A Crock

This Miss New Jersey blackmail story is absurd. Photos that do not show her naked, nor drinking under age, nor doing anything else particularly offensive, are supposedly sent with the threat that they will be revealed unless she resigns? Unless this is being done by Miss First Runner Up (who will of course assume those duties should Miss New Jersey, for whatever reason, be unable to fulfil her obligations as Miss New Jersey...) I think it is Miss New Jersey herself who is doing this. Think about it. She just did not one, but two segments on the Today show this morning. She was there to release the photos, supposedly in order to "quell the uproar." I think the truth is she felt she didn't get enough mileage out of the original story. She is now the ONLY state title holder who is known to millions of people and regularly being featured on national television. When asked why she was revealing them now she replied, "I want to end this ... It’s time to reveal them." Yep, that it'll end it for sure. Oh and by the way, she thinks those photos were taken from a web site on which she had posted them. But they were meant to be private, because it was password protected.

Perspective

Just in case you are as outraged by the President's commutation of Scooter Libby's sentence as the liberals seem to be, here is something to keep in mind for perspective. Bill Clinton commuted the sentences of 21 individuals convicted of drug dealing. The cases were mostly cocaine with a few heroin, PCP and meth violations. He negated 400 YEARS in prison sentences and commuted one death sentence to life in prison. But of course that's nothing next to a conviction for remebering things differently than Tim Russert.

Veep

I wish Hillary would just go ahead and name Bill Richardson as her runnig mate now. I do believe it is a done deal. In fact, if it starts to get down to the wire in her race with Obama, watch for her to name Richardson as her Veep before the convention. She'd prefer to do it after getting the nomination, but if it looks like that's in danger she'll throw the Hail Mary.

Foreign vs Domestic

The left has been complaining about the President’s NSA wiretapping program ever since they first found out about it. It was instituted to try and catch terrorists but you’d think it was out there tracking down anybody who doesn’t watch Fox News. Now there are issues here that would justify a debate or serious discussion on the matter. But one of the left’s favorite tactics is to slap a label on the issue that not only defines the program in their terms; it usually does so in a way that negates your argument. Think “Pro-choice.” I mean who’s not for freedom of choice? In this case the label is “domestic warrantless wiretapping.” It may be a mouthful, but it gets in all their misleading points. Every article you read by a lefty will, at least, use “domestic.” The reason is because only domestic wiretapping without a warrant is illegal. So what defines “domestic?”

If we were talking about trade, we’d all agree that if I sold something to somebody in the US that would be domestic trade. But if I sell it to somebody in another country, that would be foreign trade. But since only foreign eavesdropping is allowed, all communication involving just one person in the US is domestic. From there they are only a half step away from suggesting that the FBI is listening to you in the confessional. And now that they have established the vernacular, they no longer explain or point out that one of the callers must be on foreign soil. They have now turned foreign into domestic before your very eyes. Neat trick.