Wednesday, January 06, 2010

If President Obama is Serious...

From Keep America Safe:
Statement by Liz Cheney in Response to President Obama's National Security Remarks

"Pausing the transfer of al-Qaeda terrorists from Guantanamo Bay to Yemen is insufficient to ensure the security of the United States. If President Obama is serious about keeping the American people safe, he should reverse his irresponsible and ill-advised decision to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility.

He should reverse his decision to usher terrorists from Guantanamo onto U.S. soil. He should reverse his decision to bring the mastermind of 9/11, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, to New York. He should reverse his decision to give KSM and other terrorists the rights of Americans and the benefit of a criminal trial in an American civilian court.

He should immediately classify Abdulmutallab, the Christmas Day bomber, as an illegal enemy combatant, not a criminal defendant. He should inform Attorney General Holder that he will no longer allow the Justice Department to treat terrorism as a crime instead of an act of war, nor will he allow them to investigate or prosecute CIA officials who kept us safe after 9/11, or disbar or otherwise punish the lawyers who provided the legal framework for programs that saved American lives.

President Obama has weakened American security by treating terror as a law enforcement matter, refusing to use every tool at his disposal to prevent attacks, and taking his eye off the ball. America's homeland security and counterterrorism systems will continue to erode in the absence of strong, consistent, unwavering presidential stewardship. It's time for the President to make defending this nation his top priority."

He thinks he owes the terrorists

Ramirez. Behold our President. Our commander in chief.

How 'bout closing all our prisons. Just let law enforcement go to hell.

Well, I can agree, dismiss all the TSA goofballs who arrest real war reporters.

But then we are left with a president who would arrest real warriors...and let terrorists go free, give them the benefit of the doubt. He thinks he owes the terrorists:
In taking responsibility for Abdul Mutallab’s attempted attack, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) claimed it was in retaliation for a U.S.-sponsored strike against its leadership in Yemen.
Sorry Barack, they've moved on.

Figure it out. They're as opportunistic and glib as you are in coming up with ever-shifting excuses for hardcore ideology. At least you don't want to eliminate us here at home. You just want to subjugate us. It's no wonder you don't value those who fight for our freedoms abroad. How many Americans will you sacrifice? The home front looms. We don't all have Secret Service protection. You wimpy little shit.

More. Liberal cartoon-like view of the world. It's not all about you.

And.The Ramzi Yousef Standard: The Administration has ways of making terrorists not talk.

Tuesday, January 05, 2010

Free C-Span

RCP Blog. Obama's C-Span Problem.
...White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs gave a flaccid but telling response...
Wimpy little shits.

More. Nick Gillespie:

It was Sunday, so it was Meet The Press (one more reason to sleep in). And Wash Post columnist E.J. Dionne dished about flagging support for the health care plan among us rubes what's actually going to pay for it. His advice to a weary, wary nation?:

The whole plan got discredited in the, in the minds of some people because the legislative process looks really awful. And the more the focus was on the legislative process, the more people said, "What's going on here?" Once they pass a plan, you can actually talk about a plan.

That worked so well for, what, TARP?...

Dems (the Obama Majority) Head for Hills

The Middle Coast.

Running everything and managing nothing. Now some running away. Tails between their legs.

Wimpy little shits.

Mayor Rahmbo? Desiree Bites Dust?

Say it ain't so.

And this from earlier--the trouble with Desiree.

P.S.

Palin: It's War, not a Crime Spree

On Facebook.

VOTE Friedman in the 10th

In addition to all of the endorsements Dr. Friedman has already received, Mr. Richard Baehr, Chief Political Correspondent of American Thinker, gave his endorsment to Arie. Mr. Baehr said:
I do not often make an endorsement in a Party primary, but if you live in the 10th district in Illinois, I encourage you to support Dr. Arie Friedman in the Republican primary. I have met Arie several times.
He is not your typical candidate for Congress- he is not a career politician, or someone who runs every two years. He is is a physician, an entrepreneur, and a military veteran and pilot. He is a University of Chicago graduate and an alum of the Schecter schools and Highland Park High School. Arie is ardently pro-Israel (not like supporters of the Obama policies on Israel, such as Julie Hamos and Dan Seals).
He is a supporter of free markets, which will make for a clear contrast with either of the two Democrats who might be the nominee, both of whom support much expanded government control over the economy. You have to get nominated to be elected, and if you want to donate, you can do that directly from the campaign site.
"Unlike Green, Dold and Coulson, Friedman ... is not afraid to let the voters see and hear how he thinks about the issues. What a refreshing change from Beth, Bob and Dick." - Jeff Berkowitz, Public Affairs TV.

