets for Freedom: Give The Generals What They Need Fred Kagan on Afghan Metrics Burma and Webb, What Everyone Needs to Know Alexander Blasts Cap and Trade Afghanistan Metrics Revealed Cordesman Takes Down Levin Obama Appeasement of the Day: No Meet for Dalai Lama UN Ignores Afghanistan's Election Concerns Obama Admin Concedes: Cap and Trade Will Raise Your Taxes by 15% More Mullen @ SASC: "Are You Committed?" Your Laws Can't Stop Obama Advantage: Nerds U.S Air Dominance Eroding Remembering Jane Jacobs Good News: ACORN Organizer Probably Didn't Commit Murder -- She May Only Be Willing to Help Child Sex Traffickers Evade Taxes Hundreds of Thousands at 9/12 Protest? Happy Hour Links Breaking: FBI Investigating Suspected Terrorist Cells In New York and Denver Webb, Clinton, and Burma -- Behind Closed Doors What Independent Voters Want in 2010 Burying ACORN Update On The Gitmo Uighurs ACORN Organizer: "I killed him . . . I shot him.” UPDATE The Walt/Mearsheimer Letter on Afghanistan Mullen: Afghans Can't Fight Without Us Reid Trails Challengers by 7 to 10 Points Tea Party Protesters, Black Family Reunion Particpants Peacefully Break Bread Together, WaPo Weeps at the Racism Pete Stark Saving Every Last Drop Left Finds Upside in Economic Collapse Sebelius: Hey, My History With the Trial-Lawyer Industry Makes Me Uniquely Qualified to Handle Tort Reform Signs Point to More Troops for Afghanistan Human Rights Watch Analyst Suspended Over Nazi Hobby Morning Reading US SEALs Score Major Victory in Somalia Obama’s Engagement Woes Happy Hour Links Iran Spits in Obama's Face, Again What do Luke Russert and Osama bin Laden Have in Common? Human Reich Watch Standing with Obama on Afghanistan Twitter Truth: J Street 'stands with the Mullahs' Say My Name, Say My Name... Obama Then, Now, and Then Again on Keeping Your Insurance Chavez Goes on a Russian Shopping Spree AP: GOP Voters "Confused" About Obamacare Blago: At Least I Didn't Do What Charlie Crist Did Breaking News: Europe Loves Obama! Iran Makes A Mockery of Negotiations No, Mr. President Susan Rice: Please Don't Judge Our Policies Yet Congress Getting Ready to Move on Iran Sanctions Obama's Latest Lefty Lawyer A Day at West Point Al Qaeda’s Anthrax Program Was A Threat Too Prosecutor: Anti-Abortion Protester Shot Dead Because of Political Views Census Cutting Ties With ACORN Due to Videotaped Prostitution-Enabling New Things That Are Racist in Obama's Post-Racial Society Update House Dem Leadership Now Managing Expectations for 9/12 Tea Party Protests Remembering What It Was Like to Have a War Time President McCain Blasts "Good Friend" Carl Levin Remembering Timothy J. Finnerty, Basketball Lover & Cantor Fitzgerald Employee, North Tower The Day in Obama FP Webb Announces Burma Hearings Downfall Obama Over-Exposure Schedule Updates Reconciliation Coming? Joe Wilson's Kinsleyan Gaffe AQ Khan On Iran’s and North Korea’s Nukes Reports of Shots Fired on Potomac, Coast Guard Denies, Cites 'Training Exercise' 9/11 Remembered Obama: I'm Spending Too Much on the Troops Pakistan Rejects Obama's AfPak Strategy In 6th Paragraph of WashPost Blog Post, Scrutiny Spreads to Deeds's '99 Comments on Gays RE: The Great Communicator Joe Wilson, The Great Communicator The Nazi (Memorabilia Collector) at Human Rights Watch The Case Against Intervention Why Does President Obama Want to Deny Health Care to Illegal Immigrants? Obama Taps ex-Trial Lawyer Lobbyist to Look at Tort Reform More Bad News for Harry Reid Kunar Attack Raises Questions About Rules of Engagement Rep. 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Elliott Abrams Afghan Air Strike: Merkel Hits Back At Critics / Kunduz Governor Praises German Forces Marc Thiessen Was Right About the “Library Tower Plot” Happy Hour Links Make That 24 25 37 House Dems Who Say They'll Vote Against Obamacare Here's Hoping Obama's Speech Has More Perspective Than Gibbs Heil HRW Van Jones -- The Name That Mustn't Be Spoken in the White House Briefing Room ISAF Makes Its Own Negative Publicity A Bad Day for the 'Public' Option Obama and Gandhi, What Would They Talk About? Labor Day, Obama and Bush High Stakes in Afghanistan Obama Art, cont. A Doctor in the House? Boustany to Deliver GOP Response to Obama The Delusional Left Ask The Man Who Knows New Mag on the Block The Daily Grind Gitmo Transparency? Sarah Palin, Karl Rove, and the Boss Support Obama! 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An American Triumph The Daily Grind Reusser vs. Asia Senate Defies Veto Threat, Adds $$$ for F-22 Rigid Ideologues Among the Settlers Kristol: Barack Obama, Our Personal Trainer What Does Tonight's Vote Mean? Cap and Trade Passes 219 to 212 Happy Hour Links John Boehner Takes Over the Floor to Read Cap-and-Trade Amendments Another Day, Another Broken Obama Campaign Promise What Does Dennis Ross Do? Why Not Them? Of Course We Are Superior and They Are Inferior Roberts v. Jackson Gitmo Transparency "The Great Equivocator" Everyone Hates the Cap-and-Trade Bill Live-blogging the Cap-and-Trade Vote For Every Terrorist We Kill, We Create Ten More Cap and Trade = Predatory Taxation Twitters of the Day Did Rahm Diss Bill Clinton? Not Real(ist) Helpful The Mother of All Letters Gilad Going Home? Veto for F-22? Not Likely Rahm Emanuel: Obama's Historic Cairo Speech is Already Inspiring Muslim Moderates in Iran Medi-Fraud Three Amigos Push New Iran Legislation "He Is Crazy?" 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Leading by Following? Soulless Obama Won't Say If Iranian Diplomats Still Invited to July 4 Parties Barack Obama, Neocon Gov. Sanford Headed Back to Work Tomorrow What A Bargain Nazi Stealth Stop the Presses Radio Free Iran Dept. of Imaginary Controversy Foreign Policy by Poll The Perils of Health Care Polling They Blame America Anyway New York Times Shills For Obama, Part 12,798 How About Some Justice Department Firings Right Now? Guess Who's Still Coming to Dinner Iranian Neocon South Carolina Gov. Sanford Off the Grid Since Thursday Iranian Photojournalist Missing in Tehran Iran Sanction Bill Now Filibuster-Proof Obama Demotes Dodd at Rose Garden Event But What Does Ashton Kutcher Think? The "International Community" Will Get You A Big Win for Palin A Courageous Participant or a Weak Witness? Brief Catholic Aside Who Dares To Criticize the President? Siemens Helps Iran Spy on Dissidents Crossing the Threshold of Fear Merkel to the Mullahs: We Side with the Protesters Unconfirmed Call for General Strike in Iran There Is No Islamic Republic In the Tank Murder The Case for Meddling A Real False Choice: War or Ice Cream Update From Radio Farda Obama Speaks Palau Problems The McCaskill-Buchanan Alliance Happy Hour Links Cap and Trade Negotiations “By and Large Blew Up Last Night” The World’s 25 “Most Liveable” Cities Rubio Crushes Crist in Straw Poll Hiatt and