4-22-2009

American Thinker: Green up, Man! It’s Freaking Earth Day!

Stephen Hayes: It is possible, I suppose, that a series of fortunate coincidences has resulted in the public disclosure of only that information that will be politically helpful to the Obama administration. It is also possible that Dick Cheney has taken up synchronized swimming in his retirement.

Politico says No…Not helpful: President Barack Obama’s attempt to project legal and moral clarity on coercive CIA interrogation methods has instead done the opposite — creating confusion and political vulnerability over an issue that has inflamed both the left and right.

BBC: The Sun is the dimmest it has been for nearly a century. There are no sunspots, very few solar flares – and our nearest star is the quietest it has been for a very long time. The observations are baffling astronomers…

Ed Morrissey: John Reilly, an MIT professor who claimed that the GOP lied about the study he conducted in order to concoct that number — and organizations from newspapers to Think Progress to MS-NBC and even the Wall Street Journal used his statement to call Republicans liars for the last several weeks. They may have to eat those words…they actually underestimated the costs to the consumer. John McCormack scores the exclusive

Maybe the Gay guy was jealous: Miss USA runner-up Carrie Prejean is set to make headlines with something other than her anti-gay marriage comments…the beauty queen has been casually dating Olympian Michael Phelps.

John Hinderaker: One might think that a Somali pirate, captured in the Indian Ocean and brought to the United States to stand trial, would be without friends, allies and financial supporters in this country. But no: it turns out that a veritable Pirates’ Aid Society exists, right here in Minnesota.

Canada Asks: Can someone please tell us how U. S. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano got her job? She appears to be about as knowledgeable about border issues as a late-night radio call-in yahoo.

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