Because We Acted in Iraq

Glenn:

 PEACE ON EARTH? “While the headlines concentrate on peace breaking out in Iraq, that’s but part of a worldwide trend for the last few years. Violence has also diminished, or disappeared completely, in places like Nepal, Chechnya. Congo, Indonesia

News from just up the road in Mississauga, Ontario… Jazz great Oscar Peterson has died at age 82 from Kidney failure.

Michelle Malkin’s Christmas message.

Hat Tip:  Hot Air.

I wanted to pass along a couple of pictures that were passed along to me by readers last year. I never got the chance to use them last season because I didn’t see them until well after new year’s. But

In 1992, B.J. Clinton campaigned on a “Middle Class Tax Cut.”

In 2000, John Edwards promised to make Christopher Reeves walk again.

Now Michael McAuliff, Daily News(NY), reports Mrs. William Clinton is promising “Elect me and oil prices

Acting on a hot tip from a fellow Swamp Stomper,  I found this after action report on Ron Paul’s foray on to Meet the Press.   Jeff Freeland, National Ledger:

[Ron Paul] was on the defensive from the start of

[sticky till 12/26]

Editor’s Note: This is a time of year when I don’t envy the position of members of the cloth.

Such men and women find themselves in the position of having to write a sermon on essentially the

Steven Taylor at OTB:

Via the LAT: Grim tales from Zimbabwe

Life here is full of Catch-22 dilemmas that would strain credulity if they were fiction: It costs more to go to work than you can possibly earn, for

Can the President simply kill most congressional pork by issuing an executive order.   The Congressional Research Service is of the opinion he can.    Gaius, Blue Crab Boulevard, asks,” Could It Really Be This Simple:”

Mark Tapscott reports that there

Mike Huckabee campaigns as religious Baptist.  Yet how religious is Huck?

Robert Novak, in the Washington Post, questions the depth of Huckabee’s Baptist support:

More than personality explains why not all his Baptist brethren have signed on the dotted

Jake Tapper at ABC is reporting:ABC News has learned that the campaign of Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., has registered the names of two Web sites with the express goal of attacking her chief rival, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill.It’s the first

Just weeks away from a possible surprise victory in the primaries, Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz has been waging a ferocious behind the scenes battle with the NEW YORK TIMES, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned, and has hired

Those of you who have been watching will know that we’ve been having some problems on and off with the full-size RSS feed. Or, here, if you like.
We solved the problem last night, as it turns out the RSS

The Arizona Republic reports on what the chattering class claims to be impossible, getting illegals to leave:

Congress’ failure to pass comprehensive immigration reform, immigration crackdowns, Arizona’s new employer-sanctions law and a sluggish economy have combined to create a climate

Here we go again, with the nonsense about making religion, a public issue incidental to an election this time from John over at Powerline:

I’m getting really tired of the role that religion is playing in this year’s election campaign.