Say NO to Tax and Spend

Proft is Only Candidate Who Subscribes to the Tribune

Let's Roll

Rare cloud. APOD.

RedState on Colbert

Video.

Back to major post-holiday clean-up. Sporadic blogging for a week or so.

And snow is on the way.

Monday, January 04, 2010

Nanny State Idiocy

Which is a greater threat to democracy and personal liberty — asking a few more questions in airport terminals to travelers who fit profiles of higher risk, or TSA’s current approach of random searches based on no data at all and blanket diktats that change with each new incident?
Have you been patted down yet? Join the crowd. The alternative? Watch. Going on offense. A preemptive strike...profiling.

...
JackieSeal RT @BrentTeichman: IRONY- PantyBomber would already have faced a firing squad if he'd tried to blow up a plane in Nigeria. #WelcometoAmerica

Let's ask the left

Let's ask our President Barack Obama. Tell me, why did they attack us on Christmas Day? Not just here, but in Denmark, not with a bomb but an axe, not on a plane but at someone's home, a grandfather and his grandchild. (A related note to correct the Times account here.)

Was it a random network of violent individuals? Was it a random day?

Tell us. Why?

Can we expect the truth from an administration that time after time dissembles and leaks in cowardly fashion?

Have we ever had such a wimpy little shit of a president?

More. Stephen Hays, TWS: Obama Pretends to Get Tough on Yemen
...after a year of neglect.

More. Awlaki, the "spiritual advisor". Connect the dots: U.S. Intelligence Community: Al Qaeda Cleric May Be Terrorist

More. And then we have the former Gitmo detainee, founder of a "human rights" organization. Friends with the underpants bomber. And how about this tidbit:
In early 2007, Abdulmutallab was the president of the Islamic Society at the University College of London (UCL). The press has uncovered a number of disturbing aspects of Abdulmutallab's tenure as the head of the society. First and foremost, his organization hosted a "War on Terror Week" that was really a "Blame America" fest. The New York Times has aptly described the Islamic Society's "guest speakers" at this and other events as "radical imams, former Guantanamo Bay prisoners and a cast of mostly left-wing, anti-American British politicians and human rights advocates."

From January 29, to February 2, 2007, the Islamic Society hosted "a series of lectures" as part of its "War on Terror Week." One of the lectures, according to the Times (UK), was entitled "Jihad v. Terrorism" and billed as "a lecture on the Islamic position with respect to jihad."

The lecture was given by Asim Qureshi, who is a "senior researcher" at Begg's organization, Cage Prisoners. Qureshi's own words make his real purpose plain to see as he is, at times, an overt jihadist. During one particularly troublesome episode, Qureshi was captured in an online video ranting at a rally hosted by Hizb ut Tahrir, an organization that the BBC has found "promotes racism and anti-Semitic hatred, calls suicide bombers martyrs and urges Muslims to kill Jewish people." Indeed, the video shows Qureshi praising his "brothers and sisters fighting in Chechnya, Iraq, Palestine, Kashmir, [and] Afghanistan." Qureshi tells the crowd: "We know that it is incumbent upon all of us to support the jihad of our brothers and sisters in these countries when they are facing the oppression of the West." Qureshi and the crowd then break into a chant of "Allah Akhbar."

Does Hizb-ut-Tahrir ring a bell? It should. And women should really love this--anything to say Barack?

P.S. Speaking of Islamic Societies, did you know the Islamic Society of North America is headquartered in Chicago? And did you know one of the speakers, not so long ago was an unrepentant domestic terrorist, and FOBarack Obama? No, it wasn't Bill Ayers. But it was his wife. Bernardine Dohrn. Also children of privilege. You might say it was a profile.

More.

Our enemies have done what we refuse to do. They've analyzed the problem objectively and engineered ruthless solutions.

And we won't even block their Internet sites.

We make up fairy tales about the power of development projects to deter religious fanatics. We impose rules of engagement on our troops that protect our enemies. We ground our air power. We grant terrorists "legal" rights with no basis in existing law.

