At the same time, the CIA has denied a request by former Vice President Dick Cheney to declassify documents that he said would show the harsh interrogations were effective. The agency isn’t permitted to declassify documents that are the subject of pending lawsuits, it said. Human-rights groups have brought a lawsuit demanding release of the documents. Those groups said Thursday that their lawsuit shouldn’t stand in the way of making

Life-Challenged Americans, long neglected under the Bush Administration, are finally receiving some government aid under the Obama Admininstration, in the form of stimulus money. Using his skills as a community organizer, and progressive voting techniques long cultivated in Chicago, Obama seems to be acknowledging the importance of this previously neglected voting bloc. Asked about the new policy, Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs told a reporter, “Life-Challenged Americans have been invisible in

You don’t say? Guess even Obama understands that it’s no use building a client state if your clients begin getting blown up in mall bombings. Pragmatism. Nuance.

Mark Steyn, from remarks delivered at a lecture at Hillsdale College, March of this year: […] the last holdout, the United States, is embarking on the same grim path: After the President unveiled his budget, I heard Americans complain, oh, it’s another Jimmy Carter, or LBJ’s Great Society, or the new New Deal. You should be so lucky. Those nickel-and-dime comparisons barely begin to encompass the wholesale Europeanization that’s underway.

as per Pablo in comments, and here. This is probably a good strategy, since her constituency is heavily moonbat and won’t be swayed by evidence or reason. Just sayin’. Ed Morrissey: Pelosi dares CIA to leak again

So we released Carrie Prejean’s, instead.

NOT. Alan Milburn, Labour MP and advisor talks about how the opportunity gap between wealthy and not in the UK is widening. Of course, the only way to address this problem is . . . TADA! MORE SOCIALISM! Only more commissions, more policies, more regulation, more bureaucracy can create equal opportunity for all.

Read it and weep. What Obama is after is a logical extension of who gets to determine meaning and, importantly, how they are able to justify their right to do so — in this case, pretending that the law extends beyond what the law is supposed to address, allowing its newly freed interpreters to do as they please with all the penumbras and emanations they will suddenly discover. Judges who

Kyle-Anne Shiver, The American Thinker: In the end, however slow the process, however seemingly benign the growth of the state may seem, liberal fascism has the same result of all tyrannies before it: hell on earth for most and a self-indulgent feast for the Statists in power. As Barack Obama speaks, thinking Americans ought to hear the echoes of past fascist demagogues and remember. Remember. When Barack Obama promises “collective