Goldberg on Sullivan And Obama Didn't Bow to the Saudi King... What Is the Puerto Rican Legal Defense Fund Hiding? Sullivan and Khamenei Agree: Jews Control the Media Mubarak Supports a Democratic Outpouring Dem Congressman: 'We cannot stand silent in the face of this assault on human freedom and dignity.' House Passes Bipartisan Resolution to Support Iranian Dissidents, 405 to 1 What Our Fundamental Values Demand War on Drugs Update The Ayatollah Speaks, Will Obama? Media Matters Panel: Guns Don't Kill People, Fox News Kills People (Correction Appended) Mousavi Spokesman Smacks Obama House Passes Measure to Stop Mirandizing Terrorist Suspects in Afghanistan Happy Hour Links Mousavi Tells Supporters: Don't Go to Khamenei-led Friday Prayers If the Protesters Don't Want U.S. Support, Why Are Their Signs in English? Reza Aslan, In Praise of Iranian Democracy Courage Under Fire Cantor Knocks Obama Iran Response 'Breezy With Freedom' Joementum Cannot Be Stopped NYT Threatens Republicans with Copyright Lawsuit Over Use of NYT's "World-Famous Gothic Font" Rep. 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Beyond Ricci State Dept. Reportedly Asked Twitter Not to do Maintenance During Iranian Uprising Roger Cohen Feeling A Little Used Smartest President in History Confuses Left and Right Pence Introduces Resolution Supporting Iranian Dissidents Read the Gitmo Files What Happened to Dennis Ross? Did Iraqi Democracy Influence Iran? The Daily Grind Kristol: A Question for Gibbs The King of Torts Palin 1, Letterman 0 Reid Distances From Obama on Israel and Iran Obama on Murders and Beatings in Iran: "I Am Deeply Troubled" Obama Breaks Silence on Iranian Election David Shuster Is A Liar “Another Round of Violence and Bloodshed” A Gang of 24? Nostalgianomics 101 One Thing at a Time "U.S. eager to talk to Iran, whoever winner is" Vaclav Havel: Support the Iranian Dissidents Panetta Walkback Iranian Students: It Seems That We Are All Alone Eyes On The Revolutionary Guard Reality Check Time for a Speech Kristol: Speak for America, President Obama No, Really. Ahmadinejad Won? State Dept. Spokesman Refuses to Condemn Crackdown on Protesters Iranian Militia Fires on Protesters Cheney Responds to Panetta Solidarity Critical Mass? Thousands Show at Tehran Rally Rally Postponed, Khameni Blesses an Investigation? Report: U.S. Envoy to Iran 'Will Abruptly Be Relieved of His Duties' Kristol: Memo to Conservatives Degrees of Unacceptability Memo to President Obama Iranian Students: We Are Doomed If Obama Accepts Election Results How Obama Could Aid the Iranian People Bibi Speaks White House Worries About Stability While Iranians Plead for Help Ahmadinejad Won? Kristol: Where's the Soft Power? Lieberman Statement on Iran Criticism Grows on Obama's Silence Protests Continue, More on Manipulation Obama on Cairo Speech: Just Kidding Video: Protests in Iran Mr. President, Another Speech Please Radio Free Iran Palau Waffles On Uighurs? Kristol: Democrats, Republicans, and Jews "The Death Of Hope and Democracy" The Radicalization of an Already Radical Iranian Regime? AP Not Reading Their Own Files Convicted Car Bomber and Likely Murderer Transferred from Gitmo to Saudi Arabia Nominee for Army’s Top Lawyer, Tied to Fannie Mae, Withdraws Happy Hour Links Lieberman: Gitmo a "Humane" Facility Dewey Defeats Truman... Democrat Health Care Reform to Hike Taxes $600 Billion The Agenda Is Demography Destiny? Leader of Bermuda Opposition Explains "No Confidence" Motion Lobbyists Paul Ryan Speaks for the Party of 'We Actually Have a Health Care Plan' Bermuda MP: "Outrage" and "National Crisis" Sparked by Release of Gitmo Detainees Lieberman: Obama Should Consider Keeping Gitmo Open Why the U.S. Is Losing the Information War in Afghanistan Obama Pledges to Defy Courts If Necessary "My First Thought Was, Hey, Don't Disparage Flight Attendants" The Daily Grind Obama Justice Department Goes Silent on Miranda Happy Hour Links Who Is Mir Hossein Mousavi Khameneh? The Special Relationship Takes Another Hit This Exchange Brought to You by the Most Transparent White House and the Cult of Competence Twitter of the Day Lining Up Against a 'Public'/Gov't Option in Health Care House Instructs Dem Leadership to Keep Photo Amendment Generals Petraeus and Odierno on Photo Release No Comment from Bermuda Tourism Bureau on Gitmo Release Uighurs Released to Bermuda All Trained at Terrorist Camp in Tora Bora Sonia Sotomayor: "Affirmative Action Baby" The Daily Grind Four Uighur Detainees Relocated to Bermuda Happy Hour Links White House Refuses to Say If It Would Free al Qaeda Terrorist If He's Found Not Guilty Holocaust Museum Killer "Despised JEWS-NEOCONS-BILL O’REILLY" DOJ Confirms FBI is Reading Miranda Rights to Detainees in Afghanistan Terrorism Involved in Air France Crash? New York Times, Washington Post Pooh-pooh Suggestion Flashback: Obama Said Terrorists Shouldn't Get Miranda Rights Miranda Rights for Terrorists Shots Fired at D.C. Holocaust Museum Not-So-Wise (?) Latina Claims: "In Spanish, We Do Not Have Adjectives" Survivor Palau: This Time For Real Number 2 Poll: 45 Percent Say Cancel Stimulus Spending NYT: 100 Countries Refused to Take the Uighurs Body Counts Are Back The Obamas' Grand Tour Report: Obama Unloads Uighurs to Palau at $12 Million a Pop Creigh Deeds Knocks Off Terry McAuliffe for Va. Governor Nomination Happy Hour Links Brookings: Cap and Trade Would Reduce GDP by 2.5 Percent “Soap for washing horses” Evan Thomas Then & Now TARP Oversight Chair Says She Doesn't Know Whether It's Working Sotomayor Hearings to Begin July 13 IDF Developing Battlefield Robot Snake Photo Fight: Lieberman and Graham Threaten Senate Shutdown Americans Want Preconditions Carlos Slim vs. Michael Bloomberg, Part 57 The Daily Grind Americans Not Sure Religion of Peace is Really Peaceful Deglobalization Tiller's Killing "Equivalent of Martin Luther King Being Assassinated" Happy Hour Links From the Magic Kingdom, a Magic Key A Real Gulag By Obama's Own Standards, Stimulus A Failure NBC Interviews the TOTUS The People's Governor and America's Mayor Tweet of the Day Lieberman and Graham Promise a Fight Third Worldism What Happened While Barack Was 'Saving and Creating' Specter to Labor: You'll Be "Satisfied" With My EFCA Vote Consistency Not the Hobgoblin of Jewish Minds Why No Credit for Affirmative Action? The Daily Grind Stop, Drop, and Read Keith Hennessey The Speech He Might Have Given “We Were All Appalled By the Bush Years” UN Says Iran Nuke Program "Peaceful"? Incremental Escalation Evan Thomas and Chris Matthews See God Dem Leadership Moves to Kill Photo Amendment (Bumped) Obama Could Learn from Elie Wiesel Obama to Create New Internet So We Can Communicate With Muslims Happy Hour Links Jimmy Carter, on Cairo, Gets Half of One Thing Right Arab Journos Boycott Obama Roundtable; Won't Sit