A little longer today since we missed yesterday…

QUOTE OF THE DAY

In a sane world, the scandal would be that for eight years our multibillion-dollar intelligence community only “brainstormed” about dispatching agents to eliminate al-Qaeda operative wherever they could be found.

If this mindset had prevailed in an earlier generation, U.S. troops would have landed in Normandy about 1959.
Cliff May, The Corner

Palin Attacks Obama in WaPo Op-ed, How Will Media Respond?
Noel Sheppard, NewsBusters
If Palin Derangement Syndrome-afflicted media members thought the Alaska Governor’s surprising pre-Fourth of July announcement meant she was getting out of politics, her op-ed in Tuesday’s Washington Post should change their minds.
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Here’s the editorial…

The ‘Cap And Tax’ Dead End
Governor Sarah Palin,  The Washington Times
We have an important choice to make. Do we want to control our energy supply and its environmental impact? Or, do we want to outsource it to China, Russia and Saudi Arabia? Make no mistake: President Obama’s plan will result in the latter.
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Wolf: “Holder is a jerk”
Bearing Drift
“The attorney general’s failure to respond to legitimate congressional inquiries is a disservice to this president and the American people. This resolution would hold the attorney general to the president’s public commitment to transparency and accountability,”
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Will Republicans expose the two Sotomayors?
Byron York, Washington Examiner
Sotomayor’s professions of fidelity to the law and impartiality are the core of the argument that she has the right temperament and approach to serve on the Supreme Court. Yet her opening words just served to underscore the difference between what she says to win confirmation and what she has told friendly audiences over the years.
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Trumping the Race Card
Matthew Vadum, The American Spectator
If you’re going to be smeared by the left and the media — but I repeat myself — as a racist and a bigot no matter what you say, you might as well make the most of it.
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Study in contrasts: Christian scientist vs. eco-mad scientist
Michelle Malkin
Reporting last week on the president’s choice to head the National Institutes of Health, Times writer Gardiner Harris noted that praise for Dr. Francis S. Collins “was not universal or entirely enthusiastic.” The geneticist is causing “unease,” according to the Times, because of his “his very public embrace of religion.” Stomachs are apparently churning over a book Collins wrote describing his conversion to Christianity.
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NOTE:  As we reported in January, Dr. Collins spoke at this year’s Commonwealth Prayer Breakfast.

And in Virginia

McDonnell Campaign Flush: $5M In The Bank
Hotline on Call, The National Journal
The McDonnell campaign has almost $5M on hand as of 6/30, the end of the last reporting period. That’s nearly double the amount reported by Dem state Sen. Creigh Deeds’ team.
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So Steve Shannon is blaming Ken Cuccinelli for not voting a bill that he (Shannon) couldn’t even get out of the house?  Translation:  Cuccinelli never had a chance to vote on it.

Shannon Can’t Get A Bill Passed, Blames Cuccinelli
Bearing Drift
Shannon asks why Cuccinelli did not support Shannon’s HB 3086 in 2007  Problem is, HB 3086 died in the Criminal Law subcomittee of the House Committee of Criminal Justice.
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AG race, healthcare and energy
Bearing Drift
Some good reads today on the AG race, healthcare, and energy.
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RPV Applauds Biden’s In-Kind Contribution to the GOP Ticket
The Contemporary Conservative
“I think it’s great that Creigh Deeds is bringing in the world-renown comedian Joe Biden, which I guess means that Al Franken wasn’t available,” Chairman Mullins said. “But when you boil it down, the fact that Creigh Deeds is welcoming Joe Biden into the Commonwealth tells you an awful lot about where he stands on the issues.”
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Dark Clouds on the Democratic Horizon
Tertium Quids
The Augusta Free Press’ Chris Graham wonders “what in the hell is going on” with the three statewide Democratic candidates…
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Krystal Ball’s FEC Report Reveals Uranium, Secrecy, High Finance Handlers … and Switzerland?
Rappahannock Red
Krystal Ball’s Federal Elections Commission report was released today in her campaign to bring her experience in baby diapers and passion for nuclear-free $100,000 teachers to the forefront of U.S. Congress.
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