Who Needs Data?

by Randall Hoven - December 18th, 2009 - American Thinker

The IPCC's worst-case scenario over the next 100 years is a temperature rise of 4 degrees C (7.2 degrees F) and a sea-level rise of 26 to 59 centimeters (10 to 23 inches). Why would that wipe us out?

The average annual temperature in Memphis, Tennessee is 62.3 degrees F. The temperature of Lexington, Kentucky is 54.9 degrees F. That is a bigger difference than the IPCC's worst-case scenario.

Could mankind handle that kind of adaptation - moving from Memphis to Lexington in the next 100 years?

The hysterical insistence by the chicken little propoonents of global warming is that you must not stop and think. Don't you dare try to understand their data. Just let them rule the world and they will save you. And by THEIR OWN data, they are saving you from the catastrophe of moving from Memphis, Tennessee to Lexington, Kentucky.

That is the worse case scenario of their data. The best case, which is equally likely, means they are saving you from moving from Menphis, Tennessee to the suburbs of Memphis. Oh what a catastrophe. We have to avoid that at all costs!

In other words, it is a SCAM. A Fraud. Because they manpiplate the data to get even that exaggerated claim. Why do you think they are the same people who were trying to convice the world that the risk was global cooling on 40 years ago? Colling or warming, they don't care. All they want is for you to panic and give them control, of your life, your money and your freedom.

Why would anyone who is not insane do that?

Socialism In Stages

Even soft, incremental expansions of government produce poverty.

by Dan Oliver, Jr. - December 15th, 2009 - National Review

America debated three strategies during the Cold War. The Right wanted “roll back” — dreams of Patton driving his tank into Red Square. The Left wanted détente — which is French for “surrender.” The country loosely followed containment, a program outlined by George Kennan in 1946, which argued that the political contradictions of the Soviet state would eventually cause its own demise. America had but to be patient.

Kennan may have been the first to realize that a society based on Communism would not survive politically, but it was Ludwig von Mises, in his 1922 work Socialism, who demonstrated that any such society could not survive economically.

It is the intellectual incompetence of our American school system that has seriously undermined our society. The problem with the incremental socialism that is taking over America is simple. Our own people are too uneducated to understand what is happening. Thanks to teachers who wanted a perfect society built along their passionate belief in socialism we have a citizenry that cannot think.

Why is it so hard to believe in the results that capitalism has delivered? Why is it so hard for people to compare the two systems and pick the one that has proved to work? Why do people so fervently desire the prefection of perceived results that they will turn over their nation to a system that always is corrupt and evil and over the long haul always fails?

Wishful thinking is not going to change the world. Plenty of leading thinkers have explained again and again why socialism doesn't work. Yet again and again, smart people delude themselves with the belief that - THIS TIME - they can make it work.

It doesn't.

Tyranny Of The EPA

By Jay Ambrose - December 12th, 2009 - Washington Times

Get ready for the tyranny of the Environmental Protection Agency, because if Congress balks at passing cap-and-trade legislation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, this bureaucratic behemoth will strike, mangling industry and further damaging a recession-plagued economy.

It's the rage, you know, this religious-like dogma about a global warming apocalypse in the absence of turning everything upside down. There's a world summit on the issue in Copenhagen, and even the U.S. Supreme Court got on board two years ago, saying the EPA should regulate carbon dioxide and other suspected greenhouse gases if they were hammering human health.

The EPA has now said it is doing just that, although EPA knows no such thing, cannot in fact begin to know any such thing.

Insanity. Pure insanity. That anyone would believe they have the right to pursue such dogmatic idiocy without legislative concurrence proves these people on the left are indifferent to the whole concept of elective democracy. That our courts concur is frightening. Are both of these groups truly that delusional about the science? How did our government become so filled with insane idiots?

Copenhagen's Political Science

by Sarah Palin - December 9, 2009 - Washington Post

With the publication of damaging e-mails from a climate research center in Britain, the radical environmental movement appears to face a tipping point. The revelation of appalling actions by so-called climate change experts allows the American public to finally understand the concerns so many of us have articulated on this issue.

"Climate-gate," as the e-mails and other documents from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia have become known, exposes a highly politicized scientific circle -- the same circle whose work underlies efforts at the Copenhagen climate change conference. The agenda-driven policies being pushed in Copenhagen won't change the weather, but they would change our economy for the worse.

The e-mails reveal that leading climate "experts" deliberately destroyed records, manipulated data to "hide the decline" in global temperatures, and tried to silence their critics by preventing them from publishing in peer-reviewed journals.