With Jew Harper 2012! Finally: A Moral Equivalency Obama Doesn't Like Meet the MedPac 1,000 Words "Incitement Issues" Everything that Rises (and Falls) Must Converge Defender of the Faith The Real Story Behind al Qaeda's Fantasy Video Game The Comeback! Sotomayor Must Misspeak Every Time She Gives a Speech Happy Hour Links You Bought It, You Own It Krauthammer on the Speech: Abstraction, Self-Absorption, Vapidity, Moral Equivalence Wexler: I Didn't Mean to Say U.S. Shouldn't Support Israel The Poles Were Asking For It Poll: Sotomayor Approval Rating Only 3 Points Higher Among Hispanics Than Among All Voters McCain Will Never Be Out-Gadgeted Again Sotomayor Questionnaire Cantor Jamming Up Pelosi Tiananmen, From New Angles Wexler Still Vouching for Obama Sotomayor: La Raza Member from 1998 to 2004 Interview with a Terrorist Hillary Teaches China a Lesson on Healing. China’s Reply: “The Dog Ate My Homework.” A History of Violence Germans Don't Want the Uighur Detainees Mansfield on Foreign Policy, Executive Power, and the Rule of Law The Daily Grind More Speech, In Brief The Speech Text of Obama's Cairo Speech Obama Quietly Issues Statement on Terrorist Attack in Arkansas Happy Hour Links Boehner: Hey, Remember That Time When the Speaker of the House Said the CIA Lied to Her? Statement of the Day Sotormayor Likes Her "Poor" Choice of Words Does Obama Speak Arabic? Q-Poll: Americans Disagree with Sotomayor on Ricci 71% - 19%, Want Affirmative Action Abolished John Deutch, Security Expert? Some Muslims Tell Obama What They Want To Hear About From Him The Real Meaning of a Gitmo Suicide Jimmy Carter's Second Term Rasmussen: Health Care Reform Support Dips; Support for Addressing the Deficit Grows Arkansas Shooter Had Other Miltary Targets in Sights British Company Kills Al Qaeda Fantasy Xbox Video Game Good News: GM to Keep Lobbying With Your Money The Daily Grind Obama Language Watch "A Virtual Treasure Map for Terrorists" Happy Hour Links Obama: America "One of the Largest Muslim Countries in the World" Uighurs Denied McGurn on Harvard's ROTC Commissioning No Statement from Obama on Shooting of U.S. Soldiers in Arkansas Single Most Effective Republican Spokesperson on Stimulus: 'You May Already Be Getting Scammed' The Sources of Scott Horton Palin Making Sense McHugh and Gitmo Pakistan frees terrorist leaders as it takes on the Taliban Cantor Responds to Obama on Middle East Obama Pressures Israel Guess That Religion Obama Taps McHugh for Army Secretary Watch the Trailer for Al Qaeda's Xbox Fantasy Game The Uighurs Are Angry At America The Daily Grind Protesting Al Qaeda's Xbox Fantasy Game Happy Hour Links Obama in New York Al Qaeda’s Xbox Fantasy Game Police: "Muslim Convert" Shooter of 2 U.S. Soldiers in Arkansas Sotomayor Not a Baseball Fan The Campaign to Blame O'Reilly for Tiller's Death The Settlements Distraction General McChrystal or General McCriminal? Get Carter Coburn Will Run for Reelection 'Morning Joe'...Brewed by Starbucks U.S. Army Recruiter Slain at Recruiting Office Pakistan Still Under Taliban Siege More Amenities at Club Gitmo From Undivided Capital to Undeveloped by Jews The Daily Grind Sotomayor's "Wise Latina" Speech, In Context Audio of Sotomayor at Ricci Hearing George Tiller Murdered Re: Intelligence Community Organizer From Waterboarding to Waterslides? Re: Intelligence Community Organizer Obama v. Uighurs Intelligence Community Organizer Happy Hour Links Gibbs Judges Sotomayor For Political Reasons Veni, Vidi . . . Ricci! Coming Soon to a Community Near You! Quinnipiac on the Court and Identity Politics Here’s Looking At You, Kid Playing By Obama Rules Concerned about the Federalist Society But Not La Raza? Kristol: Whew, It’s Safe to Do the Right Thing and Fight Sotomayor! More Preferential Treatment? (Update) Sotomayor's Unfavorable Rating Higher Than Bush Nominee's Happy Hour Links Buffett's Top Aide Says Housing Market Worse Than Reported Sotomayor's Unpredictability Best Narrative Non-fiction Writer in America? Global Justice Initiative, Cont. Rubio Scores Huck and Jeb Bush (Jr.) Endorsements, As Crist Raises Taxes Harry Reid: Bush Is Kind of a "Bitch" Like His Mother Making Pyongyang Pay The Daily Grind Marrakech Express Is Obama Trying to Kill the CIA? Propaganda Disconnect Who Killed Hariri? (UPDATED) Happy Hour Links The Coming Comeuppance in Pennsylvania (Update: Toomey Welcomes Sestak Run) Biden Yuks It Up Again Team of Rivals: Blair vs. Panetta Edition Springtime for Putin Federal Tax Revenue Drops 34 Percent Does Waterboarding Give You a Buzz? Are You Ready for a VAT? Country Club Hustler The Decline of Klein One Cheer for Obama Gay Marriage, Now With Less Support Preferential Treatment? More on Sotomayor Quote of the Day (So Far!) NYT: Taped Phone Call Reveals Sen. 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TPaw versus the DFL Lieberman-Graham Amendment Passes Denver Post: No Room for Gitmo Detainees at Supermax Waxman Admits He Doesn't Know What's in His Cap-and-Trade Bill Obama’s Rule of Law Democrats Cleverly Thwart 'Nefarious' Republican Scheme to Have Congress Read Cap-and-Trade Bill With Speed Reading Clerk More on Obama v. Cheney Meanwhile, Back at the House Today Was Second Time Gates Had His Name Flubbed This Week Introducing the Cheneyku! Cheney's Power Rep. Obey Questions Obama on Missile Defense Self-referencing and Moral Preening Thoughts on Obama Obama Gets What He Wished For Cheney vs. Obama: A Mismatch Boo Hoo Obama Thanks SecDef "William" Gates Text of Cheney's AEI Speech Cheney 2012 Campaign Gaining Steam Freeze The Lede Says It All What Will Obama Say? Foiled: Four Arrested in NYC for Planning Terror Attack on Synagogues Obama Engages in Pre-Speech Placation of Human-Rights Groups See No Evil Happy Hour Links A-jad to O: You Want Direct Contact? Eat Sajjil Missiles! Gallup: Widespread Losses for Republicans Among Many Key Groups Since 2001 Sen. Bennet to Feinstein: Keep Gitmo Detainees Out of Colorado Supermax Prison The CW FBI vs. DoD 'There should be a section at Hallmark for intelligence operatives unfairly accused of war crimes.' DoD, Fearful of White House, Bottles Up Report Showing 1 in 7 Freed Gitmo Detainees Returns to Terrorism Cheney Doing It Live, Obama Giving Speech About Nothing Another Campaign Promise Bites the Dust...Again Poll: 79% of Americans Think It's 'Likely' Iran Will Give Terrorists a Nuke Gitmo North? Small Man Rattled Pletka on Tomorrow's Main Event FBI Head Says Supermax Not Safe Enough Pentagon v. Reid Video: Marco Rubio v. Charlie Crist Elevating Cheney Sen. Feinstein: California Prisons Could Hold Gitmo Detainees Physical Standards for Punditry Way of the Gun Judge Diane Wood to the White House Today? The Daily Grind Clinton Hard Drive Disappears Will Colleges Kick Obama Off Campus? Happy Hour Links Graham, Lieberman Propose Law to Ban