Unbelievable.  So much for not wanting to live in the past.  The Obama administration released years of Bush administration documents regarding the war on terror. 

Attorney General Holder was quoted as saying, “Too often over the past decade, the fight against terrorism has been viewed as a zero-sum battle with our civil liberties.”  While this might be true, and some of the things revealed are scary, this premature release does nothing but fuel the anti-Bush fire only weeks after he left office.

This doesn’t even begin to scratch the surface of my ire toward this action.  How dare the administration claim Bush’s fight against people willing to do anything to kill us as a “zero-sum battle with our civil liberties” on one hand then turn right around and back legislation such as card check, the fairness doctrine, increased rendition, and enslavement of the upper-middle and upper classes to confiscate wealth to fund their populist agenda. 

At least if Bush did violate civil liberties, he did it to protect Americans from being killed by fanatics; Obama’s administration is only trying to do it to crush dissent and retain power.

Update: Ace agrees, at least with my first rant.   Redstate also has links to the documents released.

Update II: Ed over at Hot Air gives his take on at least one of the scary possibilities the lawyers thought up to get around the Fourth Amendment.  He also points out, something many are NOT reporting, that these “loopholes” the lawyers thought up were never implemented by Bush.

It’s called localism, and it’s dangerous.  Since FCC rules require stations to serve the local community in order to keep licenses, groups organize to make complaints against local stations for objections to syndicated programming.  Since most conservative talk shows are syndicated, these tactics scare stations into dropping them for fear of losing FCC licenses because the FCC takes complaints very seriously. 

The FCC has leeway to define “serve the local community” as it wishes, and it can impose any rules it wishes with three of five members’ votes.  The negotiation has already begun to come to some agreement on the definition, but the FCC has been a bit overbearing by telling stations to “do it our way or else.”  If the Sirius / XM merger is any indication, it’s going to involve a lot of “minority” programming hours as well as local programming rules.  Many smaller stations will find the new rules difficult to follow since they rely on syndicated programs to keep ad dollars coming in so they can serve the community at all with bare-bones-staff-required news breaks.

What country has leaders that seek to shut down media outlets that discuss ideas in opposition of them?  No, not the U.S., silly.  Iran.

While discussing the agenda of a likely strengthened Democratic majority in Congress, Chuck Schumer made me laugh with his defense of card check, saying how tragic it was that the union rolls have dropped from 25% to 6% in the country.  The only tragedy he sees is the shrinking coffers that the unions have to give to his party.

Anyway, he later said that radio stations needed to be regulated like pornography is regulated.  He said it made no sense that Congress would regulate one and not the other.  That’s when I just got scared.  Hot Air has the video.  Funny that the broadcast stations weren’t mentioned.  With the leg tingling that Obama has generated, that’s closer to porn than anything Rush or Hannity has said.

GO VOTE!