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Mysterious McCain

The bewilderment the press is expressing at the supposed impossibility of McCain’s progress in the polls is starting to get embarrassing. Beneath it there is the frustrated lament: “But we told you to vote Obama. Why aren’t you complying?”

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The Initial Command

(photo: Department of Defense) The Obama campaign has categorically rejected John McCain’s proposal for a joint trip to Iraq, calling it a “publicity stunt.” Publicity stunt it most certainly is, but why is it automatically assumed that the publicity would … Continue reading

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Welcoming Signs of Progress

Security improvements bringing people back to their homes in South Baghdad… With security improving, local economies flourishing and community reconstruction underway, Iraqis who once fled their South Baghdad homes in fear are now returning to the villages they deserted. This … Continue reading

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Progress in Iraq

Even more evidence that there is sustainable progress in Iraq. And this is from the same person the left held up as proof last year, that no progress was evident. http://hotair.com/archives/2008/02/15/surge-skeptic-cordesman-major-progress-in-every-area-in-iraq/ If the US provides sustained support to the Iraqi … Continue reading

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Political Progress in Iraq

Say it aint so!!! Da New Yawk Times Says So!!! I wonder where they are on those benchmarks our Congress settled on? I also wonder how this places them in effectiveness vs our Democratically controlled Congress. Using old-fashioned politicking behind … Continue reading

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Noneconomic Man in Modern Europe

photo: Tal Bright Thomas Barnett bemoans the grotesque state of economics education in Europe, which often ranges from the anti-capitalist to the simply fatuous. But consider this item he cites: Great French HS textbook: “Globalization implies subjugation of the world … Continue reading

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