Release of Detainee Photos Pentagon: We Are On Track To Close Gitmo, No Seriously On the Middle East, It’s Déjà Vu All Over Again Shocking News! Aspiring Teachers Flunk Math! Noted, Urbane, Prime-Time Smut Purveyor Anderson Cooper Regrets 'Teabagging' Line, But Maintains Moral Superiority to Fox News Proof of Darwin? Rummy Denies GQ Report When the Nanny State Runs Amok Reid: Keep Gitmo Detainees Out of the U.S. Joe Biden's Greatest Hits Eagerly Anticipated: MoDo's Explanation Soak the Rich, Lose the Rich Predator Strikes In Pakistan: The Least Bad Option CNN Covers ROTC @ Harvard Dems Balk at Closing Gitmo More Haass His Ideals and Your Security Collide Wilkerson Strikes Out On MSNBC The Daily Grind How Quickly He Haass Forgotten Gibbs Stonewalls on Pelosi's Lies Nork Personnel Management Obama on Mideast Peace Happy Hour Links Diplomat in Chief Yo Ho, Yo Ho, A Pirate's Life Not For Me Obama at Notre Dame Breaking News The Company You Creep Of Jerks and Caricatures Sen. Webb: Closing Gitmo by Jan. 1 Is Unreasonable Getting Bent What Would Carlos Say? Rasmussen on New Jersey Governor Race: Corzine in Trouble. For Now? That Dog Won't Huntsman MoDo-gate: It's the Cover Up That Kills Pakistan: No Training, Just Send Weapons SNL Already Going Back to That Well The Daily Grind Kristol: Does Rahm Want Pelosi Out? The New York Times's Willful Blindness Victoria Toensing on Torture Dick Cheney, Asymmetric Threat Biden Reveals Classified Information? Just Say No Pelosi Steps Back From the Brink Happy Hour Links Obama on Health Care: It Is Because I Say It Is, Even If It Isn't Al Gore Hypocritically Attacks Cheney for Criticizing Sitting President Presenting the Pelosiku Panetta: Pelosi Was Told the Truth About Zubaydah Interrogation Wilkerson's Double-Standard Wilkerson Responds -- Sort Of Newt on Nancy Wilkerson Unplugged The Huffington Post: Voice of the People Pelosi Accuses CIA of Lying, the NYT Reports . . . on Page A-18 Curtis LeMay, War Criminal or American Hero? Lieberman on Military Commissions CNN Repeats Wilkerson's Phony Story Happy Hour Links Hoyer on Pelosi's Claim the CIA Lied: 'I Don't Draw that Conclusion' Dangerously Stupid Consensus Cut in Half Still a Rip Off Is That What She Said? Contra Wilkerson Obama Rolled by Odierno? If Obama Really Wants to Keep Detainee Photos Classified... Eureka! Seething Chemical Soup + Sunlight + Evening Shade = Life!--Or Not Lieberman: 'I Totally Disagree' With Pelosi Assertion that CIA Lies Dems Budget For Just 3 New Reactors; Still Funding Yucca George Will is Trying to Amuse Barack Obama Red Maps Document Taliban Takeover Of Pakistan Obama Administration to Cheney: Request Denied WhiteHouse.gov Gives Viewers What They Want Pelosi Says The CIA Lied What a Difference Accountability Makes Pakistan's 'Reverse Psychology' Peace Accords Wincing on Background The Daily Grind Gitmo Funds Come With A Catch Is Seeing Believing? Not Always Of Apologies, the Pope, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt Pelosi's Quagmire Schumer in 2004: Very Few People 'Would Say that Torture Should Never, Ever Be Used' Meet Ryan Frazier Praise for Marco Rubio Happy Hour Links Obama Blames A Few Bad Apples Maureen Dowd Is Clueless Graham and Lieberman Statement The Left Embraces Torture Obama Keeps Growing in Office Zelikow Claims Many Detainees 'Do Not Show Large Signs of Future Dangerousness' Scandals Haven't Damaged the Dems' Image? It’s Not Easy Being A Green Celebrity Sen. Foreign Relations Cmte. to Obama on Iran: Time is Running Out A Political Charade (Update) Jon Stewart Mocks Pelosi Happy Hour Links Cheney and Cheney on Interrogations Kristol: Obama to Reverse on Release of Detainee Treatment Photos? Yellow Bunch Obama Accepts False Choice on Intelligence Mitch Daniels-Mania Running Wild How to Get Ahead in Politics A Well-Orchestrated Smear Campaign The Left Loses Its Grasp Cornyn on Crist v. Rubio Last Week: "This is something Florida Republicans are going to have to work out." Are They Gonna Call Pelosi When They Start the Show Trials Torture Hearings? An Ungrateful Detainee Kristol to GOP: Focus on Obama Happy Hour Links Sheikh to Pontiff: You Want Inter-religious Dialogue? I’ll Give You Inter-religious Dialogue Change We Can Believe In? Hoekstra: Accountability Starts with Congress Some Republican Statements on McChange in Command Feel Good Story of the Day Did I Say Billion? I Meant Trillion Personnel as Policy? Olbermann on Sykes: Probably in Bad Taste; Obama to Sykes: Great Job A Hoosier in the White House? Jordanian King: I Will Lead Arab World to Accord with Israel--After U.S. Produces Israeli Concessions—or War Will Ensue (Full of) Hot (Air), Flat, and Crowded (With Inanities)—and Green Stuff Battle Lines Gibbs Knocks Sykes for 9/11 Joke Obama Laughed At Are Afghani Schoolgirls Being Poisoned? Pelosi on Zubaydah in June 2002 Wanda Sykes, Coward Predator Strikes In Pakistan: No Other Options Syria-Iraq Al Qaeda Pipeline Open Again Sestak: 'Leaning Toward' Specter Primary Challenge Edwards Staffers: We Were Gonna Burn It Down for the Good of the Democratic Party A Primer on the Bibi-Barack Meeting Iran Releases Imprisoned Journalist on Suspended Sentence A Justice Yoo Can Believe In The Daily Grind Well, We've Got No Idea What We're Going to Do Feeding Georgia to the Bear Jihad, the Cartoon Unfunny Comedian Compares Limbaugh to bin Laden; Obama Laughs (Update: Obama to Sykes: Great Job) Abu Zubaydah, Alleged Al Qaeda Operative Obama Accepts False Choice of Military Commissions WaPo: Dem Source Says Pelosi Almost Certainly Learned about Waterboarding Why Doesn't the Left Call for Pelosi's Resignation? Happy Hour Links You Paid $700 Billion to Get Us to the Highest Unemployment in 25 Years. Now, Come On Down for My Next Big Project! Young Elena Kagan: Hoping For A "More Leftist Left" American Legion to Obama: Releasing Detainee Photos Will Endanger Soldiers' Lives Better than Tehran Sure Enough: Hoekstra's Got the Goods Hoekstra's Seen More Docs Implicating Pelosi? Obama vs. the Polar Bears The Struggles of Jim Jones Pelosi Claimed No Knowledge of EITs Going to the Mattresses "We'd Been Had" Obama Puts U.S. Relations with Central and Eastern Europe on Ice The Daily Grind Obama: Taxpayer-Funded Abortions for Some, Miniature American Flags for Others Happy Hour Links Pelosi Caught Lying Again Cornyn Talks Defense, Allies Ask for Help How You Know You're Winning Dem. Congressman:Treat Terrorists Like We Treat the Troops The Keep Terrorists Out of America Act A Nomination Conservatives Can Support? Third Man In Graham and Lieberman Call on Obama to Halt Release of Detainee Photos Not-So-Smooth Sailing for Specter David Obey (D-"Incredibly Irresponsible") Sec. Gates Touts Enchanted Rehab Program in Saudi for Yemeni Gitmo Jihadists General Jones Is Riding His Bike, Would You Like Voicemail? Note to