Obama the Butcher

President Obama set to sign executive order allowing federal funss to given to butchers for killing human beings,David Stort and Gardiner Harris, New York Times:

WASHINGTON – President Obama will announce Monday that he is reversing Bush administration limits

OK, I know that by now a lot of you either saw or read though this speech of Obama’s, and so it’s old news. But I’ve seen nobody rip through this thing point by point. I can understand why… with

Mrs. Clinton on advancing human rights issues with the ChiComs, via Gateway Pundit:

“But our pressing on those issues can’t interfere on the global economic crisis, the global climate change crisis and the security crisis.”

The difference between antropogenic

As a candidate Barack Obama created a terrible box for himseslf.  He could placate his leftard base and abandon an effective war on terror, or he could placate his base, and thus imperil both the nation’s safety and his own

Barack Obama may or may not be a pragmatist.   If BO is pragmatic it is only in the political sense, how to keep his seat of power.   Dubya liked to bill himself as “The Decider.”   BO is more like the

This morning’s Washington Post tells us far more than it intends:

As a top official at the White House in 1996, Richard A. Clarke was looking for an ally after concluding that the CIA and FBI needed an additional $1

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Upwards of 50 degrees around here today. Weird after so much snow. It’s all gone now, of course, but fear not; the forecast

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• I shouldn’t have to tell you the amount of heat I’m taking for my stand on Unions. Boortz, today touches on this, too…

I note Saint Andrew the Incontinent, this morning:

“I do think that comparing Obama’s proposals for voluntary service to the forced labor marches in building the White Sea-Baltic canal by Stalin is absurd. But it is also deeply insulting

Me at OTB just now:

Every major scientific body in the entire world is on the same ‘side’ on this one. And any payola to Hansen or any influence of Gore is far outweighed by Exxon-Mobil paying for the

From the LA Times this morning:

In 2006, John F. Kerry explained the Senate’s 77-23 passage of the Iraq war resolution this way: “We were misled. We were given evidence that was not true.” On the campaign trail, Hillary Rodham

The SCOTUS blog:

In a stunning blow to the Bush Administration in its war-on-terrorism policies, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday that foreign nationals held at Guantanamo Bay have a right to pursue habeas challenges to their detention. The Court,

A great article in the Weekly Standard, today, by Thomas Joscelyn that should put to rest all the naysaysers about how involved Saddam was in terror. He lists several points of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s so called “phase two report”

Hume, last night:

The group that spearheaded the successful effort to have polar bears listed as a threatened species has a blueprint for further action that could create ripples throughout the U.S. economy.

The Arizona Daily Star reports the