The entire chicken little campaign to convince the world that there is a man caused global catastrophe which we must counter by world socialist government, has finally started to unravel. This article is an excellent, well written explanation of why we must NOT listen to the climate extremists.

CO2 is not a green house gas. It is time to start developing the most effective energy options possible so that economic success can fund the smooth transition to other cost effective options for the long term future.

Some day many of the so-called "green" solutions will be the basis of our energy use. However they should wait until we reach the point where they are the most cost effective. Rushing to artificially implement them while better options still exist is pure insanity.

Sarah Palin Is Coming to Town

by Stanley Fish - December 7th, 2009 - New York Times

When I walked into the Strand Bookstore in Manhattan last week, I headed straight for the bright young thing who wore an “Ask Me” button, and asked her to point me to the section of the store where I might find Sarah Palin’s memoir, “Going Rogue: An American Life.” She looked at me as if I had requested a copy of “Mein Kampf” signed in blood by the author, and directed me to the nearest Barnes and Noble, where, presumably, readers of dubious taste and sensibility could find what they wanted.

This short story is reality among liberals!

A great number of the people who think of themselves as America's elite are the intelectually pompous kind of people who work in bookstores. They do not see themselves as merely clerks who can help you buy what you want to buy to read. They see themselves as leaders who can tell you what books you should read. They also are the most severe censors in the world, reserving the right to guard against your reading something that postulates truths they do not believe. If they disagree with a book they simply refuse to stock it.

The article by Fish, no conservative by a long shot, is at least honest about the biased attacks on Sarah Palin coming from orgnizations like the Associated Press. They have had "fact checkers" poring over her book as if it was a biography, not an autobiography. They have, in an equally pretentious manner to the clerk in the book store, decided that they can determine whether Sarah Palin believes something better than she. Their opinion? She doesn't believe what she claims to believe. If she were the cliche conservative they think she represents she would believe something else. Therefore her book is dishonest and false. According to them.

ROTFL

I can't think of a single additional thing that needs to be said about her critics.

We Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet

If you think things have been rough so far, hang on.

by Victor Davis Hanson - November 26th, 2009 - National Review

When it comes to the problems facing this country, an old slogan comes to mind: “You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet.”

High unemployment, the recession, and a terrorist resurgence in Afghanistan are bad enough. But there are a number of problems on the horizon that could dwarf President Obama’s first-year trials.

Why the pessimism? In short, we are doing nothing to prepare for the crises to come.

The reality is that Obama lives in the dream world of leftist extremists. Never having met a payroll, he does not have a clue how to get our nation working again. Obama thinks of work as government "redistributing" wealth. Radicals like Obama think that those who cannot find good paying jobs in business have been cheated - so they give them good paying jobs on the government payroll with no clue that it is a waste of money. They do not understand that wealthy people do not have huge sums of money sitting idle in a bank somewhere. The leftist extremists destroy the business climate, then raise taxes on wealth that no longer exists. Ultimately they simply refuse to believe that if they keep kicking the golden goose, the eggs will stop coming.

This is a delusion. Here are some other delusions listed in the article. Energy prices are key to many industries which will become unprofitable as they go up. Yet we don't search for cheap energy. Printing money will always lead to inflation. We keep printing money like there is no tomorrow. Borrowing costs will sky rocket when inflation goes up. We keep right on running deficits that must be borrowed. The war by the Islamo-fascists is not one we started and must be won. We waffle in fighting risking defeat. Raising taxes in this weak economy will start a new cycle of business failure. Every bill passed is loaded with egregious new taxes.

Barack Obama does not believe any of these truths. He blathers about his concern for all of these issues but it is just talk. Like everything else about this man, it is just talk. Obama seems to feel if he says something about addressing the deficits that is just as valuable as actually doing something. He has succeeded all his life by talking. Not by acting or actually accomplishing anything. This is not going to change at this point in his life.

I share Victor Davis Hanson's belief that it is going to get much worse before it gets better.

Some Polling Indices Of Which You May Be Unfamiliar

bu C. Edmund Wright - November 25th, 2009 - American Thinker

The Empty Tent index is constructed to demonstrate the massive vote loss the McCain Campaign and other “big tent” Republicans suffered thanks to the strategy to “reach across the aisle” and not go after McCain’s “honorable opponent” and so on. We could call this the “Colin Powell Impact Index” or the “David Brooks Crease in the Pants” index, but we will stick with “Empty Tent” index for short.

