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Take these numbers with a grain of salt because they’re from the Associated Press, which isn’t necessarily the most honest or trustworthy news outlet out there: At the same time, dissatisfaction with President Bush’s handling of Iraq has climbed to an alltime high of 71 percent. The latest AP-Ipsos poll, taken as a bipartisan commission […]

“When a secretary of defense gets confirmed 95-2 apparently because he says we are not winning a war, you know Uncle Sam must have a sign on his back that says “kick me.” We’ve come a long way from that day in April 1986 when President Ronald Reagan ordered Operation El Dorado Canyon, an air […]

Harold Meyerson has a column out that harps on an idea that seems to have been gaining some traction on the left — that the GOP is now just a Southern Party: “In case you haven’t noticed, a fundamental axiom of modern American politics has been altered in recent weeks. For four decades, it’s been […]

From last to first.. Currently Reading: William Easterly: The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good 60) Robert Leckie: “A Few Acres of Snow”: The Saga of the French and Indian Wars (A: This is a typical Leckie book. In other words, […]

Make sure to check out the latest links at Conservative Grapevine including, Moxie: I, Moxie, am not getting married until every marriage works Power Line: 24-year-old sergeant T.F. Boggs is back from Iraq and upset about the lack of will in the United States. Mudville Gazette: The raw numbers on the war in Iraq. You […]

The Democrats are at it again – doing something so politically smart that it demonstrates how politically stupid the GOP was in their control of Congress. If the Democrats keep making clever moves like this, it’s going to be a long time before the Republicans ever regain control. First, the Democrats announce that they’re actually […]

Domestic Dean: Dems Should Keep Out Vern Buchanan (Dems Trying To Steal A House Seat That They Lost In Florida) New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson Says A Fence At The Mexican Border Authorized By Congress This Fall “Gets In The Way” Of U.S.-Mexico Relations, And He Wants The New Democratic Congress To Reverse The Legislation […]

And we did finish the job. That’s why we call the “Greatest Generation,” the “Greatest Generation.” Under far more difficult circumstances than we face today, against a much tougher enemy, with well more than a hundred times the lives lost, they persevered, preserved this nation’s freedom, destroyed our enemies, and paid the Japanese back in […]

It has been more than 3 months since the last time I ranked my favorite 40 blogs, so I thought it was about time to do it again, for the last time in 2006. Do keep in mind that as the quarter has progressed, some blogs have, of course, moved up and others have dropped, […]

Hollywood has been complaining about sinking revenues and a public that’s growing less interested in what they have to offer. Of course, there is no one single cause of Hollywood’s woes. The blame could certainly be cast on horrible sequels (The Legend of Zorro, anyone?), terrible remakes of old classics (The Manchurian Candidate, The Stepford […]

It’s hard not to have mixed feelings about this: Forget the minimum wage. Or outsourcing jobs overseas. The labor issue most on the minds of members of Congress yesterday was their own: They will have to work five days a week starting in January. The horror. …Hoyer and other Democratic leaders say they are trying […]

“If I were the judge in the custody suit between Britney (Spears) and Federline, I’d give the kids to Andrea Yates.” — Greg Gutfeld

Everything you need to know about the Rain Forest in a single song!

This was linked solely because it’s the weirdest thing I’ve seen in a long, long, time. Hat tip to Ace of Spades HQ for the video.

Domestic 1 In 7 Mexican Workers Employed In The U.S.: Report Tom Coburn and Jim DeMint Successfully Block 10,000 Pork Projects Jeb Hensarling Was Just Elected As The Next Chairman Of The Republican Study Committee 57-42 (That’s Good News) GOP Lawmakers Tack Offshore Drilling Legislation Onto Tax Bill Culture Shock On Capitol Hill: House To […]

There are some libs out there attempting to deliberately misconstrue things that Glenn Beck has said about what could happen to Muslims in the wake of a terrorist attack. Here’s a representative quote from Beck: “All you Muslims who have sat on your frickin’ hands the whole time and have not been marching in the […]

