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Why It Matters Where the 9/11 Mastermind is Tried

Lindsey Graham spells it out for Eric Holder.

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Obama to troops: "You guys make a pretty good photo op"
Nice that the military has some purpose in Obama's mind

Housing Starts “Unexpectedly” Tumble
"Unexpected" only if you don't understand basic economics

Schumer, 2001: 9/11 Terrorists Won’t Get Courtroom Trials
And if Osama Bin Laden were captured, "it is ludicrous to suggest he should be tried in a Federal court on Center Street in Lower Manhattan"

GAO Says More Than 50,000 Jobs From Stimulus Projects That Have Spent No Money
Meanwhile, almost $1 billion has been spent on another 10,000 projects that report not creating any jobs at all (so why did they get stimulus money?) 

2007 Walter Reed Memo: Hasan is Dangerously Incompetent as a Therapist
Saw too few patients; proslytized; mistreated patients; not available for emergencies when on call . . .

That Darn Mandate
How the GOP can successfully challenge Obamacare

The Silver Lining of the Left in Power
Clarity

In N.Y. Trial, a Treasure Trove for Terrorists
The administration's decision is reckless

Tough Job for Prosecutors to Get Death Penalty for Evil 9/11 Mastermind in NY
Why did the Obama administration choose to make the trial much harder?

Worse Than Taxes: The Spending
Spending steals the value of the dollar and our freedoms, too

The $1.9 Trillion Gimmick
The Democrats' 'doc fix' for Medicare payments would shock Madoff

Kiss Your Freedoms Goodbye If Health Care Passes
Judge Andrew Napalitano

The Fast Track To Dumb
Obama and Holder didn't think it through when they decided to give more rights to terrorists who attack civilians

Recovery Chief: Yeah, I Can’t Back Up Those Numbers
It's all fake. Billions wasted

Grim Milestone: National Debt Now Tops … $12 Trillion
So Dems will: (a) stop spending (b) raise taxes or (c) raise taxes, spend even more and regulate businesses to death?

Terror-Abetting Attorney Ordered to Prison Immediately
Smuggled messages to her jailed terrorist client

Obama: Too Much Debt Could Fuel Double-Dip Recession
Brilliant. So let's recall what's left of the phony "stimulus" money, for starters

Stimulus Fraud
It's real, it's massive, and billions are being wasted

Jobs Saved or Created in Congressional Districts That Don't Exist
Besides, is "unicorn handler" really a job?

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Budget Deficit is Sending U.S. to 'Third-Class Status as a Nation'
America was once both proud and strong

William Jefferson's Judgment Day
Richly deserved

Chavez's Policies Go From Bad to Worse
Tells people to limit selves to 3 minute "Communist shower"

Revised Govt Formula Puts Medicare Waste and Fraud at $47B, Three Times Last Year's Figure
So obviously the solution is to expand govt healthcare massively to include the entire population

We Are Very Close to No Longer Being Democrats
MSM and liberals’ apology efforts for Muslim mass-murderer Hasan at Ft. Hood may be the last straw

Iran Digs Hundreds of Missile Silos - Some for Misdirection
Let it never be said we didn't see the Iranian menace coming

Painting a Bull's Eye on New York City
Want to relive 9/11? We're on our way

The Worst Decision by a US President in History
Signaling terrorists to attack civilians, for starters

Obama's Muslim Problem: Has He Been Too Conciliatory in the Face of Violence?
Duh

Lieberman: Bringing Terror Suspects to U.S. for Trial 'Inconceivable'
Remember what preceded the 9/11 attack? Yep -- terrorists were tried on U.S. soil for the previous WTC bombing. Thanks to Obama, the U.S. will now re-enact the entire nightmare

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Same Old, Same Old at Fort Hood
It will happen again. Every few months an Islamic-inspired terrorist plot will be foiled, or a young Muslim male will shoot, run down or stab someone while invoking anger at non-Muslims

Pelosi Health Care: Drill, Baby, Drill
How is Nancy Pelosi like a bad dentist?

