His first bit of controversy, and what is The Chosen One’s first response?
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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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Now that Bill Clinton has released the list of his 205,000 donors who have given close to $500 million to his library and foundation, it is clear why he resisted releasing the list while his wife was running for president.
A new generation is coming to the White House.
There isn’t too much money in politics after all. The problem is too damned much politics in money.
The president defends his democracy agenda and his economic interventionism.
The old team hasn’t been batting 1.000 and the new team won’t be able to, either.
From Rev. Wright to Rev. Warren.
As the Kennedy du jour tours New York seeking Hillary’s seat, will she be asked tough questions by Couric, Gibson, et al.? We’ll see what Sarah’s critics say about someone who’s famous for being well-known.
Norm Coleman doesn’t want anyone to get too worried about the lead Al Franken has over him right now in the contentious recount for Minnesota’s Senate seat.
If Princess Caroline wants a seat in the Senate, let her win it by election.
A perfect example of the bowel-stewing self-indulgence of elite liberalism.
Blagojevich is just the tip of the iceberg.
America’s hardcore leftists had convinced themselves they were finally getting “their” president. Boy, were they wrong.
His passing comes at a particularly critical time for conservatives and emphasizes the enormous challenges on the Right.
The high court ordered Coleman and Franken to work with the Secretary of State and election officials to set up a process to identify ballots that were rejected in error.
The president-elect needed someone to give the invocation. He wasn’t going to pick Rev. Wright, was he?
American presidential election rhetoric always paints the incumbent as incompetent in foreign policy, the challenger insightful and skillful. A look at recent history, however, shows that once the opposition gains office, the world suddenly becomes not so black and white.
All presidents come to realize how much structure matters.
There’s only one clear and obvious choice: El Rushbo.
Colin Powell and too many other phony conservatives are the problem, not the solution.
Rick Warren, Obama’s pick to give the inaugural invocation, backed the California ban on same-sex marriage.
President George W. Bush knows he’s unpopular. But here’s what matters, he says: “I didn’t compromise my soul to be a popular guy.”
If you don’t think it can, you don’t know prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald.
Cable television introduced us to “The Real Housewives of Orange County.” Blago-gate has brought us something even juicier: The Real Housewives of Crook County, Illinois.
Could its holy warriors be the most dangerous?
The top U.S. commander in Iraq said on Saturday that some U.S. troops may remain in Iraqi cities after next June, even though a U.S.-Iraq security pact calls for their withdrawal from urban areas by then.
After jumping out of helicopters at daybreak onto jagged, ice-covered rocks and into water at an altitude of 10,000 feet, the 12-man Special Forces team scrambled up the steep mountainside toward its target—an insurgent stronghold in northeast Afghanistan.
Iran is no longer actively supplying Iraqi militias with a particularly lethal kind of roadside bomb, a decision that suggests a strategic shift by the Iranian leadership.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates’s experiences in the cauldron of crisis are impressive.
Rock musicians are protesting the use of their music as an interrogation technique on captured jihadists. Tell us where the bomb is, Khalid, or we play “Disco Duck” one more time.
Gates details troop deployments on unannounced trip to the country.
The Pentagon’s Defense Security Cooperation Agency, which oversees major foreign arms sales, said it had notified Congress this week about eight separate arms sales agreements with the Iraqi government.
The Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund, a national leader in supporting the men and women of the United States Armed Forces and their families, is launching an important new effort to serve our military community.
The story of Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant Nick Popaditch, a tank commander wounded in Iraq, and the Wounded Marine Careers Foundation.
For the second time in a decade, suspected Pakistani terrorist leader Masood Azhar was placed under house arrest yesterday after being linked to attacks in India.
Unlike politics in the West, where candidates denounce their rivals, political oratory in the Arab world is often more oblique.
Pakistan is under more pressure than ever before to act swiftly because the United States sees cooperation in the Mumbai attacks investigation as part of Islamabad’s commitment to the global war on terror.
Contrary to some of the more mawkish notions of what a government is supposed to be, its top job is the protection of the people.
If you were a clever terrorist and wanted to paralyze Manhattan in the way that Mumbai was paralyzed last month, you wouldn’t send a boatload of men armed with assault rifles into the city.
There is a growing consensus among defense leaders to send a substantial contingent of Marines to Afghanistan, probably beginning next spring, while reducing their presence in western Iraq, the top Marine general told the Associated Press yesterday.
A funny thing happened on the road to Barack Obama’s inaugural: America became open to rational debate on Guantanamo.
It’s time to get serious about bringing order to places like Somalia and Pakistan’s tribal areas.
In the war on terror, Islamabad is both with us and against us.
Having failed to sabotage the signing of a security agreement between Baghdad and Washington, the Khomeinist leadership in Tehran is trying to influence the outcome of Iraq’s local elections next month.
The raid last night near Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan-controlled Kashmir, was Pakistan’s first attempt to respond to mounting pressure from India and the United States to take action against LeT after the Mumbai strike.
Obama has a chance to build on sound Bush diplomacy.
Moral progress since the days of Saddam.
Justices agreed Friday to hear the appeal of terror suspect al-Marri, held without charge for more than five years.
It’s the most important geopolitical advance in the region since Kissinger.
The only way to get there is job-killing taxes.
How investment in infrastructure will boost the economy.
If there is any silver lining to the increasingly dark storm clouds hovering over our economy, it’s that it creates an opportunity for action on problems that have been ignored for decades.
Why Ford CEO Alan Mulally is a cut above his Big 3 counterparts.
Company to idle 30 plants, saying it must match production to demand and save cash; other automakers also plan production cuts.
Bernard Madoff’s alleged $50 billion fraud is giving politicians and investors who failed to diversify another excuse to blame too little enforcement in U.S. financial markets. Talk about compounding a case of misplaced trust.
