Old Fart Gets One Right, Finally

Bill Dupray, Flopping Aces, reports that Fred will vet McCain’s judges:

Big Fred doing the Big Job. Love it. From Human Events.

In a McCain administration, former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson would play a dominant role in selecting

An interesting note at the LA Times Blog this morning:

Led by chairman Mike Duncan, the Republican National Committee ended May with 13 times more money in the bank than its Democratic counterpart, and raised five times as much

Charles Krauthammer explains the problem with John McCain’s energy policy and with Barack Obama’s entire campaign, Washington Post::

Alas, McCain’s proposed reform is only partial. Still better than Obama, however, who refuses to deviate from liberal orthodoxy. But that

Ben Castlemen at the WSJ this morning points out that lifting the drilling ban would not be an immididate fix for our situation.

If the bans were lifted tomorrow, it would be at least seven years — and likely as

The Washngton Post, today:

Sen. John McCain called yesterday for an end to the federal ban on offshore oil drilling, offering an aggressive response to high gasoline prices and immediately drawing the ire of environmental groups that the presumptive Republican

From the LA Times this morning:

In 2006, John F. Kerry explained the Senate’s 77-23 passage of the Iraq war resolution this way: “We were misled. We were given evidence that was not true.” On the campaign trail, Hillary Rodham

Washington -Journal Sentinal- As an avid supporter of Hillary Rodham Clinton in the Democratic primaries, Debra Bartoshevich is not alone in her frustration over Clinton’s defeat.

She’s not alone in refusing to support Barack Obama.

And she’s not entirely alone

It appears that John McCain has decided there’s a problem with the SCOTUS ruling yesterday on Gitmo. Michael Scherer at Time:

Yesterday, it was not clear if McCain would make the court decision an election year issue. Today, there

Trying to play Mister Apolitical is taking it’s toll. The WaPo:

Today’s news that Jim Johnson, one of three people charged with vetting potential vice presidential candidates for Barack Obama, is stepping down from his role illustrates the perils ahead

AJ Strata has been watching with some interest the demise of al-Qaeda.  Today, he remarks:

It is alarming even to me how drastically al-Qaeda’s future as changed recently.  After 9-11 they were the future hope of Islam after they

Tiger Hawk answers a question I quoted VDH as asking earlier today, when he said:

And why are Republicans, who voted in overwhelming numbers for off-shore drilling, ANWR, nuclear, shale, tar sands, liquid coal, etc—and were opposed by Democrats on

In the mail, just now:

FW: Axis of Idiots

“The Axis of Idiots”

Jimmy Carter, you are the father of the Islamic Nazi movement.  You threw the Shah under the bus, welcomed the Ayatollah home, and then lacked the

1952, Dwight David Eisenhower:

“I will go to Korea,”

Ike went to Korea.  The fighting stopped.

2008, Barack Hussien Obama, rejects John McCain’s proposal that they both go to Iran, From the BO campaign, via Jim Geraghty, National Review.

Ramesh Ponnuru points out yesterday that in a Libertarian fantasy world the Cato institute’s platform would win in a landslide. I would hasten to add that the only reason that the whole thing is a fantasy is because nobody’s bothered

WRT to Bit’s post about John Hawkins of the morning.

We have seen eight years of presidential leaahrship without a moral compass, the Clinton adminstration.  I do not, and will not agree, with John McCain on all issues.  However McCain