Dayhoff Soundtrack: Washington Examiner: Don't make ATF director a scapegoat for 'gunwalker' scandal

Monday, June 20, 2011

Washington Examiner: Don't make ATF director a scapegoat for 'gunwalker' scandal

Don't make Melson a Fast and Furious scapegoat

Credible media reports have it that Kenneth Melson, acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, will get his walking papers this week as a result of his approval of Operation Fast and Furious, aka "Gunwalker." That's the program in which ATF purposely allowed as many as 2,000 lethal weapons, including assault rifles such as the infamous AK-47, to be sold to representatives of Mexican drug cartels.

Memo to media: Palin isn't Kardashian

By: Bill O'Reilly

Because I am a simple man, allow me to pose a simple question: What the deuce were 30 reporters doing in Juneau last week sifting through 24,000 pages of emails written by then-Gov. Sarah Palin? Why did a bunch of news agencies spend money to send their people north to Alaska after the state government released the correspondence?

START exposes Obama's half-truth national security talk

By: James Carafano

"I never let my right hand know what my left hand is doing." - President Franklin Delano Roosevelt In the run-up to World War II, FDR's penchant for playing fast and loose with the truth in pursuit of political ends spawned a climate of distrust in Washington.

NATO is America's obsolete European alliance

By: Steve Chapman

Defense Secretary Robert Gates went to Europe recently to announce that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization may have a "dismal future" and that before long, American leaders "may not consider the return on America's investment in NATO worth the cost." Why does he make that sound like a bad thing? "Watch out! We may have to stop spending so much money protecting countries that can protect themselves!"

Time for government attorneys to stand up to Obama

By: Hugh Hewitt

President Nixon ordered Archibald Cox fired from the job of "special prosecutor" on Oct. 20, 1973.

Weiner is gone but issues remain the same

By: Gregory Kane

Before conservatives and Republicans engage in too much schadenfreude about Rep. Anthony Weiner's resignation from Congress, a word of caution might be in order. Let's not get too happy over Weiner's departure, and by all means let's not jump to the conclusion that his conduct is an indicator that all Democrats are like him.

Conn Carroll: How a no-tax-hike pledge makes K Street even richer

By: Conn Carroll

Thirty-three Republicans voted last week to end the federal tax credit for ethanol production. From a conservative perspective, the vote should have been a no-brainer: the federal government has no business picking winners and losers in the energy sector, and the tax credit was a direct subsidy to ethanol producers.

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