Monday, August 31, 2009
Obama Should Pardon CIA Interrogators
By Debra J. Saunders"When he served as deputy attorney general, now Attorney General Eric Holder gave a "neutral leaning positive" recommendation that led to President Bill Clinton's pardoning of gazillionaire fugitive Marc Rich, who was on the lam in Switzerland hiding from federal charges of fraud, evading more than $48 million in taxes, racketeering and trading oil with Iran in violation of a U.S. embargo."
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Things only a Kennedy could get away with
By Mark Steyn"You can't make an omelet without breaking chicks, right? I don't know how many lives the senator changed — he certainly changed Mary Jo's — but you're struck less by the precise arithmetic than by the basic equation: How many changed lives justify leaving a human being struggling for breath for up to five hours pressed up against the window in a small, shrinking air pocket in Teddy's Oldsmobile? If the senator had managed to change the lives of even more Americans, would it have been OK to leave a couple more broads down there? Hey, why not? At the Huffington Post, Melissa Lafsky mused on what Mary Jo "would have thought about arguably being a catalyst for the most successful Senate career in history … Who knows — maybe she'd feel it was worth it." What true-believing liberal lass wouldn't be honored to be dispatched by that death panel?"
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2 Firefighters Killed Amid Massive Calif. Wildfire
LOS ANGELES — "Firefighters tried to hold back a wildfire from consuming thousands of homes and an essential communications center in Los Angeles County as they mourned two of their own who were killed when their vehicle was overrun by fast-moving flames and rolled down a mountain side."more
Sunday, August 30, 2009
Cheney Slams Obama's 'Politicized' Probe
By Bill Sammon"In blunt, unsparing language, former Vice President Dick Cheney accuses President Obama of setting a "terrible precedent" by launching an "intensely partisan, politicized look back at the prior administration," seeming to question Obama's fitness as commander-in-chief."
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Well. Who you gonna call? Harry Reid?
WASHINGTON -- "When the CIA revived a plan to kill or capture terrorists in 2004, the agency turned to the well-connected security company then known as Blackwater USA."
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("rare earth" metals), but by darn-it, it's not oil!
"Samples of rare earth elements are converted to glass discs inside the testing building at the Molycorp Minerals Mountain Pass Mine in Mountain Pass, California August 19, 2009. The open-pit mine at Mountain Pass, California, holds the world's richest proven reserve of "rare earth" metals, a family of minerals vital to producing the powerful, lightweight magnets used in the engines of Toyota Motor Corp's Prius and other hybrid vehicles as well as generators in wind turbines." REUTERS/David Becker
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