Should Dick run?
NYT-Watching Dick Cheney defend the Bush administration’s interrogation policies, it’s been hard to escape the impression that both the Republican Party and the country would be better off today if Cheney, rather than John McCain, had been a candidate for president in 2008.
Certainly Cheney himself seems to feel that way. Last week’s Sean [...]

The Independent Institute
From Senior Fellow Ivan Eland
Attention always focuses on a president’s first 100 days. The media—and the rest of Washington—correctly realize that historically a president’s power is at its zenith during the honeymoon period following his inauguration to a first term. In the American republic, with its sense of fair play and [...]

The Independent Institute
From Senior Fellow William F. Shughart
If you are an owner, an investor, a supplier, or an employee of General Motors Corp., I am willing to bet that you are now sorry GM was not forced into Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings when its dire financial straits first made headlines months ago. You probably regret [...]

Very interesting essay by Pat Buchanan all should read.
TH….Americans are divided.
“Rendition,” a film based on a true story, where an innocent man suspected of belonging to a terrorist cell is sent to an Arab country and tortured, won rave reviews.
But more popular was “Taken,” a film in which Liam Neeson, an ex-spy, [...]

Obama was asked about it at the press conference and said it was too late, the horses were already out of the barn. Does that mean he thinks there was a time when we should have, but didn’t? Or are immigrant bashers just using the outbreak to push for something they already want?
HispanicBusiness.com: Wanting to [...]

THEHILL-House and Senate Republicans intend to ramp up their attack of the Democratic-sponsored clean-energy legislation this week in an effort to brand the measure a “national energy tax.”
According to a GOP leadership aide, the Democrats’ American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 that minority party members refer to as “cap and tax” offers [...]

A big issue!
THEHILL-President Obama earned a mandate on Election Day to reform the American healthcare system, a senior White House aide said Monday.
Nancy-Ann DeParle, director of the White House Office of Health Reform, declared that Obama’s victory in November demonstrates that the public is ready for a comprehensive overhaul of the healthcare system, [...]

Very interesting!
CSM-A new Pew survey suggests that many Catholics leave their church because of doctrine, whereas Protestants tend to leave because of life changes such as marriage.
America is a country on the move in innumerable ways, and religion is no exception. Half of Americans have changed their religious denomination at least once in their [...]

Cornyn is chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee.

This might be why.

That gives Democrats a filibuster-proof majority. He’s apparently not digging the Party That Rush Built. As the Republican party shrank in PA, the wingnut wack-jobs became a larger proportion, and they’re just not his crowd. He’ll have better luck in the Democratic primary. Plus, he was not happy about how his old party behaved toward [...]

What do you think?
Politico-He is overseeing the boldest expansion of government in a generation. Is it a ‘new pragmatism’ right for the times or dangerous overreach by a young president?
Throughout his presidential campaign, Mr. Obama refused to embrace an ideology (though as a senator, he was a safe liberal vote). He called himself a [...]

It sounds like Pelosi was for it before she was against it!
Politico-Nancy Pelosi didn’t cry foul when the Bush administration briefed her on “enhanced interrogation” of terror suspects in 2002, but her team was locked and loaded to counter hypocrisy charges when the “torture” memos were released last week.
Many Republicans obliged, led by [...]

PP-Is John Lewis calling for a repeat of Iraq? The policemen of the world foreign policy has failed!
5th district Georgia Congressman John Lewis (D – Atlanta), along with four other United States Representatives, was arrested outside of the Sudanese embassy during a demonstration highlighting the continued genocide in the Darfur region of the northeast African [...]

Very interesting!
NPR-Deciding which medical treatments work better than others is a tough job, but health policy experts say it could help hold down health care costs. Still, Americans aren’t too sure they want the government deciding which treatments their insurance should pay for, according to a new poll conducted by NPR, the Kaiser [...]