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Painful
It was the culmination of years of painstaking intelligence work, intense deliberation by lawyers working for President Obama and turf fights between the Pentagon and the C.I.A., whose parallel drone wars converged on the killing grounds of Yemen. For what was apparently the first time since the Civil War, the United States government had carried out the deliberate killing of an American citizen as a wartime enemy and without a trial. (NYT, 3/9/2013)

It is always fascinating to watch when Liberal ideals are confronted with the blunt reality of national security interests. When the players are Rumsfeld, Cheney and Bush, the outcry is obvious and predictable: war-mongering neo-cons, or some other convenient moniker. But what about when it is Obama? Does the Times mourn al-Awlaki? Probably not, but what then would they propose? They never say, but likely it would include a civilian trial with a lawyered-up defendant and an opportunity for rehabilitation. 


Time of Their Discontent
The president’s outreach to rank-and-file lawmakers, like the discontent of liberal Democrats, is the result of Republicans’ refusal to accept any additional tax increases to avert the automatic spending cuts that are beginning to affect the government and the economy.  (NYT, 3/10/2013)

We are ten days into a round of minor budget cuts. Ten days. Most the of cuts have not even been implemented yet, save for Obama locking the White House doors and shutting out school children. But the New York Times has already declared that the economy is being impacted. And so the Times begins to propagate the "blame Republicans" strategy of the Obama administration for a weak second term economy.


Weighty
When an electric car rolls off the production line, it has already been responsible for 30,000 pounds of carbon-dioxide emission. The amount for making a conventional car: 14,000 pounds. (Bjorn Lomborg, WSJ, 3/11/2013)

Lomborg is an agitator extraordinaire who seemingly delights in pointing out the troubling facts of the green movement. 


Needless
No need to say goodbye to Elisabeth Hasselbeck. She's staying put as a co-host of "The View" despite reports insisting otherwise. (NYT, 3/11/2013)

Can you imagine the courage it takes to go to work everyday and face ridicule from the likes of Whoppi Goldberg and Joy Behar?  Hasselback should sue for a "hostile work environment."  There are none tougher than conservative women.