Yep:

Years after the circus-like trials of Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman and the 1993 World Trade Center bombers, Attorney General Eric Holder, acting for the president, has asked for a repeat performance. He is ordering trials in New York of five men who finally succeeded in the original plan to bring down those towers and, in the process, kill almost 3,000 civilians.

There is every reason to believe that in these trials the government may face even more substantial Sixth Amendment hurdles than it did in the original World Trade Center case — hurdles relating to the defendants’ rights to counsel, to subpoena witnesses, and to obtain access to classified information regarding the detention abroad of terrorists. Then there is their treatment while in detention and the names of states and state actors who assisted us in bringing to heel those who murder us here and abroad.

Do any of you pinhead liberals out there think we have KSM’s fingerprints on the written order stating “drive planes in to buildings”? When dealing with psychotic, mass murders you don’t get evidence like that – why do you think KSM was hiding in Pakistan while his minions were driving planes in to buildings? If KSM really believed in the cause, he’d have been one of the pilots…but, no, he wasn’t. He doesn’t really believe in the stated cause, and thus kept himself as far away from evidence as possible because he knew he was doing wrong.

Stalin was like that, too. So was Lenin. You think if we sifted through the Cuban state archives we’d find orders signed by Castro for all those murders? In Arafat’s private papers are there detailed instructions on how to torture and murder captive Jews? I feel pretty certain that the evidence we have on KSM is highly circumstantial and strongly based on the words of others, some of which will be hearsay and other bits will have been coerced. The basics of the trial are shot through with elements a determined and clever defense attorney can make hay with.

And, so, even if we get a conviction, the ultimate result will be to provide KSM a platform, put him back in the Islamist eye as a hero and the whole effort will be used to put the United States on trial and the global left – domestic and foreign – will be all over it.

Of all the terrible decisions made by the Obama Administration, this is the worst – and the one most likely to be paid for in blood, in the by and by.

Woohoo!

About a year ago, thousands jammed Grant Park in Chicago to celebrate Barack Obama’s election to the White House, a communal civic defining moment. But those giddy days are long gone as Democrats in Illinois face the potential of losing the Senate seat President Obama once held next November.

The Illinois primary is Feb. 2, and the Democrat and Republican races are ripening, with the deadlines to file or withdraw nominating petitions now passed…

…Alexi Giannoulias is the Democratic front-runner. His main competitors are Cheryle Jackson, the former Chicago Urban League chief and former Blagojevich spokeswoman; former City of Chicago Inspector General David Hoffman, and attorney Jacob Meister, who is a factor only because he put more than $1 million of his own cash into the race. With days lost to Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s, well, it’s practically voting day already…

…Giannoulias’ potential biggest liability is his former association with Broadway Bank, founded by his father and the subject of controversy because of loans made to alleged mobsters and convicted influence peddler Tony Rezko…

The best they can get is tied to Obama’s corrupt fixer, Tony Rezko…man, oh, man; if we can’t wrest this seat from the Democrats, then we really are a bunch of losers.

The main GOPer – Kirk – was made a bit famous a little while ago when he started angling for Palin’s endorsement…which is also, though, the smartest thing he could do as Palin’s endorsement carries with it a great deal of political passion on the part of the outraged populist right, the key to GOP victory next year.

Matt and I saw a lot of this sort of thing when researching Caucus of Corruption and now perhaps Reid is up to it. Details over at Dump Reid.

Well, we might want to start calling it a putsch, I guess:

The Obama administration will propose that the federal government take over safety regulation of the nation’s subway and light-rail systems, responding to what it says is haphazard and ineffective oversight by state agencies.

Under the proposal, the U.S. Department of Transportation would do for transit what it does for airlines and Amtrak: set and enforce federal regulations to ensure that millions of passengers get to their destinations safely. Administration officials said the plan will be presented in coming weeks to Congress, which must approve a change in the law.

The proposal would affect every subway and light-rail system in the country, including large systems in Washington, New York, Boston, Los Angeles and San Francisco.

Now your local bus route will come under the supervision of the same people who did such a bang up job with H1N1…feel safe?

The moth cannot resist the flame, it would seem:

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Friday that the Obama administration will push for “immigration reform” by giving the estimated 14 million people who are in the United States illegally “fair pathway to earned legal status.”

“A tough and fair pathway to earned legal status will mandate that illegal immigrants meet a number of requirements—including registering, paying a fine, passing a criminal background check, fully paying all taxes and learning English,” Napolitano said Friday at a panel discussion at the liberal Center for American Progress in Washington, D.C.

“These are substantial requirements that will make sure this population gets right with the law,” Napolitano said. “It will help fix our broken system.”

As I’ve said many times before, I am in favor of a path to citizenship for long-term, illegal residents of the United States. So are three or four other people. Pretty much, the American people have spoken on this – the border is to be secured. And, then? Well, once the border is secured, you may ask, again.

It is political poison to attempt anything which isn’t first and foremost an effort to secure the border – to make it impossible for illegals to just wander across it. Americans have seen the videos of illegals just waltzing in – and they also saw all those Mexican flags at the pro-illegal-immigration demonstrations a couple years back. The decision has been made – and politician attempting to finesse around this core, popular desire is playing with fire. So, naturally, Democrats are walking over to the fire with extra gasoline.

I guess they are still figuring that they’ll gain more votes in the long run than they’ll lose – but even if that is correct, by piling amnesty on top of Obamacare on top of Afghan dithering on top of Cap and Trade on top of Stimulus on top of TARP the liberals are risking such a massive melt down that even if 100% of Hispanics vote for them, it won’t make a difference. The only thing left for the liberals to do is advocate gun control or a national pro-gay marriage law…

Which, the way things are going, is probably right around the corner…

America and God are inseparable:

The Declaration of Independence dogmatically bases all rights on the fact that God created all men equal; and it is right; for if they were not created equal, they were certainly evolved unequal. There is no basis for democracy except in a dogma about the divine origin of man. – G K Chesterton

And what did they find?

