I would certainly vote for Dr. Carson, and so would the WSJ editorial board:
Ben Carson for President
The Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon has two big ideas for America.
He’s on Fox News right now and mentioned the Horatio Alger Society.
Fausta Wertz’s Archive
How badly did Chuck Hagel do?
How badly did the nominee for Secretary of Defense flub his job interview today? Suffice it to say that if anyone was awarding him style points, he didn’t earn high marks on the strength of his erudition. Jennifer Rubin quips: “It is very clear from the testimony that Sen. Hagel will not be bringing the potato salad to the next Mensa picnic.” She then moves on to the red meat course:
BlackHawks over Brickell, & hovering over Houston
Imagine BlackHawk helicopters firing in a high-density, high-traffic area in a major American city. Something out of a movie, done with CGI effects, you say?
Think again.
Shark Tank reports:
Last week, an unknown number of Blackhawk helicopters strafed the Miami skyline while numerous residents on balconies overlooking the city witnessed the helicopters actually firing their machine guns with blanks in the vicinity of the Miami Herald Building. One amateur video shot by Atlanta resident Josh Epperson captured the sound of blank rounds being fired.
'New special ops command in Mexico politically motivated, analysts claim'
What could go wrong, amigo?
The goal, moreover, is “to bolster President Obama’s reelection campaign.” Imagine that! The Hill reports:
[E]-mails, released by WikiLeaks last year, chronicle the political calculations that influenced planning meetings in 2010 between military and White House officials about extending American special forces into Mexico.
Appeals court rules Obama's NLRB recess appointments unconstitutional
The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit today ruled that President Obama’s so-called “recess” appointments to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) last January are invalid.
Senate Minority Leader McConnell and 41 of his Senate colleagues filed an amicus brief in the case, which challenges the constitutionality of the appointments.
New Jersey: Lautenberg wants to give Corey Booker "a spanking"
Latin America’s not the only source for bizarre news.
88-year old Frank Lautenberg (Senator for my district), who went back to the Senate in 2003 thanks to the Torricelli maneuver, is upset enough at the prospect of Newark mayor Corey Booker challenging for the seat that he let it rip:
Venezuela, Cuba: Chavez deathwatch
Hugo Chavez has not been seen in public for a month, after departing for Cuba where supposedly he went for a fourth surgery. His Twitter account has been silent since November 1, 2012, when he used to Twitter frequently.
Rumors are being leaked, but by whom? The Cuban government? Someone close to Chavez? Apparently the doctors treating him are not allowed to leave the hospital grounds, and no one in their right mind would chance getting caught. . . unless approved by someone on high.
Hagel on Cuba: Feel the love
Jennifer Rubin posts on Hagel’s Cuba problem:
Much of the focus on Chuck Hagel’s record has been on his views on Israel, Iran and sequestration. Equally troubling to those who have taken a forceful stand against Castro’s dictatorship in Cuba, however, has been his dismissive attitude toward the Castros and his enthusiasm to end the U.S. embargo with no quid pro quo.
LatinAfghanistan: Hugo Chavez's legacy is The War of All the People
David Frum exposes How Hugo Chavez brought Afghanistan to South America. Frum, who’s been to Afghanistan and Iraq, traveled to the world’s most dangerous city. Caracas,
and found:
The violence in Venezuela isn’t political, exactly. It is more a reflection of the general breakdown of law in a society where every institution of state has been corrupted and degraded.
Venezuela: Oh, peachy, now the Obama admin's cozying up to Maduro
Now that Hugo Chávez doesn’t need to be sworn in to start his new six-year term, there’s this from The Washington Post:
With cancer-stricken President Hugo Chavez battling for his life, the Obama administration has embarked on a discreet but concerted weeks-long diplomatic initiative to open channels of communication with his sharply anti-American government.