The real question is not “Is the 1975 Congressional cutoff of funds for Vietnam an appropriate historical lesson for 2007 Iraq?” The real question is “Can we trust the judgment of this President and this administration to understand/predict the consequences of any military decision or action in Iraq?”

Listening to this military wife talk about her husband and her military friends is heartbreaking. She calls for instituting the draft, but I’d suggest she consider supporting a shift in foreign policy strategy away from Bill Kristol’s view on pre-emptive wars.

(h/t: Belgravia Dispatch)

Or could it be his message that’s resonating with social conservatives?
Maybe a little bit of both?
On the GOP side, Mitt Romney leads in Iowa and New Hampshire, while Rudy Giuliani is ahead in South Carolina. However, this biggest news is that Mike Huckabee got a bounce from his second place finish in the recent Ames [...]

Interesting numbers because this is where Obama begins to show his grassroot chops against Hillary. He had 41,007 readers, compared with Hillary (the nearest Dem) at 18,555. That’s a massive gap.
What’s more interesting though, is Ron Paul would dominate the field with 30,960 readers but Fred Thompson is nipping at his heels with 24,160. Sure, [...]

More reports out of Iraq, and the news isn’t particularly encouraging.
From NY Times:
WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 — An independent commission established by Congress to assess Iraq’s security forces will recommend remaking the 26,000-member national police force to purge it of corrupt officers and Shiite militants suspected of complicity in sectarian killings, administration and military officials said [...]

Two days ago at The Carpetbagger Report, Steve Benen published a post re: the implosion of the Republican Party, writing:
… I often wonder how, exactly, someone looks at the Republican Party of 2007 — its leaders, its decisions, its priorities, its conduct — and says, ‘You know, that’s the party for me.’
When I read that [...]

That’s the ruling from a judge yesterday. He ruled that the ban on prohibiting gays from getting married is unconstitutional.
DES MOINES, Iowa – Less than two hours after a judge struck down Iowa’s decade-old gay marriage ban, two Des Moines men applied for a marriage license as bride and groom, and county officials said they [...]

I thought it would be good for me to collect all the questions into one post so you can see them all before I post which answers I thought were the best.
Just click on each and it’ll lead you to their respective posts…

If Ron Paul doesn’t win the nomination, who will you vote for?

How was [...]

The non-partisan Government Accountability Office will issue a report next Tuesday, but a draft of it has been given to the press for fear the full, unvarnished picture won’t be presented.
From the Wash Post:
The strikingly negative GAO draft, which will be delivered to Congress in final form on Tuesday, comes as the White House prepares [...]

I promised I’d keep you all up to date, and so…
The biggest “new” news from this story in the NY Times is that:

He’s originally from Hong Kong.
Hsu was going to co-host a large Democratice fundraiser with Quincy Jones next month.
He’s donated $255,970 to Democrat candidates and causes.
He says that the whole “not showing up to [...]

And he’s daring the Dems to vote against it…
The request — which would come on top of about $460 billion in the fiscal 2008 defense budget and $147 billion in a pending supplemental bill to fund the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq — is expected to be announced after congressional hearings scheduled for mid-September featuring [...]

Well done Hillary…
WASHINGTON (AP) – Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton will give to charity the $23,000 in donations she has received from a fundraiser who is wanted in California for failing to appear for sentencing on a 1991 grand theft charge.
The decision came Wednesday as other Democrats began distancing themselves from Norman Hsu, whose [...]

The series is almost over, but I want to thank all of you Ron Paul supporters who have contributed constructive feedback to the discussion and I hope you can use the feedback to help inform and aid your cause.
I’ll be doing two more posts to wrap this whole series up. The first post will [...]

Found part of this quote over at Political Wire, and boy does it speak to the multiple credibility problems Republicans are facing in the upcoming election…
“The real question for Republicans in Washington is how low can you go, because we are approaching a level of ridiculousness. You can’t make this stuff up. And the impact [...]

The story is getting bigger…and weirder.
Yesterday I wrote about the Paws, a seemingly lower middle class family that inexplicably gave Hillary Clinton $45,000 in campaign contributions and over $200,000 to Dem causes.
Odd, right? Well, what’s even more suspect is that a fundraiser named Norman Hsu has previously claimed the family’s address as his place [...]

That’s the question floating around the blogosphere today, and I think the people who’re asking it kind of have a point.
First, we have this from Volokh’s Larry Carpenter about Minnesota law:
From the arrest report, here’s what Craig allegedly did: (1) put a duffel bag at the front of his stall; (2) peered through a crack [...]

Stephen Sliviniski, economist, author of Buck Wild, Director of Budget Analysis for the Cato Institute, and DWSUWF favorite, comments on recently released CBO budget estimates in “Finally, Some Not-So-Bad News on the Budget” posted at Cato@Liberty:

The big surprise in the Congressional Budget Office mid-year budget estimates released today isn’t that the year-to-year deficit [...]

It appears as if the Wall Street Journal has dug up a blockbuster.
I’ll let them do the talking…
DALY CITY, Calif. — One of the biggest sources of political donations to Hillary Rodham Clinton is a tiny, lime-green bungalow that lies under the flight path from San Francisco International Airport.
Six members of the Paw family, each [...]

Manufacturing Dissent is a new documentary about Moore and his tendency to bend the truth to fit into his seemingly predetermined storylines.
The Daily Dish reports on what it’s all about…
The film was produced by two Canadian, self-described liberals, who began as fans of Moore’s movies but in the process of investigating his claims, came to [...]

Let’s just say Larry Craig resigns over this whole bathroom affair and Idaho has an election in 2008 to find a real replacement. Do Dems even have a shot in the traditionally hardcore conservative landscape of Idaho politics?
The Rothenberg Political Report says it’s highly unlikely. Why? because Craig was thinking of retiring anyway…leaving Repub Lt. [...]