Fox News reports that US special forces are standing by to seize Pakistan’s nuclear weapons and facilities if the Taliban come too close:

American intelligence sources say the operation would be conducted by Joint Special Operations Command, the super-secret commando unit headquartered at Fort Bragg, N.C.

JSOC is the military’s chief terrorists hunting squad and has units now operating in Afghanistan on Pakistan’s western border.| MORE ›

Gil Kerlikowske, new leader of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, says that it’s time to stop thinking of the nation’s problem with drugs as a war because it’s harmful, both here at home and abroad:

“Regardless of how you try to explain to people it’s a ‘war on drugs’ or a ‘war on a product,’ people see a war as a war on them,” he said. “We’re not at war with people in this country.”

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While speaking at Arizona State University, Barack Obama called on students to exercise fiscal restraint and not over-leverage themselves.  Strangely, the Gateway Pundit says that’s exactly Obama did in his personal life by mortgaging his family’s home until they were well “under water”.  No surprise then that:| MORE ›

Good call from the United States Senate:

Despite complaints that banks and credit card companies are gouging customers by charging outrageous interest rates, the Senate on Wednesday easily turned back an effort to cap interest rates at 15 percent.

The effort by Senator Bernie Sanders, the Vermont independent, drew only 33 votes and needed 60, with a bipartisan group of 60 senators opposing it as the Senate pushed its credit card overhaul toward the finish line.| MORE ›

Technically, it is not a bail out. Washington state’s governor, Christine Gregoire, is approving a plan to extend tax breaks to the state’s newspaper publishers. The tax break is drawing mixed reviews in the Seattle Times. The Times is the last surviving paper in Seattle, the hub of the Puget Sound population center on the west side of the state.| MORE ›

Sweden has made it legal for a mother to let her unborn child be aborted if she is not happy with its gender:

Swedish women will be permitted to abort their children based on the sex of the fetus, according to a ruling by Sweden’s National Board of Health and Welfare.

The ruling was spurred by a request from Kai Wedenberg, head of the clinic where a woman twice requested, and received, an abortion based on sex.

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In resigning her position, Miss California USA Executive Director Shanna Moakler said:

“I feel that at this time it is in my best interest to resign from the Miss California USA organization.| MORE ›

Apparently if all of your methods to woo voters don’t work, use the ones the other guys did for eight years: call the Democrats by new names.

Politico’s Roger Simon is reporting, that among other things, a conference of the Republican National Committee will vote to re-brand the Democratic Party as the “Democrat Socialist Party.”  Apparently Steele tried to stop it but wasn’t too successful:| MORE ›

Writing about the $13T in unfunded Social Security obligations, Robert Reich, the former Secretary of Labor, says “Social Security is a tiny problem” and “Medicare is entirely different.| MORE ›

President Obama’s announcement that he intends to withhold the next round of releases of photographs of detainee abuses has gotten the far left, especially its shock troops in the liberal and faux moderate blogosphere, into a lather. Ignoring the President’s points about the redundancy of the photos and the practical effects of repeatedly whipping up new rounds of anti-Americanism, leftist and faux moderate bloggers maintain the same narrow anti-Bush focus that they had for the last eight years.| MORE ›