A wimpy little shit of a president:

The future murderers will generally not be from refugee camps or slums (though they are being indoctrinated every day in our prisons); they will frequently be from educated backgrounds, and they will often not be from overseas at all. They are already in our suburbs and even in our military. We can expect to take casualties. The battle will go on for the rest of our lives.
And we tie our own hands and won't even interrogate this guy. More depressing reading:

Who Is The Enemy?
More than one-third of all terrorist plots since 9/11 transpired
in 2009 — despite loud chest-thumping about rejecting the idea
of a war on terror.
► VICTOR DAVIS HANSON

> > > BURCK: Will We Set Abdulmutallab Free?
> > > GOLDBERG: Al-Qaeda Knows Our Playbook
> > > MCCARTHY: The Constitutional Crisis
> > > STEYN: The Joke’s on Us


More:
At about the same time last August that Obama and Holder were playing whack-a-CIA-agent, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab traveled to Yemen to learn how to sew explosives into his underwear.

And speaking of Captain Underpants, the accused Christmas Day bomber has reportedly warned that there are more terrorists like him in Yemen.

We know there are at least six.

Just days before Abdulmutallab tried to blast Northwest Flight 253 out of the the sky over Detroit, Obama released an additional half-dozen Gitmo detainees to Yemen.
And he wants to bring those who are left to Thomson, Illinois. (Another hearing Wed. in Chicago but the decision is up to Gov. Quinn, who didn't show up at the initial one. Another wimpy little shit.)

What Palm Trees?


Went to a wedding after Christmas and find I am exhausted. And I wasn't even a member of the family. Spent an inordinate amount of time trying to keep my freckles from merging into one big burnt blob. Cherchez la shade. Returned to the shiver shock of Chicago. (And how bout that air travel these days?) Will be back blogging probably the end of the week:)

It was beautiful though. But there's no place like home:)

Thursday, December 24, 2009

Over the river and through the woods

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Christmas with the Palins

Merry Christmas one more time from me. And Gov. Palin and family:) Watch. Her Facebook point today. A libertarian defender:)

And God Bless America. Everyone.

Thomson Hearing

Quinn skips it. NPR. Tribune. ABC7Chicago. Rockford. FoxNews. More. Bloomberg. Related: DOJ betrays us. More. CSM: Skeptics Dominate Hearing. CBS2Chicago. Illinoisans question Guantanamo relocation plan. More. Bill Brady statement on Thomson hearing. Good.

UPDATE: The feds don't have the money. Yet. Fight this!

Previous post: A Second Jihad Here

Monday, December 21, 2009

Merry, Merry!

And a Happy New Year.

P.S.Transvestites, Mao And Obama Ornaments Decorate White House Christmas Tree

P.P.S.
Senator Roland Burris is claiming credit for a provision in Harry Reid’s “manager’s amendment,” unveiled Saturday morning, that could funnel money to ACORN through the health care bill…

It's a KFC Christmas

An American blogger:
When I first came to Japan, I was told that Kentucky Fried Chicken, or simply ‘Kentucky’ as it’s known in Japan, is a Christmas tradition. I was told that people flock to KFC for their annual Christmas Eve dinner. I didn’t really take it seriously until I saw people lining up for three blocks one Christmas Eve, just to get their dose of chicken!
Colonel Sanders looks like Santa Claus.

(And in non-Christmas news, there's some kind of curse on the Hanshin Tigers baseball team. Kind of like the Cubs' one I guess.)

The Welsh remind us the traditional Christmas dinner was not turkey.

Hmm, how about this--Japanese commercials of Christmas past.

Angel Falls Name Under Attack by Chavez

The falls, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, were spotted by US pilot Jimmy Angel in 1937, bringing international attention to what has become one of Venezuela's top tourist attractions, though it is in remote Bolivar state.

"How could we accept this idea that the falls were discovered by a guy who came from the United States in a plane. If we do that, that would be like accepting that nobody was living here," Chavez mused on his weekly radio and television show, "Hello Mr President."

A 90 year supply under our feet

Clean natural gas. Go for it. Not for global warming worries but to get our economy moving again. New technology is unlocking new supplies.

And let the market work.

