The American Spectator

It would take an honorable and humble man to resign. That excluded Barack Hussein Obama.
— C. Kenna Amos, Jr. 

NO ADMIRING THE ADMIRAL
Re: Jeffrey Lord’s Romanoff Cracks: Secret White House Jobsgate E-Mail Revealed and Sestak: Brother Collaborating With White House:

Sestak can easily tell the whole story and he ought to do so. This Admiral ought to think of his country first instead of cooperating with the White House to obscure this job offer scandal in order to advance his own political career — I’d sure as hell not want a son of mine to be under the command of an Admiral Sestak — even better would be “Old Yellow Stain” Captain Queeg.

Remember Navy people are taught and believe to protect: 1. Your ship, 2. You shipmates, 3. Yourself. In that order of concern. Where is Sestak?
— Alan

It’s about time that the Obama Chicago-style of presidential “leadership” be exposed. What is good for the goose is good for the gander.
— Michael A. Collins

TAXING ABUSE
Re: Eric Peters’s 70 Is All You Get to Go:

This reminds me of a similar revenue gimmick employed by the Dinkins administration in NYC. Sanitation police would wait until school let out, then follow groups of kids and watch as they littered, then ticket any business that happened to own the stretch of sidewalk where the litter fell for not keeping their sidewalk clean. Some of the most egregious citations were given to shopkeepers as they were sweeping their storefronts. Dinkins’ subsequent failure to secure a second term ended this particular scam (among many others), but the impetus to use law enforcement as a means of taxation invariably leads to abuses.
— Mike

JOE?
Re: The Prowler’s Joe to Joe:

Reading one of the secondary pieces of today’s Washington Prowler, I find the phrase “who spent time in the Bush White House” a good bit of bio to know, but not exactly endearing to someone who poured money down the ratholes that were the McCain and 2008 Congressional campaigns.

…and where was Joe?
— Reid Bogie

BURMESE THAILAND
Re: George H. Wittman’s The King and Us:

This article was a good wrap-up of what I see as a direct threat to American interests — Thailand’s Burmese-style trends toward permanently repressive governance.
— Frank G. Anderson
American Citizens Abroad Representative, Thailand

DYING OF THIRST AT THE WATERING HOLE
Re: Ben Stein’s Oil of Today:

Will America be the horse that dies of thirst at the watering hole because, for whatever rational or irrational reasons, we have restricted exploration and production in 85 percent of our territorial waters for almost three decades — and, now, with no foreseeable and sensible end to Obama’s reinstituted moratorium?
— C. Kenna Amos Jr.

PERFECT TARGET
Re: Iain Murray’s Cut Those Airport Lines. And Catch Terrorists:

An additional cost of airport lines is that the lines themselves create a perfect target for suicide terrorists; by definition these lines are outside the secure zone.
— Trevor Nysetvold