Family, Friends, and Former Colleagues of Jack Kemp Congressman: AG Holder Stonewalling on Terrorists' Release Happy Hour Links Obama Administration Picks New Way to Cop Out on Opportunity Scholarships Dalai Lama (R-Tibet) "Patriotic Hackers" Meet the 'Save Our D.C. Opportunity Scholarship' Activists A Country of War Criminals Another Dem Says Not in My Backyard A Question for Jonathan Chait Up with People for the 21st Century . . . The Latest Uighur Threat Disarming Israel 'Save Our D.C. Opportunity Scholarship' Rally Today in Washington Elena Kagan, Radical? It's On: Palin Backers Shoot Back at Romney With "Bear" Web Ad The Inquisition The Tide, She's a-Turnin', Starting With the Alexandria City Council The Junior Senator from Pennsylvania Coming to a Neighborhood Near You Pew: Americans Don't Care About Global Warming Chambliss: No Money For Terrorist Relocation Arlen Specter (D-PA) Good News for 2010 Senate Prospects? Do Drones Work? Obama's Priorities Bye-Bye Bidens? It’s Not Because They Worship Him Bombshell Study: Pelosi Most Partisan Wikipedia: “Just Another Mainstream News Medium” Our Genius President: 'Happy Cuatro de Cinco!' Happy Hour Links Remembering Jack Kemp Obama Pinky-Swears: No Radicals White House Saying: "We Love MSNBC" Whose Line Is It Anyway? Congress Makes a False Choice UN on Afghan Election: Taliban In, Pro-Government Warlords Out How Long Will It Take to Wipe Israel Off the Map? Mullen "Gravely Concerned" About Pakistan A Liberal Gripes: No Free Speech Here In Case You Want To Know Something More About Michael Oren... TNR Slams Sotomayor More AIPAC Newt at AIPAC Iran Launches Airstrikes Into Iraq The Swat Taliban's Al Qaeda Ties The Daily Grind Sometimes You Just Gotta Reap What You Sow Kristol on Kemp Obama's Weakness Invites Mexican Naval Attack Does Maureen Dowd Read the Newspaper? Let Them Eat Cake On Jack Kemp: Where Are the Democrats? It’s News, Really Jack Kemp, 1935-2009 He Paved the Way for Reagan Media Bias at the Times (Part 5,349,245) Happy Hour Links Kasich to Run for Governor in Ohio Is National Security a Joke? Al Marri's Plea Bargain Stewart Apologizes Video: Obama at Today's Presser It's Official: The Man Will Say Anything Good News Ladies and Gentlemen, It's a Pandemic Will Obama Appoint Our Favorite Mistake? Resistance on Defense Cuts Takes Shape in the Senate McCarthy to Holder: I Won't "Participate in the Charade" Pakistan Panhandles For Military Aid Krauthammer Goes Long State: Iran Continues to Aid Sunni and Shiite Terrorist Groups ABC's Shame Is Gates Planning Gitmo in America? Happy Hour Links J Street vs. President Obama and the Democratic Party Just in Case You Wonder Where MSNBC's Norah O'Donnell Stands Obama, Churchill, and Torture Specter's Seniority Fight Threatens His Re-election What the Veep Meant to Say, and a Non-Apology Nuclear Politics in Vienna Churchill the Terrible? Quarantine Biden Pakistan Misleads Media On Taliban Operations Memo to Obama: Read the Interrogation Memos Dead Certain The Presser, Synopsized Happy Hour Links Jon Stewart: Truman Was a War Criminal, Too Obama Gives Gracious Speech to Grassroots Tea Party Movement Senators Pushing Back On F-22, C-17 Time to Take Section 5 Nationwide? Treason in the West Bank Awww: Tiny Dictator Imitates Obama Slogan White House Scare Force One Photo-Op Cost $329K A Ruthless Pragmatism Two Random (But Nonetheless Interesting!) Conclusions Beijing Allows "Chinese Taipei" Observer Status at WHA Pakistan: Hope Is Not A Strategy The Daily Grind Obama's (Drug) War Obama Thus Far Biden Takes Credit for Specter Defect Fox: Waterboarding Numbers "Highly Misleading" Happy Hour Links In 2001, Specter Favored Rule Change to Discourage Mid-Session Party-Switching In Other News... Cheer Up Mahmoud Abbas, the Jewish State, and the Fatah Constitution Kristol: The Anti-Torture Memos "As Bad As the Nazis Were..." A Soothing Voice Not an Entirely Clear Path for Specter 60: A History Steele Steels, Pa. GOP Complains, Frum Lectures, CFG Crows, Liebs Welcomes Latest Bush Administration Outrage: Double Standards Specter Switching Parties Today? Kristol Comics The White House's Profuse Apology How To Write A Hit Piece For His Next Act... Our Exceptional President IranTracker The Daily Grind Gallup: 55% Say Terrorists Were Asking For It Happy Hour Links “I Have a Gift, Harry” Lieberman on New Iran Sanctions at AEI Obama Publicly Reprimands Valued Team Member Recount Hurts Approval Rating of Both Coleman and Franken Russia’s Military Aerospace Industry Suffers Another Crash An “F” by Any Other Name . . . The Noble Lie of Cap-and-Trade Harvard Stacks the Deck Against Reform Candidates in Board of Overseers Election Against the Gloom Rope-a-Dope Rudy? Cap and Trade the Waxman Way: Emissions for Sale PNAC Lives On Darkness Falls on Obama's Sunshine Promises McCain's First 100 Days King of Jordan Very Worried About Human Rights in America Andrew Lloyd Webber Fears Exodus of Talent from Taxed UK Pakistani Intelligence: Osama Is Dead Obama to Fund Hamas? Appointed Colorado Senator Bennet Looks Wobbly The Daily Grind How We Stopped Another 9/11 Porter Goss Wow Happy Hour Links The Real Two-State Solution: Hamastan and Fatahland Cheney in 2012! Priceless Obama Campaign Vid: Samantha Power Tells Armenians to Take Her Word For It Obama’s Gitmo Diplomacy Trumps National Security? Tedisco Concedes Armenian Revenge Good News: Obama's Massive Health Care Rehaul Poised to be Rammed Through With Reconciliation Clinton to Israel: Peace or Else The New Jersey Governor's Race Franken-Coleman State Supreme Court Case Set for June 1 The Nation's Katrina vanden Heuvel Gives Credit to Tea Partiers Jim Jones vs. Dick Holbrooke? The Rules of Waterboarding The Daily Grind Obama's Iraq Tenet on Interrogation, Congress At the National Press Club Trekkie Convention Boxed In Sec. 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Happy Hour Links Murphy Pulls Ahead of Tedisco 'You Know, You Really Don't Need to Be So Antagonistic' Obama's Mexico Visit Spotlights Division among Democrats Brian Moran (D-VA) Receives $50K Donation from Corrupt Anti-Semite Read it and Weep Rape and “Honor” in Saudi Arabia David Corn, Professional Journalist, Intuits the News House Democrat Leaders: Tea Partiers Are Racist, Nazi, Gun Nuts Never Give Up, Never Give In Courage is as Courage Does DoD Hires LA Times Columnist Who Belittled Al Qaeda Threat Obama and Radical Islam Finally A Scandal that Could Sink Palin's Future in the GOP CNN Reporter Tries to Discredit Peasants Protesting Her Dear Leader Happy Hour Links Sarko to O: je ne t’aime plus! The New Gilbert & Sullivan: The DHS Pinafore Stimu-less Sec. 