Jesus of Nazareth


First Jesus-era house discovered in Nazareth:
NAZARETH, Israel – Just in time for Christmas, archaeologists on Monday unveiled what may have been the home of one of Jesus' childhood neighbors. The humble dwelling is the first dating to the era of Jesus to be discovered in Nazareth, then a hamlet of around 50 impoverished Jewish families where Jesus spent his boyhood.
A rare find.

It has come to this. Again:)

Polluting pets: the devastating impact of man's best friend

"Time to Eat the Dog: The Real Guide to Sustainable Living"

But pets have their defenders on the left:
But Reha Huttin, president of France's 30 Million Friends animal rights foundation says the human impact of eliminating pets would be equally devastating.

"Pets are anti-depressants, they help us cope with stress, they are good for the elderly," Huttin told AFP.

"Everyone should work out their own environmental impact. I should be allowed to say that I walk instead of using my car and that I don't eat meat, so why shouldn't I be allowed to have a little cat to alleviate my loneliness?"

Walk your dog, herd your cat. Do your part.

Back off. Ruff!

Iran in Protest

Torture Case Jolt Iran

Students beaten to death.

YouTube links.

More. Video of Sen. McCain on GMA. "Time is running out."
IranHQ 'Iran will pursue its nuclear activity 'normally:' FM (AFP via Yahoo! News).. http://bit.ly/7gQaGt #iran'

IranHQ 'Iran expects speedy trial of 3 American hikers (AP via Yahoo! News).. http://bit.ly/7Is9gq #iran'

(Descending into farce if they weren't so nuts, if they didn't hang people or beat them to death. Berkeley students as spies, for sure)

Josh Fattal, 27, along with Shane Bauer, 27, and Sarah Shourd, 31 — all graduates of the University of California at Berkeley — had been trekking in Iraq's northern Kurdistan region when they accidentally crossed the border, according to their families.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's views on the hikers remain unclear, although they appear to have hardened in recent months.

In an interview with ABC World News to be aired Monday night, Ahmadinejad said "yes" when asked if he would do his best to set them free.

But, he added, "How do you know they have accidentally crossed into Iran? How do you know they were looking for waterfalls and forests?"

More.
bahariran2009 RT @Persian2English: Radio Zamaneh - New wave of arrests condemned by human rights groups #Iran #Iranelection #Moharram http://bit.ly/6SRIdy Cleric's Death,

More TAX to spend?!

A 400 Percent (and Higher) Excise Tax

A Massive New Burden

Reason.tv: ObamaCare and Mission Creep—Why health care reform will end up covering much more than you think.

Philip Klein, The American Spectator, Democrats Break Ground. Just the beginning of the loss of our freedom.

Sen. Judd Gregg, NRO. Welcome to a new America:

American government changed last night. “We are now functioning under a parliamentary form of government,” says Sen. Judd Gregg (R., N.H.) in a conversation with NRO. “An ideological supermajority in Congress, along with a government run by community organizers, has taken over.”

“They’ve taken over the student-loan program, they’ve taken over the automobile system, and now they’re taking over the health-care system. There is no limit to their belief that people should be controlled by smart bureaucrats in Washington,” says Gregg. “They’re putting our country on a path that will reduce the quality of life for the next generation, undermine our nation’s wonderful exceptionalism, and Europeanize our economy to curb its growth.”

Harry Reid’s health-care bill “was purchased,” says Gregg. “Our system of checks and balances is gone. We now have a government that lurches with great speed even though our system is founded upon incremental change.” And don’t hope that the House stops the runaway train, he says. “I think the House is ideologically even further to the Left than the Senate. There are many people there who are committed to taking us down the road toward nationalization.”

“In the future, discretionary dollars won’t be able to be spent on college or a new house, but on this massive new burden for Americans,” says Gregg. “Eventually, at some point, the pressures on the private sector will tip the scales so that employers offering private insurance send people over to the health-care exchange. It’s all part of their ultimate goal to get a vast amount of people subsidized by the government.”

This is an “unsustainable course for our nation,” says Gregg. “We can’t sustain the debt we’re adding. Soon we’ll reach banana-republic status.”

We need to try to stop this now. 5 Reasons it Might Not Pass.

There is a need to reform healthcare. This bill is not it. Not rushed like this. Come back, make a fresh start. With true bipartisanship. Don't shut out half the country.

A Second Jihad Here

Thomson hearing tomorrow in Sterling, Illinois. TEA party and Band of Mothers (her video interview here.) heading over.

