The Germans and their millions of murders uncovered.

Daniel Pipes on Israel's strategic blunder

Forbes columnist: worst recession in 50 years.

Obama made a rash decision on Gitmo

John Yoo was an important player in the Bush administration and he thinks Obama is rash in promising to close Gitmo. His well reasoned op-ed is here.

Obama talks to the Muslims

Obama, says Victor Davis Hanson, needs to be more careful in choosing his words.

Never let a serious crisis go to waste

Democrat Rahm Emmanuel says:

"Never let a serious crisis go to waste. What I mean by that is it's an opportunity to do things you couldn't do before."

The so-called economic stimulus is a 647-page, $825 billion document filled with wishes Democrats have accumulated over the past 40 years. It reflects the needs of Democrat special interests and heavy donors, like the National Education Assocation. So while billions are given to public schools on top of the hundreds of billions the have already wasted, there is a proviso that none of the billions may be used for voucher or other private schools. Gotta protect those contributors to the Democrats - and the hell with the kids.

Read it all the Wall St. Journal.

Thomas Sowell on the bailout

"What are the Beltway politicians buying with all the hundreds of billions of dollars they are spending? They are buying what politicians are most interested in—power.In the name of protecting the taxpayers’ investment, they are buying the power to tell General Motors how to make cars, banks how to bank, and, before it is all over with, all sorts of other people how to do the work they specialize in, and for which members of Congress have no competence, much less expertise."

Thomas Sowell is one of the brightest people out there - and in his current column, he tells us what the politicians are really doing do with this crisis that is simply too good to waste.