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If he wasn’t going to be the next President, this McCain gaffe would be absolutely the most hysterical campaign mistake I can remember. This coming from a candidate for President of the United States, or in the new parlance, Commander in Chief. The sole executor and protector of national security. This is a [...]

Give that guy a medal!

…but they couldn’t have done it on their own. They needed a compliant press to pass on their propaganda as news and cheer them on.
That’s from Chapter 1 of the internet broadcast, and a real gem. I’ve only watched part, and so far much more impressed with Chapter 2 than anything besides that [...]

The reason I rarely post about stuff like this is that so many people write about these things with the attitude that they should justify a show-down at high noon. That because of these things, a hard-line approach, with the tacit hope for military aggression, is eminently justified. I don’t wish to be [...]

The Concern Trolls at RedState:
Instead of trying to play reasonable, you decided to pee in the man’s cornflakes. You pissed him off and he now has your precious policy by the short hairs.
What could we have been thinking? Instead of reasonably genuflecting to Lieberman as he went on Fox News and called Democrats traitorous [...]

It’s been said before & it’s been said better. All the guys who were so famously and cripplingly wrong about Iraq on so many different points - they are still the ones calling the shots. They - President included - are the ones favoring a “Surge” of troops, in opposition to the Joint Chiefs, [...]

It’s clear that the continued prevalence of this type headline this late in November proves that the terrorists are now trying to influence the recounts. Having won the election, they now want to beat the recount in GA-12, and where was that other one? It’s clear that the only way to get them [...]

A byproduct of the Gates nomination was my stumbling across this interview, that really makes me wonder if Jimmy Carter was such a great guy after all, and makes a few more things I wouldn’t put past our own government. 1998 interview with Carter’s NSA, Zbigniew Brzezinski, translated from French:
Q: Despite this risk, you [...]

“Cease fire, friendlies, I am Pat (expletive) Tillman, damn it!” the NFL star shouted, again and again.
How do we know this? I am not questioning that just to be a jerk. I would really like to know who reported that Tillman was screaming to identify himself. Surely not the guys who were shooting at him. [...]

An intelligent, skeptical American would no doubt scoff at the thought that what has happened since 9/11 could presage the destruction of a centuries-old constitution; but then, I suppose, an intelligent, skeptical Roman in 68 B.C. might well have done the same.
It may be that the Roman republic was doomed in any case. But the [...]