Tribune Op-ed Sunday: Keep enemy combatants out of the U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch. Trib story yesterday. Apparently those in support are busing people in. Interesting, but who? WSJ:
Anders Lindall, a spokesman for AFSCME in Illinois, said the state system is overcrowded -- housing 45,000 prisoners in facilities built for 32,000. He said Illinois shouldn't be thinking about offloading Thomson to the federal government without a plan to house its own prisoners.
Another snippet from the Trib story:
Even after Florence, Colo., landed the "supermax" prison 15 years ago, a ballyhooed building boom was confined to a Super 8 motel, credit unions and antiques shops.
Clearly a real gangbuster of a boom.

Look, this Thomson transfer from Gitmo exposes Americans to unecessary risks to terrorists when we have a perfectly good prison at Gitmo. The terrorists targeted us long before we opened Gitmo and they will until we defeat them on the battlefield.

Does it make sense to open another battlefield here in America? We know the ACLU is poised to push to release these most dangerous terrorists once they arrive here--so dangerous their own countries don't want them back. And then there are the home-grown terrorists which have surfaced with alarming regularity. Jihad came to America on Sept. 11th.

Don't encourage a second jihad here.

Related posts: What next--take a terrorist to lunch day, Well, maybe Dems will finally attack them as "the rich", Another Big Yawn from Dick Durbin: What Nukes?, Dead Wrong Durbin, Haven't you heard?, Ben Stein at Camp Pendleton, Collateral Damage in the Making, Your Morning Thomson, Chicago Style, Never Again, Gallup Polls on Thomson, Terrorists as Tourists?, LA Reaching Out: Nukes the New Normal, Color the Trib PC Pink, Palin on Thomson, Ahhnold, Roskam, Kirk Statement on Thomson, How Will Importing Dangerous Terrorists Make America Safer?, It's like bulldozers in the night, They did it even before the hearing, Criminally Irresponsible Dems. Quinn. Durbin, Thomson Hearing 12/22, Protest, PC Trib tries to whip us in line, Thomson Illusion, Bringing Terror Home, Cynical and Cowardly, Change of Venue for KSM?

Chicago, Chicago...Blago...Rahmbo

Scarborough Predicts: Rahm Emanuel Will Be Fired ‘Over the Next Year’

More.
Sun Times:

Blagojevich aide's computer yields new secrets

Chief of staff surfed Web on Emanuel vacancy, 'King Madigan'

The Ugly Democrat

A hate-filled rant. Evoking Kristallnacht. Sheldon Whitehouse on the Senate floor. Legal Insurrection. Video.

...delivered in the gutless way characteristic of liberal pols.

Previous post: Nakedly Self-Interested Political Calculation

Nakedly Self-Interested Political Calculation


The Emperor has no clothes. We have seen this kind of duplicity before, but now it's in our face, as Senate Democrats and their president are ramming this bill through in the days before Christmas, rousing widespread revulsion. Our President Barack Obama has lost the moderate economic seer Robert Samuelson. Bigtime. "A Parody of Leadership". ObamaCare is "atrocious legislation".

Jay Cost, "Democrats Risk another Jacksonian moment":

This is why Democratic leaders are courting disaster with this health care bill. With it, they've moved their questionable wheelings and dealings from the margins to the center of American life. And because of this, they risk being swept away in another Jacksonian moment.

Make no mistake. This bill is so unpopular because it has all the characteristics that most Americans find so noxious about Washington.
Read on.

Chicago Way, Beltway Democrats. A corrupt bill delivered behind closed doors. Where smiley-faced smarminess, rank political opportunism and crassly porky posturing reign.

Change Nobody Believes In. A bill so reckless that it has to be rammed through on a partisan vote on Christmas eve. WSJ. More stunning details of the bill. And this on our President Barack Obama: "He's forced to claim the mandate of "history" because he can't claim the mandate of voters."

Can we reverse the vote? The White House knows this bill is indefensible:
To defend this abomination of a bill yesterday on the Sunday shows, the White House did not send Health Reform director Nancy-Ann DeParle or Budget director Peter Orszag. Instead they sent White House sent political consultant David Axelrod to defend the bill on three of the five top Sunday shows.
And we have a Democrat Congressman comparing opponents of this monstrosity to Nazis on Kristallnacht.

Now we know it's indefensible.