This index is constructed by contrasting how the McCain Campaign performed with independents in the 2008 election – they lost them by 21 points – with how independents now view Obama since they have an understanding of who he is. According to Rasmussen today, 51% of independents strongly disapprove of Obama while only 16% strongly approve, giving Obama an index of -35% among this group of voters.

Since McCain refused to clearly define “who Obama was” during the campaign in an attempt to attract moderates, the spread of 56 percentage points is a pretty good snapshot of how many votes the “maverick” left on the table.

I am not fond of polls. Much of the problem stems from the fact that it is very hard to determine whether the polls have valid data or have scammed the results by careful selection of who is polled and how the questions are asked. However there are some very interesting ideas included in this assessment of recent polls.

John McCain did many things right in his campaign, and many things wrong. The excerpt above is one issue that I had long been frustrated with. McCain refused to point out how radical, extreme and out of the American mainstream Barack Obama was (and is). The polling suggests that McCain lost 56% of the independent voters he wanted to support him for failing to accurately define Obama.

The second issue that McCain messed up seriously was his support for the Wall Street bailout. Republican candidates really need to decide once and for all time, we are the party of freedom and free enterprise. There is NEVER a justification to fatten the wallets of Wall Street investors from the taxes of average Americans. I still cannot fathom why McCain... and a lot of other Republicans... did not understand that. Actually, from some of their comments, some of them still do not get that.

Finally, I am still flabbergasted at the black community and their rejection of McCain. As a moderate he should have gotten more black support than any Republican candidate ever received. He didn't. Barack Obama is, for reasons of his hatred of America and his extremist socialist agenda, absolutely toxic to those who oppose him. He is the most divisive and most despised Democrat in the last 100 years. His arrogance and disdain for our values grates on people. Yet well over 90% of blacks support him enthusiastically. Blacks cannot accept that the hatred for Obama has nothing to do with his race. Before he has left office, that hate will have transferred itself to the black community because they keep attacking those who oppose him with the racist label. The label is not sticking. The backlash will. Barack Obama is going to wind up being the worst thing for the black community that could ever have happened.

Thankful For Plenty

Editorial - November 24th, 2009 - Investors Business Daily

Thanksgiving, as we all learned in school, was about Native Americans and Pilgrims feasting together in friendship to give thanks for a bountiful harvest. The truth, as is often the case, is quite different.

We've all heard about how the Pilgrims arrived at Plymouth after a perilous overseas trip — and how they nearly starved until Native Americans, including the English-speaking Squanto and Wampanoag Chief Massasoit, helped them to survive by teaching them about native foods and cultivation.

There's some truth to that. The Indians did help out. But a bigger reason for why they survived to give thanks — and one that gets short shrift today — can be summed up in one word: capitalism.

The socialist school teachers don't like that lesson though. A hundred years ago, that simple lesson was a key part of the story. Today, it is completely ignored. Do you have any reason to believe that children taught almost exclusively by socialists, who blur the meaning of our history, will have any love for our nation and its culture?

Why is anyone surprised that children raised on such deceit are the only generation that still supports the socialist, Barack Obama. 61% of our young still believe in socialism and Obama. Not a single older generation segment still supports him.

For those who still understand what makes our nation great, Happy Thanksgiving. For those too brain washed to get it, a little guidance. Please listen. There is nothing complicated about what made America great. The lessons are as simple as the real story of Thanksgiving.

Obama Shatters Spending Record

... For First-Year Presidents

by Staff - November 24th, 2009 - Fox News

President Obama has shattered the budget record for first-year presidents -- spending nearly double what his predecessor did when he came into office and far exceeding the first-year tabs for any other U.S. president in history.

Spending for the full 8 years of Bill Clinton - $13.5 Trillion.

Spending for the full 8 years of George W. Bush - $16.8 Trillion.

Projected spending for the full 8 years of Barack Obama - $28.6 Trillion.

His annual deficits nearly equal the total spending of either of his two predecessors.

Looked at another way, if cap-and-tax and health-care are passed (neither of which is included in the $28.6 Trillion shown above) he will spend more in 8 years than his two predecessors spent in 16 years. This is a record that will destroy our nation. No one can spend like this and not tear American society to shreds.

Winner Take All On Healthcare

by Jonah Goldberg - November 24th, 2009 - Los Angeles Times

I hereby forfeit my claim to a vast right-wing conspiracy decoder ring by offering two cheers for the Democrats. I congratulate them on their victory Saturday night in the Senate, and while I can't quite wish them continued success on the course they are following, I'm beginning to make peace with the possibility that they'll win.

