The Hoover Institution at Stanford University has published a highly interesting video interview with author Christopher Hitchens in which he discusses the Iraq war. Regarding the American "surge" in Iraq, Hitchens - rightly, I think - calls it "a huge mistake" to say that we should support the surge only if it is working.
"This must be supported whether it's going well or not," Hitchens says. He's not saying, of course, that we should continue ineffective military strategy, only that the war must be supported despite military setbacks because the cost of losing to al Qaeda is too high.
From Zogby: A majority of Americans - 54% - believe the United States has not lost the war in Iraq, but there is dramatic disagreement on the question between Democrats and Republicans, a new UPI/Zogby Interactive poll shows... The national...Continue Reading
I recently recieved a review copy of a new book, written by U.S. Army Staff Sergeant David Bellavia, now retired from the Army and a co-founder of Vets for Freedom. The book, House to House: An Epic Memoir of War,...Continue Reading
The Federal Election Commission has given the George Soros-backed America Coming Together a light slap on the hand for funneling tens of millions of illegally raised money into promoting Democratic candidates. The Politico reports:The Federal Election Commission has fined one...Continue Reading
This is astonishing. A writer for the leftwing Huffington Post is calling, essentially, for a military coup against President Bush. And he's serious. You can relieve the President of his command. Not of his Presidency. But of his military role...Continue Reading
Thanks to my work here at ElephantBiz.com and also at my other political blog, BillHobbs.com, I currently am in fourth place in a poll at VolunteerVoters.com, a political blog operated by a Nashville TV station, asking who is the best...Continue Reading
The Wall Street Journal spotlights an attempt by Democratic senator and presidential candidate Chris Dodd to help create a huge new business opportunity for America's trial laywers - who just happen to be one of the Democratic Party's most stalwart...Continue Reading
USNews.com has an extensive post on how the Bush administration and Republican hawks have regained the political momentum on the Iraq war issue, now that it is evident to the American public - and to a growing number of Democratic...Continue Reading
James Lewis nails it:The Big Media are a mob. That should be Politics 101. They are a tiny, unchecked power elite, locked into life-long careers in the remnant of a crumbling monopoly over America's national conversation. Like other unaccountable elites,...Continue Reading
Leona Helmsley, the so-called "Queen of Mean" hotel operator and billionaire real estate investor who once famously said "Only the little people pay taxes," has died of heart failure at the age of 87. TalkLeft's Jeralyn Merritt says it turns out...Continue Reading
Economist and blogger Bryan Caplan writes:This morning on Wisconsin public radio, I had the odd experience of being lectured by a caller about the virtues of markets. By extolling the wisdom of the economics profession, I led a Ron Paul...Continue Reading
All of the attention in the media in recent days over reports of cheers in the Seattle Times newsroom over Karl Rove leaving the White House, and boos in the MSNBC newsroom during a George W. Bush State of the...Continue Reading
U.S. News & World Report's James Pethokoukis on the economy and the 2008 election: In this post a couple of days ago, I speculated that the mortgage meltdown may be dooming GOP presidential hopes in 2008. The last thing the incumbent...Continue Reading
A reader comment posted to my previous post about a proposal in California to assign presidential electors to the winner of the popular vote in each of the state's congressional district raises some points worth discussing and I am going...Continue Reading
The DailyKos crowd is getting all upset about a proposed ballot initiative (representative democracy at its finest) that would apportion the state's presidential electoral votes From Kos: Democrats are launching a critical effort in California to fight a ballot proposal...Continue Reading
When Fred Thompson officially enters the presidential race next month, he's promising to shake up the race with tough talk about the fiscal and national security perils the nation faces. Washington Post columnist David S. Broder reports:When Fred Thompson makes...Continue Reading
Editor & Publisher reports on a Gallup poll that shows Gen. David Petreaus, the leader of the military's "surge" strategy in the Iraq war, is polling well and "appears to command considerable respect from the average American ... boosting the...Continue Reading
Good news for the Bush administration - a Harris Poll shows that 94 percent of Americans say they are satisfied with their lives. And a majority of Americans believe their lives have improved since 2002. The New York Post reports:The...Continue Reading
U.S. News reporter and blog-writer James Pethokoukis looks at the role of the economy in the 2008 elections, and says the spreading mortgage credit crisis may doom the GOP in '08.But maybe not. After all, the economy is still growing...Continue Reading
Tropical Storm Erin* is approaching South Texas and while it's a significant weather event, another tropical system may intensify into a significant political event. It's Tropical Storm Dean. And, no, that isn't a reference to Democratic National Committee chairman Howard...Continue Reading
All of the post-Ames discussion about the role that the Fair Tax played in the final outcome of the Ames Straw Poll - Mitt Romney's win with a disappointing 31 percent of the vote, Mike Huckabee's surprisingly strong second-place finish...Continue Reading
Clair Celsi over at The Demo Memo says today that abortion protects children. That's right. Not content to just claim that every tax increase and new government program is "for the children," now the Left wants to claim that abortion...Continue Reading
David Sirota explores the economic populism of Mike Huckabee - and says its why the Huckabee campaign has positive momentum.[Huckabee] has an extraordinarily different message than any of the other Republican presidential contenders - a populist economic message that may...Continue Reading
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee's support for the "Fair Tax" proposal may have been the key to his strong second-place finish in the Ames Straw Poll, says Marc Ambinder at The Atlantic Online. Ambinder's blog post contains a long message...Continue Reading
Blogger and future presidential candidate Fred Thompson tackles a big obstacle to protecting America against a tidal wave of illegal immigration - the declaration by a number of large cities that they will be "sanctuaries" for illegals and will not...Continue Reading
