Wednesday, June 14, 2006
Turnaround (10:13 AM) - The Wall Street Journal: “Bush’s Visit to Baghdad Signifies Upturn in His Political Fortunes” Even this morning’s The Note notes, “Everyone agrees: a comeback might be in the offing…”…
Those High-Tax Republicans (09:36 AM) - I know someone who bristles when it is mentioned that conservatives like George W. Bush are tax cutters. I suppose he’s right to. Our current president is a tax raiser—taxes themselves are going up under Bush. It is the tax…
Happy 231st Birthday to the United States Army (08:56 AM) - The United States Army began on June 14, 1775. Few organizations, I think, have been so lasting and so lastingly good. The Army fetes its birth here and at events around the globe. I thought I’d quote from Robert Wright’s…
Don’t Talk About Chi Chi (08:38 AM) - The conservative student newspaper at Johns Hopkins University is being trashed en masse. That’s against the law, but not important, apparently. What’s important is that the paper’s staffers be punished for not accepting the views of the school’s Diverse Sexuality…
The Value of Life Versus the Value of Munitions (08:30 AM) - Via the ever-vigilant Vital Perspective boys, a fascinating story from the West Bank. It seems that a non-military Palestinian vehicle, a van, was attempting to smuggle Katyusha rockets through the area. Since these rockets have recently been launched wildly toward…
Whole Foods’ Wholesome Philosophy (08:23 AM) - Andrew Samwick: “Who would have imagined that the founder of the grocery store that feeds the Leftist intelligentsia in enclaves around the country would be such a … capitalist?”…
John Kerry Demands Immediate Withdrawal of U.S. (08:00 AM) - Today’s Democrat demanding unconditional surrender to the choking Islamist din in Iraq is John Kerry, according to the Boston Globe:The sweeping resolution amounts to the senator’s sharpest condemnation of the war and his broadest repudiation of his own vote to…
Rove and Innocence (07:38 AM) - Scott Ott reports:Republican electoral prospects in November appeared bleaker than ever this week after U.S. forces allowed al Qaeda leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi to die in their custody and President George Bush’s close friend and adviser Karl Rove fanned the…