Attorney General Michael Mukasey collapsed while giving a speech to the Federalist Society tonight. It appears to have been a stroke. Prayers.
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Some incredible photos from the newly-central front in the War on Terror.
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What we’ve seen in the smears against Sarah Palin go beyond the normal post-election squabbling.
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Thank you to our heroes. It’s you who make this grand experiment called America possible.
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All is not lost. An Obama presidency does provide an opportunity for Conservatives.
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“What an old anecdote about Mo Udall in the hospital reveals about McCain’s character.” A must-read.
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More video evidence that “hope” and “change” really mean “typical politician.” The man has flip flopped more than John Kerry did in 2004.
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You have to admit that Saturday Night Live has done a spectacular job at becoming relevant again during the campaign. (Olbermann-bashing bonus)
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Traditionalists see themselves as guardians of our unique Constitution, which secures liberty as a byproduct of pitting levels and branches of government against one another. They believe that unless we rededicate ourselves, intellectually and emotionally, to our founding ideal of individual liberty—we can kiss liberty—and the United States of America as we have known it—goodbye.
With the election of Barack Obama and huge Democratic majorities in Congress, liberals must now practice something other than the politics of nostalgia and what-if.
We need to slow down and resist the urge the try a bunch of economic fixes.
Stephen Hadley offered the option of victory in Iraq.
Odds are improving that President Obama will name Hillary Clinton as secretary of state. It’s an unexpected move and not without risk. But she brings significant strengths and might just be a solid choice.
The lurid foolishness of the Transition.
President Lincoln’s Cabinet was far more dysfunctional than Doris Kearns Goodwin’s book would have us believe.
If Republicans don’t come to grips with what’s happened over the last eight years, and can’t develop an economic agenda moving forward then they could be back, politically, in 1933.
Our Founding Fathers understood one truth about political philosophy: To find common ground is sometimes impossible.
Barack Obama won’t need special effects to walk on water.
The trouble with new financial crises is that they provide pretexts for implementing old social agendas. As the president-elect’s new chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, said recently, “never allow a crisis to go to waste.”
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) is batting down the hype that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin heads into 2012 as the frontrunner for the GOP presidential nomination.
President-elect Obama will name a big-spending Urban Czar so we can “stop seeing our cities as the problem and start seeing them as the solution.” We’ve been there and done that “solution.”
Union-friendly rules don’t always help employees.
What has been made absolutely clear in this election is that the Republican Party has an abundance of class acts when what it really needs are hard core community organizers.
‘If you seek economic growth, social justice and human dignity, the free-market system is the way to go.’
Government is now everywhere and, despite assurances, it won’t be temporary.
If only Obama keeps his promises.
What do bleeding Detroit auto makers, Colombia and green groups have in common? Not a lot, unless you are Nancy Pelosi.
‘Our new president-elect won one and a half points more than George W. Bush won in 2004, and he did so, in great respect, by adopting the methods of the Bush campaign and conducting a vast army of persuasion to identify and get out the vote.’
God bless Sarah Palin, and shame on elitists from both sides of the aisle who have denigrated, demonized and dissed her.
President-elect Barack Obama is interviewing some of his one-time political opponents as he ponders building his own “team of rivals” to help him run the country.
The four important qualities necessary to make a successful and effective secretary of State.
The new president’s dazzling success does not suggest a new national hunger for left-liberal policy solutions.
He may be the jolt of energy his party needs.
After about nine months of intense negotiations, the Iraqi cabinet passed a security agreement Sunday that calls for U.S. troops to leave Iraq at the end of 2011.
For American troops in Iraq, it is almost axiomatic that no two battalions are fighting the same war, so complex and varied is the situation in the country. It is equally true that no battalion fights the same war twice.
Obama doesn’t have a good answer for the terrorist detention facility in Gitmo, but he’s promised to close it anyway.
David Kilcullen, one of General Petraeus’s strategic whizzes at the start of the surge, in early 2007, talks bluntly about the most pressing foreign crisis awaiting Obama’s Administration…
Security officials fear a ‘spectacular’ during the transition period.
A minisurge is not enough. We need more Afghan security forces.
Gitmo was never the problem, and closing it will not solve anything.
The portable, furtive bomb known as a “sticky bomb” is fast becoming the device of choice for insurgents.
The total absence of comments from the United States’ No. 1 enemy is somewhat strange.
Why Syria won’t stop harboring terrorists, no matter how hard we try.
Negotiations are the heroin of the chattering classes, blinding them to every reality except the next fix they can inject into our foreign policy. The pushers - our delighted enemies - pile up strategic profits.
Iraqi and US forces killed five al Qaeda fighters and captured 149 suspects, including two senior leaders, during operations in Iraq’s North over the past three days.
Some good WOT news..
Today, on the day after Veteran’s Day, it seems appropriate to share some photographs of U.S. soldiers currently in the thick of war in Afghanistan.
Our path to a secular, federal democracy is inspired by the U.S.
Despite attack, Dulaim vows to bar Al Qaeda in Iraq, which it ousted from the town last year.
