“Sources close to the White House say Mr Obama and his staff have been “overwhelmed” by the economic meltdown and have voiced concerns that the new president is not getting enough rest.”

That’s about 30 days in. Wait ’til he destroys our health care system and gets the Dow below 5,000.

This  is the beginning. There will be no dissent.

For all of the angst and clamorabout what Bush had taken from us – what did he take? Rights from terrorists? Complete e-mail privacy?

It’s just an anecdote, but millions and millions of people would have similar anecdotes were they not brutally destroyed and tortured by communism.

In college, Mao and Castro are cool. Soviet flags are hip. Dennis Prager notices.

One piece argues that if waterboarding is the unconscionable act you said it was just months ago, outlaw it:

“When it is argued, for example, that Navy Seals have undergone waterboarding as part of their training, the response is, well, waterboarding someone as part of his military training is different from waterboarding someone in custody. Yes: Of course it is. In the real world, circumstances and context are crucial to our moral judgments.” Read more…

And then this piece that wonders if anyone’s going to look at the vapid arrogance and unsupportable illogic of Obama’s prettyspeech:

“Mr. Obama argued that it was just by such steps that we strengthened our security. In his own words: “It is precisely our ideals that give us the strength and the moral high ground to be able to effectively deal with the unthinking violence that we see emanating from terrorist organizations around the world.”

What can this mean? What moral high ground, exactly, would have enabled us to deter the designs of the religious fanatics in search of martyrdom and the slaughter of as many Americans as possible on September 11?” Read more….

Cutnpasted from law.jrank.org:

The Logan Act (18 U.S.C.A. § 953 [1948]) is a single federal statute making it a crime for a citizen to confer with foreign governments against the interests of the United States. Specifically, it prohibits citizens from negotiating with other nations on behalf of the United States without authorization.

Congress established the Logan Act in 1799, less than one year after passage of the ALIEN AND SEDITION ACTS, which authorized the arrest and deportation of ALIENS and prohibited written communication defamatory to the U.S. government. The 1799 act was named after Dr. George Logan. A prominent Republican and Quaker from Pennsylvania, Logan did not draft or introduce the legislation that bears his name, but was involved in the political climate that precipitated it.

***So. If you’re Barack Obama, and you’re not the President – in fact, you’re so not the President that you go out of your way to announce that you are not the President – why are you negotiating with al Quaida and directly disobeying the Logan Act? Arrogance? Stupidity? Amateur Hour? All 3?