For years, conservatives and liberals have flirted with the idea of disposing of the fool's errand of bipartisanship. Seeking compromise with partisans across the aisle is a recipe for getting nothing important done.

As much as it seems Jonah Goldberg might be right on the philosophy, it annoys me that he can take such a detached view of our nation and it's future. What true patriot can "make peace with the possibility that they'll win?" Liberals have been fighting for most of the last century to destroy the freedoms that America enjoys. They launched a culture war in our schools to eliminate Christianity and they won. They launched a welfare war against poverty to entrench a permanent underclass, and they won. Now they are moving up. They wish to eliminate free choice in health care, enslaving the middle class in our society.

As Goldberg notes in his article, "Democrats sincerely believe that nationalized healthcare, in one form or another, is the best thing for America and that if they can get it passed, voters will fall in love with it. Politically, there is a real danger they're right. Americans are loath to relinquish entitlements once they've secured them."

Actually you don't need for a majority of Americans to love some new entitlement. You just need a plurality that will vote for nothing else. As soon as a plurality can swing elections, it might as well be a majority. That is how we lose freedom. Our previous rejection of government entitlements is why no other nation ever had the level of freedom that we once enjoyed in our nation. George Washington really was the father of our country, and his desire to go home and live his life free of government became the ethic that ruled our nation until recently.

Now we are throwing away that freedom and embracing the standard of thousands of years. Totalitarian government telling people how to live their lives. Enjoy freedom while you can. It is quickly slipping away from us.

The intellectual detachment of Jonah Goldberg is not the world you live in. Nor do I. We live in the real world where losing political battles has true consequences for empowering bureaucrats to make our lives miserable.

Under the Islamic Veil

Faces Disfigured By Acid

[This is how Islam treats its women. Islam. The religion of peace.]

by Phyllis Chesler - November 23rd, 2009 - Pajamasmedia

These photos show what happens to real women who wear the Islamic Veil. The photos depict horrifying hate and the unbearable suffering it inflicts upon female innocents. The photos were taken by Emilio Morenatti of the Associated Press. The text is based on work done by Nicholas Kristof—one of the few people at the New York Times whose work I am proud to quote. You may find them HERE. (Thanks to Yehuda for calling this to my attention).

It is rare for an article to bring me to tears. Most people think I am hard hearted and indifferent to the pain of others. Yet this article brought tears to my eyes. The pain shown in these pictures is beyond belief. If you want to know why we must defeat Islamic extremism, you really have to see this. Yet I recommend you steel your heart. It is tough.

The Smoking Iceberg?

by Melanie Phillips - November 21st, 2009 - London Spectator

Data that has been hacked from the Hadley Centre’s Climatic Research Unit at East Anglia University – one of the principal academic centres behind anthropogenic global warming theory – appears to reveal an international conspiracy of scientific experts to distort, falsify or suppress evidence in order to exaggerate man-made global warming, and also to vilify AGW sceptics in order to rubbish and bury their own evidence.

A magnificent set of links to many of the articles that are slamming the pseudo scientific conspiracy and the coverup of their intentional AGW hoax.

Long suspected, this is the smoking gun needed to prove the conspiracy by the global warming fraudsters.


Update - Here is another article with great links to various sources, including one that has all the emails exactly as they were hacked from the Hadley Centre.

President Obama's Trip: Style Over Substance

Lucianne.com - - The White House spin on this disastrous trip could snap your neck.

by Mike Allen - November 19th, 2009 - Politico

President Barack Obama returns from his maiden Asian swing with none of the concrete accomplishments that White Houses typically put in place before big trips, setting up a stark test for his idealistic theory that the United States should act more like a wise neighbor than a swaggering superpower.

Obama’s minimalist approach was most consequential in China, where he did not meet with Christians, dissidents or bloggers, or directly challenge his hosts for repressive tactics that are again on the rise.

The Chinese in turn rebuffed longstanding U.S. concerns – whether on human rights, Iran or currency policy – in a heavily stage-managed visit where China, not Obama, clearly sought the upper hand.

It’s an approach that carries great risk for Obama – playing straight into his critics’ accusations that his new, more multilateral style isn’t paying dividends, and worse, is making him look weak and ineffectual abroad.

I love the attempt by Politico to describe Obama's approach as minimalist, rather than what it is, left wing appeasement, or as Rodney King described it, "Can't we all just get along?" How naive.

