The Weekly Enlightenment

Another frustrating week from the Obama administration. The latest outrage is to try the 9-11 terrorists in a civilian court. Yes, trying foreigners who waged war on us as civilians. Meaning a whole host of problems, among them the questions of taxpayer defense, those defense attorneys who will be expected to try to obtain every legal benefit to the accused (though many defense attorneys don't seem to mind representing foreigners who kill Americans), the judge and prosecutor will be known and likely threatened (as Michael Mukasey, the judge in the Blind Sheik trial, was), and the fact that foreigners shouldn't even get a trial in the US civilian courts.

The second remarkable thing this week was the response to Nadal Hisan's murder of 13 Army personnel. The only rush to judgement was on the part of the media. They claimed it was post-traumatic stress disorder, though Hasan had never been deployed. Then it was stress from hearing about stories from soldiers who had been deployed, though surprisingly no other Army psychiatrists seem to suffer from it, nor did doctors or nurses who worked on injured Army personnel. Then were the revelations of speeches Hasan had made as well as shouting Allahu Ahkbar before shooting. It was clear that it was Islam related. Of course, the typical administration response (though I don't doubt the reaction would have been similar if it were Bush) was to stick its head in the sand and ask the American people to not jump to conclusions. Makes me wonder again if it were an abortion clinic bombing, would Obama hesitate to jump to conclusions? Of course not. How about if a black man is arrested by a white cop as in the case of Henry Louis Gates? Obama didn't seem to mind rushing to judgement there either. Regardless, much of the American public seems to feel fine sticking its head in the sand. I don't deny the existence of peaceful Muslims, but I wonder why they never speak out if people are hijacking Islam's peaceful name. If people claim to be Christians and bomb abortion clinics, actual Christians are denouncing them right away (though I doubt they get the same benefit of the doubt Muslims do).

Ann Coulter had a great point about the massacre at Fort Hood. They are making Hasan out to be a victim, whether it is from PTSD or harassment (from an off-base incident where Hasan's car was keyed). Not that the media does it just for Muslims. For any killer they are likely to blame everything on something the killer has little or no control over (stress, poor economic conditions, etc.)

MUST READ
* Political correctness is literally killing us.
* Is it possible to pay down debt with more borrowing? Obama thinks so. Which is not surprising. The same such formula was used by Clinton to claim a surplus (not that he is the only one, but the only time we came close to a surplus recently was then). Here is the article to that. I strongly recommend the followup article as well.
* Expect eventually to be given a carbon allowance as they might do in Britain. Think it can't happen here?
* At least we had a somewhat lame excuse before September 11. There is no excuse now.

What Media Bias?
* The media worried about a backlash against Muslims. Can someone remind me of a single incident of backlash against Muslims?
* Why is it always during Republican administrations good economic news is unexpected and during a Democratic administration bad economic news is always expected?

Political Correctness
* The military missed a lot of signs regarding Hasan. Whether that is willful blindness or reaction to both the Bush and Obama administrations remains to be seen (I tend towards the latter view).
* Terrorists have been at war with us a long time.

Silly Liberals
* A great video about how the health care bill, if passed, will be a budget buster. Pelosi claims somehow it will reduce the deficit (of course if you believe the government line that borrowing to cover previous borrowing doesn't add to the deficit).
Very funny, ACORN charges that stripping federal funds from them amounts to a bill of attainder. Under the logic ACORN is trying to use, any reduction of federal funds for any amount amounts to a bill of attainder. This should be a pretty easy call.