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Putin’s ad
No such thing as an illegal alienWith Iraq fast vanishing from the headlines, Georgia has become a political issue. It’s outbreak has implicity helped John McCain because it highlighted Barack Obama’s lack of foreign policy experience, as shown for example, by this ad. Putin, perhaps realizing this, is now trying to blame the Republicans. One [...]

The wrong man, sir
There must be some mistakeTownhall links to a video in which civil rights activist Percy Sutton claimed he was asked by a certain “Dr. Khalid al Mansour”, supposed adviser to ‘one of the richest men in the world’, to write a letter of reccomendation on behalf of Barack Obama to help him gain acceptance to [...]

Shameful honor or honorable shame?
Why can’t I have my cake and eat it?John Kerry’s “finest moment”, according to Bill Ayers, (YouTube link) was the day he threw his medals away. Should we listen to him? Is it possible to even discuss the video without somehow being accused of bigotry? Some have implied that society’s “finest moment” should be the [...]

Drums in the deep
Something wicked this way comesNorth Korea has decided to suspend the decommissioning of its nuclear facilities because the United States has insisted on verification before removing it from the list of the state sponsors of terrorism. This new crisis comes on the heels of Georgia and events in Pakistan. About the only good news is [...]

Let Your Unconscious Be Your Guide
Meant for each otherMajor Garrett at Fox News reports from Denver backrooms. “Top Clinton strategists, gathered by Hillary Clinton’s former campaign manager Maggie Williams, met privately late Monday in Denver to plot convention strategy. The main topic: what to do about Wednesday’s roll call vote.” And the answer will not surprise you.

The logistical tether
An Army Travels on Its StomachReaders of the old Belmont Club site will remember this post on the logistical problems inherent in moving large numbers of men into Afghanistan. I wrote in February 2008, “One factor rarely mentioned in describing Afghan logistical problems or considered in relation to Barack Obama’s assertion that Afghanistan should have [...]

Unity
No Waterloo yetAs the Presidential campaign heats up, efforts by Obama to attract new voters have to be matched by measures to keep his base intact and maintain internal cohesion in the face of John McCain’s attacks along his seams. With Obama losing momentum in the past few weeks, the game seems to have [...]

The Black Sea
The Seven Seas — Or is it Eight?Wired describes the allied flottila closing on Georgian coast, including a DDG, an SSN, the command ship USS Mount Whitney (”onsidered by some to be the most sophisticated Command, Control, Communications, Computer, and Intelligence (C4I) ship ever commissioned”) and the Coast Guard cutter USCGC Dallas. Wired describes the [...]

Hope
It always worksA lot of people waited for the 3am text message which Barack Obama promised would inform the ordinary person who his pick for Veep was going to be before the MSM. Then they saw the announcement that Joe Biden would be his running mate on the news. The inbox of their text messages [...]

Biden time
Biden shakes hands with a costumed HagelOpen thread. Joe Biden is Barack Obama’s running mate. Why Biden? And what does he bring to the table? The AP says that Obama sought to balance his ticket with “an older congressional veteran well-versed in foreign policy and defense issues”. Both Obama and Biden are Senators, and neither [...]