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Mark Steyn: Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death Panels [Mark Steyn] . . . but you can’t have both. On the matter of McCarthy vs the Editors, I’m with Andy. I think Sarah Palin’s “death panel” coinage clarified the stakes and resonated in a way that “rationing” and other lingo never quite did. She [...]

Continues: BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — Anti-war activists protested Monday at the University of California, Berkeley to call for the firing of a law professor who co-wrote legal memos that critics say were used to justify the torture of suspected terrorists. Campus police arrested at least four people who refused to leave the university’s law school [...]

Good to hear Obama is not completely tone deaf: Following a furor over how the data would be used, the White House has shut down an electronic tip box — flag@whitehouse.gov — that was set up to receive information on “fishy” claims about President Barack Obama’s health plan. Now, whose idea was it in the [...]

Not. Love it.

Mark Steyn: That’s how it works. You can elect to have the surgery but they won’t elect to give it to you. And don’t ask me why hosting the Winter Olympics should necessitate cuts in health care. Unless they’re expecting an epidemic of two-man luge teams with buttocks frozen to the sled or men’s ice-dancing [...]

Again (emphasis added): Michigan just experienced its coldest July on record; global temperatures haven’t risen in more than a decade; Great Lakes water levels have resumed their 30-year cyclical rise (contrary to a decade of media scare stories that they were drying up due to global warming), and polls show that climate change doesn’t even [...]

And doesn’t realize it: But it was what he said next that was a moment of such stark truthfulness so rare in this debate. And the words he used very well may go down in history, defining precisely why Democrats fail to get their big-government-style health-care reform done during this quickly closing window. “I mean, [...]

Poll in Nevada Puts Harry Reid Down By 6 Percentage Points. Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.

Madame Secretary seems a bit testy: Regardless of the error, the notion of Secretary Clinton’s deference to her husband clearly touched a nerve with America’s top diplomat. Just a week ago the former President stole his wife’s thunder when he appeared in North Korea to rescue two American journalists detained there. His trip came just [...]

Rather than monitoring hate groups, the Southern Poverty Law Center has become one.. Read it all.