(Sen. Durbin intones more pompous pieties but perhaps we should recall here that Dem Sen. Byrd is a former Klansman. Not to mention Sen. Durbin's own despicable remarks.)

Enough. We see you in all your tawdry nakedness. Plummy words can't give you cover this time.

Sunday, December 20, 2009

What next--take a terrorist to lunch day

Hamas Behind Livni Arrest Warrant

Well, maybe Dems will finally attack them as "the rich"

Banker Guy

(Full disclosure, I used to be a banker.) At Hugh Hewitt. This administration demonizes people. It's wrong. And deceitful.

Creating a permanent tea party.

Another Big Yawn from Dick Durbin: What Nukes?

What terrorists? Oh well, at least it wasn't the nuke plant near Thomson:
Authorities: "Chicago man" charged with helping plot Mumbai attacks also conducted surveillance of nuclear plant

Headley was arrested at Chicago's O'Hare airport.

Previous post: Dead Wrong Durbin

Hair on Fire!!!


Sadly, the Bears are losing so how about some amusement at alarmism: Anthropogenic Continental Drift UPDATED"—LauraW. We Are Running Out Of Time.

(Drill baby drill)

MORE. NEW EVIDENCE!!!
P.S. Go Hawks!
NHLBlackhawks Soupy streaks to the Wings' net after taking a nice feed from Sharp. 2-0 after the wrister, 4 minutes left in the 2nd.
P.P.S. Mixed reviews:) Mark Steyn.

Why Accenture Dumped Tiger

The parody. Via Forbes.

...trade in for a newer model?

Haven't you heard?

It's clear the Tribune's Kathleen Hennessey is writing from D.C. Her snide piece on Michele Bachmann exudes the conventional wisdom, and it's obvious Bachmann is a stand-in for Palin, who has inspired similar attacks, though more venomous and hysterical.

I'd say the beltway GOP was responsible for the NY loss, and it appears they may have learned their lesson. Even moderate New Trier back here in the Midwest is not willing to endorse a Dede Dem-light mush.

As for Hennessey's attempt to define what's mainstream by mockery of those who are concerned (Robert Rubin a rightie?!!) about our massive IOU's to China, or disagree with the gullible global warming crowd, look around. Those lightbulbs are hazardous, especially for children, and awfully dim, especially for older readers. It's not just the "right brigade" that is concerned, people are worried--why can't they have a choice--why must it be a government mandate? I'd say she should look for her news outside the MSM to realize what's really going on in the world.

As far as our President Barack Obama being anti-American, well, reasonable people have their doubts. About that and other things.

The tea party is mainstream. As is Bachmann. George Will:

Some of her supposed excesses are, however, not merely defensible, they are admirable. For example, her June 9 statement on the House floor in which she spoke of "gangster government" has been viewed on the Internet about 2 million times. She noted that, during the federal takeover of General Motors, a Democratic senator and one of her Democratic House colleagues each successfully intervened with GM to save a constituent's dealership from forced closure. One of her constituents, whose dealership had been in the family for 90 years, told her that the $15 million dealership had been rendered worthless overnight, and, Bachmann said, "GM is demanding that she hand over her customer list," probably to give it to surviving GM dealerships that once were competitors.

In her statement, Bachmann repeatedly called such politicization of the allocation of economic rewards "gangster government." And she repeatedly noted that the phrase was used by a respected political analyst, Michael Barone, principal co-author of the Almanac of American Politics, who coined it in connection with the mugging of GM bondholders in the politicized bankruptcy. Bachmann, like Barone, was accurate.

George Will is hardly a member of the "right brigade".

But even if he were, haven't you heard?

Nelson's Fecklessness and Treachery

The Middle Coast.

Honest Services


Is the honest services clause in the mail fraud statute too broad? Yes.

Is Illinois a cesspool of corruption reaching to the highest levels of government and abetted by powerful elites? Yes.

You be the judge. John Kass column today.

On balance I say keep it. Because now America is at risk as well:
But does anyone expect White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, D-Tomczak, to push real ethical reform for President Barack Obama that would threaten powerful, connected politicians in Illinois?
America is at risk as well. Does any reasonable person think this unprecedented proliferation of radical (one has since resigned) and obscene and predatory czars is anything other than an under the radar power grab by the Obama administration?

Is this the mark of an honest and transparent government?

A final apropos remark from John Kass
not long ago.

Providential

Powerline.