Shiites walking east and Sunnis walking west met at the midpoint of a newly reopened bridge on Tuesday, seeking to reclaim a landmark that had long symbolized the divide between Baghdad communities similar in name but polar opposites in sectarian makeup.
My request to embed with the U.S. Army in Baghdad has been approved, and it turns out that I need to leave a bit earlier than I expected.
The president-elect will face escalating violence, feckless allies, and time that’s quickly running out.
The sunset prayer had just ended, and Sheik Ahmad al-Jilani was already calling his class to order. When the latecomers slipped into the front row, Jilani nodded at them briskly. “Young men,” he began, “who can tell me why we do jihad?”
Some lobbyists come to Capitol Hill armed with PowerPoint presentations and Excel spreadsheets. Todd Bowers brought the rifle scope that saved his life.
The fate of an agreement that would keep U.S. troops here for three more years rests with Iraq’s largest Shiite party, which must choose between its two main partners: the United States and Iran.
The incoming Obama administration plans to explore a more regional strategy to the war in Afghanistan—including possible talks with Iran—and looks favorably on the nascent dialogue between the Afghan government and “reconcilable” elements of the Taliban, according to Obama national security advisers.
A 2004 classified order allowing the U.S. to attack the Qaeda terrorist network anywhere in the world was used to authorize nearly a dozen undisclosed attacks.
That beeping sound you hear this week is the semi-truck being backed up to the Federal Treasury in Washington. After being filled with taxpayer billions, it’s on its way to Detroit.
Two Border Patrol agents convicted of shooting a drug smuggler have been resentenced for the crime of protecting the borders of the United States. Mr. President, you do not have the right to remain silent.
These are not budget cuts anyone wants to make.
I find myself in a lonely position. While many states and local governments are lining up for a bailout from Congress, I went to Washington recently to oppose such bailouts. I may be the only governor to do so.
The implications of a bailout are frightening. The Detroit Three were unprofitable well before the current financial crisis hit, and GM is reportedly hemorrhaging $1 billion a month.
Why not let the Big Three just file Chapter 11? It’s not a problem-free solution, but it beats using taxpayer money to prop up a failing union. Maybe that’s why Democrats seem to dismiss it out of hand.
America’s young people helped elect Barack Obama. Way to go kids! This article is for you. Let’s take a look at your future.
Modest expectations are in order for the global economic summit taking place in Washington today.
Democrats are pushing hard for a rescue of the auto industry, but the dangers are clear.
Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson finally confirmed what lonely bailout opponents tried to tell the American public all along: The man doesn’t know what the hell he’s doing.
The president reminds the president-elect that free-market capitalism is the best path to prosperity.
In the 10 days since that vote, bitter activists have badly overreached—by overstepping any normal standards of ethics and civility in their hateful reactions to democracy in action.
General Motors, with dire warnings, is seeking a bailout, but skeptics point to the benefits of bankruptcy, which can offer a new start.
New York’s mayor buys himself a third term.
For the first time in its history, the U.S. Postal Service is considering layoffs. Imagine that — a unionized work force passing into obsolescence.
We thought we’d see what’s cooking with all our old friends since they packed up their knives and went.
Here is what the historical evidence suggests.
Remember when Democrats lamented the growing budget deficit and spoke of the burden our children and grandchildren would face if we didn’t put our fiscal house in order?
Excitement also frightens me. It reinforces the worst impulse of the media and political class: the assumption that all progress comes from Washington.
The reason we are in this mess is we lived beyond our means for too long. The party is over.
If you want to see the contrast between what people say they believe and how they live, spend a day with your local military recruiter.
The New York Times is reporting the U.S. military has “broad, secret authority” to kill al-Qaida terrorists anywhere on Earth. As is too often the case, the Times has spilled information it should have sat on.
The guns fell silent 90 years ago today.
Can we save corporate dinosaurs that have been mismanaged for decades? Yes, we can!
Gordon Brown tonight called on the world’s most powerful industrial nations to agree a programme of immediate and coordinated tax cuts to prevent the global economy sliding deeper into recession.
Obama is right to keep his distance from this photo shoot.
Suppose you’ve been living under the protective wings of a benevolent superpower for sixty years. And suppose you’ve used that big half century to take off on an endless vacation—spending all your tax money to buy votes for the socialist Ruling Class. It’s been one long, grand, drug-infested, sex-drenched, self-indulgent, tabloid party scene. Any time danger threatens you look to Washington for protection.
What the world can do to help.
On this critical issue, the president-elect is not off to a good start.
A U.N. conference on religious tolerance broke new ground Wednesday when a half-dozen Arab leaders - including Saudi King Abdullah for the first time ever - stayed in their seats while an Israeli president spoke.
Cutting off its gasoline imports may be the only peaceful way to get Tehran to abandon its nuclear weapons program.
A stimulus plan to inject $586 billion into China’s economy. But the devil lies in the detail.
A former Prime Minister accuses Labour of squandering the golden economic legacy that it was bequeathed.
People hear the word “genocide” and think of 6 million Jews killed by the Nazis during the Holocaust or the estimated 800,000 mostly Tutsis slaughtered in Rwanda. They do not imagine that rape can be so well planned and done on such a mass scale as to wipe out much of an ethnic group just as thoroughly, if more slowly, than large-scale murder.
