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Excerpt that summarizes the article: While I have been composing the above stream of consciousness, Jill has been grabbing the best of the best from the responses that I had posted between midnight last night and 3:00 AM after becoming aware of the Friday 8:00 PM drop from Pfizer legal. I will close this posting with the gems which she has mined, and then begin composing an analysis of the response from Pfizer’s legal team.

Frustrated Democrats on Wednesday slammed President Joe Biden for responding to multiple crises “flatfooted.” Members of Biden’s own party are irritated as the president has been caught off guard by multiple crises all at once. Some have argued the crises are so damaging that Biden is losing control of public perception.

After yet another terror attack in the city of London, once again the political elites have marshaled their ideas and forces and done absolutely nothing. It is becoming almost a joke, and would be funny if it weren’t for the tragic loss of life that accompanies these attacks, Politicians, who are tasked with defending the nation, seem unable to muster anything more than empty platitudes…It’s just not enough. So far today, I have read the responses of the British Prime Minister, the Mayor of London, The Foreign Secretary and the leader of the opposition…All were bland and completely unhelpful. They...

Outreach to the Shinto CommunityHow did President Bush’s response to 9-11 in 2001 compare with the words and actions of President Roosevelt after Pearl Harbor sixty years earlier? As it happens, the reactions of the two presidents were surprisingly similar within their contemporaneous context. Vlad Tepes has ferreted out some rare footage from old newsreel archives that shows the longer version of FDR’s address to Congress on the day after the surprise attack by Japan. The first part of the president’s speech will be familiar to most readers, but the rest of his address is not as well known:...

The White House has been pushing its immigration reform desires around via Twitter this week, sending one doozy of a tweet that sparked hilarious responses. If the Obama administration had a sense of humor, one could think this was almost a setup designed to elicit reaction and interaction on Twitter. But, alas. This administration believes its own babble-speak, which makes the comments even funnier.

Why I bother I don't know, but I keep trying. Questions, requests for information or suggestions all end with the identical reply and no other. This is my lastest rant to the RNC."Chairman@gop.comI realize that no one actually reads anything sent to this address and that it only works to generate a robo response email, but I still have to try anyway. With an eye towards history, I have to assume that the end results of the meeting on Thursday will be the Republicans bending over giving in and allowing the Health Care bill to proceed will nary a change...

** EXCERPT ** ** snip ** Sarah Palin's coming out party has changed the dynamics of the race--and while the maxim is that veep nominees don't alter the fundamental electoral equation, there is no doubt that Palin's speech Wednesday night in St. Paul has the Obama campaign revving up the Payback Machine. Here are some of the things it's doing: 1) Immediate comment. Last night, the campaign sent out this statement from spokesman Bill Burton: "The speech that Governor Palin gave was well delivered, but it was written by George Bush's speechwriter and sounds exactly like the same divisive, partisan...

Last night, while watching Hannity & Colmes, I resisted the temptation of throwing something at the television set. I’ve heard, consistently, from many conservatives who know him, that Alan is “really a nice guy”. Maybe so. But, his comments continue to be consistently absurd, mindless, immature, idiotic, perplexing and too many other adjectives defining ‘ludicrous’ to list here. One of his Wednesday comments, however, took the proverbial cake. Engaged in a conversation with Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North, regarding Jane Fonda and her new book, the inevitable subject of Fonda’s Viet Nam war atrocities came up in the discussion. Please bear...

The purpose of FreeRepublic.com's multiple message boards is to limit the topics for each board to particular topics. Posting the same message on all the boards defeats the purpose of multiple-boards for special topics. It is very annoying to see the same message on every bulletin board. PLEASE! DO THE READERS A FAVOR. STOP CROSS-POSTING YOUR MESSAGES!

I am perplexed and concerned at the response of many Ohio groups/organizations to netWMD's call to oppose the Palestinian Solidarity Movement's (PSM) planned conference at Ohio State University. In many instances, our calls and emails to various Ohio groups asking for support -- even constructive criticism -- have gone completely unanswered. How can these groups ignore the evidence we've documented for PSM's calls for the "liberation" (destruction) of "historic Palestine" (Israel) "by any means necessary." How can they ignore the evidence for PSM activists rioting last year at Concordia University (see the pictures for yourself), for PSM 2002 conference attendees...

The Road to Civil War By Adam Graham This is the summer of Conservatives’ discontent. Many Americans are suffering from gay fatigue with Canadian gay marriage and our own Supreme Court’s ruling on sodomy. The cultural elite have responded with “Boy Meets Boy” and “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy”. While both shows have been successful, that’s not because of overwhelming support for homosexuality. To be a success, 10-15% of the country has to like it. It doesn’t matter if more than half the country’s repulsed by it, it’s still a hit. Ann Coulter’s book, “Treason” is something we haven’t...

It's been six years since one decision by a federal judge has kicked up this much controversy. In 1996, Judge Harold Baer Jr. threw out evidence in a cocaine case because the police had searched a car only because, when they approached it, four men started running away from it. Running away from the police, Baer ruled, was perfectly reasonable behavior for black men, not suspicious in the least. After Bill Clinton, Bob Dole, and pretty much everyone else denounced him, Baer reversed himself. Ninth Circuit judges Alfred Goodwin and Stephen Reinhardt are getting the Baer treatment this week. The...