The Dana Report

• VIDEO: When is Obama going to DO something?!
  From the NRSC: More: MKH @ The Weekly Standard – Ad Wars: The NRSC Hits Obama on Gulf Oil Spill Charles Krauthammer  @ WaPo – A Disaster with Many Fathers Peggy Noonan @ WSJ – He Was Supposed to Be Competent
  
  
• Video: Tom McClintock responds to Mexican President Felipe Calderon on the House Floor
  Text of the speech here.
  
  
• Americans Cheer Stupak’s Retirement
  Stupak, a Michigan pro-life Democrat (if there truly is such a thing), announced Friday that he will not seek re-election amid growing attacks from conservatives over his vote for President Obama’s health care legislation.  Stupak, who insisted he wasn’t driven out of office by Tea Partiers, said during a press conference Friday [...]
  
  
• Solar Energy Industry Weakens In Silicon Valley
  Silicon Valley has positioned itself as a hub for clean-technology companies. But the region isn’t doing so well when it comes to adopting alternative-energy practices, especially in solar power. Last year, Silicon Valley’s installations of solar panels slowed compared with the rest of California. According to the 2010 Index of Silicon [...]
  
  
• Obama Weakens America With Nuke Plan
  WASHINGTON—The Obama administration on Tuesday unveiled a nuclear weapons strategy that establishes new, formal limits on their use, prompting criticism from both advocates of more ambitious curbs and conservatives who questioned the decision to alter decades of bipartisan consensus on how to deter enemy attacks. The new policy narrows the range of [...]
  
  
• Dems Will Answer To Healthcare Breakdown For Years To Come
  Democrats finally fulfilled one of President Obama’s pet-projects late Sunday night by ramming an unwanted healthcare bill down the throats of each and every American, yet they continue to overlook the biggest consequence of their bribes and backroom deals which will haunt them for decades to come. Liberals, now the owner of the healthcare system, will [...]
  
  
• Chinese to Curtain-Call Iranian Nukefest?
  BEIJING— The Associated Press reports Britain’s foreign secretary is in China to lobby for further nuclear sanctions on Iran and will seek to smooth rancor with Beijing over climate change talks and the execution of a British drug smuggler thought to be mentally ill. David Miliband’s visit is a further step in [...]
  
  
• IRAN Producing Cruise Missiles
  Iran announced Sunday that it has started a new production line of highly accurate, short range cruise missiles, which would add a new element to the country’s already imposing arsenal. Gen. Ahmad Vahidi told Iranian state TV that the cruise missile, called Nasr 1, would be capable of destroying targets up to 3,000 tons in size.  [...]
  
  
• Real “Hurt Locker” Soldiers Basking in New Found Fame
  American bomb disposal experts in Iraq say few people understood what they did. Not any more. Now, the U.S. military’s explosive experts are basking in their job’s newfound fame after the Iraq war drama “The Hurt Locker” took home the best picture prize at Sunday’s Academy Awards in Hollywood.  [Read More]
  
  
• BREAKING: ACORN Charged With Voter Fraud
  Five Wisconsin residents have been charged with criminal counts of voter fraud in the November 2008 general election, state Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen announced today. Two of those charged, Maria Miles and Kevin Clancy, are workers for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), the embattled community group.  [Read More] (H/T The Drudge Report)