Obama is going to let them do that?

NEW YORK - Federal prosecutors Thursday took steps to seize four U.S. mosques and a Fifth Avenue skyscraper owned by a nonprofit Muslim organization long suspected of being secretly controlled by the Iranian government.

It must be a stunt by Obama to throw us off.

How'd that Iraqi invasion work out?

BAGHDAD— Iraq’s Baghdad Trade Fair ended Tuesday, six years and a trillion dollars after the American invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein, and one country was conspicuously absent.

That would be the country that spent that trillion dollars —

If the sheep who went along with that historical blunder could be embarrassed, they certainly would be.

Who is this ambassador in Afghanistan?

Karl Eikenberry retired from the Army this year to become one of the few generals in American history to switch directly from soldier to diplomat, and he himself is a recent, former commander of U.S. troops in Afghanistan.

With a little luck, Obama will listen to men like the former General and current U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan as well as his vice-president.

Hell no, ain't going there

HIROSHIMA, Japan - An inconvenient invitation awaits President Obama when he lands Friday in Japan. It's one that no sitting U.S. president has accepted and that Obama's tight schedule in Japan cannot accommodate.

Yet many Japanese have been talking about the invitation for much of this year, and it remains open: Come see what a U.S. atomic bomb did 64 years ago in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Smart move. That's a no-win situation.

What's that fool know?

In an interview with Roland Martin on the Tom Joyner Morning Show this morning, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Colin Powell revealed that he recently advised President Obama to take his time in devising his strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Wingnuts used to think Powell was all that until they realized he was an intelligent, free-thinker and not just a token.

Friday the 13th

The sixth day of the week and the number 13 both have foreboding reputations said to date from ancient times, and their inevitable conjunction from one to three times a year (there happen to be three such occurrences in 2009, two of them right in a row) portends more misfortune than some credulous minds can bear. According to some sources it's the most widespread superstition in the United States today.

I'm not superstitious but I don't like Friday the 13th.