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The Captain has an interesting post on developments at the LA Times and CNN. Seems like the media is tearing itself loose from the fools in the Reid Pelosi camp.
Yesterday, CNN reported on the disastrous consequences that a precipitate American withdrawal would create for Iraq. Today, the Los Angeles Times follows suit, describing the delicate process of training a national army from scratch, and the collapse that would ensue if America bugs out …
Hugh Hewitt interviews Mark Helprin. Mark has long been a critic of the Iraq war. He doesn’t like precipitous withdrawal either.
… if we simply withdraw according to the timetable that they offered, it would be a terrible disaster. And people say that, but they don’t explain why. It would be a disaster because it would energize every enemy of the United States throughout the world, and cause much greater pain and suffering, and danger, than we’ve had up to this point in this war. …
More on salaries at the World Bank.
French presidential debates are real debates. Power Line posts.
John Fund reports on undeclared pres candidates and their strategies.
Longish but well written article from Knoxville on one of those undeclared – Fred Thompson.
It was a scorching summer day in 1993 at the Sevier County fairgrounds. I was standing around with four other political junkies with nothing better to do and we were laughing about Congressman Don Sundquist’s ardent pursuit of the goodwill of Congressman Jimmy Quillen.
Quillen, the boss of the heavily Republican First District, had torpedoed the candidacy of Winfield Dunn, the last serious Republican candidate for governor. Quillen was playing hard-to-get that summer with his back bench colleague, Sundquist, who would be running for governor in 1994.
Quillen and Sundquist were inside a big tent and the crowd was whooping it up, in anticipation of capturing the governor’s office after eight years of Democratic Gov. Ned McWherter.
We looked over the fairgrounds to see a tall fellow we recognized from the movies wandering around like he was lost. He evidently didn’t get the memo about it being a casual event. He had left his suit coat and tie in the car and had rolled up the sleeves of his white shirt. He wandered up, sweating like a pig. …
… Fred Thompson, on his first campaign appearance in East Tennessee, assumed (not incorrectly) we were a group of local rednecks. We surrounded him like a bear in a ring and started peppering him with questions. …
“Tell us what you really think” Michael Graham has words for Tenet.
If there’s a bigger buffoon or more gutless weasel in the intelligence world than George Tenet, he’s being hidden in a black ops prison on Guantanamo Bay. Tenet, a poster child for “The Power Of Positive Brown-Nosing,†has hit a new low, even for Washington. Having worked his way up the political ladder by leaving no back unslapped, on the way down he’s leaving no back unstabbed.
George Tenet is the Barney Fife of the spy world. Every bad guy got away, and he never took his bullet out of his pocket.
Screwing up the pre-Iraq war intelligence alone makes him a failure. Utterly missing the 9/11 attacks and having not a single CIA asset in the Taliban or al-Qaeda at the time earns him “Worst CIA Chief Ever.†…
The latest problem in Brit health care; they’re short 3,000 midwives.
Great post from Right Coast on how local gov folks apply loving care to military contractors.
New discovery may make less expensive solar panels possible.