How can Obama think that apologizing to everyone and insisting America will not use its strength any more will impress the realpolitik leaders of the dictatorial nations like Russia and China?

I absolutely love the comment about the article by one blogger, BeatleJeff, on Lucianne.com:

What I Did on My Fall Break by Barry Obama

On my fall break, I went to China and Japan. I saw the Great Wall of China and ate real Chinese food. That was cool. I met some little Chinese man. Boring! In Japan, I ate lots of sushi. Sushi is cool! I met an old Japanese man. I showed him how well I can bow. I have been practicing that real hard. I think there was some assignment I was supposed to do on the trip, but I was having so much fun, I forgot to do it. Mr Emmanuel will be mad at me for that, but who cares. I hope that the people re-elect me in three years so that I can take more fun trips like this one.

I thought seriously about posting this article as a joke on the Chowan River Patriot, but I quickly realized the mistake of going that route. If I did that, I would have to post everything about Obama as a joke, and no matter how ridiculous this arrogant little would-be tyrant is, the threat he poses to our freedom is not a joke.

Obama's Mind Game

by Robin of Berkeley - November 17th, 2009 - American Thinker

A thug bites off a finger. Sarah Palin's church is torched. Bullies intimidate voters.

Last week, an esteemed Columbia University black architecture professor punched a white female coworker in the eye for not doing more about white privilege.

He has no history of violence. So why now?

Why now? This may be the most important question of our time. Why are some people reaching the boiling point? Why do many others look vacant, like an Invasion of the Body Snatchers? The shootings at military bases, from Little Rock to Fort Hood -- why now?

It's Obama, of course.

It will be really interesting to find out who this writer is. Once again she has written a magnificent article decoding the hate that flows from the left wing elements in our society. In earlier articles she proclaimed herself to be a former leftist (like David Horowitz). It certainly infuses her writing with a feeling of accuracy about the shortcomings of these people who hate us. She also proclaimed herself embedded in a company that so embraces the left wing fanatics she could not identify herself without a certainty of losing her job and her livelihood.

That theme frightens me. It says more than anything else the degree of extremism that you find on the left. I cannot imaging a right wing company owner ever being permitted to fire a subordinate for a political disagreement. Look at the extreme political correctness that protected Nidal Hasan in the Army. No one was willing to oppose his obvious hatred for our nation because it would have been their career that would have ended, not Hasan's. How insane is that? An enemy of our nation has better protection in our poltically correct society than those who love our nation. Even in our military.

This must end. I read almost everything that Robin of Berkeley writes since she allows us to know our enemy, and learn how to defeat them. As noted in her article posted here, Barack Obama is the most insidious and divisive President our nation has ever elected to that august power. He is leading his cult to destroy us. It is time we started waking up to the consequences if we do not fight back.

Anthraxing New York

by Peter W. Huber - November 2009 (Publication dated Autumn 2009) - City Journal

On May 14, 1796, Edward Jenner injects eight-year-old James Phipps with cowpox pus taken from lesions on the hand of milkmaid Sarah Nelmes, and finds that this mild infection protects Phipps from deliberate attempts to infect him with an aged and thus weakened form of the human pox. Jenner publishes his findings two years later, content to gift the most valuable pharmaceutical discovery of all time to suffering humanity. “Yours is the comfortable reflection that mankind can never forget that you have lived,” writes Thomas Jefferson in a letter sent to Jenner in 1806.

But smallpox fought back. The strain that emerged 3,000 years ago killed about 30 percent of those infected. In the late nineteenth century, a milder strain appeared, killing a mere 1 percent. A 12 percent killer emerged in 1963. The first and worst perished on Bhola Island in 1975, but wiping out its siblings took another two years. To this day, as David Koplow recounts in his 2003 book Smallpox, “no one knows for certain where, when, or how these less noxious smallpox relatives crept into existence.”

We do know, however, that the vaccine that ended up beating them all wasn’t Jenner’s. The details are forever hidden, and Koplow himself doesn’t speculate about them, but it’s easy to surmise how this vaccine came into being. Picture how the market for what began as Jenner’s vaccine operated through all but the last few decades of its two-century run. Infectious muck was scraped from scabs found on cows or milkmaids, then scraped back into human arms. It was transported on sailing ships to America by moving it from arm to arm, a human chain letter. Unwashed human hands, knives, and needles did the scraping, inevitably picking up more muck along the way, including smallpox itself. Countless unregulated purveyors of vaccine got involved, many of them careless, incompetent, or worse. Washington did its bit here, too—the national “vaccine agent” it appointed in 1813 accidentally sent real smallpox instead of vaccine to North Carolina, infecting 60 people and killing ten.

