“The Bush Doctrine” As It Applies to FOCA

In a preemptive strike against the coming passage of the Freedom of Choice Act, President Bush has proposed a new plan to protect workers in the health care field who refuse to participate in acts that they deem objectionable on religious grounds.  The obvious target: workers who’s jobs require them to participate in abortion procedures.
New [...]

NewsFlash: Iraq Government Still Corrupt and Still Costing Us Billions

New York Times -
BAGHDAD – The government of Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki is systematically dismissing Iraqi oversight officials, who were installed to fight corruption in Iraqi ministries by order of the American occupation administration, which had hoped to bring Western standards of accountability to the notoriously opaque and graft-ridden bureaucracy here.
The dismissals, which were [...]

Anti-Prop 8 Mob Terrorizes Christians in San Francisco Neighborhood

Coverage of the mob scene from KTVU (via MichelleMalkin.com):
SAN FRANCISCO — In San Francisco’s Castro District, people on both sides of the same-sex marriage controversy confronted each other on Friday night, as police tried to keep the peace.  Proposition 8 passed in a close vote and eliminated the right of same-sex [...]

Federal Officials Allow Violent Criminals To Leave Texas Jail…Despite the Fact that They Are Illegal Immigrants

Read it and weep.  Especially pertinent parts excerpted here:
Federal immigration officials allowed scores of violent criminals – some ordered deported decades ago – to walk away from Harris County Jail despite the inmates’ admission to local authorities that they were in the country illegally, a Houston Chronicle investigation found.
A review of thousands of criminal and [...]

Huck and Mitt Bickering: Irrelevance On Display

From Johnathan Martin via HotAir:
Mike Huckabee is using his new book, out this week, to settle a few scores, not the least of which is with his fierce primary rival, Mitt Romney.
Per Michael Scherer, Huckabee picks up where he left off earlier this year, tweaking Romney as a rich guy and firing what may be [...]

Obama Gives Props to His Posse as McCain and Graham Look On

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BO: ’sup Andy?
JM and LG: heeheeheeheehee
(Anyone else notice that Lindsay Graham giggles like Beavis?)
Obama is so smug. Gag.
(HT: HotAir)

Get YOUR Mortgage Payment Reduced by The Government: A San Francisco Chronical How To Guide

In a piece entitled Are You An Idiot to Keep Paying Your Mortgage?, the San Francisco Chronicle  tell us why we are.  First order of business is dismissing any ethical qualms the readers might have with welching on huge loans at the government’s (that is, taxpayers’) expense.  Not surprisingly, the Chronicle calls on the authority [...]

El Coyote Negotiates with Domestic Terrorists

From the LA Times (via MichelleMalkin.com):
Employees of the Los Angeles restaurant that came under fire this week after a manager gave $100 to the campaign to ban same-sex marriage in California said they had made a $500 contribution to the advocacy group that is raising money to challenge Proposition 8.
Just great.  For those of you [...]

Michelle Malkin’s Call to Conservatives: Draw a Line in the Sand

From MichelleMalkin.com:
While Republican strategists and Beltway blowhards convene VIP retreats and meetings and save-the-party parties, the road to GOP redemption starts right now. There is opportunity to be seized right now. There is a line in the sand to be drawn.
Right now.
The first step toward GOP redemption is to stop the automakers’ bailout and roll [...]

Greg Craig, Defender of Would-Be Presidential Assassin, Obama White House Counsel

From Politico:
Gregory B. Craig, a well-known Washington lawyer who quarterbacked President Bill Clinton’s impeachment defense, has been chosen White House counsel by President-elect Barack Obama, according to Democratic officials.
An excerpt of Craig’s client list:

Elian Gonzalez’s father – Craig represented the father who demanded the return of his son after his estranged wife died trying to take [...]