» House Conservatives Break With GOP Leaders in Fight Against ObamaCare

Republican leadership, at all levels, should have learned a quick lesson about the mood of America’s conservatives from the Dede Scozzafava debacle in upper New York state. Unfortunately, the GOP House Leadership might need some remedial instruction. And a group of conservative Republican lawmakers met Tuesday to draft that lesson plan.

Sing along with me "GOP gonna get a spanking! GOP gonna get a spanking!"

» Judge muzzles author over CAIR files

A federal judge has issued an order requiring the author of a controversial new book about the Council on American-Islamic Relations to refrain from "any use, disclosure or publication" of thousands of documents his son allegedly stole while working undercover as an intern at the group.

From a comment left on the above article:

Those that are interested in proven facts about CAIR need to go to the Anti-CAIR website and read the links to what has already been proven about CAIR. Why isn’t Politico, Raleigh News & Observer, Charlotte Observer and Fayetteville Observer writing about the CAIR chairman North Carolina state senator Larry Shaw (D-Fayetteville) involvement in this? There is a good side to this happening, if one looks deep enough. Here we have a state senator in cahoots with an un-indicted co-conspirator of the Holy Land Foundation case, and CAIR is now taken a bit more seriously as a terror group by the FBI. If you are interested in calling for a formal Department of Justice investigation of CAIR go to ACT! for America website and sign their SECURE petition to Congress. More needs to be reported on CAIR.

Good point. I need to let the Raleigh News & Observer and Charlotte Observer know about their failure to inform the public of the facts about CAIR. I shall email the Executive Editor, John Drescher at john.drescher@newsobserver.com and ask him why they are silent. While I'm at it, perhaps I should also contact Charlotte Observer Charlotte Ann Caulkins, President and Publisher acaulkins@charlotteobserver.com and ask her the same thing.

Would you CAIR for a couple more tid-bits?

In July, Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly ruled a Kuwaiti detainee at Guantanamo captured in Afghanistan in 2002, Khalid Al Mutairi, had been unlawfully detained as an enemy combatant. The habeas corpus ruling led to the Obama administration's decision in October to transfer Al Mutairi to his home country.

Kollar-Kotelly, appointed to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia by President Clinton in 1997, was chief judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, the FISA court, from 2002 until this year.

She was among the judges who moved to rebuild the "wall of separation" between criminal investigators and intelligence agents cited by the 9/11 commission as a factor in the failure to detect the 9/11 plot, notes counter-terrorism expert and former federal prosecutor Andrew C. McCarthy. The rebuilding effort, however, was overruled by the FISA Court of Review in 2002.

Kollar-Kotelly also was a chief critic of the Bush administration's warrantless-surveillance program that targeted communications between terrorists in the U.S. and abroad. In 2005, she ruled enemy combatants were entitled to counsel, at taxpayers' expense, to challenge their detention.

Federal prosecutors included CAIR and ISNA on a list of unindicted co-conspirators in the Hamas-financing prosecution of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF). ISNA is listed among "individuals/entities who are and/or were members of the US Muslim Brotherhood." The trial ended with guilty verdicts on 108 counts in November 2008

~~ all via Frank at ACT! for America ~~

» Why Obama Won’t Go to Berlin

Wouldn’t Obama at least want to take the occasion to celebrate freedom and human rights — those most cherished liberal values? Not necessarily. He has mostly jettisoned them as foreign-policy goals in favor of a misbegotten realism that soft-pedals the crimes of nasty regimes around the world. During the Cold War, we undermined our enemies by shining a bright light on their repression. In Berlin, JFK called out the Communists on their “offense against humanity.” Obama would utter such a phrase only with the greatest trepidation, lest it undermine a future opportunity for dialogue.

» Subpoenaed Black Panthers

The Civil Rights Commission is making a full inquiry into a controversy about a voter-intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party and several of its members and has escalated its investigation.
... all the top political appointees and temporary political appointees at Justice who had a role in deciding to drop the case are legally compelled to cooperate with the commission's investigation. That means, in turn, that if Mr. Holder himself played any role in that decision or in a refusal to reinstitute the case, he should be subject to a subpoena no less than the Black Panthers themselves are.

~~ thanks to Mike B. for the link ~~

» Where's your grit?

America, where is your character, your pluck, your grit? If that question seems overly harsh and needlessly aggressive, then you are staring directly at the problem. This nation sits at the precipice of a fundamental, irreversible transformation that will make all too visible a new country that is incontrovertibly "one nation under a spineless, politically correct, brow-beaten, emasculated bunch of sheep." Is that too harsh? If you believe my words are too offensive, that I should tone it down, possibly give contemplation to all opposing views from every potential angle, if not every position within the cosmos, then, you're actually staring at the real problem.