Today President Barack Obama nixed his administration's plan to implement an environmental regulation that could have cost as much as $90 billion. Just days ago Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-Ohio) sent a letter to the White House asking that the administration calculate and release the economic impact of all 219 of its planned new regulations. Coincidence or proof that after two and a half years, the president's unaffordable, unsustainable and ridiculously naive plans for government are going up in smoke and the grown-ups are calling the shots?

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In a unanimous decision, the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled today that civilian courts do not have authority to hear the cases of three detainees imprisoned at Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan. The ruling is a win for both Bush and Obama administration policies in the War on Terror.

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In his address to the nation on Thursday in which he outlined his administration's latest approach to terrorism, President Obama said, "Instead of giving into cynicism and division, let's move forward with the confidence and optimism and unity that defines us as a people. For now is not a time for partisanship, it's a time for citizenship. A time to come together and work together." Setting aside the hypocrisy of those words being spoken by one of the harshest and most partisan critics of the Bush administration's prosecution of the War on Terror, let's look at the difference between the left's "cynicism and division" and the right's.

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While the radical left are contemplating whether or not pushing someone against a wall (under medical supervision of course) is considered torture and contemplating how much redress is appropriate for our captured enemy combatants, the Obama administration appears to be coming to the realization that terrorists might actually be bad.

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