Author: Lorie Byrd

I heard a radio ad yesterday from the Obama campaign claiming that John McCain is against equal pay for women, but I had just read this article prior to hearing the ad so my poor daughter had to hear me rant about how Obama sure didn’t practice what he was preaching. While Sen. Barack Obama’s […]

A Townhall reader suggested the title of this post when commenting on my column today about John McCain finally going on offense on the issue of the economy. In it I discuss the ammunition McCain has to work with since several years ago he warned of exactly what eventually ended up happening. Not only is […]

If you want to measure how successful the troop surge in Iraq has been you can look to signs of military or political progress or you can just ask a liberal. I blog at Wizbang and over the past year when I have blogged about progress being made in Iraq, whether it be on the […]

John told me that I could blog about whatever I wanted, so I jokingly asked if I could post dirty pictures. I was just joking about that, but I did find another sort of obscenity at Wizbang Pop. Don’t worry, this one is perfectly safe for work. And for anyone wanting to give me grief […]

Gordon Brown has disappointed some in the anti-war movement with his recent comments: Britain’s new prime minister, Gordon Brown, has disappointed American and British critics of the war in Iraq by declaring that he believes the West is involved in a “generation-long battle” against radical Islamic terrorism, that he believes the American mission in Iraq […]

The vote was 80-14: Courting the anti-war constituency, Democratic presidential rivals Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama both voted against legislation that pays for the Iraq war but lacks a timeline for troop withdrawal. “I fully support our troops” but the measure “fails to compel the president to give our troops a new strategy in […]

Chuck Hagel is still against the war in Iraq and he is still speaking out against President Bush. What might actually be new though is that he is coming pretty close to saying the president should be impeached over Iraq. Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and […]

Bill Clinton is complaining that his wife’s vote on the war is being mischaracterized and that “it’s just not fair.” On a conference call with Hillraisers, Sen. Clinton’s biggest donors, which The Hill listened to after being provided the call-in information, the former president said there was a stark difference between those who voted for […]