Democrats gearing up for a possible Supreme Court vacancy are divided over whether President Barack Obama should appoint a prominent liberal voice while their party still commands a large Senate majority, or go with someone less likely to stoke Republican opposition.
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"Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh ... was considered a shoo-in for re-election in the Hoosier state. Now election handicappers have moved him from 'safe' to endangered."
President Barack Obama released his FY 2011 budget on Monday and it contains provisions that will force Americans to pay for abortions in the United States and promoting abortion abroad. The budget takes advantage of Congress having overturned the ban on abortion funding in the nation's capital. Obama wants more funding, more counselling, more litigation, and more abortions for one of his key "special interests," the Abortion Lobby. MORE
"America's No. 1 creditor holds the ultimate weapon" . . . " The ancient military strategist Sun Tzu said that the best strategy was to render an opponent's army helpless even before the battle began. America may still have the biggest and best military in the world. But many at the Pentagon are starting to realize that, thanks to our growing fiscal irresponsibility, we may be surrendering control of America's destiny to a rival superpower -- and all without a shot being fired."
"[T]he Iranian president told the country’s atomic energy chief . . . to 'please start 20 percent enrichment' of uranium into nuclear fuel. . . . But Iran’s announcement has a double meaning. While clearly provocative, a New York Times report speculates that it also intended to serve as cover for China and Russia to continue to support further negotiations about fuel exchange so as to avoid United Nations sanctions. Read more »
"Republican lawmakers are denying a charge made by top White House counterterrorism official John Brennan that they were briefed about -- and did not object to -- the decision to offer full American constitutional rights to accused Detroit bo Read more »
"The British media is reporting that a teacher in the London School of Economics’ government department is a member of Hizb ut-Tahrir, an extremist group seeking to internally overthrow democracy and capitalism and replace it with Sharia Law. Unfortunately, the violence of groups like Al-Qaeda has caused HUT and groups like it to look less extreme by comparison and so they are not receiving the attention they deserve."
More mistakes found in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's report about global warming. Again found by the British media.When is the American media going to stop drinking the global warming kool-aid and start doing their own investigative journalism? Uncovering errors like this is the stuff that legends in the media world are made of. Don't any of them want the glory?
"Some calamities -- the 1929 stock market crash, Pearl Harbor, 9/11 -- have come like summer lightning, as bolts from the blue. The looming crisis of America's Ponzi entitlement structure is different. Read more »
