The real question is not “Is the 1975 Congressional cutoff of funds for Vietnam an appropriate historical lesson for 2007 Iraq?†The real question is “Can we trust the judgment of this President and this administration to understand/predict the consequences of any military decision or action in Iraq?â€
Listening to this military wife talk about her husband and her military friends is heartbreaking. She calls for instituting the draft, but I’d suggest she consider supporting a shift in foreign policy strategy away from Bill Kristol’s view on pre-emptive wars. (h/t: Belgravia Dispatch) Tweet
Or could it be his message that’s resonating with social conservatives? Maybe a little bit of both? On the GOP side, Mitt Romney leads in Iowa and New Hampshire, while Rudy Giuliani is ahead in South Carolina. However, this biggest news is that Mike Huckabee got a bounce from his second place finish in the [...]
Interesting numbers because this is where Obama begins to show his grassroot chops against Hillary. He had 41,007 readers, compared with Hillary (the nearest Dem) at 18,555. That’s a massive gap. What’s more interesting though, is Ron Paul would dominate the field with 30,960 readers but Fred Thompson is nipping at his heels with 24,160. [...]
More reports out of Iraq, and the news isn’t particularly encouraging. From NY Times: WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 — An independent commission established by Congress to assess Iraq’s security forces will recommend remaking the 26,000-member national police force to purge it of corrupt officers and Shiite militants suspected of complicity in sectarian killings, administration and military [...]
Two days ago at The Carpetbagger Report, Steve Benen published a post re: the implosion of the Republican Party, writing: … I often wonder how, exactly, someone looks at the Republican Party of 2007 — its leaders, its decisions, its priorities, its conduct — and says, ‘You know, that’s the party for me.’ When I [...]
That’s the ruling from a judge yesterday. He ruled that the ban on prohibiting gays from getting married is unconstitutional. DES MOINES, Iowa – Less than two hours after a judge struck down Iowa’s decade-old gay marriage ban, two Des Moines men applied for a marriage license as bride and groom, and county officials said [...]
I thought it would be good for me to collect all the questions into one post so you can see them all before I post which answers I thought were the best. Just click on each and it’ll lead you to their respective posts… If Ron Paul doesn’t win the nomination, who will you vote [...]
The non-partisan Government Accountability Office will issue a report next Tuesday, but a draft of it has been given to the press for fear the full, unvarnished picture won’t be presented. From the Wash Post: The strikingly negative GAO draft, which will be delivered to Congress in final form on Tuesday, comes as the White [...]
I promised I’d keep you all up to date, and so… The biggest “new” news from this story in the NY Times is that: He’s originally from Hong Kong. Hsu was going to co-host a large Democratice fundraiser with Quincy Jones next month. He’s donated $255,970 to Democrat candidates and causes. He says that the [...]
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