The most under appreciated story emerging this week is that states with 90+% white voters have lifted Barack Obama to front runner status on the basis of his personality, campaign and message. In short, on the merits and nothing else. He’s not the front runner because he’s black. His race seems to be a complete […]
From the blog Obsidian Wings, Andrew Olmsted, who also posted here as G’Kar, was killed yesterday in Iraq. Andy gave me a post to publish in the event of his death; the last revisions to it were made in July. Andy was a wonderful person: decent, honorable, generous, principled, courageous, sweet, and very funny. The […]
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Newsbusters shows the surest way to get a letter published in the prestigious New York Times, claim to be a “lifelong Republican” and then proceed to criticize Republicans. Henry A. Lowenstein, who has managed to get 20 different letters published in the New York Times since 2003, a remarkable feat when you consider that the […]
So Fred goes on Fox News today, and Mrs. Roger Goodell asks if he has the fire in the belly, a typical MSM template question. Fred responds well the first time. When she presses him a second time, well, it’s pure Fred magic. Ok, I’ll confess. I’ve got Fred Fever and the only thing that […]
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Blackfive and the wonderful people of Soldiers Angels have been working on a special, unique project, Operation Puppy Love. Here’s how this all got rolling, To whom it may concern, I am a platoon leader for an infantry battalion. On May 19th of this year six of my soldiers were killed during combat operations. One […]
A number of my favorite bloggers came out in the past few days with posts speculating why Fred Thompson’s campaign has failed to take off as many people had hoped, myself included. Here’s a review, what do you think? Billy Hollis at QandO Fred decided very early that he would not play by other people’s […]
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We are very fortunate to be able to say that retired Lt. Col. Ralph Peters is a friend of the show and a frequent guest. Ralph was absolutely on fire tonight, he was GREAT. Apparently, Ralph didn’t get the memo laying out the narrative in the wake of this week’s assassination of Benazir Bhutto. She […]
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