This post has been updated. Illinois junior Sen. Barack Obama is trying to burnish his foreign policy credentials after what was seen by many as a faux pas when he agreed to meet with the leaders of rogue states Cuba, Venezuela, Iran, North Korea and Syria without precondition in the first year of his presidency. […]
Majority Whip James Clyburn -- the No. 3 man in the House -- revealed something that just makes you truly sad for the state of the Democratic Party which was once represented by Harry S Truman and John F. Kennedy. Many Democrats have anticipated that, at best, Petraeus and U.S. ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker […]
If you haven't read it already, I encourage you to check out the op-ed piece in today's New York Times by Michael O'Hanlon and Kenneth Pollack of the center-left Brookings Institution. Once you've read it, think for a moment how this likely won't impact people like Sens. Harry Reid and Russ Feingold who've already decided […]
Chief Justice John Roberts had a "benign ideopathic seizure" today -- whatever that is. And of course the nutroots goes from straight into hoping for his death. Patterico points to supposedly kinda mainstream "Wonkette." Chief Justice John Roberts has died in his summer home in Maine. No, not really, but we know you have your […]
For those interested in the abortion issue, here's a couple of things worth reading. First is this article from last week's Los Angeles Times entitled "Democrats shift approach on abortion." Surprisingly, the aforementioned shift is in a pro-life direction. For years, the liberal response to abortion has been to promote more accessible and affordable birth […]
The far left fever swamp that is the DailyKos is featuring an interesting post by someone who identifies himself as Kestrel9000 and posits a conspiracy theory: Army ranger and former NFL star Pat Tillman was assassinated because he planned to meet with anti-war activist/author Noam Chomsky. Seriously. We have confirmed that Tillman had arranged to […]
At least, that's apparently what New York Sen. Chuck Schumer believes. New York Sen. Charles E. Schumer, a powerful member of the Democratic leadership, said Friday the Senate should not confirm another U.S. Supreme Court nominee under President Bush “except in extraordinary circumstances.” “We should reverse the presumption of confirmation,” Schumer told the American Constitution […]
Some have noted that you may occassionally see an ad down on the right for Barack Obama for President. It's an ad served up by Google, likely because this site has a lot of political content. I have not endorsed any candidate for president, and I certainly won't be endorsing Obama. Having said that, if […]
On yesterday's "Fox News Sunday," National Public Radio's Juan Williams -- a left-winger -- proclaimed that the ultraliberal web site "Daily Kos" was mainstream. Daily Kos' view on the war in Iraq is where a majority of the American public is. And then they did this: At least we can quit with that fiction that […]
Courtesy of Don Surber we have this gem from Sen. John Kerry on how nothing bad happened to anyone after we abandoned South Vietnam to the communist North. Everybody predicted a massive bloodbath in Vietnam. There was not a massive bloodbath in Vietnam. There were reeducation camps and they weren't [inaudible] and nobody likes that […]