Video: Debate Over Gitmo Lawyers at DOJ
On CNN, Victoria Toensing cuts through the nonsense in the debate over the Gitmo lawyers working at the Justice Department:
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The Unbearable Slightness of Being Joe Klein
In Time Magazine, Joe Klein has a very eccentric response to the health-care summit:
[T]he tea leaves seem to indicate that Obama came out well ahead of the Republicans.
That’s… unique. How does Klein score the “debate” to get that result?
[T]he President talked a lot — actually, the President, the Congressional Democrats and Republicans each spoke [...]
The Meaning of Jihad (Updated)
Why is it that so many people, Muslims and non-Muslims alike, “struggle” with the meaning of jihad? What does it really mean and why does the Obama administration not only refuse to associate extremist Islam with violence against us and avoids being intellectually honest about the war we are in, but ignores not only the [...]
The Bow as “Protocol”
Politico reports that “A senior administration official said President Barack Obama was simply observing protocol when he bowed to Japanese Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko upon arriving at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo on Saturday.”
Why won’t that “senior administration official” come out from behind the curtain and make that assertion in his own name? Because [...]
A COIN Flip
Yesterday, rumor swept the dextrosphere that President Barack H. Obama was prepared to accept the recommendation of Gen. Stanley McChrystal; the president, quoth the Great Mentioner, would send 40,000 troops to Afghanistan.
And who could doubt the gossip? After all, it came from CBS, bastion of unbiased and utterly credible journalism at the [...]
The Czar of nonsense
Rev. Jeremiah Wright, President Obama’s spiritual mentor — is back in the news. Responding to a question about the health care debate, Wright opined that “racist right-wingers are upset because poor people are about to the helped.”
But the vast majority of poor American citizens have health insurance, and the various reform proposals being [...]