Political Bias Could Lead To Citadel-ABC Radio's Bankruptcy
Gratuitous rudeness to Sean Hannity for being conservative has cost company millions

Hasan on Islam
Hasan's threatening, self-revealing Powerpoint presentation

Hasan Contacted "Numerous" Jihadists
"Feel the outrage. Hasan's victims should still be alive. He was a full-fledged, overt Islamic extremist, functioning within our military, getting promoted and providing care to our soldiers"

12 Reasons Unemployment Is Going to (at Least) 12%
Because Obama and Dems in Congress can't keep their mitts off your job, your business and your wallet

Does Islam Breed Violence?
Butchery as an act of "worship"

It Isn't Political Correctness, It's Shariah
It isn't just poliitical correctness. It's adopting islamic law which forbids criticism of Islam

Barack Obama -- By The Numbers
Zero: The number of significant helpful things Obama has achieved since taking office

Dressed to Kill
The morning of the killings Hasan was wearing the "shalwar-kameez," the same attire worn by Arabs fighing alongside al-Qaeda and the Taliban

Thank You Former President George W. Bush and Former First Lady Laura Bush
Hell freezes over as Bush critics begin to come around

Cuba Orders Extreme Measures to Cut Energy Use
How odd. Yet another communist country can't provide for its own people

Today's Links

Feds Dropped Investigation Into Hassan Because He Didn't Seem Violent ...
Hey, he'll merely provide Al Qaeda with military secrets and troop information, so why worry?

$25 Billion “Stimulus” Program Produces 0 Jobs
Tens of billions down a rathole, again

The Best Motivation Video Ever
If you've never failed, you've never lived

Jobs a Low Priority for Democrats
Dems "learned nothing from history. During the Great Depression, each time the economy showed a spark, President Franklin Roosevelt snuffed it out with another tax increase or regulatory burden"

Smartest Foreign Affairs Columnist Evah Finally Realizes What Most Conservative Blog Commenters Have Been Saying For Years: The Mideast Peace Process Is A Waste Of Time
And he realized it just in time to let Obama off the hook!

Killer's Loyalties Not Queried 'for Fear of Looking Anti-Muslim'
A fatal error. How many more times will we commit it?

Fort Hood Shooter Linked to September 11 Terrorists
Nice mosque you got yourself there. Very productive

How the Phony "Stimulus" (Democrat Special Interest Pork) Is Doing in Saving and Creating Jobs

Read it and weep.

For this Congress and Obama sold America into unprecedented debt and destroyed the value of the dollar?

What's Happening

Cash Crunch, Press Silence
As ObamaCare advances In Congress, Uncle Sam's collections continue steep drop

Reports: Hasan Is Devout Muslim
Who gave away his furniture along with copies of the Koran the morning of the shooting

Coverage of the Fort Hood Shooting: Hot Air vs. the L.A. Times
If you want less than half the story, read the LA Times

The Massacre at Fort Hood and Muslim Soldiers with Attitude
Or, how multiculturalism toward Islam will get you killed

SEN. BOXER BREAKS SENATE RULES… Passes Cap-&-Tax Out of Committee Without Single GOP Member in Attendance
Out of control

Pay Raises Used to Tally Number of Jobs Saved by Stimulus
Got a small pay raise using "free" stimulus money? Great! We'll count your entire job as "saved"

Bogus Porkulus Numbers Epidemic Hits Wisconsin, Too
Rampant accounting fraud. In one case, five jobs were mistakenly listed as 50 – and then counted twice

WaPo: White House “Smart Power” Actually “Amateur Hour”
Why Israeli-Palestinian "negotiations" are going nowhere

Actual 10-year Cost of Pelosi Plan: $1.8 Trillion
The rest is accounting gimmicks

The “Inherited Deficits” Fallacy
Lie piled on exaggeration piled on pretense

Maryland Voters Test New Cryptographic Voting System
Awesome -- lets voters verify their ballots were counted

Notes Left Behind: Six-Year-Old Cancer Victim Elena's Heartbreaking Messages of Love to Her Family
And you think YOU can't leave a legacy? You will

Retired Teacher Dies After His Half-Blind Dog Accidentally Bites His Finger While Playing 'Fetch'
Moral: Don't ignore deep animal bites

Brazilian Makes Surprise Visit at Own Funeral
Identification of the dead in Brazil appears to be somewhat lax

Bald Bears: Fur Disease Baffles Vets
Ever seen a bear with no fur? Strange

Democrats' Plan to Help 'Uninsurables' Requires 6-Month Wait
Your helpful government has the answers. Just go uninsured with a serious illness for half a year!

A Deathblow for ObamaCare
Dick Morris: After election results, Democratic blue dogs have to take cover

There Is No Honor; There's Only Killing
U.S. Muslims need to condemn "honor" killing loud and clear

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Will Corzine Allies Steal the Election in New Jersey?
ACORN, dirty tricks and absentee ballot fraud

Verdict on O One Year Later: Nothing Doing
'He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize based on his empty portfolio of delays and dithering. His inability to make a decision on whether to send more troops to Afghanistan. His unfinished business in Iraq'

Arizona Jails Iraqi Driver Accused of Running Down Daughter With Car
Caught after fleeing to England

Biden Econ Adviser Says Employment Won’t Rebound for Eight Months
Which means the "stimulus" was a total failure, since the economy was expected to recover by then WITHOUT any stimulus

A Very Interesting Next Three Years
The bill is coming due on Obama's America, and it's a big one

The Swine Flu Democrats
GITMO edition

White House Frustrated Over Iran's Defiance on Nuclear Program
Translation: 'Our dumb appeasement idea didn't work. Maybe we better try Bush's way'

Not Going Down Without a Fight
Lost your job? Can't find another? Want to start your own business? What are you -- a troublemaker?

