(a serr8d joint) OMFG, is this racist! Well a wegro is a person in your neigborhood . . .

Douglas J. Feith has a piece in the Wall Street Journal on “How Bush Sold the War,” which argues that President Bush’s focus on promoting democracy in Iraq has been a grave error: In the fall of 2003, a few months after Saddam Hussein’s overthrow, U.S. officials began to despair of finding stockpiles of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. The resulting embarrassment caused a radical shift in administration rhetoric about

Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK), has an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal arguing that the GOP faces electoral disaster in November because the party is in denial of the simple fact that its officeholders have stopped acting like Republicans: Becoming Republicans again will require us to come to grips with what has ailed our party – namely, the triumph of big-government Republicanism and failed experiments like the K Street Project

Although Dan quick-linked it earlier, the article in The New Republic by Peter Bergen and Paul Cruickshank on the jihadist revolt against al Qaeda now has a companion piece by Lawrence Wright in the new issue of The New Yorker.  There is some overlap, though there is enough difference to warrant reading both. Themes common to both articles are that al Qaeda faces a revolt because the group’s extremism results in violence to (and

Paul Lukasiak (originator of the “Bush AWOL” theory) has a guest-post up at Taylor Marsh’s website, making the argument that: Ever since the media declared that Barack Obama was “inevitable” after February 19th, based on a two week period when the an unprepared Hillary Clinton campaign suffered “10 straight losses”, rank and file Democratic voters have been sending a message. Rather than rally ‘round the “inevitable nominee” that message has

Barack Obama opened up his Memorial Day speech in Las Cruces, New Mexico, with a startling admission: On this Memorial Day, as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes — and I see many of them in the audience here today — our sense of patriotism is particularly strong. Gateway Pundit has the video and claims that the gaffe was scrubbed from Obama’s website.  I think it is

Remember the TV docudrama depicting the assassination of George W. Bush? Held up by a secret service bodyguard in his dying moments after being shot in the stomach, this is President Bush being assassinated. Surrounded by a crowd of panicking onlookers, the American leader is pictured just seconds after being gunned down by a sniper following an anti-war demonstration But rather than a repeat of JFK’s shooting or Ronald Reagan’s

Excitable Andy relays — without the slightest hint of skepticism — an anonymously sourced piece from PressTV claiming that Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani has strongly objected to a ‘security accord’ between the US and Iraq. PressTV is an arm of Iran’s state broadcasting apparatus.  As Michael Goldfarb notes, it is an outlet that seriously reports on claims that the Holocuast was “scientifically impossible.”  While it is possible that Sistani is

For all that has been written over the years about the supposed political genius of Karl Rove, the real man of genius in this cycle has to be former Pres. Jimmy Carter, who is valiantly waging a one-man campaign to make Barack Obama’s foreign policy positions (whatever they are today) seem moderate by comparison. Jimmuh, currently at the Hay-on-Wye festival, is claiming that Israel has 150 nuclear weapons in its arsenal. 

RCP’s Jay Cost has a series of bar charts reviewing Barack Obama’s voting coalition.  Most of these review Obama’s performance versus Clinton, which makes them of limited interest in the context of the general election.  The final chart, however, addresses the contribution of blacks, wealthy voters and young whites to Obama’s voting base — statistics which may say something about a general election.  Eyeballing the chart suggests that blacks made