Should we take these Somali Jack Sparrows seriously? John Hawkins at Right Wing News finds the recent prevalence of pirates in the news almost laughable and argues the U.S. shouldn’t get involved (but not without first taking a few jabs at President-elect Barack Obama’s policy of talking to the enemy without preconditions). Mark Steyn, blogging for National Review, has a more serious take on the rise of piracy.

Eric Holder is the worst possible pick for Attorney General right now, according to the editors at National Review. He’d be softer on terrorists, and he helped push through several questionable pardons and commutations of sentence on behalf of former president Bill Clinton. Moreover, the editors write, he massages statistics to portray police as racial profilers, supports affirmative action, wants to stop the detention of enemy combatants at Gitmo, and “favors income redistribution to address the supposed root causes of crime.”

The Right is finding new hope in…Hillary Clinton? Noemie Emery, writing for The Weekly Standard, calls Clinton “The Great Right Hope” and traces how campaign 2008 transformed the former first lady into a social conservative champion of middle-America. Meanwhile, Right Wing News blogger John Hawkins simply can’t see how Obama supporters could be happy with a White House reprise for the Clinton clan.

Obama and Clinton have smeared Reaganomics; it’s time to get real about taxes. So argues Peter Ferrara in The American Spectator. Data from the IRS and the Congressional Budget Office actually show that the bottom 40 percent of income earners pay negative 3.8 percent of taxes, in fact drawing money out of income tax revenues, he writes. The real middle class, only have to pay 4.7 percent of all federal income taxes…and the whole system a result of Reagan’s Republican supply-side economics.

McCain seeks a fifth term in the U.S. Senate, and that’s not good for Republicans. McCain’s term is up in 2010. News of his intent was leaked and hasn’t been publicly confirmed, but already bloggers are reacting. Right Wing News’ John Hawkins calls McCain “uniquely destructive to conservatism and the Republican Party” and goes on the record saying he’d rather have a Democrat. So much for the Maverick.

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