Bubba gets it mostly right--cartoon by Michael Ramirez

AG appoints attorneys to investigate disclosures of classified information

Attorney General Eric Holder on Friday appointed two U.S. attorneys to lead a pair of criminal investigations into possible unauthorized disclosures of classified information, authorizing the two prosecutors to follow all appropriate investigative leads within the executive and legislative branches of government.

LINK: this could be big

Daniel Halper writing in the Weekly Standard:

"If that statement were meant to serve as a denial that the Obama Administration leaked classified information, it would appear to stand in direct contrast to the New York Times article describing the President’s personal involvement in a process 'to designate terrorists for kill or capture,'" the memo states. "One of the opening paragraphs described the methodology for compiling the story, saying 'three dozen' of the President’s 'current and former advisers' were interview sources for the story."

I'll Have Another scratched from Belmont Stakes

I'll Have Another, the Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner, will be scratched from the Belmont Stakes because of an undisclosed injury.

Jay Privman, the national correspondent for the Daily Racing Form, tweeted the news Friday. Trainer Doug O'Neill told "The Dan Patrick Show" that the horse "is officially out of the Belmont."

UPDATE:  I'll Have Another has career-ending tendinitis.



LINK:  I'll Have Another

Nearly 60 % of teens admit texting while driving

An anonymous national survey conducted last year found that 58 percent of high school seniors said they had texted or emailed while driving during the previous month. About 43 percent of high school juniors acknowledged they did the same thing.

LINK:  texting while driving

Upgrades to Guantanamo coming. Wasn't closing it an Obama priority?

The U.S.-run Guantanamo Bay detention center in Cuba, targeted for closure by Barack Obama during his campaign for the presidency, is instead quietly undergoing millions of dollars of upgrades that could allow it to remain open for years as a prison for suspected terrorists, NBC News has learned.



LINK:  Upgrades to Guantanamo


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Ah, how nice--they're upgrading Guantanamo for the comfort of the prisoners there. In that we're killing all of their compatriots with drones, this seems like a waste of money. But, then again, wasting money is what the government does best.~~Yossarian

Obama's leftist past a foundation for his leftist present

Stanley Kurtz writing in the National Review:


In late October 2008, when I wrote here at National Review Online that Obama had been a member of the New Party, his campaign sharply denied it, calling my claim a “crackpot smear.” Fight the Smears, an official Obama-campaign website, staunchly maintained that “Barack has been a member of only one political party, the Democratic Party.” I rebutted this, but the debate was never taken up by the mainstream press.

Recently obtained evidence from the updated records of Illinois ACORN at the Wisconsin Historical Society now definitively establishes that Obama was a member of the New Party. He also signed a “contract” promising to publicly support and associate himself with the New Party while in office.
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The revelation in 2008 that Obama had joined an ACORN-controlled, leftist third party could have been damaging indeed, and coming clean about his broader work with ACORN might easily have exposed these New Party ties. Because the work of ACORN and the New Party often intersected with Obama’s other alliances, honesty about his ties to either could have laid bare the entire network of his leftist political partnerships.

LINK:  socialist roots

Dem Senator: Stop the leaks

On Sunday, Democratic Senator Diane Feinstein said whoever leaked the underwear bomber story must be prosecuted. Does that include White House officials?

That's because today we learned that the White House may have inadvertently leaked details leading to the disclosure of the joint U.S.-British-Saudi sting operation that foiled al Qaeda's latest underwear bomb plot. It's an uncomfortable revelation for some Democrats who demanded the prosecution of the leaker—the most prominent being Senate Intelligence Committee chair Diane Feinstein. "The leak really did endanger sources and methods," she said on Fox News Sunday. "The leak, I think, has to be prosecuted." We've placed a query to the senator's office asking if she'll call to extend the current investigation of the leak to the White House.



LINK:  leaks