Thursday Night News and Notes

Here's what's a happenin' in this crazy-ass world:

-France returns to the fold. Welcome back.

-Gov. Perry joins Gov. Sanford in rejecting stim $ for unemployment. The conservative movement is stirring. Sanford is more creative, though.

-Rep. Maxine Waters joins the growing list of Democrats who are entangled in money scandals. This may be a record-breaking year of scandals and they're mostly Dem. They should be about as proud as NJ was to have Camden named the most violent city in the US.

-Liberal hack Margaret Carlson says that Geithner is really smart when no one is around to notice it. Get off your knees, Maggie.

-Obama considering moving National Guard troops to the border to deal with the nasty drug war spilling across our southern border. Perhaps if Bush and McCain had pushed to build a border fence...

...Tony Ward is the President’s nominee to head the Justice Department’s Civil Division. He was John Walker-Lindh's (aka: Johnny Taliban) defense lawyer. So we all have this straight; you defend a guy who converted to Islam and then fought against his own country--what sane people call treason--and you get a nice gig with the next prez. About what I expected from the new president.