Little better illustrates that this administration has pretty much forgotten what happened on Sept. 11, 2001, than the idiotic publicity stunt it attempted in New York City Monday (4/27). Someone at the White House -- Louis Caldera, director of the White House Military Office, has accepted responsibility -- thought it would be a swell idea to get a publicity photo of Air Force One flying low around the Statue of Liberty.  The New York City police, and the guy in the mayor's office who authorizes street fairs were informed of this, but were ordered to keep mum about it. It's bizarre enough that an administration which thinks nothing of making public explicit details of CIA interrogation techniques would deem it necessary to keep this publicity stunt secret.  But the bizarre is what characterizes this government. "I would call this felony stupidity," Fran Townsend, the White House adviser on homeland security during the Bush administration, told CNN yesterday (4/28).  She was talking of the Air Force One publicity stunt, but she could have been talking about the entire Obama White House.

The incompetence of President Zero and his DHS secretary Janet Napolitano has now reached lethal levels in their refusal to militarily close the US-Mexico border or even airplane flights from Mexico. Yet now that the swine flu epidemic has spread from Mexico into the US, we cannot worry about Zero, much less expect him to protect us in any way.  Let's focus on what you can do right now at this moment. The CDC has identified the virus as a H1N1 virus called swine influenza A. This virus has been known for over 40 years, infecting humans directly from birds such as ducks (avian flu) or pigs (swine flu).  Never before could it be transmitted from one human to another.  The virus has now evolved to where it can.  This new human-to-human transmission is what is making the H1N1 pandemic.  Durk Pearson and Sandy Shaw suggest the following prophylactic measures to protect their friends at To The Point.  As Durk says, "I'm afraid that you are not going to like this, but I really do know my biology..."

As Archbishop of Canterbury (head of the Episcopal Church), William Laud (1573-1645) was a staunch political supporter of King Charles I, and an ecclesiastical supporter of "high church" practices.  Neither of these set well with Parliament, which was controlled by Puritans such as Oliver Cromwell.  So Parliament passed a law declaring Archbishop Laud guilty of treason, and had him beheaded. The law was called a bill of attainder.  Bills of attainder had two features.  First, they bypassed the courts in declaring someone guilty of a crime.  Second, they criminalized ex post facto actions that were not against the law at the time they were committed. For the obvious reasons, the American colonists were not fond of this aspect of the British legal system.  Which is why Article 1, section 9, clause 3 of the Constitution declares: "No bill of attainder or ex post facto law shall be passed." Barack Hussein Obama's apparent willingness to prosecute former Justice department lawyers who wrote memoranda opining that certain "enhanced interrogation techniques" were lawful suggests neither he nor his attorney general, Eric Holder, are familiar with the letter and spirit of Article 1, section 9, clause 3.

Here's the question of the week:  Why do Democrat presidents insist on having evil idiot lesbians in their Cabinet? It would be very hard for an American to be more evil than Bill Clinton's alcoholic lesbian Attorney General Janet Reno - as revealed years ago in America's Saddam. Now it seems that another lesbian named Janet -- Zero's DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano - wants to try.  Lucky for us, she's even more of a moron than Ms. Reno. After labeling anyone with conservative small government/prolife views a "right-wing extremist" and Iraq war veterans as potential terrorists - then completing an imbecile hat trick by blaming Canada for 9/11 - it's small wonder that demands for her resignation are growing. She has quickly become a complete laughingstock in Canada.  The National Post, one of the country's major papers, wants to know how she got her job, because she is "as knowledgeable about border issues as a late-night radio call-in yahoo." But she's also not the only Dem laughingstock this week - here are three more.

Do you know what the word "income" means? My large Webster's dictionary is able to provide a clear and comprehensive definition in a mere 52 words. The shortest definition the Internal Revenue Service could provide in response to my request for its definition was 140 words - but the word income was included 10 times, missing the point that you do not include the word to be defined as part of the definition. Last week, I was in a meeting with some of the nation's best and most experienced tax lawyers and tax economists, several of whom had served in the Treasury, and, again, there was the general lament that the tax code is so complex it is beyond their understanding and repair. Those who claim that the government will be able to get a lot more tax revenue by increasing tax rates on the rich live in a fantasy world.

Barack Hussein Obama visited the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, today (4/20) in an apparent effort to mitigate the harm he did by making public the so-called "secret torture memos" which described in explicit detail the coercive interrogation techniques CIA officers used to obtain information from captured al Qaeda bigwigs. Release of the memoranda -- which were written by the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel or OLC between 2002 and 2005 -- was strongly opposed by the four previous CIA directors (two appointed by President George W. Bush, two appointed by President Clinton).  The current CIA director, Leon Panetta, did not object to the release in principle, but said the memoranda should have been heavily censored before being made public. The release of the memoranda means that we are unlikely ever again to get valuable information from terror suspects, because now our enemies know the precise lengths to which our interrogators are willing to go to coerce information, and that those limits stop well short of actually causing the terror suspect injury. Did Mr. Obama release the CIA memos for the purpose of achieving this result?