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President Obama Suddenly Discovers A Taste for Executive Power

Jimmie | April 10, 2009 | Comments (1)

Bush. Obama. Eh, what’s the difference? In February, President Obama’s Justice Department quietly argued in a San Francisco court that it was maintaining the same position as President Bush’s Justice Department on a case involving detainees trying to sue a private company for its role in their (allegedly) extraordinary renditions. The Obama administration pushed the [...]

Why Guantanamo Bay Won’t Close Next Year.

Jimmie | January 23, 2009 | Comments (7)

Yesterday, President Obama signed an order to close Guantanamo Bay by this time next year. As you might expect, that brought cheers from the MSM and exasperation from the right. I’m not in either camp. In fact, I’m in my very own camp. I don’t think that Gitmo will close at all. I think that [...]

President Sends Compean and Ramos Home

Jimmie | January 19, 2009 | Comments (0)

Beautiful. Thank you, Mr. President. WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President George W. Bush, in one of his last official acts in office, commuted the prison sentences of two U.S. Border Patrol agents who were imprisoned for shooting an unarmed Mexican drug smuggler in the buttocks in a case that drew widespread attention. The agents, Ignacio Ramos [...]

Bush’s Economy and Pelosi’s Bad Choice

Jimmie | January 19, 2009 | Comments (0)

Here are a couple useful tidbits on the economy that you’ll find useful. First, the Wall Street Journal issues a corrective to the years of biased and/or ignorant MSM reporting to give a measured accounting of the economy Bush administration. In the end, he got one big thing right and one big thing wrong. The [...]

Obama to Close Gitmo…One of These Days

Jimmie | January 12, 2009 | Comments (1)

President-Elect Obama is allegedly going to issue an executive order to close the detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay as his first official act as President. But it won’t really close. In fact, it won’t close in the first hundred days of his Presidency or even in the first year. According to the report, all the [...]

Barack Obama Yawns at Hate. Again.

Jimmie | January 12, 2009 | Comments (3)

Barely concealed inside each progressive leftist is a capering homunculus of hatred just dying to come out. Wanting to see how the Web site [Barack Obama's new USAService.org] works, I typed in my hometown zip code in Los Angeles to find events within a 10-mile radius. It pointed me to several events, including a blood [...]

Also, The Sun Rises in the East and Orbits the Earth.

Jimmie | January 2, 2009 | Comments (2)

The deuce you say! To some staunch conservatives watching President Bush relinquish the reins of power to President-elect Barack Obama, a few too many ardent liberals are now crashing the gates. … Conservatives fear that some of these Obama transition advisers are too far left on the political spectrum and are a sign of radical [...]

The Night of the Moderate-Length Knives

Jimmie | December 30, 2008 | Comments (1)

I think the one thing we’ve learned from Republicans in the past three months is that political advisers and career staffers are pretty much self-aggrandizing jerks who feel loyalty only to themselves and don’t have a problem shirking any responsibility whatever for their own dismal failures. Matthew Dowd buys into the popular MSM narrative of [...]