New York: Capitol Hill

then the Merkel must come to the Hussein - Merkel meets with Obama, then talks to CongressMerkel, who met Obama shortly before her appearance on Capitol Hill, said she wanted to use the Oval Office session and her speech to Congress to express gratitude for American support "throughout the process leading up to German reunification."Heh. Obama refused to stop in Germany to meet with Merkel so Merkel comes to the US to admonish the socialists trying to destroy our economy. Obama's clueless foreign relations team gets schooled again - after a notable snub Merkel decides she's going to just show up and talk some sense into the Democrats - after all, what happens with the US economy affects the whole world.

Coming soon...Hitler Days on Capitol Hill and Ye Olde Stalin Faire at the St. Louis Arch?
The Empire State Building this week will illuminate red and yellow, celebrating China's 60 years of communist rule. There are many things to appreciate about China, but communism isn't one of them.

What was the Empire State Building thinking in lighting up in celebration of China's long communist rule?...

China's 6,000-year-old history and civilization are loaded with things to celebrate — from its invention of paper money and fireworks, to its great cuisines, its Taoist philosophy, the daring historic voyages of Sanbao (a possible model for Sinbad), millions of Overseas Chinese, and perhaps the awed arrival of Marco Polo into the Middle Kingdom, which ignited the Age of Exploration.

Par for the course lately, Investor's Business Daily manages to take a bubbling issue, sort through the facts and rumors over a day or two, and produces a cogent, concise summary and implications. Here they take on the media bias over the huge rally this past Saturday in DC, a rally underplayed and minimized in our papers this weekend - and was it even on the TV news?
The wide-lens shots of oceans of people on the streets of Washington, D.C., even wider than the one above, make it clear that last Saturday's mega-rally against government spending and high taxes was one of the most extraordinary grass-roots events in history.

Dick Cheney has already acted the part of the canary. He breathed in the fetid vapors of the current political climate (to recap, that would be a rapid, unchecked rush to socialism by Democrats and the President aided by a willing, even eager mainstream media determined to act as an open propaganda wing for their "god", Obama), choked a bit, but still had his say and survived. And it energized the opposition.

Hopefully President Bush will do the same thing. Obama refuses to stop blaming Bush for everything from global warming to scratchy toilet paper in the White House, and when you're attacked, you respond.