But people apparently noticed and spread the word: this shot works better than that one. Such choices, accumulating over the years, had bred better grains, dogs, and sheep, and now they set about breeding a better vaccine. And on it went, until the huge Wyeth Labs picked what it considered the best of the breed, got it licensed, and—with a little help from the Left—obliterated the greatest bioterrorist of them all.

The story of Variola major ended in 1975, but vaccinia’s didn’t end until gene sequencers set out a quarter-century later to find out what it really was. The several strains of smallpox in the wild, we now know, were all eradicated by just one virus—the same “novel, separate creature”—in all the needles. It appears to be a remix of cowpox, another cousin that poxes horses, and the human pox. It was created, as Koplow notes, by means that were “somehow inadvertent, invisible to the practitioners, and global.” Or as a biologist and an economist whose lives overlapped Jenner’s might have put it, by means of natural selection and the invisible hand.

This is one of those rare articles that changes the view of anyone intelligent who reads it. The story about small pox is an important lesson for anyone who wants to live and see the next generation better off than the last. Stupid politically correct liberals have sabotaged the free wheeling health care and pharmaceutical development industry that defeated small pox. Competition for what worked replaced all the errors of the process and ended a terrible scourge. Yet those on the left have destroyed the system that accomplished this great goal.

The incomepetence displayed in handling this year's swine flu virus and the vaccine to defeat it should be all that is needed to encourage a return to a better system. However totalitarian minded left wing fanatics will not let that happen. Our pharmaceutical industry has been collapsed into a few scared government dependent companies who see that subservience to government is their only chance for profit.

The American people are left helpless before a world of disease that was defeated once, but is now capable of wiping out innocent victims on a scale unimaginable. The people who have done this should be the ones wiped from our planet. However they run the government - so they allow no one to criticize them.

Hard Evidence

by Christopher Hitchens - November 16th, 2009 - Slate

I wrote some years ago that the three most salient characteristics of the Muslim death-squad type were self-righteousness, self-pity, and self-hatred. Surrounded as he was by fellow shrinks who were often very distressed by his menacing manner, Maj. Hasan managed to personify all three traits—with the theocratic rhetoric openly thrown in for good measure—and yet be treated even now as if the real word for him was troubled. Prepare to keep on meeting those three symptoms again, along with official attempts to oppose them only with therapy, if that. At least the holy warriors know they are committing suicide.

Christopher Hitchens seems to be one of the few writers on the left who understand that we cannot destroy our culture and survive. The Islamo fascists are not going to institute a better world. Their sharia dominated system of tyranny will be as bad today as it was when Islam ruled the world for a short period a thousand years ago. However I sometimes wonder if Hitchens was not so dedicated to hating all religions, including Christianity, would he be as good at seeing the faults of Islam?

Obama Goes To The Mattresses

by The Prowler (Anonymous pen name for resident blogger - or bloggers) - November 16th, 2009 - American Spectator

The ugliness surrounding the pushing out of White House Counsel Gregory Craig was months in the making, but culminated on the day on which the White House announced that the Justice Department would be prosecuting Guantanamo prisoners on U.S. soil, the very project Craig was supposedly brought into the administration to bring about.

[Snip]

"[Craig's replacement Bauer] knows where all the bodies are buried, and this indicates that there is something amiss with this White House, or at least someone is nervous about what is going on," says a former Obama transition team adviser. "You don't just make these kinds of changes for the sake of rearranging the deck chairs, and not at this time with at least three legislative and policy decisions looming that the Counsel's office would have been deeply involved in."

It is truly frightening how few insiders in the Obama regime are respected outside of the inner circle. This blog documents the departure of two more Obama people, who though liberal themselves, have friends on the other side of the street. Their departure is especially interesting because of the huge opposition to the trials for some of the Islamo-fascists from Gitmo. These combatants so egregiously violated the Geneva convention they cannot be called prisoners of war, leaving them in a complex and uncommon status.

Does anyone really know what is going on with the American government and its handling of these evil people? Why are we trying them in a civil court?

They should be tried as spies in a military tribunal. They are not criminals like a local shop lifter. They are spies. The difference is obvious to anyone with even a modicum of legal experience no matter if their status is uncommon or not.

Those who hate America still want access to American courts with their protective granting of rights to the accused so that they can spew their propaganda. Why has Obama acquiesced in this idiocy?