Robert Gates hasn’t even settled into his office yet and he’s already overdue to be fired. From his confirmation hearings: Gates was asked about Iran’s nuclear program and President Ahamdinejad’s threats to wipe Israel off the map. Gates replied that the Iranian president’s threats were serious, but that there were greater forces in Iran than […]

RWN reader Paul Nixon told me that I just had to check out this diary post over at the Daily Kos. He was right! The post was a wacky, Kosian version of the future called, “2012 In the Holy Amerikan Empire.” Check out what Ian MacLeod over at the DK presumably thinks the future in […]

Top Tier Candidates It’s still very early, but the race for the GOP presidential nomination in 2008 is starting to shape up. Here’s a quick and dirty breakdown of the field. 1) Due to his high name recognition and the fawning press that he gets from the mainstream media for trashing other Republicans, John McCain […]

Today at Conservative Grapevine, some of the headlines include, Christian Mobs riot after Bible desecration (not) How the West was lost. The nativity scene through the eyes of the ACLU (with photo) You can read all of those headlines and more here. PS: If you’d like to become an author and submit links that may […]

“Representative Alan Mollohan, a West Virginia Democrat whose finances are being investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, is in line to take over the House panel that sets the bureau’s budget. …The pending appointment poses an ethical dilemma for incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, 66, who helped her party take control of Congress for […]

Dave Johnson over at Seeing The Forest wasn’t pleased with my post that referred to the Federal government ordering businesses to provide paid sick days to their employees as socialism: There is a move to require companies to pay for sick days. Conservatives say this is “Socialism.” If basic human rights is “Socialism” then I […]

Foreign Robert Gates: Iran Wants Nuclear Weapons For Deterrence. We Should Let Them Have Them (Bush Should Fire Gates Before He Takes Office) Iraq To Command Own Forces By Spring: US General Al Qaida An Active Partner In Somalia’s New Government Fiji Military Stages Coup, Fourth In 20 Years Italian Prosecutors On Tuesday Asked A […]

From Kos at the Daily Kos: “Standard caveats aside (it’s early, we don’t have a set field, blah blah blah), it’s hard to see how Barack Obama loses the nomination barring scandal or the mother-of-all gaffes. I’ve been working up a few scenarios given the primary calendar (which isn’t set in stone, with states like […]

If you want a symbol of how mediocre, weak, and morally bankrupt Western Europe and the United Nations has become, this one will do as well as any: “Survivors of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre have criticised the Dutch government for giving an insignia to UN peacekeepers who served in the city. They said honouring Dutch […]

At the very liberal SF State University, the Associated Students board is very upset with the College Republicans because they stomped on the Hamas and Hezbollah flags — No, it’s not a Saturday Night Live sketch parodying liberals for being pro-terrorist, this is really happening! “Preceding an ongoing investigation into SF State College Republican behavior, […]

“One good test as to whether folks are doing interesting work is, Can they surprise me? And increasingly, when I read Daily Kos, it doesn’t surprise me. It’s all just exactly what I would expect.” — Barrack Obama

The business hating socialists that have taken over Congress are planning to try to force all companies to pay for sick days: “With the Democratic Congress expected to move quickly to raise the minimum wage, many Democrats, women’s organizations and liberal groups are gearing up for a fight on another workplace issue: paid sick days. […]

Daniel Glover of Beltway Blogroll wrote an article for MSNBC and the New York Times about bloggers who end up on the payrolls of politicians. Glover caught a lot of flack from bloggers about his piece, especially because of a chart that accompanied the New York Times article that featured obsequious quotes from the bloggers […]

Framing this discussion in the context of Klein’s radio stunt gives the impression, which no doubt is just what Bernd Debusmann wanted to do, that any distrust of any Muslims in the U.S. is an exercise in crypto-Nazism. And of course, “ignorance” is the problem. Efforts will be stepped up, as if they weren’t already […]