Kyl: GOP Willing To Filibuster Obama's Yet-To-Be-Named SCOTUS Nominee  —  The media have been in a flurry in recent weeks over whether Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens will retire this summer.  Today on Fox News Sunday, Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) already held open the possibility …

Rush Limbaugh, Chris Matthews and the ‘regime’ question  —  On Friday, I asked Rush Limbaugh for his response to President Obama's description of him as “troublesome” and of his program as “vitriol.”  Limbaugh told me he does not believe Obama is trying to do what is best for the country and added …

It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Obama!  —  NOT since Clark Kent changed in a phone booth has there been an instant image makeover to match Barack Obama's in the aftermath of his health care victory.  “He went from Jimmy Carter to F.D.R. in just a fortnight,” said one of the “Game Change” authors, Mark Halperin, on MSNBC.

Outrageous!... NY Times Sunday Hit Piece Pictures Tea Party Protesters With Weathermen Terrorists  —  Sunday NY Times Hit Piece Pictures Weathermen Terrorists With Tea Party Protesters  —  Another GOP office in Ohio was attacked two nights ago.  A note was tied to the brick that was thrown through …

I Saw the Crisis Coming.  Why Didn't the Fed?  —  ALAN GREENSPAN, the former chairman of the Federal Reserve, proclaimed last month that no one could have predicted the housing bubble.  “Everybody missed it,” he said, “academia, the Federal Reserve, all regulators.”  —  But that is not how I remember it.

Summers: Economy has ‘long way to go,’; recovery to accelerate  —  The economy has a “long way to go” before unemployment falls significantly, although job numbers will continue to improve, Lawrence Summers, the director for the National Economic Council, said Sunday.

Progressives can't get past the Knowledge Problem  —  “If no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else?”  — President Reagan, Jan. 20, 1981.  —  Economist Friedrich Hayek explained in 1945 why centrally controlled “command economies” …

Israeli Amb.:Palestinians need to come to negotiating table  —  Michael Oren, Israel's ambassador to the U.S. described the relationship between the two countries as ‘great.’  —  Washington (CNN) - Israel's ambassador to the U.S. said Sunday that relations were good between …

Baghdad hit by deadly triple blasts  —  Three deadly suicide car-bombings in Baghdad killed least 30 people and wounded 224 others on Sunday.  —  Security officials said that the attacks targeted foreign diplomatic missions in the Iraqi capital, with blasts occurring near the embassies of Iran, Germany and Egypt.

New iPad launch-day estimate: 600,000-700,000 sold  —  Scattered reports of stockouts and a 9 a.m. headcount of 730 at New York's big glass cube  —  The iPad queue on Fifth Ave.  Photo: PED  —  Even with all the hype that preceded the launch of the iPad — or perhaps because of it …

Amnesty International Comes Out of the Closet — Endorses “Defensive” Jihad — By: Andy McCarthy  —  Former Gitmo detainee Moazzam Begg is a committed jihadist and unabashed supporter of the Taliban.  (See this Weekly Standard essay by Tom Joscelyn, which collects other Begg links.)