So says Arthur C. Brooks in a new editorial from the Wall Street Journal, and the numbers are compelling. For instance… Simply put, liberals have a big baby problem: They’re not having enough of them, they haven’t for a long time, and their pool of potential new voters is suffering as a result. According to [...]

But the public is becoming increasingly impatient with the current plan or lack thereof. From CNN: WASHINGTON (CNN) — Opposition among Americans to the war in Iraq has reached a new high, with only about a third of respondents saying they favor it, according to a poll released Monday. Just 35 percent of 1,033 adults [...]

Apparently, yes. A federal appeals court ruled yesterday that if a motorist is carrying large sums of money, it is automatically subject to confiscation. In the case entitled, “United States of America v. $124,700 in U.S. Currency,” the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit took that amount of cash away from Emiliano Gomez [...]

This Sunday’s New York Times Magazine had an excellent piece on the progress of the Iraqi army, from a reporter who traveled to Anbar province to see them in action. Some excerpts: Anbar has long been what the military calls an “economy of forceâ€Â? operation, which is a polite way of saying that troop requirements [...]

As we march toward the November elections, the reviews of the Bush administration’s handling of Iraq are getting worse. Joe Lieberman turns around and bites the GOP hand that was wooing him, joining Hillary Clinton in saying Donald Rumsfeld should resign. “With all respect to Don Rumsfeld, who has done a grueling job for six [...]

You know what’s gone missing from the blogosphere lately? The “good news” from Iraq. For a while there you could hardly click on a pro-war blog without coming upon loud denunciations of everyone’s favorite whipping boy, the Mainstream Media, for failing to report the “good news” from Iraq. There would follow a link to a [...]

The road to the White House is going to be a difficult one for John McCain. In poll after poll of loyal Republicans, I see him seriously trailing. But perhaps conservatives will embarce his particular brand of politics. From Hotline: In South Carolina, one obstacle was particularly galling for McCain in ’00. He basically split [...]

Looks like Joe has hired a Republican pollster who has ties to Santorum’s re-election campaign. Hotline on Call has the story: Joe Lieberman’s indie CT SEN campaign sent out a release to announce the hiring of two new consultants: media/direct mail consultant Josh Isay and pollster Neil Newhouse. Isay mostly works with Dems, with his [...]

Grrrrr….. I don’t hate many things, but if there’s one thing I absolutely can not stand it’s Republicans saying that electing Democrats in the fall will lead to more terrorist attacks. With the election of more Dems is it more likely that taxes will be raised? Sure. But terrorist attacks? WTF? This time Orrin Hatch [...]

And if you’re too moderate to be alarmed by the truly alarming, you’re, well, effectively a moron. That’s my paraphrase of the language with which Jack Whelan at After the Future goes after us political moderates and centrists. His argument reminds me of Sam Harris’s condemnation of sane and reasonable religious moderates as enablers of [...]

I never defend the UN, but I have in the past defended the French. And I had hopes for Condoleezza Rice. UNITED NATIONS, Aug. 17 — France has rebuffed U.N. pleas to make a major contribution to a peacekeeping mission in southern Lebanon, setting back international efforts to send a credible military force to the [...]

Judge Anna Diggs Taylor’s ruling was in response to an ACLU lawsuit. She said the taps violate free speech and privacy rights. I’m not so sure about the free speech argument. The privacy argument is stronger, though a lot of people argue that the idea of a right to privacy is a myth. In any [...]

The neo-cons have a few things right. We should be robustly engaged in the world. We should promote our better values in nations lacking our freedoms. And we should not be afraid to use military strength when doing so will likely prevent more tragedies that it will cause. But the neo-cons are blinded by the [...]

(AP) Four in five Americans would give up some freedoms to gain security and four in 10 worry terrorists will harm them or their family, a new Gallup poll shows. About one-third of those polled favor making it easier for authorities to access private e-mail and telephone conversations. More than 70 percent are in favor [...]

A discussion at my blog got me thinking about this so I thought why not make this my first post on Donklephant (thanks to Justin for the invite). The idea of an ICC is good: to hold individuals (and not states) responsible for violations of International Human Rights Law. The U.S., along with Iraq, Libya, [...]

I recently started drinking coffee in earnest about six months ago. Don’t really know why. One day the coffee switch in me just turned on and I’ve been a five-cup-a day fan ever since. This probably had something to do with the fact that my office offers a nice espresso maker and top quality Lavazza [...]

Color me surprised. From Rich Lowry, editor of the National Review, comes an article entitled ‘Bush’s Vietnam?’: For the past 30 years, left-right debate over America’s wars has traveled a well-worn rut. The Left says whatever war is in question is “another Vietnam,â€Â? while the Right denies it. After three decades of being serially wrong, [...]

I asked the $87+ billion question yesterday and now M. Takhallus of Sideways Mencken has a few ideas of what we might be able to do in Iraq. However, as expected, none of them are pretty, and it appears as if only one of them is truly feasible. I don’t think I have to tell [...]

Yes, you read that right. Today we see a particularly politically savvy move by the Administration, which I believe is aimed at getting Lamont more support. Bascially, Bush won’t endorse the GOP candidate in Connecticut, Alan Schlesinger, over Joe Lieberman. And maybe it’s just me, but this seems less like an endorsement of Lieberman and [...]

Ballot access is restrictive enough without adding inflexible bureaucracy to the mix. I have two examples from this election season in Minnesota, one involving a sitting Congressman. I’m sure there are similar tales in every state. Check it out, then add your own.