Liz Cheney – 1: Norah O’Donnell – 0

One, I am taking the liberty of editing Patterico , just a wee bit:

Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State (and Dick and Lynn Cheney daughter) Liz Cheney rips Norah O’Donnell a new.

Two, I second Bill Kristol, Weekly Standard

Clarice Feldman at Pajamas Media nails it cleanly:

As the president released the memos, C.I.A. Director Leon Panetta sent a letter to his agents:

In releasing these memos, the men and women of the CIA have assurances from both myself,

The one, a/k/a Barack Obama, has gotten himself trapped between a rock and a hard place, Steven Thomma and Marisa Taylor, McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON – Hours after he said that he’d never prosecute CIA officers for harsh interrogations of suspected

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This is the Route 66 edition

• Why is it caled ‘Good Friday’? Ken Collins does a fair job with that question.
• God’s

Somehow, I ended up on the mailing list of the New York GOP.  Found this in my mail last night:

“Since its founding, the Republican Party has stood for the time honored values and ideals of opportunity, personal responsibility, accountability

Bill Sammon at Fox News, this morning, because apparently the Dinosaurs aren’t interested in digging for this stuff:
 

On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, just minutes before learning of the terrorist attacks on America, Democratic strategist James Carville

From Jen Rubin at Commentary:

Jake Tapper appears to be one of the few (only?) mainstream reporters keeping current on the Chas Freeman story. You would think it would be hard to ignore the growing tidal wave of protest

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 This is the ‘Because I can’ edition.  Well, mostly, because, well, you know.  And also, because that seems Obama’s attitude about spending our

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

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Since I’ve already given you my thoughts on today’s events, before they even occurred, it’s down to some random tidbits.

• Today marks the end

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A fairly quiet couple of day around these parts…. not unexpected, given the post election lull. Still, that doesn’t mean that all is

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Hope your weekend was a good one. We’ve got lots of ground to cover, so let’s get to this.

• Barack Hussein Obama and George

A salute to Michelle Malkin and a host of others, for generating a cool million dollars for the troops.

(CNSNews.com) – Americans from across the nation tuned in to hear the “un-told” stories behind the war on terror at last

There was an interesting article in the Wall Street Journal the other day, and it made some good points.  Ultimately, it suggested (as many others have) that 6 years after the debate to invade Iraq began, it’s more important to