"The System Worked"
CBS reports:
CBS News has learned the State Department system designed to keep track of active U.S. visas twice failed to reveal Nigerian terror suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab had been issued an active visa allowing him multiple entries into the United States.
According to a law enforcement source, the first failure came on Nov. 19, 2009, [...]
On Twitter, CNN’s Rick Sanchez Retracts Limbaugh Smear
It looks like CNN has been so busy the past 24 hours running news stories on its website and on air about Meghan McCain’s existential Twitter crisis, that Rick Sanchez’s own Twitter page was only place where he could find the space to issue a mealy-mouthed apology for falsely attributing a racist quote to Rush [...]
Congress to exempt themselves from Obamacare
In other words, Congress is saying that nationalized healthcare is good for you and me but not good enough for them: Congressmen will be exempt from Obamacare and get to keep their present coverage:
Under the current draft of the Democrat healthcare legislation, members of Congress are curiously exempt from the government-run health care option, keeping [...]
Dead Iran protestors charged ‘bullet fee’
The father of the dead protestor was told the family had to pay an equivalent of $3,000 as a “bullet fee”–a fee for the bullet used by security forces–before taking the body back. His son had been shot in the head as he stood at an intersection in downtown Tehran. He was returning from acting [...]
Washington Times Poll: ‘What did you think of President Obama’s speech in Cairo?’
Washington Times (unscientific) poll on what their readers think of President Obama’s Cairo speech (HT - Sybil)
Response
Percent
Votes
Liked it
14%
690 votes
Disliked it
75%
3597 votes
Neutral
7%
340 votes
Other
2%
108 votes
4735 total votes
Vote in this poll.
Be sure and read the comments. Among the many good ones I found this one by commenter “yumadlh1″ to be one of the better exercises in nailing our [...]
Video: Vicious Attack on Sotomayor’s ‘Lack of Intellectual Depth’
A must-watch clip of David Shuster interviewing Jonathan Turley, who unloads on Sonia Sotomayor (HT - Greg Pollowitz):
Related:
NRO - Rule of Law, or Rule of Lawyers? (Sotomayor claims an unlimited license for judicial activism.)
WSJ - Questions for Sotomayor
5 questions for Supreme Court candidates (Glenn Sulmasy, of the Coast Guard Academy’s law faculty, has [...]
