7-2-2009

Stephen Spruiell & Kevin Williamson: Waxman-Markey is part power-grab, part enviro-fantasy. Here are 50 reasons to stop it.
Ed Morrissey: Hey, what do Helen Thomas and Chip Reid know? Both of them accused the White House of staging a phony town hall on health care yesterday, before the event began…The Washington Post report on the “town-hall event” shows how clumsily Obama faked it:
Scott Johnson: In the course of his post on the Obama administration’s negotiations with Iran-backed terrorists and the release of a terrorist responsible for murdering American troops, Andrew McCarthy asks four questions.

More Andrew McCarthy: Even as the mullahs are terrorizing the Iranian people, the Obama administration is negotiating with an Iranian-backed terrorist organization and abandoning the American proscription against exchanging terrorist prisoners for hostages kidnapped by terrorists. Worse still, Obama has already released a terrorist responsible for the brutal murders of five American soldiers in exchange for the remains of two deceased British hostages.

Peter Feaver: The Obama administration has just been Woodwarded, as in Bob Woodwarded. If his Washington Post report is accurate, General Jones, the National Security Advisor committed a serious civil-military relations mistake that could haunt the administration over the coming year.

Wacky Medical Story of the Day: Man uses nail clippers in DIY circumcision

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