President Bush Wednesday night laid out his plans for a troop "surge" in Iraq as part of an effort root out terrorists in Baghdad. (I say terrorists and not "insurgents" because the primary target nowadays of the violence is Iraqi civilians, not American "occupying forces.") It's obvious that mistakes have been made in pacifying Iraq. […]
Alec Baldwin, a mediocre actor who I last enjoyed seeing in (whichever one he dies grotesquely in), has written an "insightful" piece over at the freak show that is the Huffington Post. All around us are signs of global climate change. And this administration's response is to send in more troops. If you don't think […]
Suzanne Magaziner, wife of Ira Magaziner who headed then-first lady Hillary Clinton's health care task force in the early '90s, had drunken driving charges against her dropped under "mysterious circumstances." A politically wired campaign fund-raiser with ties to Gov.-elect Deval Patrick and former President Clinton has been cleared of drunken driving charges, despite allegedly failing […]
Jon Henke over at QandO went slogging through the sewers over at conspiracy nut (how's that natural gas pipeline in Afghanistan going?) and hater/cartoonist Ted Rall's site and came up with this gem. [You might have to scroll down, the permalinks don't appear to be working.] A reader responding to my column "When is a […]
Former Clinton administration national security adviser Sandy Berger Burglar pleaded guilty last year to charges that he stole classified documents from the National Archives. He was fined $50,000 and lost his security clearance for three years (just getting them back in time if a Democrat wins the White House in 2008). Wednesday, the inspector general's […]
OpinionJournal.com's James Taranto is on vacation, but before he left he got a lot of letters reacting to Democrat Rep. Charlie Rangel's claim that the only reason people go into the military is because they can't get good jobs in the private sector. Taranto's been dribbling these letters out over the past few days, and […]
It's bad enough when Jimmy Carter and "the Rev." Jesse Jackson do it, but when you are an elected official, I think it's even worse. Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) is going to meet with Syrian president dictator/terrorist Bashar Assad. In an end-run around the Bush administration, Sen. Bill Nelson is scheduled to meet with Syrian […]
Silvestre Reyes, the incoming chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. Congressional Quarterly's National Security Editor, Jeff Stein, interviewed the last man standing after House Speaker-to-be Nancy Pelosi's holiday massacre of Reps. Jane Harman and Alcee Hastings. From Stein's report: Reyes stumbled when I asked him a simple question about al Qaeda at the end of […]
I just checked mine. I still don't have $90,000 in cash stuffed in a box of lasagna. However, this pesky bit of corruption presents no soul-searching for Rep. William Jefferson (D-Culture of Corruption) after he won re-election today. What will Nancy Pelosi do about the crook in her caucus. I'm sure she was hoping the […]
DNC Chairman Howard Dean has weighed in on the contested House race in Sarasota, Fla. -- and you shouldn't be surprised at what screamin' Howie says. Republican Vern Buchanan might be the official winner in a messy Sarasota-area congressional race, but Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean says the Democratic-controlled Congress should not seat Buchanan […]