Democratic Rep. Jack Murtha has solved one of those pesky problems facing President Barack Obama as he moves to close down the terrorist detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Murtha is offering a minimum security prison located in his district for the terrorists. Suspected terrorists at the military's detention center in Cuba are "no more […]
From the Los Angeles Times: Transfixed by the daily spectacle of dismal economic news and wild Wall Street swings, few Americans have looked up to see what a wide array of economists say lies beyond the immediate crisis. And with good reason: The picture isn't pretty. The sleek racing machine that was the U.S. economy […]
Sen. Barack Obama was sworn in today as the 44th President of the United States. Politically, I'm sure that in the coming years that I'll oppose many of the policies Obama and the Democrat congress enact. This will likely begin tomorrow when Obama rolls back many of the abortion funding restrictions that exist under GOP […]
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi told Fox News' Chris Wallace on Sunday that she's open to other Democrats' plans to conduct hearings -- and possibly prosecutions -- into the Bush administration on a variety of fronts. "I think you look at each item and see what is a violation of the law and do […]
I often use the construction in the headline to refer to The New York Times editorial page. Most notably, I refer to that page's double-standard when it came to the use of the filibuster against judicial nominees. When filibusters were threatened (not executed) against nominees of President Bill Clinton, the page decried the practice. When […]
Courtesy of Guy Benson over at National Review's "Media Blog" comes this hilarious analysis of the performance of Air America vs. Fox News in 2008. When I read Benson's bit, I thought that he must've been making this up. He wasn't. In 2008, former Air America host, Al Franken was elected the next Senator from […]
The Washington Post published this article that paints a very disconcerting attitude displayed by the incoming Obama administration with regard to the war in Afghanistan. President-elect Barack Obama intends to sign off on Pentagon plans to send up to 30,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan, but the incoming administration does not anticipate that the Iraq-like […]
Via Jim Geraghty comes a buried lede in an Associated Press dispatch regarding Rod Balgojevich-appointed Sen. Roland Burris: [Burris] also said he closed his 2002 campaign for governor without repaying a $1.2 million loan to a businessman who also made contributions to Blagojevich. Burris, a former state attorney general, said he'd never been asked to […]
On principle, I think that prohibitions on lobbyists taking jobs in government agencies they once lobbied are unnecessary. While there may be concerns about where their loyalties lie -- with the government job they've got or the private sector job they left -- that's what inspectors general and oversight are for. Often these individuals have […]
President-elect Barack Obama has chosen former Clinton chief of staff Leon Panetta to be director of the CIA. You can find Panetta's bio here. Panetta's only relevant experience appears to be two years in the Army with no readily apparent combat service. I think Panetta would be a good choice for just about any post […]