The real winners and losers of the election. Funny. Neal Boortz
What would Jesus tax? (h/t, Asst Village Idiot)
Kim du Toit knows what the Repubs need to stand for.
Yes, I did miss this grim story. Protein
Unemployment: We have only seen these numbers five times in the past 50 years. It's the Bush Economic Miracle. And more self-employed people than ever: that has to be a good trend.
New Dem senators support border defense and de-fence. PoliPundit
Abandoning Iraq. Everyone would love to. But would it be wise? Quote from a David Warren piece:
But in trying to build a secular democracy over the ruin of Saddam’s regime, the Americans tried something they had not the stomach for. From the outset, they imposed upon themselves restrictions that would make that fight unwinnable. As in Vietnam, they adopted a purely defensive posture.
So far as President Bush can be blamed, it should be for showing insufficient ruthlessness in a task that could not be accomplished by half-measures. Alternatively, for failing to grasp that America was psychologically unprepared for real war, not only by the memory of Vietnam, but by the grim advance of "liberal" decadence in domestic life over the generation since.
Agreed, You cannot fight a long, slow "nice" war for "hearts and minds." You can only fight hard, and do the hearts and minds thing afterwards. Same lesson as Vietnam.
