Huckabee Misfires Again
Mike Huckabee, the same grating "aw shucks" candidate that nearly shot members of the press on the campaign trail, shot his remaining credibility to shreds today in front of annoyed members of the National Rifle Association. During his speech at...
Fri, 16 May 2008 16:53:17 -0500
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Obama: Hezbollah and Hamas Have "Legitimate Claims"
The U.S. needs a foreign policy that "looks at the root causes of problems and dangers." Obama compared Hezbollah to Hamas. Both need to be compelled to understand that "they're going down a blind alley with violence that weakens...
Fri, 16 May 2008 10:32:48 -0500
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Totten On Yon
I don't think they could possibly find someone more qualified to review Michael Yon's Moment of Truth in Iraq than Michael Totten, another independent journalist who has spent and extensive amount of time in the Middle East, including Iraq. Read...
Fri, 16 May 2008 09:18:41 -0500
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Up Close and Personal with an EFP
You've heard of EFPs (Explosively-formed penetrators or projectiles), a kind of IED, being used against American armored vehicles. Very few people outside of the military have seen the results of an EFP strike in detail. Thanks to confidential sources inside...
Fri, 16 May 2008 08:32:20 -0500
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Bit Dog Barks
In Israel, President Bush mentioned in a speech that: "Some seem to believe we should negotiate with terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along," the President said to the country's...
Thu, 15 May 2008 10:01:01 -0500
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John McCain: Commander in Chief of the Israeli Military?
In a story on the L.A. Times blog Top of the Ticket about John McCain's new position that he thinks American combat troops will be out of Iraq by 2013, the Times includes this photo. Pardon me for asking, but...
Thu, 15 May 2008 07:11:58 -0500
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Obama: "Hold On One Second, Sweetie"
Here's the video: I don't object to the word "Sweetie"... when addressing a female child, or as a term of endearment with a relative or close friend. Using it condescendingly here as Obama did here in addressing a grown, professional...
Wed, 14 May 2008 14:55:06 -0500
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The Bloodless Bullets of Baghdad
I suspect that this is less a case of "fauxtography" than a curious physiological response, but Associated Press cameraman Karim Kadim captured this photo of a Sadr City woman having a bullet removed from her forearm. Here is an enlarged...
Wed, 14 May 2008 11:43:49 -0500
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Hussayn's Story
Despite feigned ignorance of the facts, the media knows that Muqtada's militias are being crushed, that al-Masri's terrorists are being picked off, and Iraqi's of all sects, Sunni Shia and Kurd, have newfound trust in a newly-muscular Iraqi government and...
Wed, 14 May 2008 10:46:01 -0500
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Gripes of Wrath
Liberal bloggers and journalists put their inability to focus on substantive issues on display yesterday along with a blind hatred for President Bush, thanks to a catalytic interview yesterday by Mike Allen of The Politico and Yahoo News. The interview...
Wed, 14 May 2008 09:39:11 -0500
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Death of a Strawman
Hagee, we hardly knew ye: The Rev. John Hagee -- who in some eyes threatened to become to John McCain what the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. became to Barack Obama -- has apologized for remarks that offended many Catholics....
Tue, 13 May 2008 18:07:10 -0500
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GREAT: Claiming Obama's Coked Up Again
It isn't exactly a secret that Barack Obama has admitted a drug problem in his past. In "Dreams From My Father" he wrote of using both marijuana and cocaine (Though he says he passed on heroin when it was offered....
Tue, 13 May 2008 15:26:38 -0500
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Obama Garners Coveted Nagin Endorsement
Democratic President candidate Barack Obama has won the endorsement of New Orleans Mayor and superdelegate Ray Nagin. Now that the Mayor is in the first-term Senator's corner, it is recommended that any remaining Manson-obsessed domestic terrorists, angry communist mentors, assassination-inciting...
Tue, 13 May 2008 14:14:23 -0500
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Articles of Faith
Some folks are remarking on the creepy Obama worship occurring among otherwise presumably lucid adults, but I wouldn't worry about his deification a great deal. After all, the bar has been set rather low....
Tue, 13 May 2008 12:30:24 -0500
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Killing The Zombie
On the morning of Saturday, May, 3, Philadelphia Police Sgt. Stephen Liczbinski was brutally shot down at close range by one of three bank robbers. Liczbinski was hit at least five times with bullets fired by a cross-dressing thug armed...
Tue, 13 May 2008 09:52:18 -0500
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