Personally, I’ve been struggling with this one for quite some time now, but I can never come up with a good enough answer to justify pulling out of Iraq. Forget cut and run, and forget the partisan, spin-machine nonsense. Let’s talk nuts and bolts. Why should we leave?
Also, if you don’t think we should leave, [...]

Looks like money will not be a problem for Joe. And his defeat to Lamont may have even helped him become more attractive to more Connecticut donors.
From MSNBC:
In his presidential campaign in 2003-004, Lieberman got nearly 15,000 individual contributions; in his primary campaign this year he had received more than 5,700 individual contributions by July [...]

In 1948, Israel repelled the attacks of Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Transjordan. In the Six Days War Israel used military force to stop a planned Egyptian attack and then defeated Syria, Iraq and Jordan when those nations launched their own attacks. During the Yom Kippur War, Israel again repelled attacks by Egypt and Syria.
Every [...]

William Shawcross [?!] has the last word on the now tremulously silenced Israel-Hezbollah war:
Civilian deaths in Lebanon are utterly tragic. But if you watched only British television, particularly the BBC, you would be hard-pressed to understand that Israel has been forced into a war for its survival, one in which Iran has empowered its proxy, [...]

Even though he’s always been highly partisan, the Fox News commentator seems to be freely venturing into Coulter territory.
Just read:
“Hang on, Dems. Here come the Pol Pots of your party. And if you were for national security, you are now emphatically not. Or else. Remember the mountain of skulls in Cambodia? It’s the Democrats’ new [...]

46% to 41%. (H/T: Althouse.)
Do you think this is a response to security concerns in the wake of the London terror plot?

A new blog, Sideways Mencken, lends some perspective to the latest terror threat:
Let’s say they had succeeded. Let’s say they got all nine or ten planes. Call it another 3,000 people. Pretty fucking awful. But at another level, that’s it? That’s what they’ve got? They kill 3,000 people every five years? For that we should [...]

I notice that many of us define a politician by their stand on specific issues. I tend to focus more on their temperament.

They say the Dems still lead…
From Political Wire:
Harris Interactive Poll: If elections for Congress were held today, 45% of Americans say they would vote for the Democratic candidate and 30% would vote for the Republican. Women favor the Democratic candidate by a 50% to 28% margin.
President Bush’s approval rating is just 34%.
Newsweek poll: “Right now [...]

So this is a pretty interesting piece of information.
Apparently the terrorists who were going to blow up these planes weren’t as prepared as we had first believed. Personally, I think caution is the better part of valor, but did the US push the UK to move in too quickly?
More from MSNBC:
LONDON – NBC News has [...]

A good editorial from Jerusalem Post today.
I’ll let it speak for itself:
There is a good reason that Hizbullah chief Hassan Nasrallah has accepted UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which sets the terms for a cease-fire between his jihad army and the State of Israel.
The resolution represents a near-total victory for Hizbullah and its state sponsors [...]

As I was browsing through memeorandum today, I came across something rather weird.
From the AP:
WATERBURY, Conn. – Democrat Ned Lamont’s campaign manager said he would apologize to the mayor of Waterbury for describing the city that backed his opponent, Sen. Joe Lieberman, as a place “where the forces of slime meet the forces of evil.”
Tom [...]

Mincing no words, Jacob Weisberg in Slate opines that, contra all the triumphal Kos crowing, Ned Lamont’s victory in the Connecticut senatorial primary bodes very ill for the Dems:
This is a signal event that will have a huge and lasting negative impact on the Democratic Party. The result suggests that instead of capitalizing on the [...]

A revised US-France ceasefire proposal has been submitted to the UN Security Council. A vote is expected later today.
It looks pretty good, to my mind.
sources close to the negotiations said the deal would create a 400-square-mile zone inside Lebanon from which Hezbollah militia would be excluded.
Under the draft resolution, the number of U.N. troops in [...]

The art crowd needs a new vision that extends beyond self-disgust.

From the looks of it, the authorities in the UK were well on top of this situation beforehand and we simply gave them some extra intel so they felt confident about arresting the suspects.
More from Time:
Britain’s MI-5 intelligence service and Scotland Yard had been tracking the plot for several months, but only in the past [...]

Late breaking news on the latest terror plot foiled …
A plot to blow up planes in flight from the UK to the US and commit “mass murder on an unimaginable scale” has been disrupted, Scotland Yard has said.
It is thought the plan was to detonate explosive devices smuggled in hand luggage on to as many [...]

One thing is for certain about gambling…once the dice have been cast, it is impossible to withdraw one’s bet. Like it or not, the Democratic Party, by proxy, may have placed it’s November election bet three months early in the state of Connecticut. While the Democratic voters of Connecticut have spoken…which is as it should [...]

The story on Cynthia McKinney.
The story on Joe Lieberman.
The Lieberman race has gotten a lot of attention as some sort of referendum on the “soul” of the Democratic party. But the McKinney race was another primary involving a high-profile Democrat, and it tells a different story.
In the first race, an antiwar upstart overthrows a moderate [...]

Having lost the Connecticut primary by only about 3 points, Joe Lieberman hits the ground running as an independent centrist, as “a uniter not a divider,” and against the polarizing partisan politics of “insults, not ideas.” He could have taken his playbook straight from Unity08, and I think that movement could both gain and [...]