Muckraking of the Best Kind

I haven’t yet read David Freddoso’s new book The Case Against Barack Obama, but this is one political expose I can endorse sight unseen, since Freddoso, whom I’ve known for a few years, is a thoughtful conservative rather than a Republican hack. I expect his book will be a worthy companion to Matt Welch’s takedown [...]

The economic “surge” in Haiti…

Kelley Vlahos and Justin Raimondo (among others) have done a great job in pointing to the way the figures measuring the effects of the surge are being exploited by Bush, McCain and other members of the pro-war coalition. As Juan Cole and others have maintained, the relative reduction in violence in Baghdad and some parts [...]

Hope for Alaska?

The indictment of crooked, pork-barreling Senate Republican eminence grise Ted Stevens, of “Bridge to Nowhere” fame, is grounds for much rejoicing. But even better, Stevens’s top opponent in the six-candidate Republican primary set for Aug. 26 , Dave Cuddy, is a limited-government conservative who wants to bring the troops home from Iraq, not keep them [...]

Ich Bin Ein Clueless

There has been clearly a huge gap between the MSM’s glowing reviews of Barack Obama’s world tour and its impact voters who seem to be more inclined to vote for John McCain now. My explanation of the apparent paradox — the candidate’s great media visuals that slowdown his electoral momentum: Obama fell into the trap [...]

Losing the Army To Win The White House

John McCain slid into Rush Limbaugh territory this week when he said “Obama would rather lose a war to win a political campaign.” But when will someone ask McCain publicly if he’s willing to lose the Army to win a politicial campaign?
Bill Sasser has a powerful piece up on Salon today about how the Army [...]

El Rushbore

Limbaugh endorses China’s fuel subsidies:
Folks, I don’t know what the price of gasoline is in China and I don’t know to what extent, if any, it is subsidized — okay, it is subsidized. See, the ChiComs need their economy growing. They need people driving around, moving around. They need people to be [...]

What We Get For Capitol Hill ‘Experience’

While John McCain continues to stoke the narrative that Barack Obama’s youth and inexperience on Capitol Hill could be a danger to the country, some of the seeds of his own decades-long tenure in Washington — his “judgment” and “leadership” — are starting to bloom stink weeds. $4 billion dollars worth. Seems that while McCain, [...]

A Mysterious Explosion

A mysterious blast that may or may not have taken place a week ago in a suburb of Tehran is producing more questions than answers.  The explosion, which has not been reported in Iranian sources even though the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph stated that it could be heard all over the city of Tehran, [...]

Surge: The New Loyalty Test

It’s no secret that the Republican Party has put a high tactical premium on loyalty over the last eight years, engaging it as a key political tool (and bludgeon) to keep party soldiers marching in-step, and to bleed its enemies of legitimacy in the arena of public opinion. While there are obvious doubts that such [...]

Here’s to One Right Stands

All professions are conspiracies against the laity.
–George Bernard Shaw
This fear of finding oneself in bad company is not an expression of political purity; it is an expression of a lack of self-confidence.
—Arthur Koestler
Bob Barr has announced his support for the Strangebedfellows/AccountabilityNowPAC coalition and their Aug. 8 money bomb being put together by and modeled on the successful [...]