…the 11 fact-checkers triumphantly unearthed six errors. That’s 1.8333333 writers for each error. What earth-shattering misstatements did they uncover for this impressive investment? Stand well back:

PALIN: Says she made frugality a point when traveling on state business as Alaska governor, asking “only” for reasonably priced rooms and not “often” going for the “high-end, robe-and-slippers” hotels.

THE FACTS: Although she usually opted for less-pricey hotels while governor, Palin and daughter Bristol stayed five days and four nights at the $707.29-per-night Essex House luxury hotel (robes and slippers come standard)…

That looks like AP paid 1.8333333 fact-checkers to agree with Mrs Palin: She says she didn’t “often” go for “high-end” hotels; they say she “usually opted for less-pricey hotels”. That’s gonna make one must-see edition of “Point/Counterpoint”.

I mean, seriously, this is getting absurd – for crying out loud, liberals and MSMers, will you just stop hating Sarah Palin. She’s not an ogre out to destroy all life on earth – she’s just a populist-conservative wife and mother who wants to field-dress liberalism’s dead carcass. She’s also much, much better looking than any liberal chick you’ve got…so, there.

But, hey, when you have to raise $25 million to “vaporize” your opponents, I guess you have to do whatever it takes…

And, somehow, it is sickly appropriate that its about masturbation:

It’s one of those things you wouldn’t think anyone needs to learn, but apparently, masturbation is an art in Spain.

So much so, in fact, that the country’s Extremadura region is launching a sex-education program centered around “self-pleasure.”

The Guardian reports that the $20,000 campaign includes workshops that feature masturbation instructions. There also are leaflets on self-respect and contraception.

The region’s socialist government aims to help teenagers with “sexual self-exploration and the discovery of self-pleasure.”

Laura Garrido, a youth council president, reveals that the campaign is supposed to remove the mystique surrounding sex.

“The campaign is simple, clear, natural and easily understood by the people it is aimed at, who are aged between 14 and 17,” she says.

A Spanish correspondent notes that Extremadura was the first region of Spain to go socialist in the post-Franco era, and is also the poorest region of Spain. So, after 30 years of failed economic policies, it is a natural that its time to teach the kiddies how to masturbate – of course, there is a slight hope that the government will prove as incompetent at this as they have been at economics. With a little luck, Extremadura will become the home of the most chaste population in the world.

Don’t think for a moment that our own liberals don’t want to bring this to the United States. You could bet your last dollar that they want it – they wish we were as “progressive” as Extremadura! Oh, the joys of jerking off! If only they could get hold of the kids and explain it to them! They’d make superb Obamaniacs!

Its what we fight against, good people – the concept that government has a role outside of law enforcement, national defense and emergency aid.

Yep:

Former Attorney General Michael Mukasey, who as a judge presided over a trial stemming from the first attack on the World Trade Center, on Friday warned that the Obama administration’s decision to bring Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to New York, along with three other terrorist detainees, to stand trial in a civilian court, reflected a pre-9/11 mindset that viewed terrorism as a simple criminal matter.

Speaking at the Federalist Society’s National Lawyers Convention, Mukasey described the move, as “a decision I consider not only unwise, but based on a refusal to face the fact that what we are involved with here is a war with people who follow a religiously-based ideology that calls on them to kill us, and to return instead to the mindset that prevailed before Sept. 11 that acts like the first World Trade Center bombing, the attacks on our embassies in Africa and other such acts can and should be treated as conventional crimes and tried in conventional courts.”

Describing a pattern of decisions made since the the Obama administration pledged in January to close Guantanamo Bay prison within a year, Mukasey said that, “What’s followed has seemed in many instances to be a system in which policy is fashioned to fit and proceed rhetoric rather than being thought out in advance with arguments then formulated in support of it.”

Rush was theorizing yesterday that, perhaps, this was all just a sop to the left so that they can – in discovery – find “evidence” against Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld to get them indicted by the ICC or some other foreign court. Such cannot be discounted – but in my view its ok if we just figure that this was the triumph of ideology over common sense. Leftist ideology says that the worse the criminal, the more should be accorded him in order to be “fair” because a really horrible criminal is someone who has just been that much worse victimized by society. If KSM really did mastermind 9/11 (and do pay attention to Holder’s use of the word “alleged” in his statement), then it probably stems from his childhood…or just about anything of than radical Islam or KSM’s own moral failings.

But our desire here is justice, and a trial is not necessarily justice (see the OJ verdict). Especially in today’s world where all too many attorneys are relentlessly dishonest, trials are mostly about suppressing the truth and avoiding justice at all costs. Justice dictates that KSM and the rest never be at liberty, again. I know that many want them executed, but I’m not in favor of the death penalty, even for such as KSM. But he must be forever prevented from harming others – and this means confinement and if there’s even an outside chance he would walk in a civil trial, then such a trial must not happen. If he behaves in prison we can grant him many privileges – but the only way he should get out is in a box.

Its a hard thing to do – but KSM is a hard man who came up second in his chosen game. No one put a gun to his head and forced him to become a terrorist – he did it because he wanted to, and there’s an end on it, for him. To bring him to America and put him on trial in our courts is (a) stupid because law doesn’t cover things like this and (b) counter productive because it just allows evil greater scope for propaganda.

We are certainly back in to a pre-9/11 mindset – lets hope it doesn’t end with more planes being crashed in to buildings.