Not that I’m for the privacy-invading measures like the Patriot Act, but it’s not hard to see that when you stop calling terror terror, you look like you’re weak on terror.

Take the case of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, who doesn’t call terror but instead calls them man-caused disasters. “That is perhaps only a nuance, but it demonstrates that we want to move away from the politics of fear toward a policy of being prepared for all risks that can occur,” says Napolitano.

There are some things about conservatism I’m not happy about. No, I’m not saying I’m a stupid moderate – if I ever do that you all have permission to punch me in the face.

(Left: Despite the siren song of pulchritudinous conservatives like Carrie Prejean, I am not 100% conservative.)

Did Obama win the Nobel Prize for literature?

Oh, I guess they’re just giving out Peace Prizes for fiction now.

When even CNN is saying that the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Barack Obama “not for substantive accomplishments,” you know something’s up.

In this case, it’s the increasing irrelevance of the Nobel Peace Prize…

“President Obama dreams of a world without weapons…but right in front of us two countries are doing the exact opposite.”
-Nicolas Sarkozy, President of France
It seems odd for a conservative to quote the President of France in matters relating to foreign policy, but that’s the state of the world in September, 2009.
To date, I haven’t written much about Iran, even though I think the current nuclear crisis going on there (yeah, it’s a crisis when someone who wants to wipe out an entire country is close to getting nuclear bombs) is …

Had to link you to this. Byron York points out in the Washington Examiner that liberals seem to have forgotten about their anti-war stance. The bold is mine:
In 2006, DailyKos held its first annual convention, called YearlyKos, in Las Vegas. Amid the slightly discordant surroundings of the Riviera Hotel casino, the webby activists spent hours discussing and planning strategies not only to defeat Republicans but also to pressure Democrats to oppose the war more forcefully. The gathering attracted lots of mainstream press attention; Internet activism was the hot …

Apparently, Iranians like freedom, too.  The stance of America has always been freedom = good, although you wouldn’t know that to hear the President these days.  To say that Obama’s early responses to the Iranian riots have been weak is an understatement.  How bad were they?  Obama himself had to strengthen up his words when the riots escalated over the weekend.  You know you’ve angered a Democratic President when his rhetoric gets amped up!
Makes you wonder how we’re going to handle North Korea.  Put that away, dictator!  Hey!  Put that …

George W. Bush was probably the most hated President of the last generation.  Anti-Bushism was so intense that some conservatives gave it a name – Bush Derangement Syndrome – which the FDA promptly tried to regulate before realizing conservatives made it up.
Time Magazine called Bush the “Love Him, Hate Him” President – and that was before his second term.  These days, the phrase “The Last Eight Years” have apparently become synonymous with some sort of tyrannical reign of terror in which Bush enslaved Americans to build monuments to himself.
The problem?  …

Despite repeated claims to the contrary, Nancy Pelosi was indeed briefed on “enhanced interrogation techniques” in September 2002.  She only started protesting them when liberals started protesting them, further padding her resume for the worst Speaker of the House of all time.
According to Pelosi’s people, her recollection is that something different happened.  What, did they use blue pens when she remembered red ones?  Not quite a stirring denial.  Pelosi herself has said that she didn’t know waterboarding was being used, saying “we were not told that waterboarding or any of …

The President of Brazil apparently thinks that the economic crisis can be linked not to regulation and excessive government intervention, but to people of a particular skin type.  My skin type – although I’m not sure if he said “pasty white” or just “white.”
From the Financial Times:
Speaking in Brasília at a joint press conference with Gordon Brown, the UK prime minister, Mr Lula da Silva told reporters: “This crisis was caused by the irrational behaviour of white people with blue eyes, who before the crisis appeared to know everything and …

The justification for redistributing wealth all over the place in areas like education, healthcare, and other “entitlements” is that new money in the system will get people spending again.  Keynesian economists like Paul Krugman are fond of saying that this spending is “needed.”
If the simple injection of money into the system works, why is the military being left out?
While Obama’s 2010 budget calls for a government the size of $3.6 trillion, but military spending, of course, isn’t on the menu.  While the military spending is increasing by a small amount …