Breakfast Scramble (Friday)

Does Dumbo really support privacy? From Jennifer Valentino-Devries, Wall Street Journal:

Sen. John Kerry, a senior Democrat, and technology giant Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday backed the Obama administration’s call for broad privacy legislation at a Senate hearing that also

So much for the new tone, civility and all that.  Representative Charles Rangel (NY – 15) has, in so many words, called President Barack Obama, a/k/a Dumbo, a slave master, from Jordan Fabian, Hill:-

State governments taking

Thugocrats, from James Taranto, Wall Street Journal:

The rhetoric around Wisconsin’s government labor dispute is getting more violent. NHJournal.com reports that Rep. Michael Capuano, a Massachusetts Democrat, said this yesterday at a Boston “solidarity” rally: “I’m proud to

Scott Walker for President, from George Will, Journal Sentinel:

[Wisconsin Governor Scott] Walker’s calm comportment in this crisis is reminiscent of President Ronald Reagan’s during his 1981 stand against the illegal strike by air traffic controllers, and Margaret

The Great Lady on the passing of the cows, from Phyllis Schlafly, Townhall:

Another contemporary feminist, professor and author Linda Hirshman, set forth a popular definition in the Daily Beast. She wrote that “support for abortion rights and

Dumbo wants your guns, Obama White House is use Chnstina Taylor-Green murders as ab excuse to grab your guns, from Newsweak:

But in the next two weeks, the White House will unveil a new gun-control effort in which

Special better late then never edition.

Dumping on Dupnik, I admit it cheap amusement, but I do enjoy it, form Gregory Kane, Washington Examiner

It just gets better and better with Sheriff Clarence Dupnik of Pima County, Ariz., doesn’t

No Loughning matter, from Kim Strassel,Wall Street Journal:

One of the tragedies of tragedies is that some politicians just can’t resist the urge to use them for political gain. The Tucson shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords first

Crying Clyburn, James Clyburn is hearing voices, yet again, from Michael O’Brien, Hill:

Clyburn said that Palin didn’t grasp why such rhetoric was so troubling, regardless of the motivations of the alleged shooter. The No. 3 House Democrat

Turds of Wisdom, from Karl Rove, Wall Street Journal:

But a scorched-earth policy doesn’t make sense for the Obama White House. Independents voted Republican last month by a 59% to 38% margin not because they thought Mr. Obama

The moral case for unions—protecting working families from exploitation—does not apply to public employment. Government employees today are among the most protected, well-paid employees in the country. Ironically, public-sector unions have become the exploiters, and working families once again need

JonesToTheGrindstone.com

By Karen Leigh Jones

I posted as my Facebook status, “Bill Clinton, John Edwards, New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, New Jersey Gov. John McGreevey: Anybody want those guys?”

This caused a downpour of comments from my Facebook friends. We

David has been rightly chiming in on the Keith Olbermann business. It’s kinda like observing a train wreck.

But I have to tell you that I look at this situation and have to wonder if there isn’t a connection between

Paving with elephant dung, Shelby Steele, Wall Street Journal:

How is it that Barack Obama could step into the presidency with an air of inevitability and then, in less than two years, find himself unwelcome at the campaign

It is the economy stupid, from Mary Beth Schneider, Indy Star:

The same slogan that Bill Clinton’s presidential campaign made famous in 1992 is driving this year’s election: “It’s the economy, stupid.”

No issue is more important to