ONWARD TO THE PAST - AT 5:09 A.M. ET:  Pretty soon this crowd will be speaking with Texas accents.  New York Times reports:

WASHINGTON — President Obama has decided to keep the military commission system that his predecessor created to try suspected terrorists but will ask Congress to expand the rights of defendants to contest the charges against them, officials briefed on the plan said Thursday.

COMMENT:  As believers in the Judeo-Christian ethic, I feel it's incumbent on all of us to feel a tug of sympathy for our good friends on the political left.  It has been a bad week for them.  Let us count the ways:

First, the president changed his mind on releasing a bunch of prison photos.  The left went into depression.

Second, the president apparently set a deadline for negotiations with Iran to produce results.  The left became hysterical.

Third, the administration went ahead with a command shakeup in Afghanistan, and will pursue an active military strategy.  The left started forming the word "fascist" on its lips.

And now this.  If you see a leftist today, please kiss a little.  If you're concerned about the flu, send him an ethnic hi-five.

May 15, 2009