*Obama War Plan: Release the terrorists, prosecute the CIA, by Matt Patterson.
“The message to our warriors and spies is clear. Save American lives, risk prosecution. Break a terrorist, lose your life.
What fool will now apply for the dirty, dangerous, necessary job of interrogating madmen bent on the slaughter of Americans? Few, if any. The Obama administration has made one of two calculations:
1) A spy agency can be both virtuous and effective, or
2) It is more important for a spy agency to be virtuous than effective.
The former is an intellectual lapse; the latter a moral one. In either case, the result will be more spilled American blood.”
*Global Warming and the Sun, by Jonah Goldberg.
*From Preparedness to Appeasement, by Victor Davis Hanson.
“We are more likely now to put CIA interrogators on trial than to arrest and berate new terrorists. Dick Cheney, not Osama bin Laden, has become the new national threat. George W. Bush has been reduced to Orwell’s Emmanuel Goldstein, the “He did it” collective menace at whom we are supposed to yell out in hatred each morning. We now live in an era of renewed appeasement, faith in the United Nations, no “inordinate fear,” and all the usual tired slogans.”
Emphasis mine. What a great line. Read the whole thing, you won’t regret it.
*Smells Like Rationing Spirit, by Ed Morrissey.
RELATED: Sentenced to Death on the NHS, by Kate Devlin.
“In a letter to The Daily Telegraph, a group of experts who care for the terminally ill claim that some patients are being wrongly judged as close to death.
Under NHS guidance introduced across England to help doctors and medical staff deal with dying patients, they can then have fluid and drugs withdrawn and many are put on continuous sedation until they pass away.
But this approach can also mask the signs that their condition is improving, the experts warn.”
But don’t worry, it can’t happen here.
*Did Charlie Rangel bribe the ethics committee to clear him? Mmmmm.
*America: A Republic, not a Democracy, by AWR Hawkins.
“Yet America is a republic, not a democracy. Our Founding Fathers instituted a form of government guided by the rule of law rather than the desires of a majority of voters. They understood that a democracy is always in flux and given to “mob rule,” while a republic is fixed and stable, resting on “the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God.” Because of the uncertainty of democracy, Benjamin Rush — a signer of the Declaration of Independence — wrote: “A simple democracy is one of the greatest of evils.”
An important distinction, and one we would do well to remember.
*The Revolt of the Masses, by Daniel Henninger.
“In short, the lumpen electorate works, and the lumpen bureaucratariat spends. They get away with it because they have perfected the illusion that no human hand causes these commitments. The payroll tax just happens. Entitlements are “off-budget,” presumably in the hands of God. This is government without the responsibility of governance.
Unable to identify who or what has put them in hock to the horizon, national electorates are attempting accountability by voting whole parties out of power. Rasmussen recently found that 57% of voters would throw out Congress en masse if they could. Gerrymandered districts ensure that they can’t.”
*Your Daily Dose of Awesome: Space Shuttle Discovery causes a rainbow after it’s launch.
