Happy Hour Links From Today

Happy Hour Links

BY John McCormack
Republicans (and one Democrat) uphold filibuster of financial regulation bill.

Tom Tancredo: Beware of racial profiling in immigration laws.

Young voters just not that into Obama right now.

Sign at budget-cut protest in Des Moines: "Save ARE Teachers."

Gay rights groups starting to get suspicious of Obama plan to repeal DADT next year, when there are fewer Democrats in Congress.

Whoops: "new evidence shows there was no all-encompassing [ash] cloud and, where dust was present, it was often so thin that it posed no risk."

Stephen Hawking doesn't think aliens would be very friendly.

When will lovers of salt (and freedom in general) fully ally themselves with the producers of unpasteurized milk?

Weekly Standard Blog

Who are the 300 Terrorists Convicted under the Bush Administration?

10:42 AM, Feb 5, 2010 ·
BY John McCormack
Byron York reports on Senator Jon Kyl's efforst to get to the bottom of an Obama administration talking point on Gitmo and terrorism. Attorney General Eric Holder reiterates in his letter to the Senate this week that "Bush administration used the criminal justice system to convict more than 300 individuals on terrorism-related charges," but Holder has been unable to provide the names of those individuals even though Jon Kyl has been asking for them since May 2009. "It's a disingenuous argument," says Kyl. "There haven't been 300 high-profile, dangerous terrorism cases in the United States -- if there were, we would have heard about them."

To grasp just how evasive the administration is being, read the whole thing.

The Case for McChrystal's Plan

The Case for McChrystal's Plan
The Foreign Policy Initiative has produced a very helpful fact sheet that makes the case for a fully resourced counterinsurgency strategy for Afghanistan. Read it here.