Posted by Erick Erickson The Wall Street Journal reports Joe Lieberman is digging in his heels. He will filibuster any health care legislation that contains a public option, even if the legislation allows states to opt-out. Lieberman has been a thorn in the side of the left ever since they decided to challenge him back […]
By Ronald Kessler The Obama administration’s decision to try admitted terrorist Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in federal court in New York “dramatically” increases danger to New Yorkers, former FBI official James Kallstrom tells Newsmax. New York already was the No. 1 target for terrorists, says Kallstrom, who was assistant FBI director in New York and became Homeland […]
Posted by Erick Erickson Today Barack Obama is going to announce that the terrorist mastermind of September 11th, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, will be sent to New York City for a criminal trial in a civilian court. In that trial, the terrorist will get all the rights afforded an American citizen in a criminal trial, including […]
Remember how the Democrats reacted when the Bush Administration started replacing U.S. Attorneys? At least they were actually political appointees employed at the will and whim of the President. Posted by Erick Erickson Please see the update at the bottom of this post. — Erick “This is what happens in third world kleptocracies and totalitarian […]
Jim Meyers Veteran political analyst Dick Morris tells Newsmax that the Obama administration is “deliberately mischaracterizing” the Fort Hood massacre by refusing to admit it was a terrorist attack. Morris also said the failure to recognize the danger posed by Major Nidal Hasan, the Army psychiatrist accused of the killings, points to “Obama’s failures in […]
The only Jewish Republican in Congress said the Jewish community needs to “remove the blinders from our eyes”and speak out more vocally against threats to Israel and the Jewish people. “Many men are pointing guns at Israel, indeed at Jews, everywhere,” said House Minority Whip Eric Cantor in Washington at the opening session of the […]
Gene J. Koprowski Economists who have the Obama administration’s policy-making ear simply do not believe that higher marginal tax rates will retard economic growth, writes economist Irwin Stelzer. Writing in the The Weekly Standard, Stelzer explains that the administration is flirting with such things as a 60 percent rate on the incremental income of high […]
JCT Confirms Failure to Comply with Democrats’ Mandate Can Lead to 5 Years in Jail Today, Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Committee Dave Camp (R-MI) released a letter from the non-partisan Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) confirming that the failure to comply with the individual mandate to buy health insurance contained in […]
WASHINGTON – Senate Democrats have blocked a GOP attempt to require next year’s census forms to ask people whether they are a U.S. citizen. The proposal by Louisiana Republican Sen. David Vitter was aimed at excluding immigrants from the population totals that are used to figure the number of congressional representatives for each state. Critics […]
With overwhelming bipartisan support, the House of Representatives on Tuesday passed a resolution (H. Res. 867) calling the Goldstone Report “irredeemably biased and unworthy of further consideration or legitimacy.” The bill, introduced by Reps. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) and Howard Berman (D-CA), the ranking member and chairman, respectively, of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, passed by […]
