Michelle Malkin: Holder, Blago, Richardson: Triangle of Sleaze It was a rough week for the corruptocracy. White House officials better ho-ho-hold on tight because the sleigh ride isn't going to get any smoother.

Jonah Goldberg: Obama: Man on a Mission In 2007, then-Sen. Barack Obama insisted that the coming presidential primary and general election campaigns "shouldn't be about making each other look bad, they should be about figuring out how we can all do some good for this precious country of ours. That's our mission."

Judge Andrew Napolitano: What if Freedom Were Temporary? What if our rights didn't come from God or from our humanity, but from the government? What if the government really thinks we're not unique individuals with immortal souls, but just public property? What if we were only entitled to our natural rights if it pleased the government? What if our rights could be stripped away whenever the government considers us to be its enemy?

David Limbaugh: In Kansas, Obama Emulates Dorothy: 'Lions and Tigers and Capitalists! Oh, My!' President Obama's much-ballyhooed speech in Osawatomie, Kan., was his best effort to put a happy face on class warfare. Though some were elated, fantasizing that he might be getting his messianic mojo back, even his reliable cheerleaders recognize there's no substance beneath the hot air rising.

Larry Kudlow: Newt the Supply-Side Sizzler Gingrich’s putdown here suggests that without supply-side economic policies, somehow Romney wouldn’t have succeeded. And that neuters Romney’s attack on Gingrich.

John Ransom: Eric Holder Impeached is a Good First Start Can the rest of us get the power to impeach too just like Congress has? Maybe a kind of citizen’s impeachment? Some of us hicks out here in the countryside, clinging to our guns and our religion, are starting to get the idea that mistakes aren’t just being made by the administration, but rather that mistakes are being manufactured by them- and then ignored by Congress.

Mona Charen: Obama Default Mode: Blame Israel After a two-hour meeting in Cairo, Khaled Mashaal, unelected leader of Hamas, and Mahmoud Abbas, unelected leader of the Palestinian Authority, were all smiles. "We want to assure our people and the Arab and Islamic world that we have turned a major new and real page in partnership on everything to do with the Palestinian nation," Mashaal announced. "There are no more differences between us now," agreed Abbas.

Ken Blackwell: The Shadow over Osawatomie: Obama versus Lincoln It was good to see President Obama link his Osawatomie Speech to Kansas history. Some commentators said Mr. Obama was “channeling Roosevelts.” Especially, Theodore. It delighted some that Mr. Obama donned the mantle of the Republican Roosevelt.

Hugh Hewitt: Newt as Terminator or Joey Garza? Can Newt take the country when all of his one-time Beltway allies are pounding him with arrow, cannon and missiles from their permanent encampment on the Potomac?

Oliver North: Remember Pearl Harbor? Seventy years ago this week, Japanese Cmdr. Mitsuo Fuchida led an airborne strike force of 49 "Kate" bombers, 40 torpedo bombers, 51 "Val" dive bombers and 43 "Zeke" fighters on the first wave of an attack on Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II. At 9:45 that terrible Sunday morning, a second wave of 167 attack aircraft added to the devastation.

Pat Buchanan: Marco Rubio Versus Rand Paul In August 2008, as the world's leaders gathered in Beijing for the Olympic games, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, hot-headed and erratic, made his gamble for greatness.

Rachel Alexander: The Truth About the National Defense Authorization Act Last week, the Senate voted 93-7 to pass S 1867, the National Defense Authorization Act. Congress has passed this Act every year since 1961.

Katie Pavlich: Behavior by Department of Justice Officials May Lead to Impeachment "The president has said he has full confidence in this attorney general. I have no confidence in a president who has full confidence in an attorney general who has in fact not terminated or dealt with the individuals, including key lieutenants, who from the very beginning had some knowledge and long before Brian Terry was gun downed, knew enough to stop this program." Rep. Darrell Issa

Suzanne Fields: Blaming the Victim Again This has been a bad week in Israeli-American relations -- more accurately, Israeli-Obama White House relations. Three White House players who should know better (and probably do) dumped on the only democracy in the Middle East, boldly contradicting the president's boast to Jewish donors that he's the most Israel-supporting president in history. (Where does that leave Harry Truman?)

Linda Chavez: Obama Is No Teddy Roosevelt Barack Obama channeled Teddy Roosevelt this week in a speech in Osawatomie, Kan. Supporters are calling it the most significant economic speech of his administration.

