Anti-War Message Not Selling, Even in the Movies

Ace of Spades says:

Looks like the Saturday night box office estimates are in and while Lions for Lambs basically doubled its take from Friday, $6.7 million in box office is only good for 4th place.

A distant 4th

Fred Lucas and Kevin Mooney at CNS note:

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said on Tuesday that the troop surge, which began in June, has had a significant impact on the situation in Iraq and noted that he

WASHINGTON – The Senate confirmed retired judge Michael Mukasey as attorney general Thursday night to replace Alberto Gonzales, who was forced from office in a scandal over his handling of the Justice Department.

So at the end of the day,

Alan Dershowitz, guesting at the WSJ today:

Consider, for example, the contentious and emotionally laden issue of the use of torture in securing preventive intelligence information about imminent acts of terrorism–the so-called “ticking bomb” scenario. I am not now talking

Billy Beck makes a point that I made yesterday:

Doug Mataconis links and quotes Radley Balko on the latest rumblings among the savages:

“This is why ‘spreading democracy’ is such a foolish foreign policy objective. There are lots

Michelle notes that to get the story of what’s happening in Iraq, you need to turn to the newspapers… in Austrailia.

IT is whispered about at the margins of meetings, and discussed in Washington parties where rumour is passed around

By now, just about everyone is all over this Musharraf thing.

Perhaps it’s as well that I point you toward Memeorandum for the latest. Particularly from there, I’m finding The Corner to be useful. Also, Michelle is on top of

Rich Lowry has an interesting article on Real Clear Politics by way of Memeorandum:

Would someone be fit to be attorney general of the United States if he had once said, “I think there are probably very few people in

The more I read Joe Klein the more I’m convinced the guy is working at being stupid. Nobody could come by his level of stupid, naturally. When he opens with this, you know it’s going to be brainless:

I’m puzzled

The always worthwhile Michael Yon

“Al Qaeda in Iraq is defeated,” according to Sheik Omar Jabouri, spokesman for the Iraqi Islamic Party and a member of the widespread and influential Jabouri Tribe. Speaking through an interpreter at a 31 October

Hmmm. I’ve been busy most of today, and so didn’t see the follow on to the Greenwald nonsense of the week we were following last night… and later the same night
The Dread Pundit Bluto, however, HAS been

COALITION FORCES DISRUPT FOREIGN TERRORIST NETWORKS; ONE KILLED, NINE DETAINED

Posted: 27 Oct 2007 05:33 AM CDT

COALITION FORCES DISRUPT FOREIGN TERRORIST NETWORKS; ONE KILLED, NINE DETAINED

TAMIMI, JIBOURI TRIBES UPHOLD RECONCILIATION IN DIYALA

Posted: 27 Oct 2007 05:29 AM

Heh….

WASHINGTON -AP- Dutch lawmakers who recently visited the Guantanamo Bay military prison said they were offended by a testy exchange in Washington with a senior congressional Democrat.

The lawmakers said that Rep. Tom Lantos, D-Calif., chairman of the

So, Carl Levin is trying to cut the funding for the Iraq war.

Why?

He’s trying to get the President to “change course” in Iraq.

He knows, as do all Americans by now, that real progress is being made there. 

I remarked the other day that the best sign that the Democrats were in serious trouble, was that they were fighting amongst themselves.  Maggie Michael at AP, passes along that AlQaida is doing the same:

CAIRO, Egypt -(AP)- Al-Qaida sympathizers