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Big Business Sells Spy Technology to Iran House GOP Promotes “State Solutions” More on the Navy SEAL Rescue Mission Talking to Iran The Daily Grind Juxtapose This U.S. Kills Pirates, Frees Captain Nork Fairy Dust Gets In Your Eyes, Part 2 Kristol: An Exurban League of Its Own Supplemental Funding For...North Korea, Palestinian Authority Chuck Schumer Hails the New Era of Weak American Foreign Policy Denial in Pakistan "Ray Charles Could See That He Bowed" Internal Dissent Gibbs Denies the Bow Happy Hour Links The Most Transparent Administration Ever Roger Cohen's Bad Timing, Bad Taste Obama: One Thing At a Time Swat Peace Accord Collapses What If You Held a Passover Seder and Nobody Jewish Came? Somali Pirates Run Rampant Harvard's Department of Straw Men Eminent Domain to Save...A Horse Race? Happy Hour Links White House Won't Bow to Reality An Inconvenient Constitution Video: Barney Frank on Responsibility and His Lack Thereof Camille Paglia Documents Obama's Mess of the Month Showdown at HSGAC A Military That Packs Less Wallop Stupid Things Vice President Palin Wouldn't Have Said A World without Nukes US Military Prepares For Hezbollah-like War Recommended Reading Happy Hour Links Norkodile Tears Inhofe 2012 Guns and Gays in the District Dems to Gates: Cut Deeper Lieberman Knocks Obama Defense Cuts No Humans Were Harmed in the Testing of this Armor Times Trashes Bloomberg; He's No Carlos Slim Mr. Popularity Debt and Depression Concession to Reality Obama Shoots Down F-22? Happy Hour Links The NYTimes Bows Before Obama Brownback, Kyl Write Clinton About Chris Hill Appointment Does Anything Rattle Joseph Cirincione? Kristol Goes Nuclear Swat Flogging Sparks Outrage, Finger Pointing, Inaction Bipartisan Call for Obama to Reverse Missile Defense Cuts Newt 2012 The Country's Best, Honored By the Army's Best Questions for Economists Europe to Obama: You Can Keep the Terrorists Gibbs Wakes the President Dwelling on Verb Tense Mayor Mike Launches Website Pew: Partisan Gap in Obama’s Approval Largest in Modern History NATO Countries Deny Obama's Request for More Troops in Afghanistan Obama's Defense Cuts Happy Hour Links Bibi's Speech to the Knesset Fairy Dust Settles on the Six-party Talks Iowa Court Imposes Same-Sex Marriage The Firearms Stimulus Obama Bow Wow "Reactionary Forces" Flog Girl in Pakistan "Sebelius Spared Tough Questions" Kristol: A Must Read Senate Passes Lieberman Amendment to Increase Army by 30,000 Soldiers Happy Hour Links Disenfranchising Military Voters in NY-20 Uninformed Comment Yes, Republicans, You Are the Dour, Humorless Ones Murphy Loses Lead to Tedisco The Hill Appointment Stalls UPDATE: VOTE TOMORROW? McMocking The Larger Truths of the Royal iPod The Case Against Koh Lithwick's Hypocrisy “Redefinition Accomplished” The Daily Grind Quinnipiac: Dodd Trails Republican Challenger by 16 Points North Korea Testing Obama on Missile Defense How the Sacramento Bee Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Sharia Happy Hour Links Barone on NY-20 Projections: It's Anybody's Guess Another Neocon Sleeper Cell? No Joke: U.S. Casualties at All-Time Low Unhinged Realists Obama & Human Rights Council: “We’re Engaged” U.S. Air Campaign Expands in Northwestern Pakistan Israel Warms Up for Iran Who Are the "Non-violent Taliban"? Mike Chinoy on Chris Hill With All Precincts In, Murphy Leads Tedisco by 65 Votes; 6K to 10K Absentees Uncounted Happy Hour Links 41 GOP Senators (That's All of Them) Sign Letter Against Budget Reconciliation Levin Warns of Defense Cuts, McCain Warns Against Sebelius Failed to Pay Taxes You Can Still Blame the Neocons Freeman vs. Reality NY-20: Tedisco By the Skin of His Teeth? 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The Daily Grind Merkel’s Refusal to Apologize to the Pope Could Backfire Enough With the Warnings to Netanyahu, Already Sunday Shows: Gates & Holbrooke on Afghan Policy The Taliban’s Surge Commander Sleeping with the Enemy Reid: Nuclear Option for Me But Not for Thee On the Other Hand If You Oppose the Death Penalty for 9/11 Terrorists, Someone Will Make an Ad Out of It Obama's Afghan Mistake A Woman of Valor Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue? "Your Wife Said the Same Thing" Report: Senior Iranian Agents May Be Exchanged For Kidnapped Briton Pro-Life Democrat Harry Reid Says He Could Support Abortion Provision in Health-Care Bill Dems Warn Obama on Iran Gutsy Kristol: All Hail Obama! The Daily Grind People Who Won't Be Writing for the New Republic Anymore-olist Chris Hill, Very Confused McCain on Afghanistan (Not Iraq) Down and Out Progressives, Ctd. Happy Hour Links Who Knew Chas Freeman Could Draw? Ash Carter and North Korea: Does He Still Support a First Strike? 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Ain't No Sunshine Happy Hour Links White House Situation Room Mystery Continues Working for a War Criminal Another Holbrooke/Hill Embarassment A Budget Deficit You Can Believe In Is Geithner Plan Road to Recovery or Road to 'The Road?' Robbing the Pentagon to Pay Foggy Bottom Don't Mind the Fireball Over the Potomac Meshaal Hearts Obama Gallup: Environmental Protection Latest Victim of Economic Meltdown? The Daily Grind Iran Responds: "Death to America" Rahm Emanuel, Commander-in-Chief? Happy Hour Links First Iraqi Refugees Arrive in Germany O Canada Shimon Peres Teaches Barack Obama a Thing or Two The Daily Grind (Delayed Edition) Brownback Undeterred The Famed Obama Social Graces Strike Again, at the Disabled Not to Worry Special Note to President Iran Behind Syrian Nuke Site Obama's Message to Iran Holbrooke Is In Trouble Did John McCain Throw Meghan Under the Bus? It's Official: British PM Can't Even Watch His Cheesy DVDs From Obama How's That Mexican Trade War Going? America's Changing Social Landscape Death of a Blogger 2010: A Republican Odyssey From Enemy Combatant to American Immigrant Rolled More Bogus Taliban Talks The Daily Grind Afghan Xenophobia Watch Will the U.S. Attack the Taliban in Quetta? Baracketology Obama in Trouble Obama on Suicide Bombers Listen to Coach K, Mr. President President Obama Takes Refuge from Presidency on the Campaign Trail Holder: Gitmo Detainees May Be Released in US Happy Hour Links Obama Ice Cream Catch-75 at SEIU Rep. Pete Sessions Hits Scott Murphy on AIG Bonuses, 'Top Secret' Situation Room Visit Good News: Palin Still Killing Wolves Compare Headlines The Secret Ballot: What is it Good For? This is Your Treasury Secretary Under Fire Mexico Targets Pelosi in Trade War? He? She? No--It Sen. Levin: It's No Big Deal That Obama's Ambassador to Iraq Doesn't Have Relevant Experience Will Obama Release Potential "Hijack Teams" from Gitmo? 