WH Advisors Pushing For 30,000 More Troops To Afghanistan

Top advisers to President Obama are coalescing around a plan for 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan.  Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, Adm. Mike Mullen, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton are in the loop. But President Obama is reportedly skeptical as to how much the governments of Afghanistan and Pakistan can execute a US strategy.

Three of the options call for specific levels of additional troops. The low-end option would add 20,000 to 25,000 troops, a middle option calls for about 30,000, and another embraces Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal’s request for …

Government-Sponsored Killing Ends Life Of DC Sniper

For those who say the government can’t run anything, how about its ability to execute, as it did Tuesday night to John Allen Muhammad?

A prison spokesman says John Allen Muhammad died by injection at 9:11 p.m. Tuesday at Greensville Correctional Center.

Prison spokesman Larry Traylor says Muhammad had no final words. He says he didn’t hear him utter a word the entire time.…

How the Right Tweets

Making the argument on O’Reilly that we don’t know if the tragedy at Fort Hood is an act of terror, refusing to label it “terrorism” because those who do so before the facts are in have an agenda, and accusing the right of shamelessly using the tragedy to bash the president, has engendered these responses:

@wwmcneill Monica Crowley is Alan Colmes sister-in-law. Bet they have some interesting family gatherings. He’s a complete idiot.

@cancon1 Colmes needs a High Colonic enema,and a douche,maybe that would wipe that smug off his face

@Adrienne2012 I have a confession to make: I …

On Tuesday’s Radio Show…

• Miss California USA Director Keith Lewis joins Alan to dispute Carrie Prejean’s claims that she was mistreated by pageant officials.

• While President Obama honored the fallen at Fort Hood, some of his critics used the tragedy to push partisan attacks. Alan exposes their hypocrisy.

• Muslims = Communists?!? Alan takes a skeptical look at Pat Robertson’s latest shocking statements.…

Limbaugh: With Health Care Reform You’ll Be Sent To Reeducation Camp If You Don’t Lose Weight

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Senator David Vitter Falsely Claims Climate Bill Gives Obama Permission To Act Like Chavez

Louisiana Senator David Vitter is claiming that a provision in the climate change bill could give President Obama dictatorial powers.

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However, the bill says no such thing:

In the event that the Administrator or the National Academy of Sciences has concluded, in the most recent report submitted under section 705 or 706 respectively, that the United States will not achieve the necessary domestic greenhouse gas emissions reductions, or that global actions will not maintain safe global average surface temperature and atmospheric greenhouse gas concentration thresholds, the President shall, not later than July 1, 2015, and every 4 …

Right Wing Meme Of The Day: Attacking Obama On Ft. Hood

On the day that President Obama is in Texas to pay homage to the dead at Fort Hood, right wingers are attacking him for (in their view) not responding appropriately, something they’ve been doing since the moment the tragedy occurred. In spite of the fact that he immediately invoked thoughts and prayers for the families as a result of “a horrific outburst of violence”; in spite of immediately calling for flags to fly at half mast through Veterans Day.

But were these Bama-Bashers critical of George W. Bush for his reaction on September 11?

Obama is accused of giving …

What Democrats Signed On To Re: Abortion

Language Democrats agreed to in the health care bill amount to “the greatest restriction on a woman’s right to chose to pass in our careers,” according to Congresswoman Diana DeGette.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi allowed Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI, pictured)  to offer an amendment on the floor to restrict federal funding for abortion services, even in private health insurance plans…

Anti-abortion groups say this only codifies current law, which already bans federal funding for abortion. “Our amendment does one very simple thing,” Stupak said on the floor. “It applies the Hyde amendment — which bars federal funding for abortion …

Carrie Prejean Claims She Was Pressured To Get New Breasts

In her new book Carrie Prejean claims that Miss California USA director Keith Lewis pressured her into getting a boob job.

“Have you ever thought of getting a boob job,” Lewis asked her days after she won the Miss California pageant. Prejean describes how Lewis ran his hands all over her body, including examining each of her breasts, while she stood in Shanna Moakler’s living room in a bikini in front of a handful of pageant representatives.

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Prejean [said] in her book: “Actually, the only thing Keith Lewis put to me were his two big hands and …

Atlanta Bus Driver Refused To Let Riders Off Until They Prayed

Leroy Matthews got a five day suspension for forcing riders to pray before they could get off a MARTA bus.

Christopher James was one of those passengers. James said, initially, he thought something was wrong when he rang the bell to get off the bus and the door didn’t open.

James said the bus driver asked him and three other passengers to join hands in prayer. James said the driver prayed with the group for about four minutes.

“He got up out of the driver’s seat,” said James.

James, who isn’t against prayer, said he felt compelled …

Why Are We Left-Wingers Now “Nazis” And Not “Commies”?

It makes no sense, as Paul Krugman notes. Krugman, like yours truly, is being called a “dirty Nazi scumbag” much more these days than a “commie” or a “pinko.”

What’s going on? It really doesn’t fit, as far as I can tell — and bear in mind the long-running love affair of the National Review with Francisco Franco. You’d really think critics of Comrade President Obama would prefer the Soviet comparison.

So is it that given the way Communism fell, not with a bang but with a whimper, it just doesn’t seem menacing enough? Is it the fact …