Scott Ritter, a former Marine intelligence officer, served as a chief weapons inspector for the United Nations in Iraq from 1991 to 1998, and he points out that “both Shiite and Sunni view one another as deviants from the pure form of Islam as taught by Muhammad, and as such functioning as apostates deserving death”. [...]

The Fair Tax is a government hater’s (“Eliminate the IRS!!”) reckless fantasy (“It will eliminate the trade and budget deficits, end poverty, and cure acne!!”). I’m glad to see Thompson is at least conflicted about it—although the flip-flop is strike-5 for his campaign. Has any other Republican candidate been foolish (desperate) enough to take the [...]

While the DC defeatocrats spend every waking hour trashing America’s military from their secure place within the beltway, General Patreus is kicking butt in Iraq and the troops are responding. This will likely piss off some on this blog because the following firsthand account from critics of the Bush Doctrine proves progress is being [...]

Do you think Gonzales will face an impeachment? How much is this issue hurting the GOP in 08?
First Read-A group of House Democrats will introduce a resolution calling on the Judiciary Committee to begin impeachment proceedings against Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.
Rep. Jay Inslee (D-WA) will sponsor the measure. It will be dropped in the [...]

Does anyone think Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki will be able to pull Iraq together?
MSN-Desperate shortages of drugs and medical supplies in Baghdad’s overcrowded hospitals are confronting the victims of violence. But the shortages are not because of a lack of money.
Medicines and supplies have been siphoned off and sold elsewhere because of corruption in [...]

Why do you think nothing changes in Washington?
USATODAYS-If now isn’t the time to overhaul the nation’s Depression-era system of farm subsidies, it’s hard to imagine a better one.
Crop prices are high, driven in part by a huge demand for corn to make ethanol, which squeezes the land available for other crops and raises their prices [...]

What does it say about Cheney giving public support to Libby and Gonzales?
FOX-Vice President Dick Cheney thinks his former chief of staff shouldn’t have been convicted in the CIA leak case and that President Bush did right by commuting the jail sentence instead of issuing a pardon.
I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby was convicted of lying and [...]

Does anyone think Senator Ted “the king of pork” Stevens is innocent?
POLITICO-Stevens and his son Ben have under investigation due to their relationship with the oil services firm, Veco. The former head of that firm, Bill Allen, has been convicted of bribing Alaska politicians.
Stevens’ home in Girdwood has come under federal scrutiny since it was [...]

Romney lost my vote! The truth is our current trade deals NAFTA/CAFTA with Latina America have done the following, drive wages down here and Mexico. Also it has flooded our country with illegal immigrants and caused over 4.1 million manufacturing drops to leave our country. Finally created out of control national and trade debt!
Romney the [...]

Story Details from the Australian
AT the army college in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, Major Daniel Morgan is studying the lessons for Iraq of the Soviets’ chaotic exit from Afghanistan in the late 1980s.
The roads were choked with tanks and heavy weaponry, making the demoralised soldiers easy prey for guerillas. “The Soviet Army actually had to fight [...]

Oh lets revisit the weather while some debate responsibility for the defeat in Iraq.
In my opinion, there was never a victory to be had in Baghdad. Now the only dispute centers around who to blame for the defeat.
Meanwhile, all the hot air has increased tropical storms in the Atlantic. It might be bad science. [...]

Fox TV’s newest comedy—Fred Thompson Saves The GOP—is having trouble finding an audience. They’re looking for some new scriptwriters and apparently need to recast the babe playing the First Lady in Waiting.
Politico: Fred Thompson plans to announce Tuesday that his committee to test the waters for a Republican presidential campaign raised slightly more than $3 [...]

Update to this piece from a couple weeks ago.  My analysis elicited the following response:
hoads Says:  July 18th, 2007 at 12:21 am – So the Iraqi government is “stalling” on purpose, trying to wrestle the reins from the U.S. The Bush hatred of the Left is blinding you to the realities before us. We have [...]

The New York Times July 30, 2007
A War We Just Might Win
VIEWED from Iraq, where we just spent eight days meeting with American and Iraqi military and civilian personnel, the political debate in Washington is surreal. The Bush administration has over four years lost essentially all credibility. Yet now the administration’s critics, in part [...]

Go-it-alone, bull in the china shop, policeman of the world foreign policies got us into this mess. The father of the conservative movement, William F Buckley, made it clear this is a radical foreign policy that goes against the core principals of conservatism.
I do not think Hillary, Obama and Edwards have put forth an [...]