Osama's Final Moments

The animators in Taiwan give us their version of the operation:

Tax Takers Aren't Doing Their Fair Share

Have you ever heard a Democrat seriously talk about the government doing with less? Of course not since the state is the secular church and that would be blasphemy. IBD gives us some facts:

..."Sacrifice" is evidently not lacking on the tax side of the federal
fiscal equation. The spending side is a different story, however.
If there is a lack of "sacrifice," it lies not with the taxpayers but with the "tax takers."...

...Washington's talk of "sacrifice" is no more than a stalking horse in the left's hunt for higher taxes. This call for higher taxes is not so much about funding the war against terrorism as it is about the left's desire to use the tax code to redistribute income.

The contrast between taxes and spending during the current and past three conflicts could not be starker. And it could not demonstrate more clearly the left's divergent view of taxes. It differs fundamentally from the rest of America's. For most, taxes are a necessary evil as disagreeable and inevitable as death.

For the left, they are a good to be pursued, a means to an end. Not simply needed to expand government, they are sought to smooth the perceived inequities arising from a market economy's distribution of wealth.

Washington's call for "sacrifice" therefore rings hollow on every front.

Secret Orders Let Us Kill the Enemy!

Does anyone have a problem with this?

WASHINGTON — The United States military since 2004 has used broad, secret authority to carry out nearly a dozen previously undisclosed attacks against Al Qaeda and other militants in Syria, Pakistan and elsewhere, according to senior American officials.

Isn't that exactly what G.W. Bush said we were going to do and everyone was on board with it? We as a country vowed in 2001 that AQ would have no safe haven and that any country that harbored them was our enemy as well. There were "Huzzahs!" all around.

Do we want to wait for another 9/11 plot to come out Syria or Somalia as it did in Afghanistan? Or do we want kill these cowards wherever they are. And is anyone seriously suggesting that these governments didn't know AQ was operating within their borders?

The anti-American leftist media is reporting this revelation as if it's a shocking violation of...something or other. I see it as a comforting confirmation that we're allowing our military to do its job. How long that will last remains to be seen.

Today's Obama Stupidity

I'm wondering why Obama the candidate is speaking to a rally of non-voting Germans at all.

After receiving a hailstorm of criticism for considering Brandenburg Gate
for a public speech, as
well as official German dissuasion, Barack Obama moved the venue to the
Siegessäule monument. Obama will speak about “historic” US-German
relations, but once again, Obama’s own grasp of history has
been proven deficient. Not only does the site contain a monument to
Prussian victories over other American allies in Europe, its placement was
decided by Adolf Hitler — in order to impress crowds in his idealized version of
Berlin called Germania:

Since he thinks there's at least 57 states in the Union, no one should be surprised by this little gem:

"the objective of this trip was to have substantive discussions with people like President Karzai or Prime Minister Maliki or President Sarkozy or others who I expect to be dealing with over the next eight to 10 years.

Guatanamo Interrogation Video

The NYT has breathlessly posted a video of a sixteen year old being interrogated after being captured on the battlefield in Afghanistan where he "allegedly" killed a US soldier. No word on when the Times will post the videos of Islamo-Nazis really torturing and beheading Americans and others.
It's also important to remember that a bullet fired by a sixteen year old is just as deadly as any other.