CBS Says White House Is Fudging Stimulus Jobs Numbers
Figures overstated by at least thousands of jobs

Peggy Noonan: We're Governed by Callous Children
Too stupid to realize they're killing the golden goose

Democrats Miscalculate on Health Care
Not just politically. The domino effects of what Dems propose will be disastrous

$160,000 Per Stimulus Job?
America, you've been had

Passports Linked to 9/11 Found in Pakistan
Docs found in a Taliban lair include passport of a member of the Hamburg cell that conceived the 9/11 attacks

Detroit Jihad
They're preaching violent overthrow of the U.S. government in a Detroit mosque. Anyone have a problem with that?

Charles Krauthammer: The Three Envelopes
Obama has burned through his blame-Bush free passes at an alarming rate

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AP IMPACT: Stimulus Jobs Overstated by Thousands
Obama set up system that invites overreporting by recipients of federal cash

Column: 'Holy' Moments Surround Us
You don’t have to be religious to know there’s something bigger, often in plain sight

Government Takeovers: Is Charity Next?
But of course. Everyone and everything must be beholden to Big Brother

Having a Fire in Your Fireplace Now a Crime in Bay Area
Eco-control freaks. You now have to see if it's OK with the government before using your own fireplace

Owner of U.S. Muslim Meatpacking Plant Plotted to Kill Danish Cartoonist
Chicago men plotted murder

Gov. Pawlenty: Obama Corrosive to Freedom, Liberty
Also spending the U.S. into bankruptcy, nanny-state mentality, weak foreign policy

Thomas Sowell : Dismantling America
A must read

AP: Yeah, Obama Is Probably Going to Let Iran Develop Nukes
First they claimed there was plenty of time to stop Iran. Now they say it's too late

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ABC News: Is Obama 'Too Nice' to Make Tough Decisions?
Too nice? Nah. Obama doesn't hesitate to attack political adversaries. Try "indecisive," "dithering," and "unqualified"

Hume Defends Fox: Asks How CNN, Others 'Like Being Patted on the Head and Given Seal of Approval by the White House'
If you can't take the heat, Mr. President --

Perfection May Be President Obama's Biggest Flaw
That, plus excessive humility. Bonus question: Do you suppose this columnist is a liberal?

3,000 British NHS Staff Get Private Care at Taxpayers' Expense
Because the lines for government health care where they work are too long

Why on Earth Would We Wait to Disarm Iran?
There's no possible advantage in waiting until Tehran has nukes

3 Half-Marathoners Who Died in Detroit Described as Healthy
Could starting temp below freezing have been a factor?

Limbaugh Bad, Mao Good
Hey, but the killer of 40 to 70 million people is still so inspirational

Disaster of the Day-- Charting the Obama Destruction
With horrifying federal deficit chart

U.S. Must Live Within Its Means: Geithner
Gee, thanks Sherlock

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$1.4 Trillion Deficit Complicates Stimulus Plans
No kidding. That's because spending a trillion dollars in "stimulus" mony on Democratic Party special interests WAS the "stimulus plan"

Obama Barred Constitutionally From Accepting Nobel
The Constitution and federal law actually do seem to prohibit such payoffs to a sitting president

NFL Owners Who Use the N-Word and Wet Their Pants On Stage
Literally

The Huffington Post Deathwatch
All that glitters is not gold

Video: Baby Survives Falling Under Melbourne Train
And how was YOUR day?

Pa.: 6 Stole $375,000 From Food Program for Low-Income Moms, Kids
As government giveaways multiply, fraud, waste and corruption explode

If Obama Had Told Us Before His Election
"If I am elected president, I promise to take over General Motors, run up trillions in new debt, appoint communists to my administration. . .

More Than 85 Days After Public Beating Of Ken Gladney Charges Still Not Filed Against SEIU Thugs
The double standard for liberals and conservatives is becoming intolerable

Obama Dollar Retreats Most Against Commodities in Wealth Shift
Hope 'n change

Barack Obama's Top 10 Unfulfilled Pledges
Almost as shocking as the list of things he's actually done

Why Don’t You “Hate” Obama?
With a closer look at the reasons some folks say they "hate" George W. Bush

Paying the Health Tax in Massachusetts
More govt health care woes: Being taxed an extra $1,000 for finding affordable health insurance

History Lesson