AOS has an interesting find on SotoMayor…

“In 1999 Port Chester established a redevelopment area, in which new projects could be built only after getting approval from a village-designated private individual, Gregory Wasser, to whom the municipality inexplicably delegated its regulatory authority. In 2003 two owners of a plot within the redevelopment zone, Bart Didden and Domenick Bologna, asked Wasser for permission to build a CVS pharmacy. According to Didden and Bologna, Wasser responded: Either pay me $800,000 to build, give me a piece of the action, or I’ll have the village take the property. The day after they spurned the offer, Port Chester did indeed start the takings process. Wasser then arranged for Walgreen to develop the site. “

get over to the Ace of Spades for the Decision which Sotomayor was a part of.

via Ace of Spades HQ.

oh really? I never would have expected that… oh wait, yes I would.

Red State, American Thinker and Joey Smith provide anecdotal and quantitative evidence that would appear to confirm a decided bias against dealers who donated to GOP causes or to anti-Obama Democrats.

Special note for moonbats: no one here is saying that the sole criterion for closing a dealership was partisan. What we ask is: does it seem odd that the list of closed dealerships appears to have contributed a grand total of $200 to Barack Obama and millions to GOP candidates/causes?

Stay tuned. Heavy-duty data crunching is underway.

via RED ALERT: Did anti-Obama campaign contributions dictate which Chrysler dealers were shuttered?.

Ed Morrissey of HotAir.com asks a question no one else is asking on the best of all days to ask it.

I love my community here in Minnesota, but my neighbors are clueless about flying the flag on holidays. I’m wondering whether that is true elsewhere as well. Today is one of the few days I’d consider a must for displaying the flag — July 4th and Veterans Day would be the others for a bare minimum —

via Hot Air » Blog Archive » What happened to flying the flag on Memorial Day?.

Dick Cheney… a man to be respected and if you’re a bumbling noob of a President… feared!

“Cheney has popped out of his dungeon, scary organ music blaring, to carry on his nasty campaign of fear and loathing,” wrote Maureen Dowd in her New York Times column earlier this month. A talking head on cable declared the former vice president’s speech last Thursday “as sleazy a presentation by a vice president as we’ve had since Spiro Agnew.”

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In his remarks at the American Enterprise Institute, Mr. Cheney noted that serving as a vice president with no desire for the Oval Office left him free from many of the usual distractions of political ambition. “Today,” he told the crowd, “I’m an even freer man . . . a career in politics behind me, no elections to win or lose, and no favor to seek.”

via McGurn: Dick Cheney’s Second Act - WSJ.com.

YouTube - Nancy Pelosi on torture.

this website uses Google Earth to map Fallen Soldiers homes and where they lost their lives in defense of the USA and the People of Iraq…

This Memorial Day I would like to share with you a personal project of mine that uses Google Earth to honor the more than 5,700 American and Coalition servicemen and women that have lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan. I have created a map for Google Earth that will connect you with each of their stories—you can see photos, learn about how they died, visit memorial websites with comments from friends and families, and explore the places they called home and where they died.

via Map the Fallen.

Defending America Award

“PHOENIX — A 60-year-old Vietnam War veteran killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq has become the oldest Army soldier to die in that conflict, the military said Thursday.

Maj. Steven Hutchison, of Scottsdale, Ariz., served in Vietnam and wanted to re-enlist immediately after the 9/11 terror attacks, but his wife was against it, his brother said.

Richard Hutchison told The Associated Press on Thursday that when she died, “a part of him died” so he signed up in July 2007 at age 59.

“He was very devoted to the service and to his country,” Richard Hutchison said.”

via 60-year-old is oldest Army soldier killed in Iraq | Top AP National Stories | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle.

Bill Whittle pwns Jon Stewart… absolute must see video.

Pajamas TV - Afterburner - Jon Stewart, War Criminals & The True Story of the Atomic Bombs - Video.

all I can say is wow…

Regardless, Churchill and Great Britain didn’t quite take the firm stand against “torture” that Obama and Sullivan suggest. During the war, the Brits ran an interrogation center, “the Cage,” in one of London’s fanciest neighborhoods, where they worked over 3,573 captured Germans, sometimes brutally. The Free French movement, headquartered in London, savagely beat detainees under the nose of British authorities. From 1945 to 1947, Colonel Stephens himself ran the Bad Nenndorf prison near Hanover, Germany, where Soviet and Nazi prisoners were treated far more brutally than those at Guantanamo Bay. Stephens was court-martialed, and cleared, for some of the alleged atrocities.

via Necessary ‘Shortcuts’ by Jonah Goldberg on National Review Online.