I understand Erick’s post - really, I do - but let’s just establish something here:
“And I never would have believed that we would have budgets that are running into the multi-trillions of dollars, and we are amassing a huge, huge national debt that, if we don’t pay for in our lifetime, our kids and grandkids and great grandchildren will have to pay for it.”
You should have, General. You really should have. Because I certainly did.
Moe Lane
Crossposted to Moe Lane
Oh, and I’m sure there are others, I just got tired of looking…
NBC
WaPo
Fox
The Washington City Paper
CNN
The Sun Times (an AP feed)
Yahoo News
MSNBC
Well, each one reported that former four time Washington DC mayor Marion Berry was arrested for stalking. Not one of them bothered to note that the former mayor and current DC councilman is a member of a political party.
Color Me Shocked!
From today’s Times…
The head of Mossad, Israel’s overseas intelligence service, has assured Benjamin Netanyahu, its prime minister, that Saudi Arabia would turn a blind eye to Israeli jets flying over the kingdom during any future raid on Iran’s nuclear sites.
Earlier this year Meir Dagan, Mossad’s director since 2002, held secret talks with Saudi officials to discuss the possibility.
The plot thickens.
Oh, and that would be the London Times.
There’s an old proverb that “Vermont has two seasons - winter, and the Fourth of July.”
What does that make today then? 
HT to Powerline… Today the crown on the Statue of Liberty was reopened after being closed for several years. At the base of Statue seven members of the US Armed forces were sworn in as new US citizens.
Thank you for your service and now, in every way, you too can say “There’s no other country like ours!”
God Bless the USA.
Via @jmartpolitico, Doug Kmiec gets the ambassadorship to Malta.
Crossposted to Moe Lane
Isn’t it about time for the POTUS to man up and stop trying to pass the buck? Apparently he hauled out the “Bush’s fault” sob story again today. C’mon, Mr. Shovel-Ready Projects. I thought your mighty “stimulus” package was going to save the world! Start taking some responsibility, you coward.
I’ve found the courts’ use of foreign precedent to be an incredibly outrageous stretch of judicial misbehavior. Apparently Sonia Sotomayor doesn’t see it that way.
Today the Washington Times exposes (not that it was a secret) Sotomayor’s “transnationalist” tendencies…her fondness for the consideration of foreign precedent and thought in the U.S. legal system. They hit a home run here:
…At best, this is muddle-headed thinking. It also is evidence of a lack of self-control.
These statements are muddle-headed because they fail basic tests of logic. Why should “unsettled issues” in the U.S. legal system benefit from “freedom of ideas” as expressed through international law and foreign law? The outcome of legal “issues,” even “unsettled” ones, is determined not by something as nebulous as ideas, but by hard facts, precedent and clear legal reasoning. U.S. law is determined by the consent of the governed through their elected representatives - not by the opinions of foreign nationals about whom American citizens have never heard or for whom they have never voted.
Worse than her muddle-headedness is Judge Sotomayor’s lack of discretion or humility. In the American system, judges are not meant to be philosophers, legislators or diplomats. Their job is to apply the law as written, not to try to achieve some sort of cosmic justice as determined by their own inner ethical gyroscopes.
(Be sure to read the whole thing…)
I have no illusions that any of this will change the attitude of the Senate Judiciary Committee, or the full Senate for that matter, but perhaps it will turn the heads of a) the citizens of the U.S., and b) the Senate GOP, who should at least voice their objection to this World Court wannabe.
He says it’s not a big deal to him, but Sully can’t pass up an opportunity to bash Sarah Palin. So he posts this.
So why didn’t Andrew Sullivan, that great defender of flag etiquette, bother to spare the bandwidth to call attention to Joe Biden’s treatment of the flag at the DNC?
According to Sully’s flag etiquette link:
“The flag should never be displayed with the union down, except as a signal of dire distress in instances of extreme danger to life or property.”
Perhaps the upside-down flag at Biden’s feet was a warning of the “extreme danger” to the United States an Obama-Biden victory in the 2008 election would bring.
Oh, and Sully? We have your brandishing of kids as political pawns right here.
Hypocrisy is a presrequisite for liberalism.
- JP
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