The Economist has given all 195 of the world’s countries a say in the outcome of tomorrow’s presidential election with its Global Electoral College. Here’s how it works, as explained by The Economist: “As in America, each…
You’ve probably heard Barack Obama talk about the Iraqi government’s $79 billion surplus. Now Ashwin Madia is decrying the surplus in his latest commercial. On its face it’s a compelling argument: Why are we spending $10 billion a month…
Former U.N. ambassador John Bolton will be the keynote speaker at tonight’s annual dinner for the conservative policy institute Center of the American Experiment (CAE) at the St. Paul…
Apparently the banner was too small. Five years ago today, when the president swooped in, all flight-suit-clad, to the deck of the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln and declared before a gigantic sign marked “Mission Accomplished” that major combat…
Today, citizens across the nation will pause in recognition of the five-year anniversary of President Bush’s infamous “Mission Accomplished” speech and then slap their foreheads or simply try to think about…
In an excellent letter to the editor of the New York Times, Sen. John Edwards calls the paper to task for failing to report on the real human impact of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. He takes issue…
Edina-based Alliant Techsystems (ATK), the largest supplier of small-caliber ammunition to the United States military, has announced that it delivered 1.4 billion rounds to the military for FY 2008 and projects…
Barack Obama is a “conventional liberal” whose “habit of spouting internationalist bromides suggests little affinity for serious realism,” yet he’s the best presidential candidate conservatives have got, according to Andrew J. Bacevich of…
It had to happen: The fumbled invasion of Iraq has eventually turned into a five-year-old war made up of mistakes and misleading information. Today, on the anniversary of the invasion, it’s still a petulant and fully loaded child: The majority…
In addition to the 10 original cosigners, seven more Democratic congressional candidates from around the nation have signed on to the Responsible Plan to End the War in Iraq.
The Responsible Plan, touted as a…
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