Big victory for the rule of law in Texas as appeals court rules that Texas had no power to seize children from polygamist ranch. Now that Texas is forced to obey its own law, maybe the legislature can craft a law that will work to stop this kind of brainwashing and abuse, but that's a scary proposition because you have to make sure such a law can't be used against other religions or families.
Gen. Petraeus expects to recommend troop reductions this fall. I bet he does, and I bet Bush gets credit for bringing more troops home right before the election, and that will boost McCain. Iraqi forces welcomed in Sadr City after Maliki negotiates the withdrawal of the Mehdi Army. This is another huge political victory for Maliki and the Iraqi government. Congratulations to all the Iraqis. We are watching the political progress and reconciliation most Americans have been hoping for.
What exactly has Bush's policy towards Iran been successful at, Sec. Rice?
San Francisco to charge pollution fee. As long as this doesn't apply to plant foods like CO2, this may not be a bad idea (it is). The problem is that government is involved, so it's inevitable it will be abused and cause more problems that it was intended to solve.
Reason thinks McCain is exaggerating the threat from Iran. Certain, you can't compare the threat from Iran to the threat from the Soviet Union, but McCain was right to blast Obama for downplaying the threat Iran would be if it had a nuclear weapon, which was the context of the exchange.
Bill Krysol thinks McCain will pick Lieberman. I bet he wants to, but Lieberman says he won't go for it because he intends to remain a Democrat. I don't know what his problem is. McCain's a Democrat.
Ted Kennedy is trying to pass off senate seat to wife. I hope not. The Kennedy's have done too much harm to the American people as it is.
Hillary compares the debate over seating the Michigan and Florida delegates to freeing the slaves and women's suffrage. She so delusional she probably believes her own self-importance crap, even though 6 months ago she was selling voters in Michigan and Florida down the river. She also compares the issue to the electoral problems in Zimbabwe. What a fruitcake.
God forbid Hillary Clinton ever become a Supreme Court Justice. As long as that rumor is floating, I think it hurts Obama because Hillary is still supremely unpopular and distrusted.
Chelsea in 2016? Please, no.
Female Obama supporter lampoons Clinton supporters' claims of sexism being the reason Hillary lost. "...she’s a lying, race-baiting insult to our collective intelligence." Thank you. But will she reject claims of racism when Obama is criticized?
Robert Novak points out how Obama keeps attacking McCain, then whining crying foul when McCain attacks him back. Those are the Obama rules, and the press will do their best to enforce them, but they won't win him this election. Apparently the Obama rules include the rule that Michelle is in charge.
McCain rejects endorsement of Pastor Hagee because of Hitler and Jews comment. That's class. As soon as McCain discovered the comments he decisively rejected the endorsement. He didn't make plans with the pastor to repudiate him later. He didn't ignore hate-filled comments for 20 years. He didn't try to change the subject when the comments became public. He didn't compare the pastor to his grandmother. The story here is the contrasts with Obama and Wright, not the similarities.
So that huge crowd in Oregon around Barack Obama was actually to see a free rock concert. Funny how the original story didn't say that. That's because the band is a bunch of communist-sympathizers that like to play the Soviet national anthem. Apparently Obama is out of the closet about his support for Marxism. What in the world is wrong with Oregon that 75,000 people would show up to watch a communist-sympathizer band?
41% of large companies read their employees' email.
Overfishing pushes sharks toward extinction. I have no idea if this article is accurate, or if it's just another eco-propaganda piece. It's a shame that the press is so unreliable, biased, and known for outright lies that you can't trust the news.
Here's your subprime borrower - a US congresswoman from California who just walked away from her mortgage until a news story exposed her and she renegotiated. Blame the lender and give the borrowers bailouts.
Trying to use accounting practices to cushion economic downturns. Yeah, accounting is the problem.
Polar bears have been listed as threatened according to the Endangered Species Act despite their population being at record numbers based solely on the same global warming computer models that are proven inaccurate and therefore haven't been accepted by peer review.
Cato explains that Republicans share the blame for the farm bill travesty as the House overrode the president's veto.
Cato is terribly wrong on why we failed to secure Iraq after we toppled Saddam. The problem wasn't that we had too many troops, it was that we didn't have enough and they didn't have the right mission to provide security for the people. The reason the surge in Iraq has been so successful is because we added troops and changed their mission to providing security, and that won us many allies. Of course, we made a lot more mistakes than that.
Cato points out that grain production is at a record high, and that export controls are driving up prices.
This is just crazy. Apparently Georgia's middle school students are failing so badly, the state is throwing out the results of tests and blaming the test and everything else but failing government schools.
Washington D.C. residents are harassing military personnel.
Bush bans bill that would ban insurers from using genetic information to adjust insurance policies and rates, which would have been a great tool to allow them to lower prices for Americans.
Dick Morris reports polling data shows Republicans are going to get slaughtered in November.
Nancy Pelosi's global warming ad violated McCain-Feingold. She'll get a pass. McCain-Feingold is about empowering incumbents, so this will be ignored. It was for a good cause, right?
To fight global warming, environmentalists would have to give up on these 10 other environmental issues. But the global warming fraud isn't being perpetrated by environmentalists, it's being perpetrated by Marxists posing as environmentalists.
Always entertaining random thoughts from Thomas Sowell. My favorite this time:
The phrase "war on terror" is an unfortunate choice of words. It is the terrorists who openly declared war on us. Whatever the reasons for going into Iraq, that is where international terrorists have converged to fight their war against the United States. Pulling out of Iraq will not stop the terrorists' war on us, but only give them a huge victory as the war shifts to another front.Another:
If Barack Obama had given a speech on bowling, it might well have been brilliant and inspiring. But instead he actually tried bowling and threw a gutter ball. The contrast between talking and doing could not have been better illustrated.Michelle Malkin lists a bunch of Obama gaffs that make me think the guy isn't very smart.
Hezbollah's victory shows why terrorism is so popular. All too often, it works. But as the author points out, this is far from over. It's far from over because there will never be peace as long as Hezbollah is armed.
Tom Delay is one of the big-government architects of the demise of the Republican party, so I don't put much stock in his advice to Republicans. He ran the house just like Democrats ran it for decades, and it cost Republicans and the country.
George Will on the folly of listing the polar bears as threatened.
Victor Davis Hanson hopes that the maverick colonels who went against Washington doctrine and successfully executed counterinsurgency in Iraq will be promoted to Generals because it will tell us about the health of our army.
Will a Democrat scandal in Pennsylvania affect Barack Obama? No. We accept that Democrats are corrupt. There's no need to even talk about it in the national press. Only corrupt local Republicans get national press.
Proving that Britain does not have freedom of speech, a British teenager is arrested for calling Scientology a "cult". This the Europe that liberals want us to follow.
NBC quietly undeclares civil war in Iraq.
Barack Obama is modeling his talking to enemy position after Kennedy and Khrushchev, but that meeting was a disaster for the US and helped lead to the Berlin Wall and Cuban missile crisis, which ended with the strategic loss of our missile base in Turkey.
Author claims economic growth is more closely tied to the value of the dollar than taxes.
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