They are negotiating with Syria Why is our discourse so stupid?
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They are negotiating with Syria Why is our discourse so stupid?
Really. Other presidents, however, have looked more to substance and seasoning. Jimmy Carter chose Walter Mondale, Ronald Reagan went with Bush, Bill Clinton opted for Al Gore and George W. Bush selected Cheney. Each had his critics, but they had in common the most important attribute: being plausible presidents. When the prospective Democratic and Republican […]
What’s amazing is that both Kjellander and Hastert were attempting to get Fitzgerald and they couldn’t do it because of the Plame investigation. Under any other situation, the Bush administration would have rid Illinois of Fitzgerald. More bombshells were lobbed in the Antoin “Tony” Rezko trial even before the jury was seated this morning and […]
Dan Curry, a nice guy who I genuinely appreciate a good back and forth with, tries to argue that the decline in violence over the last 8 months is evidence of victory. Choosing the peak and then showing a decline is a misrepresentation of the data. The violence is back to 2006 levels which is […]
Is this law and order breaking out? BAGHDAD, Iraq (AFP) – A suicide bomber blew himself up on a bus near Mosul on Tuesday, killing nine passengers near Iraq’s main northern city which is regarded as an Al-Qaeda stronghold, a security official said. In another brazen daylight attack, a group of armed men kidnapped 21 […]
and it only took 46 years and 12 days. Castro resigns U.S. to keep it’s winning strategy In Washington, John D. Negroponte, deputy secretary of state, said it was unlikely that the United States would lift its trade embargo on Cuba, Reuters reported. Oh, wait, another Castro takes over…..
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Perhaps the most annoying complaint in any election are the dark conspiracies and obsessions over the disappearance of yards signs, notable for never actually casting a vote. We have now reached the Presidential equivalent of the yard sign argument: A day after the Hillary campaign hit the Obama camp for bullying voters in nasty phone […]
Biden on Bush Biden, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, called that explanation “unbelievable.” “Are you telling me a president that’s briefed every single morning, who’s fixated on Iran, is not told back in August that the tentative conclusion of 16 intelligence agencies in the U.S. government said they had abandoned their effort […]
A new blog dedicated to the task Team Clinton began
From Friday The confirmation of Michael Mukasey as the next U.S. attorney general is in trouble. Some Democratic leaders are threatening to kill the nomination in the Senate Judiciary Committee next week unless Mukasey explicitly declares that a harsh interrogation technique known as waterboarding is illegal. He won’t do that. And he shouldn’t. Mukasey’s stand […]
Isn’t so bad according to Fran over at Illinois Review Seems like good enough reasons to push these cold-blooded murderers ’til just short of the breaking point, doesn’t it? Waterboarding is carefully monitored torture — something they can avoid if they tell what they know. And because these radical extremists decapitate innocent journalists and strap […]
Karzai offers Taliban a government office. KABUL, Afghanistan – President Hamid Karzai offered Saturday to meet personally with Taliban leader Mullah Omar for peace talks and give the militants a high position in a government ministry as a way to end the rising insurgency in Afghanistan. Reiterating a call for negotiations he has made with […]
Sun-Times Pelosi to Bush: ‘It’s an insult’ IRAQ | President will pull out 30,000 troops, but Democrat scoffs Trib Swamp TV — Bush embraces Petraeus’ troop cuts Now, both stories are not so good. Both cover Pelosi’s quotes, but not the fact that there aren’t enough brigades to keep up the level of troops. […]
The Boland Amendment was actually a series of amendments passed in the 1980s that eventually banned any money from the US Government being spent as military aid to the Contras in Nicaragua. We need a new one, only this one should be to ban the spending of any money by the US Government to fight […]