Barack Obama campaigned on bring "change" to business as usual to Washington, D.C. and the majority of his supporters (many of who believe Republicans run Capitol Hill) are probably clueless to the fact that his cabinet picks are partisan insiders and retreads from Democrat administrations past.
Obama is enlisting former Senate leader Tom Daschle as his health secretary. Hillary Rodham Clinton, a well-known Washington personality, seemed more likely than ever to be his secretary of state. Clinton is deciding whether to take that post as America's top diplomat, her associates said Wednesday
Obama is ready to announce that his attorney general will be Eric Holder, the Justice Department's No. 2 when Clinton's husband was president. Rahm Emanuel, Obama's chief of staff, is another veteran of the Clinton White House.
Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano is Obama's primary choice to be secretary of the Homeland Security Department, several news organizations reported Thursday.
While many on the right remember the many quotes attributed to Barbara Boxer, Nancy Pelosi, and most recently Chuck Schumer, reciting the need for the revival of the Fairness Doctrine, the left is convinced that we have nothing to fear except fear itself because they would NEVER advocate the practice of squelching speech they disagreed with…
To figure out who was causing such agitation, I went searching for the proponents of the fairness doctrine. I looked at Obama's position–and it turns out that he doesn't want the policy reinstated. Then I called the array of Democratic congressmen who had been tagged by conservatives as doctrine proponents. But they all denied any intention to push for its reinstatement. As some of the world's great egotists, it's not surprising that Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly believe they would be the first political prisoners interred in an Obama administration. But, the more I searched for actual evidence of the doctrine's return, the more I had to conclude that Schumer was just messing with their heads.
If Democrats (come January) abandon their quest for media equality, it may not go over well with the far left. Liberals routinely attack those who dare offer an opposing view with childish shout-downs and flying pies.
What's suspicious with this New Republic piece is the notion that any progressive would attempt to calm conservative fears.
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This was only a matter of time, and it WILL spread in the coming years.
A Muslim must try his best to abide by the rulings of Sharia [Islamic law] whenever possible as much as he can. He should not allow himself to be liable to those western laws that contradict the clear-cut Islamic rulings.
— Omar Shahin, Phoenix-based imam and spokesman for the airport imams
Many nations are losing control of those within who've decided the host laws don't apply to them. Now, this pestilence is (thanks to the tolerant and foolishly sympathetic left) becoming increasingly bold and more in our faces.
Just where would al Qaeda get this kind of language come from…?
al-Qaida's No. 2 leader used a racial epithet to insult Barack Obama in a message posted Wednesday, describing the president-elect in demeaning terms that imply he does the bidding of whites.
The message appeared chiefly aimed at persuading Muslims and Arabs that Obama does not represent a change in U.S. policies. Ayman al-Zawahri said in the message, which appeared on militant Web sites, that Obama is "the direct opposite of honorable black Americans" like Malcolm X, the 1960s African-American rights leader.
In al-Qaida's first response to Obama's victory, al-Zawahri also called the president-elect—along with secretaries of state Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice—"house negroes."
Let's see if the progressives start pushing-back al Qaeda.
The Indian navy shipmates must have had a blast, finally being allowed to sink an enemy.
An Indian navy warship has sunk a Somali pirate "mother ship" in the Gulf of Aden, the world's most treacherous waterway, after the renegades threatened to attack the frigate.
The clash happened as pirates claimed to begin negotiations over a ransom for the Saudi super-tanker that was seized nearby on Saturday with two Britons aboard. The Sirius Star, which is carrying at least $100 million worth of oil, is the biggest ship ever to be hijacked.
Barack Obama campaigned on bring "change" to business as usual to Washington, D.C. and the majority of his supporters (many of who believe Republicans run Capitol Hill) are probably clueless to the fact that his cabinet picks are partisan insiders and retreads from Democrat administrations past.