Kyle Olson: Occupy Geniuses: Cut Education Costs by Giving Free Stuff to Teachers We have come to appreciate the Occupiers for their fundamental misunderstanding of economics. We’ve also come to look forward to the latest arrest statistics or video of delusional protesters weeping for their Lost Tent City.

Bob Beauprez: Volt Fire Hazard Cover-Up AutoGuide.com is reporting that General Motors and NHSTA, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, knew of the battery fire problem with the Volt at least five months before disclosing the problem to the public or even alerting their dealers.

Jeff Carter: The Burden of Proof is on Corzine The burden of proof at this point isn’t on the industry, the regulators or traders to find the money MF stole. CFTC statements, other official statements clearly come out of the same “What to Say in Case of a Scandal” book.

Mike Shedlock: Fed Denies Secret Loans Wessel essentially did a Fed Suck-Up in his piece, which is of course what one might expect from this line in his article: "Full disclosure: My 2009 book, 'In Fed We Trust,' recounted the Fed's handling of the crisis favorably.

Political Calculations: Winter 2011 Edition: Who Owns the U.S. National Debt? The chart below provides a preliminary look at who the biggest holders of all the U.S. government's public debt outstanding were as of 30 September 2011.

Donald Lambro: Long Slog of Lies Ahead for Romney and Gingrich Two things are now likely in the two-man race for the Republican presidential nomination: This will be a marathon, not a sprint, that will run through the GOP's primaries; and it may well be decided at the party's 2012 convention.

Mary Grabar: Dissident Prof Rants: The Media Bias against Occupy Wall Street! Eric Alterman, Senior Fellow and “distinguished professor of English” at Brooklyn College, City University of New York, asks in his most recent article, “Why Do the Mainstream Media Like the Tea Party More than Occupy Wall Street?”

Cliff May: Buried Treasure If only we had an untapped source of wealth, a nest egg we could crack and use to grow the economy, create jobs, raise Americans’ standard of living while providing the resources needed to defend the nation from its enemies. Oh wait: We do.

Robert Morrison: Franklin D. Roosevelt: "…we will gain the inevitable triumph, So Help Us God." This week marks the seventieth anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. More than 2,500 Americans were killed in that “sudden and deliberate attack.”

John Howell: Rod Blagojevich Has Left the Building An older, heavier man named Al Dvorin used to wait until Elvis Presley was safely on his way back to the tin foil enhanced hotel suite before stepping from backstage to the mic and calming the maniacal crowds with the legendary phrase: “Elvis has left the building.”

Diana West: It's Time to Stop Keeping Secrets Last month, I noted that Democratic Sens. Claire McCaskill of Missouri and Jim Webb of Virginia had written to national archivist David S. Ferriero on Nov. 7, asking him to open the records of the Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan, which Ferriero has summarily sealed for 20 years.

Stewart Scott: The Covert Intelligence War Against Iran While the covert intelligence war has been under way for many years, the tempo of events that can readily be identified as part of it has been increasing over the past few months. It is important to note that many of these events are the result of hidden processes begun months or even years previously, so while visible events may indeed be increasing, the efforts responsible for many of them began to increase much earlier.

Michael F. Cannon: Podcast: How States Can Shut Down ObamaCare Here’s a podcast on how states can shut down ObamaCare.

Crista Huff: Wal-Mart Stock: Always Low Prices Stock price probably isn't one of the things Wal-Mart likes to slash prices on. But if you've been a Wal-Mart investor for the past ten years, you are certainly used to it.

Daniel J. Mitchell: American Tax Dollars Support Obama's AFL-CIO Class Warfare Agenda Around the Globe Like Obama, the folks at the OECD like to talk about “fair share.” These passages sounds like they could have been taken from one of Obama’s hate-and-envy speeches on class warfare.

David Stokes: Mr. Obama's Strange Rhetorical Bedfellows The earth moved the other day. The shaking was felt from Long Island to Michigan and was triggered by two giants turning over in their graves.

Ann Coulter: Newt Presents a Fresh New Virtual Face Before you newly active Republicans commit to Newt Gingrich as your presidential nominee on the basis of the recent debates, here's a bit of Newt history you ought to know. I promise you, it's going to come up if he's the candidate.

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