10-20-2009

Hopey-Changey Update: The White House trying to dictate who’s a news organization. Democrats out to gut a business group. Obama media allies damning Americans as racist, unpatriotic and treasonous. Is this the America Obama promised when he campaigned to end the cynical and divisive politics of the past?

Ed Morrissey: How patronizing can the federal government get?  Try to follow the reasoning in the latest intervention by the Department of Justice in electoral law, which negates a community’s right to opt for non-partisan races in its local elections.

Don Surber: “Senator Tom Coburn and Gay GOP Leader Expose Government Health Care Rationing for AIDS Patients in the U.S.” and Hume: the rodeo clown is winning

Richard Fernandez: Hillary Clinton’s memory failed her again. The Secretary of State claimed she mis-spoke after her claim to have stayed at the ruined hotel in Belfast was debunked by British newspapers.

We’re All Felons, Now: Whatever one may think of Ayn Rand’s political philosophy or ethics, her criminal justice prophecy has proven unsettlingly accurate: In our continuing eagerness to purge American society of crime, we’ve allowed the government to make us all into criminals.

Ralph Peters: Few American soldiers have more combat-zone dust on their boots than Command Sgt. Maj. Philip F. Johndrow, US Army. After serving a total of 42 months in Iraq at every tactical level, he’s earned the right to speak up.

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