When you put together the following facts - Barack Obama's big fundraising lead over Hillary Clinton while trailing her badly in the polls, and Obama's increasingly numerous ignorant statements about the war and military policy, you realize that, just perhaps,...Continue Reading
Yes, that headline is right. Mitt Romney lost the Ames Straw Poll Saturday in Iowa. True, he came in first with 31 percent of the vote, but he spent lavishly, and couldn't crack 50 percent in a race in which...Continue Reading
There may be nothing more predictable in politics than a liberal in a time of tragedy: they always use the tragedy as a reason to call for higher taxes. The Minneapolis bridge collapse is no different. Within hours of the...Continue Reading
A Santa Monica, California, attorney who has repeatedly given money to Democratic causes, including the far-leftwing MoveOn.org, set up a fake Fred Thompson URL and directed to a website offering links to a variety of KKK/racist/white supremacist websites. Caught, he...Continue Reading
Former South Dakota Sen. Tom Daschle thinks there ought to be an exemption from campaign challenge for ill incumbent Senators. Well, at least for Democratic senators.The Hill reports Daschle has lashed out at the Republican Party for planning to contest...Continue Reading
Leftwing blogger Jerome Armstrong, of the MyDD blog, who also is co-author of a recent book on "people power" with Markos Moulitsas of DailyKos, has agreed to pay a hefty fine to the of about $30,000 to the Securities and...Continue Reading
Don Surber nails Barack Obama for the foriegn policy naif that he is:Obama? Not a serious man.That showed when he said he would befriend our enemies, invade our allies and not use nukes against al-Qaeda. He wanted to separate himself...Continue Reading
Hitwise's Election 2008 Data Center, complete with RSS Feeds, has some mighty interesting data today showing which presidential candidates are leading and lagging in the "web race."Hitwise notes that Barack Obama is leading online, based on traffic to his website,...Continue Reading
There's an excellent article today at CIOInsight.com by Edward Cone on the role of the Internet and social media networks in the current presidential campaign. Here's a short excerpt...Trippi believes this kind of technology will be a real difference-maker in...Continue Reading
Somewhere, Harry Reid is crying: "The new U.S. military strategy in Iraq, unveiled six months ago to little acclaim, is working," reports the Associated Press.It is time - actually it is past time - for the Democratic Party to back...Continue Reading
USA Today reports that, as signs grow that the military "surge" strategy in Iraq is working, support for the war is again growing:"In the latest USA TODAY/Gallup Poll, taken Friday through Sunday, the proportion of those who said the additional...Continue Reading
Left-wing political bloggers are talking about forming a labor union for bloggers and - get this - they want organized labor to pay for their healthcare.Sitting at a panel titled "A Union for Bloggers: It's Time to Organize" at this...Continue Reading
The US government now has greater authority to eavesdrop on terrorist suspects without warrants on American citizens' telephone calls and e-mails after President Bush signed new surveillance legislation into law on Sunday that will allow the administration to do what...Continue Reading
John Hawkins at Right Wing News provides an analysis of his latest survey of bloggers, this one on their most and least desired 2008 Republican nominee. Here's the info on the top four: 1) Fred Thompson: Fred Thompson is generating...Continue Reading
The Washington Post profiles Jeri Kehn Thompson, wife of soon-to-be-official president candidate Fred Thompson. It's an interesting read - and no doubt will cause many to wonder why the mainstream media tends to write gushing soft-focus profiles of the wives...Continue Reading
Right Wing News polled a slew of right-of-center political bloggers and found that their top three candidates that they most want to see get the GOP presidential nomination are, in order, Fred Thompson, Rudy Giuliani and Duncan Hunter. The three...Continue Reading
President George W. Bush is eight times more popular than the Democratic-led Congress. Don Surber digs into the poll numbers, which show that the Harry Reid/Nancy Pelosi-lead surrender brigades are scraping the underside of the bottom of the barrel of...Continue Reading
Rolling Stone magazine says Ethanol is a "Scam." The great danger of confronting peak oil and global warming isn’t that we will sit on our collective asses and do nothing while civilization collapses, but that we will plunge after “solutions”...Continue Reading
I wrote yesterday that the Democratic Party in recent months has "increasingly linked itself to the hysterical DailyKos/MoveOn.org surrender-at-any-cost Left." They're doing it again this week, with seven of the eight Democratic presidential candidates traveling to Chicago to genuflect before...Continue Reading
From Rojo Networks' weekly news round-up email, The Week in Rojo:Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) tried to show strength by saying he'd send troops into Pakistan to hunt down terrorists. Sister Toldjah wonders how a position even more aggressive than President...Continue Reading
Growing signs that the "surge" is succeeding is splitting the Democrats in Congress, with some backing away from the party leadership's push to set a date for withdrawal, while others are doubling down on their efforts to surrender the pursuit...Continue Reading
Fred Thompson's wife, Jeri Kehn Thompson, demeaned by the New York Times as a "trophy wife," is instead someone who will be an "asset" to Fred's campaign, writes syndicated columnist Robert D. Novak.After working for the Senate Republican Conference and...Continue Reading
Technical problems prevented the John McCain interview I mentioned here yesterday from being streamed on the Hoover Institution's website (Hoover.org), but McCain's appearance at Stanford University's Always On Summit, is on the AlwaysOn website here.Among the "straight talk" from McCain...Continue Reading
Is the Harry Potter series an allegory about the rise of Islamofacism and the failure of the West's Left to fully grasp the danger? Could be, says FamilySecurityMatters.org Contributing Editor Nancy Salvato.It is utterly fascinating how a traditionally anti-war left-leaning...Continue Reading
Republican presidential candidate John McCain will be interviewed live on the web today by Hoover Institution fellow Peter Robinson, whose Uncommon Knowledge video interview series I first became aware of recently thanks to his excellent interview of Fred Thompson...Continue Reading
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