Hizbullah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah on Tuesday lashed out at Israel, calling Israelis “racist war criminals” and warning that Hizbullah was “stronger than ever.” He also expressed skepticism regarding US President-elect Barack Obama’s promises of change.
The accelerating drug war in Mexico cries out for more attention. The horrific violence signals something already too big for Mexico to fight alone. It will spread north. The U.S. can’t afford to wait.
Global markets have cheered the stimulus plan Beijing announced Sunday, and with good reason. At $586 billion, it’s ambitious.
Beijing’s £375bn economic package makes it a world player. But its own interests will come first.
Sunday was the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the night of broken glass. With some notable exceptions, Europe has opted to mark the occasion by missing its point.
During the past three decades the rise of militant Islam has in many ways dominated political events in the region.
Getting to work during the Obama administration.
Vladimir Putin must be given a great deal of credit for his dedication to the rule of law.
This is the seventieth anniversary of Kristallnacht, the night when the Nazis unleashed a wave of physical violence against German Jews and their enterprises.
Yet history might not repeat itself in coming years, especially because political factors both in China and the U.S. will inhibit Obama’s ability to change his announced positions on trade.
The Durán case has blown the lid off of Mr. Chávez’s covert Argentine activities.
Sony sinks, Toyota tumbles, and the Nikkei stock index plunges to lows not seen for more than a quarter of a century. But the global financial storm can’t rattle Japan’s convenience stores, where sales are up smartly.
From a lecture delivered at the California Institute of Technology on Jan. 17, 2003:
Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said Thursday that U.S. President-elect Barack Obama shouldn’t talk to Iran just yet, warning that such dialogue could project “weakness.”
And it doesn't look pretty, but there's plenty of reason not to despair just yet.
Those conservatives jumping ship to Obama betray a lack of conviction that should embarass them. What's losing one election compared to losing everything you stand for?
All of you stinking liberals in the media are making me sick, I've about enough of your one-sided drivel. You are attempting a giant con on the American people and I hope they call you on it.
If you stop to consider what Joe Biden said, it's a real cause for concern. Not only will Obama be tested, but the Democratic ticket is already bracing us for a weak response!
Joe Biden, the veritable gaffe machine, comes dangerously close to insight in his latest statements about Obama's youth and inexperience inviting attack upon the United States.
And nobody cares.
Only a couple of weeks left, and former Secretary of State Colin Powell endorses Barack Obama. It's no surprise, but will it hurt John McCain?
Barack Obama's policy proposals have always had a socialist bent, but it took a brief encounter with an average Joe to finally jolt people into realizing what those proposals really mean.
"Joe the Plumber" shakes things up on the campaign trail, and thus gets rabidly attacked by the loony left. Need his home address? Daily Kos has it.
John McCain won the final debate by staying on offense. However, he started off better than he finished, didn't land any knockout blows, and went soft on Obama's vulnerable associations. I hope he knows what he's doing.
John McCain has one last opportunity to speak to a national audience. He needs to use it to both attack Obama on his many vulnerabilities, and simultaneously provide a vision for his presidency. That, and do everything he can to keep conservatives' heads from exploding in frustration.
ACORN is in the news day in and day out fighting allegations of voter fraud. Maybe it's about time Obama's past associations come back to haunt him.
After watching the left spasm in hatred for the past 7 years, you'll have to excuse me if I don't buy that a few whackos at some McCain rallies do not a hate movement make.
The Bush administration and the State Department coordinate a fine bit of capitulation. Think of it as a sign of more to come if Obama wins.
Without much time left, McCain supporters want to see a fight! There is too much out there on Obama and his shady past not to throw it in his face.
Is it just me, or is the name "William Ayers" uttered on television every 60 seconds and everywhere you look on the internet? This thing's got legs. I sense a change of momentum in the air.
The media would have us believe that the election is over and Barack Obama is our next President. Even the polls would have us believe the same, but we should not lose faith with the American people just yet.
Not exactly the debate to end all debates, and not the knockout the conventional wisdom told us McCain needed. It's a good thing conventional wisdom has been wrong every step along the way.
A wounded but resurgent McCain has a perfect opportunity tonight to take the gloves off and expose the real Barack Obama to the American people.
Palin comes out swinging in an attempt to point out Barack Obama's troubling connections. In turn, the news media questions whether or not she's racist. In other news, it's October. Let's hope the market stays resilient.
Sarah Palin begins linking Obama to his old terrorist buddy. Does this mark a shift in campaign strategy? You know, toward actually pointing out Obama's insane vulnerabilities. Finally?!?!
At the end of another week, McCain's chances seem to be fading. He's gotta have a big week, and hopefully be able to change the conversation to more favorable territory.
Whether or not you thought Sarah Palin hit it out of the park, we can all agree she crushed expectations. Biden did a good job, but last night was all about whether Sarah would survive. She did that and more.
One of the most exciting and highly anticipated VP debates in history takes place tonight. Let's do it!
Financial crisis to the left of me, VP debate to the right, here I am.......stuck in the middle with you.
