Charles Krauthammer wrote a good piece yesterday about the way our MSM has handled Obama with kid gloves, and most likely will continue to do so:

Normally, flip-flopping presidential candidates have to worry about the press. Not Obama. After all, this is a press corps that heard his grandiloquent Philadelphia speech — designed to rationalize why “I can no more disown [Jeremiah Wright] than I can disown my white grandmother” — then wiped away a tear and hailed him as the second coming of Abraham Lincoln. Three months later, with Wright disowned, grandma embraced and the great “race speech” now inoperative, not a word of reconsideration is heard from his media acolytes.

Worry about the press? His FISA flip-flop elicited a few grumbles from lefty bloggers, but hardly a murmur from the mainstream press. Remember his pledge to stick to public financing? Now flush with cash, he is the first general-election candidate since Watergate to opt out. Some goo-goo clean-government types chided him, but the mainstream editorialists who for years had been railing against private financing as hopelessly corrupt and corrupting evinced only the mildest of disappointment. Read the rest of this entry »

McCain released this new ad today:

Its describing The Lexington Project that McCain unveiled the other day which proposes more oil exploration inside our own borders: Read the rest of this entry »

Ed Morrissey describes the remnants of Sadr’s army like so:

The remnants of the Mahdi Army have gone underground, forming an armed network on a much smaller scale. How small? Think of the Spartans at Thermopylae, and cut that in half while removing the courage and the military skill.

Couldn’t have put it better myself. He is talking about the report that Sadr’s army has been completely decimated and now number oh, about 150: Read the rest of this entry »

I may be the only one to have not seen these videos, but just in case I’m wrong…check them out:

And two years later after the video became a bit more popular Matt did a followup, with an added cast:

His website

This part of the Heller decision is something that may cause some problems in the future:

Miller’s holding that the sorts of weapons protected are those “in common use at the time” finds support in the historical tradition of prohibiting the carrying of dangerous and unusual weapons.

I could see the gun control lobby clinging to this line of “dangerous and unusual weapons” and bringing various appeals up to the SCOTUS based upon it.

Which then depends on the makeup of the court five years from now. Obama becomes President we know how it will look and then we could look forward to a 6-3 decision in favor of weakening our second amendment rights.

That is how important this election is. For those thinking of staying at home, or throwing their vote away on a Keyes or a Barr, because of their disagreements with McCain in the past….think about that.

Every flippin day we get more evidence that Obama is the worst flip-flopper to have come along in some time. He anticipated the SCOTUS ruling today in opposition to gun bans and put this out:

ABC News’ Teddy Davis and Alexa Ainsworth Report: With the Supreme Court poised to rule on Washington, D.C.’s, gun ban, the Obama campaign is disavowing what it calls an “inartful” statement to the Chicago Tribune last year in which an unnamed aide characterized Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., as believing that the DC ban was constitutional.

“That statement was obviously an inartful attempt to explain the Senator’s consistent position,” Obama spokesman Bill Burton tells ABC News. Read the rest of this entry »

Thomas Joscelyn wrote an excellent article yesterday in the Weekly Standard that points to the first casualty of the Boumediene decision with the ruling that Huzaifa Parhat is NOT a enemy combatant. This now forces the US to either release him, transfer him to another country, or give him another tribunal.

The left and the MSM insist in believing Parhats story that he just got “caught up” in a big net after 9/11 inside Afghanistan but as Thomas points out, there is ample evidence to show us that he is not the innocent little lamb the NYT’s wishes us to believe he is:

According to the DOD, 22 citizens of China have been detained at Gitmo. Five of them have been released, but 17 of them remain at Gitmo. Like Parhat, all of these men are Uighurs, that is, natives of China’s Xinjiang region, or East Turkestan, as Uighurs call it. The Uighurs, who have been oppressed by various Chinese policies, have been fighting for their independence for decades. And given the deplorable human rights record of the Chinese regime, they have won at least some international support for their efforts.

Not all Uighur separatists are created equal though. A minority of them in the early 1980s formed the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM), a separatist group rooted in radical Islamic ideology and dedicated to jihad. And by the early 1990s, the ETIM had become a significant fighting force with a presence throughout Central and South Asia. It was only a matter of time before the ETIM’s members would cross paths with their Arab and Afghan ilk. Read the rest of this entry »

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Gotta love this flip-flop:

Wisconsin Sen. Russ Feingold will not filibuster a compromise version of an electronic surveillance program although he thinks it will infringe on U.S. citizens’ civil liberties.

Feingold said he and other Senate opponents won’t try to stop the vote, but they “won’t allow it to pass quickly.”

Instead, Feingold, D-Wis., told an audience at the New America Foundation that he plans to highlight the bill’s flaws in floor speeches. There may be several procedural votes before final passage, he added. Feingold said he and Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., met with Senate leader Harry Reid last week to discuss their objections.

That was a day ago. Now today: Read the rest of this entry »

Very cool map put together of the 297 most influential political websites and whadda ya know…Flopping Aces made it into the list. (h/t Hot Air)

Apparently the size of the circle is the amount of inbound and outbound links. The area your circle is in relates to where your links come from. More conservative links and you go more right and vice versa.

Fred Barnes writes a good article in todays Weekly Standard about the excuses Democrats give nowadays for their opposition to new drilling for oil:

BARACK OBAMA PUNCTUATED his opposition last week to offshore drilling for oil and natural gas with a clever jab at John McCain. “The politics may have changed, but the facts have not,” he quipped. A few days earlier, McCain had called for lifting the moratorium on exploration and drilling off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts.

Obama was only half right. With gasoline at $4-plus a gallon, the politics have indeed changed–in favor of increased domestic oil production. But so have the facts. And it’s that change that has made offshore drilling cost-effective, environmentally safe, and no threat to become an eyesore off the beaches of California and Florida. Read the rest of this entry »

The Memorial Project claims to have an innocent explanation for why the central feature of the Flight 93 memorial is a giant Islamic shaped crescent. As architect Paul Murdoch has been saying since September 2005, the flight path breaks the circle, turning it into what was originally called the Crescent of Embrace.

But this isn’t a memorial to an airliner. It is a memorial to human beings. So just who is it that architect Paul Murdoch is depicting as breaking the circle?

As a secular symbol, the circle signifies peace and harmony. There is no way that the heroic passengers and crew can be charged with breaking the circle. It is the terrorists who broke the peace. Read the rest of this entry »