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Grassley to AIG: It's Seppuku Time Looks Like They Hit the Wrong Reset Button And the Government Just Stands There Is the White House Using the Situation Room for Political Strategizing? Happy Hour Links Fundamentally Weak Dr. Obama is Ready to Change His Position NY-20: Democrat Scott Murphy Dodges a Few Questions (Update: Murphy Spokesman Says He Would Have Voted for D.C. Gun Rights) Listen to Lithuania Freeman Keeps Digging Steele Says Earth Is Cooling... Charles Murray Diagnoses the Europe Syndrome Obama Also Very Angry at AIG Of Questionable Taste Democracy at Gunpoint Barack Obama is not Taking This Sitting Down Cheney: At War No More Madness is About to Break Out Putin and Reagan Kristol on AIG's Bonus Babies What To Call the Jihadists Formerly Known as 'Enemy Combatants'? Of Course It Wasn't Murder Send the Yemeni Detainees to Saudi Arabia? 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Monumental Kennedys More Conspiracy Theories from Seymour Hersh The Daily Grind Clinton and Yang Play Nice Happy Hour Links Bajaur Peace Deal Mirrors Failed 2006 Agreement Re: Revealing Pelosi Power On Stem Cells and Torture Revealing 2010 Senate: GOP Competitive in Delaware and Connecticut Is the Obama Administration Preparing to Transfer a Large Number of Detainees? Freeman's Exit Scholarships for Gazan Students, But Not For D.C.'s While the NY Times Was Busy Not Covering Chas Freeman... The Daily Grind Biden Doesn't Understand the Awakening Obama's Radical Scientism Freeman Out Durbin: Private School for Me, But Not for Thee Another Biden Tall Tale? Freeman Meeting With House Intel Committee Now DiFi Calls Freeman to the Hill Obama to Delay Tanker, Kill Bomber Freeman on America's "Genuinely Autistic Government" End Times Nigh: Coulter and Maher Agree Context Pedophile* Lobby Gets Behind Freeman Another Letter Sent to the Inspector General The Most Dishonest Freeman Defense The Daily Grind Wolf Socks Freeman Freeman Called for National ID You Call This a Free Country? All Seven Republicans on Senate Intel Committee Protest Freeman Appointment The Special Administration Freeman's Analytical Incompetence Now Senate Republicans Blast Freeman Obama and the Culture Wars Talkers and Hosts Attacked by White House Have Words for Obama For Obama, Ideology and Politics Trump Science and Ethics Obama's Stem-Cell Decision Omnibus Moving Along Smoothly Through Dem-Controlled Congress The WaPo's Obama Hit Parade The Daily Grind Quote of the Day (So Far!) Obama's "Gift" to Brown Chas Freeman, Before and After 9/11 Why Did Obama Reverse Himself on Stem Cells? Freeman on Chairman Mao: A Man of "Great Spiritual Conviction" Happy Hour Links Chinese Dissidents Ask Obama to Reconsider Freeman Appointment Restoring Our Standing in the World One Gaffe at a Time Rep. Wolf Blasts Freeman in Letter to Obama More People Lost Their Jobs in February Than Live in Seattle Quote of the Day (So Far!) The Return of Budget Politics Spitzer, Redux Albright Declines to Endorse Freeman; Dem Leadership Set to Weigh In? 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Schumer's Call to Rahm Ensign: "Truth Commission" May Endanger American Security Lion of Albion Democratic Party Leader Keith Olbermann Is a Lying Resume-Padding Liar Freeman Already Under Investigation Airstrikes Against Baitullah Mehsud Don't Indicate a New Strategy The Washington Post's False Report on Vitter's Planned Parenthood Amendment The Daily Grind Is Obama in Control of His Own Administration? Read Henninger Survey: Many Pakistanis Support Predator Strikes Harry Potter: Zionist Tool Happy Hour Links Fox Hits Freeman Iran and Terrorism: Who Cares? Moderate Democrats Poised to Become 'Partisan Obstructionists' to Obama Agenda Nuclear Neglect Al-Newsweeq Question for Sebelius Conf. Hearing: Will ObamaCare Cover Late-term Abortions? The Party of Rush vs. the Party of No Rush at All Hoekstra Asks If Freeman Will Recuse On Iraq, Saudi, China, and Arab-Israeli Issues A Defamation of Burke Boehner: Republicans Free to Attack A Question for "Burkean" Conservatives Hoekstra Calls for Obama to Withdraw Freeman Appointment When One Book Closes, Another One Opens The Daily Grind The Very Definition of Chutzpah Pakistan Negotiating With Taliban, Not "Traditional Local Clerics" Happy Hour Links Former Taliban Ambassador Turned on by Technology Lies Kristol: Obama Team's Fiddling While Banking Burns Will Obama Let Dems Cut Funding for His Kids' Sidwell Classmates? The Right Coalesces Hot Links Murtha: 600,000 Troops for Afghanistan To Russia With Love Out: Hammer & Sickle; In: Flower & Gear Obama on Dow Collapse: Hakuna Mattata Chas Freeman, A Continuing Embarassment And You Thought the Financial Crisis Was a Problem? Pakistan Continues to Unravel Most Effective Obama Critics: Charles Dow and Edward Jones The Daily Grind Rasmussen: Many Believe Health Care Reform Should Be Delayed Until Economy Improves Buffett, Bonds, and Bailouts Happy Hour Links Gallup on Poverty in the Muslim World Obama on Iraq Timetable: There's Always a Plan B Another Tax Cheat Germans Push Defense Stimulus Awww: Adrian Fenty Peer-Pressured Into Keeping Schools Open How Do You Solve a Problem Like Citigroup? Where Conservatives Can Rally on Iraq Pelosi Really Is a Vindictive...Gender Stereotype Honey, I Shrunk the Holocaust Iran's Wars of Expansion Obama's Withdrawal Plan, Cont. The Daily Grind Everything Old is New Again Father Coughlin Comes to Chas Lindbergh's Defense The Tammany White House? Pineapples, Puppies, and Piety Who Knew? Jihadists Anonymous More 'Secret' Talks With The Taliban Obama's Missed Opportunity Happy Hour Links Gingrich Challenges Holder to 'Dialogue About Cowardice' Lugar Libre They're Warriors, Not Victims Diplomacy Fail Quote of the Day (So Far!) Schumer Calls Rahm, Concern Grows About Saudi Lobby Obama's Iraq Withdrawal Speech Senator Levin Questions Aid Package to Pakistan Germany Offers Citizenship to French 'War Children' Senate Democrats to Investigate CIA A Glimpse of the Future The Daily Grind Cap and Trade = Prohibition? Obama Pledges to Revisit Iraq Withdrawal Plan if Situation on the Ground Changes McConnell on Gitmo: "These Terrorists Are Right Where They Belong" CPAC: Huckabee Calls Us to a Revitalized Conservatism, With Catchphrases Happy Hour Links Freeman's Game Pelosi Runs Scared from 'Assault Weapons' Ban Talk A Democratic Uprising Over Obama's Iraq Plan? It's Official: Saudi Puppet to Head NIC What is Jim Jones Doing? Oops: Obama Breaks Campaign No-Earmarks Pledge in Omnibus Spending Bill Will the Assault Weapons Ban Make It through Congress? This Isn't 50,000 Cooks The Daily Grind Lessons of Katrina A Dubious Presidential First Obama vs. The Straw Men Happy Hour Links The Real Bobby Jindal and the Redemption of an Off Night Holder on Gitmo: Neutral Leaning Positive Third Time's the Charm? Helen Thomas Goes There Up the Snackbar Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid McCain on Afghanistan at AEI Tennessee's Dem Governor May Join the Stimulus-Rejecting Chas of Arabia By the Numbers At One-Month Mark, Obama's Approval Rating Lower