Health Care Rationing

Doctors against the Obama health care rationing plan email into Hugh Hewitt.

Savage Banned From The UK

Talk radio host Michael Savage has been banned from entering the United Kingdom due to his "extreme" views. Whether you like Savage or not, this seems like an unwise move on the part of the Brits, to say the least.

Obama's First Hundred Days

His polling isn't so shabby, but Dick Morris doesn't think it will last.

The Biden Gaffe Machine

On the undisciplined Joe Biden:

The packaging is one of those win-win arrangements management gurus are always extolling: Biden gets to revel in his image as a fearless, forthright man of principle. The rest of the team gets to strategically deploy Biden's big mouth without feeling compelled to address his every stumble. Everyone goes home happy.

There's just one catch: If Biden speaks the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, what happens should he eventually utter a disastrously inconvenient truth--not a run-of-the-mill gaffe but something more grave and substantive?

Then he gets changed out, but 2012 is a long way off.

Porter Goss Stunned

At the "disturbing epidemic of amnesia" that is gripping some of his former House colleagues with regard to their knowledge of enhanced interrogation techniques:

Today, I am slack-jawed to read that members claim to have not understood that the techniques on which they were briefed were to actually be employed; or that specific techniques such as "waterboarding" were never mentioned. It must be hard for most Americans of common sense to imagine how a member of Congress can forget being told about the interrogations of Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed. In that case, though, perhaps it is not amnesia but political expedience.

Seems that the former CIA chief is most likely aiming his criticism at Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who continues to insist that she had no knowledge of the use of the interrogation techniques.

Pelosi Opposes Ethics Probe

Surprise, surprise:

House Democratic leaders, including Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Calif.), have ratcheted up the pressure on their rank-and-file members to oppose a resolution calling for an ethics committee investigation into the ties between key Democrats and a controversial defense-lobbying firm. Democratic leaders have told their members they should let the ethics panel do its work and stop supporting a measure sponsored by Rep. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) that calls for an ethics probe into political donations from the now-defunct PMA Group lobbying firm and earmarks its clients received.

Swine Flu Emergency Declared

The U.S. has declared a public health emergency, with 20 cases in five states reported so far. Plus, the country's really in the best of hands:

“U.S. public health officials did not know about a growing outbreak of swine flu in Mexico until nearly a week after that country started invoking protective measures, and didn’t learn that the deaths were caused by a rare strain of the influenza until after Canadian officials did. . . . U.S. public health officials are still largely in the dark about what’s happening in Mexico two weeks after the outbreak was recognized.”

More basic info about swine flu here and here.

Roche says it is ready to deliver 3 million doses of tamiflu to the World Health Organization.