(NYDN) Sarah Palin has hired a chief-of-staff, a move that experts say is the strongest indication yet that the former Alaska governor will run for President in 2012. Michael Glassner, an attorney who has worked for several high-profile politicians, including Bob Dole and John McCain, will serve as the head adviser of her political action committee, Sarah PAC.  (more…)

What do Angela Merkel, John Howard, Jose Maria Aznar, Geert Wilders, David Cameron and now Nicolas Sarkozy all have in common?….. (Daily Mail) French president Nicolas Sarkozy has joined David Cameron in condemning multiculturalism as a failure. Cameron launched a scathing attack earlier this months on 30 years of multiculturalism in Britain warning that it fostered extremism. His damning verdict came just months after German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that multiculturalism in Germany had failed. Now Sarkozy has joined the growing number of European leaders who have adopted identical views on multiculturalism.  (more…)

(American Thinker) Seventy four Democratic Members of Congress led by noted moderate Anthony Weiner have sent a letter to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas demanding that he recuse himself from any case before the Court related to last year’s health care bill. This follows a more muted comment by Senator Orrin Hatch suggesting the recusal of Justice Kagan on the grounds that she was Solicitor General of the United States until her appointment on August 10 last year to the Court. The battle over the health care bill has formally started.  (more…)

Yahoooo….. It’s the Weekend !!!   Hopefully the weather is better where you are and perhaps even thawing out.  Perhaps.   Anywho, cuddle on up to the TreeHouse crew and chat a bit.  Weekends are great for adventures.  What’s on your mind ?

Incredibly, the White House has sided with a foreign power against a state that it is invading and colonizing, rendering the contract between the federal government and the states null and void — yet there has been no move to impeach our treasonous rogue president. But at least Arizona Governor Jan Brewer is putting up a fight in the courts (Yahoo News):  (more…)

Trying to save his diminishing political future…. (The Hill) Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) addressed his bailout vote head-on Friday in his appearance before conservative activists. He said he regrets voting in favor of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) but added that he believes it prevented the nation from descending into an economic depression.  (more…)

Iran has responded to the Egyptian movement by rounding up/jailing dissidents, shutting down the internet, and cutting satellite news feeds…. (PressTV) — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said that a new Middle East will be created in the near future without the United States and Israel.  (more…)

A DEA officer stops at a ranch in Texas, and talks with an old rancher. He tells the rancher, “I need to inspect your ranch for illegally grown drugs.” The rancher says, “Okay , but don’t go in that field over there,” as he points out the location. The DEA officer verbally explodes saying, ” Mister, I have the authority of the Federal Government with me.” (more…)

># Egyptians nationwide are flooding into the streets in celebration, according to Reuters’ witnesses.
># Al Arabiya is also reporting that an Egyptian army statement will announce the sacking of the cabinet and says that the head of the constitutional court will lead with military council.
># Al Arabiya is reporting that an army statement will suspend the upper and lower house of Egypt’s parliament.
># Egyptian defense minister, field marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi heads the military council, a military source tells Reuters.

h/t Jennifer H for providing this great link.  (Ricochet) What is Obama’s doctrine for dealing with a hostile world, even if he’s never articulated one well enough to make it a capitalized Doctrine? I think his general principles can be distilled to a tripartite belief system:  (more…)