Networks of trust are vulnerable. No law can change that.
The triumph of the non-judgmental philosophy of high-toned circles.
In a year when Wall Street imploded, the Big Three automakers neared collapse, and the economy plunged into its worst downturn in at least a generation, finding business and economy “leaders” who messed up badly isn’t too hard.
As we enter one of America’s bleaker winters—though not so bleak as the winter of 1777-78 at Valley Forge nor the winter of 1941-42 after Pearl Harbor and then Wake Island—please permit me to lapse for a moment from the secular and the material to an old memory.
We seem to have forgotten that not allowing people to suffer consequences has consequences.
You can’t rely on the government to protect you against fraud, but you can protect yourself.
Economic crisis is leading some to abandon time-honored wisdom.
Here’s the three-point program for determining how the $700 billion of the Paulson bailout plan will be deployed: 1) Listen to what Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson says he’ll do with the money; 2) Wait a few weeks; 3) Watch him do the precise opposite.
Blink and you may miss another government bail-out, loan guarantee, federal plan to alleviate a bad or unwise mortgage, a suggestion for more government funds for a more aggrieved constituency.
Five examples of a politically correct education in 2008.
Financial panics still require what Walter Bagehot prescribed--that practical men violate their own principles.
Washington hates the idea because it would lose leverage.
Good books are especially good to give as gifts to the proverbial “man who has everything.”
An undeserved disdain, even casual contempt, seems to characterize the attitude of the political and media elites toward the American auto industry.
A new report warns Obama about our aging nuclear weapons.
Why do red states have much higher military membership rates than blue states?
Don’t believe critics who say that monetary policy is not an effective tool.
Look no farther than the UAW.
The first Christmas in the age of restraint.
With the election of Obama, the United States has moved dramatically to the left in its foreign policy at just the time that Israel, which seems likely to return Bibi Netanyahu to office in early February, is moving to the right. A collision is almost inevitable.
IAF targets arsenal and factory in Gaza. Jets and helicopters bomb weapons-making facility, arms cache; Palestinians fire 6 Kassams.
Mugabe has created a basket case.
Russia has become more rigid in dealing with the United States on issues like the Bush administration’s plans for a missile shield in Europe, and it looks ready to test the administration of President-elect Barack Obama.
Divided in Afghanistan, hamstrung in Europe, the alliance must find a political voice or collapse.
Something is working in the war on drugs. Prices of cocaine have skyrocketed, purity has fallen, and supply is drying up. Colombia’s efforts, now joined by Mexico’s, are making a big difference.
Glaxo’s vaccine shows promise.
Bush’s ‘diplomacy of freedom’ gives way to Obama’s caution and reticence. The Middle East may test our fatigue.
If Pakistanis thought a bomb would be a net national asset, they miscalculated.
It’s likely that 2008 will go down as the coldest year since in the United States since 1997. So who’s in denial?
If undertaken with enough will and persistence, an American-led mediation to create a common market in East Africa could end the war and transform the region.
Four years ago, a spurned suitor poured a bucket of sulfuric acid over her head, leaving her blind and disfigured. Late last month, an Iranian court ordered that five drops of the same chemical be placed in each of her attacker’s eyes, acceding to Bahrami’s demand.
Moscow is seeking major changes to the ground rules of European security, and it’s time we paid attention.
Netanyahu foresees Palestinian liberalization coming through economic development in an “economic peace process.”
A good deed for Bush’s final days.
Economic fears amid the haze of tear gas.
Barack Obama doesn’t have a mandate for his global warming policies. He doesn’t even have a mandate from his most fervent supporters.
Lost principles have led to lost control.
The republished Saudi peace plan - or ultimatum - offers 100 years of dhimmitude, the term for the protected but inferior and vulnerable status of non-Moslem religious and ethnic groupings in Islamic society.
It is widely assumed that the biggest victim of a nuclear Iran would be Israel. In fact, freedom-loving Muslims in neighboring countries know they have at least as much to fear.
He has been especially supportive of democratic dissidents.
With oil, Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez fueled a revolution based on Marxism and his own swaggering persona. But with oil prices now plunging, he and his near-dictatorship may also go bust.
A spasm of violence is a study in the cruelty meted out by the armed groups fighting for power in eastern Congo and the problems that have plagued U.N. peacekeepers.
Two years of campaigning and we've finally gotten here. You have the information, you have the power, go and exercise the right that brave men and women still fight to preserve.
With but a day to go, we put our hopes in the wisdom of the American electorate.
The polls are tightening, questions are finally being raised about Obama and his "tax plan," and the McCain team is finally on a message. Is it too little too late?
All of a sudden, people are beginning to understand that Barack Obama is a hardcore liberal and, wouldn't ya know it, we get the first poll showing McCain ahead.
As liberals throughout the country are turning giddy at the prospect of an Obama presidency, the polls begin to tighten and, we hope, the American people are coming to their senses.
I'm not sure if I'd rather see McCain win this election because it will save our great country, or because I want to see the smug liberals in the media eat their hearts out. It's a tough call.
Tapes of Obama praising a Palestinian apologist, check. Information coming out that his campaign is doing nothing to prevent donor fraud, check. Polls closing in, check. A week out from election day, all Obama can do is hang on for dear life.
The real Barack Obama is being exposed further day by day. The question remains though, if it's possible to persuade Obama supporters with mere facts.
The more we think about what an Obama Presidency will look like (tax increases, a weakened military, redistribution, thuggish and questionable friends, etc.), the more terrifying that proposition really seems.
It's easy to grow depressed and demoralized when Obama's cheerleaders are all around us, but don't give in, don't give them the satisfaction, this thing is not over.
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.
