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Since my story on the nomination of Sohail Mohammed to a Superior Court Judgeship ran last week , it was picked up by a variety of left wing outlets, beginning with the Soros funded Think Progress . And in a startling display of GroupThink, sites and personalities from the left picked up the Think Progress summary unquestioningly and made use of it. It was not only a disturbing demonstration of how little actual thinking for itself the left really does, but also how little reading they do. To set the record straight 1. The issue is not that Sohail Mohammed represented 9/11 detainees. Representing 9/11 detainees may make him a less than ideal choice in a state that lost a great many people to Muslim terrorism on that day, but if that alone were the issue, there would be little to discuss here. Attorneys can and do represent clients without sharing their beliefs. The problem comes about when the attorney shares the beliefs of his clients. Examples of lawyers like that include Lyn...

Via Conservative New Jersey There's a great deal of talk on conservative blogs about that infamous CNN poll finding that quite a few people tied Palin's bullseye map to the Loughner massacre. There have been a number of polls that have gone both ways, which indicates mostly that the people being polled don't really know the answer, and are guessing. That the belief has a great deal of traction among Democrats is not exactly surprising. But the bullseye map doesn't matter, or Palin's current unfavorability rating. Those are passing things. What does matter is Palin's ability to outmaneuver them. The campaigns against her have been completely unfair, yet effective enough to damage her over and over again with a sizable percentage of voters. Palin isn't the first Republican to be hammered over and over again by a rabid media. Reagan and Bush had it almost as bad at times, but they managed to shrug almost all it off until the end of their 2 year terms. ...

Countries most often destroy themselves by refusing to gauge the consequences of their actions. That blind spot creates a weakness. The bigger it gets, the more vulnerable the country becomes. America's blind spot has been an unwillingness to recognize the economic cost of its social programs. American prosperity was built on the combination of vast resources, cheap labor, class mobility and few regulations creating a society with the shortest line possible between innovation and production. But as liberalism's regulatory culture made everything from mining to manufacturing to employment more expensive, the old American economic miracles were no longer possible. America went from a nation that could construct the Empire State Building and a force of warplanes outnumbering the entire present day air force in a single year-- to a country where the World Trade Center has not been rebuilt despite an abundance of capital after a decade and there are still hardly any Fifth Generati...

Obama needs a victory. Somewhere. After losing congress and returning from another useless international trip, that victory has to come from somewhere. Outmaneuvered on the home front, he desperately needs to regain his stature and upstage the new Republican congress with a major achievement. And it's clear now to even his dimmest media supporters that such an achievement won't come from another international tour. His political status as the occupant of the White House, and his own personal celebrity, mean that he can hop on Air Force One and get a reception in most countries. But having cocktail parties thrown in your honor and actually being listened to are two different things. Internationally Obama has become a "party guest", whose attendance brings status and media attention, but who isn't to be taken seriously. Cracking both the new congress and the world community is hard with no leverage. Most presidents have understood that their leverage came from r...

In 2008 the theme was, "We won. and the other party can sit in the back." But now it's 2011 and after a punishing election which the majority party lost badly, the new theme is, Bipartisanship. From proposals to have Democrats and Republicans sit together, as if congress were an elementary school assembly instead of the legislative body of the nation, to calls for civility and tamped down rhetoric, there's a sudden emphasis on everyone getting along and working together. In 2008 the Democrats had the chance to be good winners, but instead they chose to ram through a unilateral agenda that most of the country opposed. The 2010 elections punished them for their hubris, and now they expect the Republicans to be the good winners that they never were. But such a message would have been far more convincing if they hadn't tried to wrap it around a madman's shooting spree, like a gift wrapped brick hurled through a window. The Loughner killing spree gave the left ...

New Jersey, the Garden State, has just taken its first step toward becoming the Sharia State, with Governor Christie's nomination of Sohail Mohammed, an attorney to detained terrorist suspects, to a Superior Court judgeship in Passaic County. The Sohail nomination continues Christie's unfortunate pandering to the American Muslim Union and the Islamic Center of Passaic County. Passaic County has the second largest Muslim population in the country . And the Islamic Center of Passaic County is the state's largest mosque, and it's the only one run by an an Imam who was a member of the Hamas terrorist organization. But when the United States government attempted to deport Mohammed Qatanani, New Jersey's pols and wannabe pols like Christie , quickly came to his aid. Despite the fact that Mohammed Qatanani was a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, the organization that is behind both Al Qaeda and Hamas, despite his own guilty plea to being a member of Hamas , and despite ...

The 112th congress is the first congress in half a century without a Kennedy on board. And the first glimpse of a Republican landslide came with the backlash over the "Kennedy seat" in Massachusetts. As it turned out, it wasn't the Kennedy seat, it was the people's seat. And it wasn't the Kennedy congress, it is the people's congress. What was once a family on the verge of creating an expansive political dynasty in two branches of government, barely had enough clout to convince A&E not to air a scandalous miniseries about their family. Which is a pity, because the Kennedy family long ago became little more than entertainment, their scandals making them no different than any other group of celebrities. And that seems an altogether fitting end to their deliberate self-iconization. The Kennedys were not the first political family, and they won't be the last, but they were notorious for how little they did to deserve their fame and iconic status. The ...