than Jimmy Carter's Want To End Predator Strikes? Take Control of Taliban Territories Congressman Slams Obama's Timetable for Withdrawal The Daily Grind Doesn't He Know There's a War On? Read Obama's Lips Matthews Not Tingly for Jindal Happy Hour Links Can We Win in Afghanistan? Democrat Omnibus Spending Bill Puts D.C. School Choice in Jeopardy WH Official: Obama 'Accomplished More in 30 Days Than Any President in Modern History' Jindal to Rap Republican Spending Record, Obama on Rhetoric in Speech Response Two Polls on Obama's Mortgage Plan Show Very Different Results AP: Covering the News Before It Happens Durbin Asks Burris to Resign; Burris: 'Nope' Free Help for Forgetful Politicians Progressives for Spending Discipline Minnesota, Hotbed of Extremism? Back and to the Left Government Takes Important Action Against Ichthyological Threat to Floridian Toes More Chas Freeman Unplugged Report: U.S. Aid Funding the Pakistani Taliban Coward The Realist Chas Freeman Historical Fiction Princeton to Expand Capacity for "Global Citizenship" Meet the Liebermans The Daily Grind U.S. Troops Are Not Secretly Training Pakistani Forces Obama: "Hamas is a terrorist organization." Happy Hour Links Obama's Fuzzy Housing Numbers Gitmo May Be One of the Toughest Prisons on the Planet--for the Guards Something Tells Me This Isn't How Obama Saw the Stimulus Working What Can Obama Really Deliver on the Deficit? The New York Times Hasn't Reported on Holder's 'Nation of Cowards' Remarks Ever Heard of Dhimmitude? Surprise: Terrorist Loves Colbert Report, Daily Show A Nation of Cowards, Cont. Dept. of Ludicrousness Gitmo Detainee Binyam Mohamed Released to UK The Daily Grind Pentagon to Green Light 60 More F-22s? Happy Hour Links An Honest Discussion of Black History Month Silence from the RNC on Holder's "Nation of Cowards" Remark Time Magazine's False Report on FOCA An Obama Adviser's Not-So-Bright Idea for Winning in Afghanistan Obama Administration to Transfer Gitmo Detainee to Britain Next Week Peace Won't Come to Zimbabwe Mansfield on Crime How Steele Won Happy Hour Links 'Moderate' Pakistani Cleric Thinks Peace Means Jihad Against Non-Muslims Dept. of Double Standards: Holder's "Nation of Cowards" v. Gramm's "Nation of Whiners" Unpardonable Illinois GOP Renews Calls for Special Election Pakistan's Peace Deal Supports Al Qaeda's Recruiting Message The Best and the Brightest Tracking Stimulus Spending The Daily Grind J. Edgar Moyers (UPDATED) Happy Hour Links Re: Holder's Nation of Cowards Reports of Obama's Ending the War on Terror Have Been Greatly Exaggerated Holder: America Is "A Nation of Cowards" Quote of the Day (So Far!) Rasmussen: Voters Support Increasing Energy Supply, Not Reducing Demand, by Two-to-One Margin Who Will Obama's Foreclosure Plan Bail Out? U.S. Officials Back Swat Peace Accord? The Daily Grind Politico's Business Model Swat Peace Agreement Is A Terrible Blunder Happy Hour Links Obama Announces Deployment of Two Brigades for Afghan Surge Perspective Recidivist Ex-Gitmo Detainee Arrested Bowden on F-22 Quote of the Day Obama Signs Stimulus Bill, Breaking Transparency Pledge Again Obama: Sometimes 'Bipartisanship' Means Steamrolling the Minority Columbia University's Land Grab, Cont. Scoop Pride and Predator Palin Sitting Pretty Zionism=Racism 2, Sponsored by Barack Obama Two Views of Iran's Role in Afghanistan The Daily Grind U.S. Hits Pakistan's Tribal Areas in Second Strike The Revolving Door Pakistani Government Cutting Peace Deals with Taliban Pakistan Mum on Latest U.S. Strike Vive le Canada Fed Up with McCain, Already? Happy Hour Links NPR Responds Photo of the Day Republicans Hold the Line Caterpillar Workers Oppose Stimulus, Despite Obama's Visit, Implausible Promises Senator Feinstein Divulges U.S. Predator Base in Pakistan Obama's Greatest Weakness: Too Darn Bipartisan Barney Frank's Plan for the Military: More Gays, Fewer Weapons Who's Politicizing? Barney Frank Wants to End Don't Ask, Don't Tell After Obama Makes Decision on Iraq The Daily Grind More on Gregg's Withdrawal Voting on a Stimulus They Haven't Read Politicizing Intelligence Happy Hour Links National Public Censorship Gregg Out, Cites Census Gregg Withdraws Nomination for Commerce, Stays in Senate Measuring Success in the Drug War New Zealander Busted Trying to Enter South Waziristan When Drones Attack The Left's Fantasy Coalition Gerhard Schroeder Calls for Timetable for Withdrawal from Afghanistan Lincoln at 200 No Pork to See Here The Case for the Cylons The Most Transparent Administration... There Is An Awe Happy Hour Links Clinton Disses China (and Australia) China Gets Its Own Truthers Pelosi, Reid Continue P.R. Assault on Their Own Bill Cooking the Books Private Republican Citizen Comes to Rescue Faster than Messiah and His Government of Grace Pro-Likud, Pro-Israel Rahm Emanuel's Dope Basement Pad Haunted by Ethics, Tax Issues, Possibly Furnace Monster Orders of the Secretary Obama's Many and Sundry Critics Rahm's Census Geithner Fails to Impress Surprise! We're Not Leaving Iraq The Daily Grind Who's in the Tank? Happy Hour Links Winning in Afghanistan Panel on the Iraqi Elections Negotiate with the Moderate Taliban? Kilcullen Weighs in on U.S. Strikes in Pakistan Reading Terrorists Their Rights Obama's False Choice Between Doing Nothing and Doing Something Buses Speak Out The Daily Grind "Mutual Respect" Rasmussen: 62 Percent Want More Tax Cuts, Less Spending in Stimulus Happy Hour Links Academic's Attempt to Reveal America's Troglodytic Hatred of Muslims Foiled by Civilized, Kind Alabamians Action Alert More Platitudes on Obama's Stimulus Publicity Tour Odd Woman Out Dan Seligman, 1924-2009 Al Qaeda's Shadow Army Behind Taliban's Success Obama and R.O.T.C. Winning the War in Afghanistan Defense Stimulus, Cont. Death of Hezbollah Supremo Aided By Capture in Iraq Cool New Pres Makes Smoothest Move Yet Against Declinism, Cont. On Wal-Mart Petraeus Outlines Afghanistan Strategy Activists Left Hoping for Change at Obama's Stimulus Parties Headline of the Day Did the Iraqi Elections Happen? Mikulski's Incentive Plan To Increase Personal Debt Yemen to Release More Than 170 Al Qaeda Suspects Biden Says Nothing A.Q. Khan, Free Bird Take a Chance on Putin The Stimulus Dealmakers Happy Hour Links 'I Reserve Right to Vote Against Stimulus,' Says Brave Taxpayer Hero...Diane Feinstein? John Kerry: You Know What's the Problem With Stimulus Tax Cuts? All That Freedom. "Where Do I Go Now?" Voinovich Leaves Stimulus Negotiations Tortured Logic on Afghanistan and Al Qaeda Biden: At Least 30 Percent of the Time We're Going to Blow It Why You Shouldn't Trust the Pakistani Government Konichiwa Too Many Chiefs The Daily Grind Is Obama Dragging His Feet on Overturning "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"? 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