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“I would like to thank them.”
— General Vo Nguyen Giap, who led North Vietnamese forces during the Vietnam war, about American anti-war protesters like John Kerry.

Rich Lowry sums up John Kerry’s character:
Whenever [Kerry] says, “I have personally always believed [fill in the blank],” it is likely: 1) he doesn’t believe it; 2) he either didn’t believe it at some time prior, or is about to stop believing in it.

From the Associated Press: L. Paul Bremer, the U.S. administrator in Iraq, said in a speech six months before the September 11, 2001 attacks that the Bush administration was “paying no attention” to terrorism.
“What they will do is stagger along until there’s a major incident and then suddenly say, ‘Oh my God, shouldn’t we be [...]

Slate has a PowerPoint presentation of John Kerry’s military record. I particularly like slides 5 thru 9.

When I was a kid, I read a lot of Communist propaganda. No, not because I loved commies, like liberals do. I read commie propaganda because it’s usually so zealous that it seems like highly entertaining satire.
With the Soviet Union gone, good commie propaganda is much harder to come by. But North Korea’s KCNA [...]

I really wish I had written this. The writer of this editorial gives excellent, detailed examples of just how much opinion is passed off as news today.
The stories we tell define the nation. Stories poorly told can destroy it…
Here’s a line from an Associated Press story about the president’s press conference last week. [...]

. . . wait until you see the job creation numbers over the next couple of months.
Lost amid today’s media gyrations over the President’s 9/11 testimony and the stellar, but inflationary, macroeconomic growth rate, was the news that initial claims for jobless benefits are falling like a stone.
So, layoffs are going down. And hiring [...]

GDP growth for the first quarter of 2004 was 4.2 percent. This is the first time since 1994 that the economy has grown by 4 percent or more for three consecutive quarters.
GDP growth over the last three quarters was 5.5 percent, the best in any nine-month period since 1984. GDP growth over the last four [...]

Much is being made over the decision of President Bush to testify in front of the 9/11 commission today along side VP Cheney. If the goal of the commission were to get a full and accurate accounting of the events leading up to 9/11, testimony by the President and VP together would certainly offer [...]

Doug Bandow, a former Reagan administration official, on the consequences of American foreign policy: Terrorism cannot be treated in isolation from American foreign policy. It’s not that Americans deserved to die, that the blame falls on U.S. policymakers instead of the killers who hijacked and crashed four planes. Rather, terrorism must be understood as an [...]

If it were determined that shortly prior to the U.S. invasion of Iraq, chemical WMD was transported from Iraq to Syria and later ended up in the hands of al Qaeda, who then attempted to bring it into Jordan for a 9/11 scale terrorist attack, most thinking people would determine that Saddam Hussein had, in [...]

Mickey Kaus looks at another question about Kerry’s anti-war protester days that has yet to be “put to bed.”

Some interesting tidbits from the county by county breakdown of PA primary results.
1-As expected Specter carried the Philadelphia region impresively, yet turnout was lower than expected. Possible reasons include: turn-off from negative campaigning, Specter fatigue, and as I wrote yesterday some of Specter’s Republican voters in the past have migrated to the Democratic Party. [...]

I just realized there are now well over 100 blogs participating in Wictory Wednesday! When I started it in September last year, I couldn’t even imagine the list growing this long. Now there are over a hundred bloggers who ask their readers to donate and/or volunteer for the Bush campaign every week.

If patriotism is defined as being proud of your country, Democrats are much less patriotic than Republicans:
Among Bush voters, 83% say that American society is generally fair and decent. Just 7% say it is basically unfair and discriminatory.
While Bush voters are united behind this perception, Kerry voters are divided–46% say fair and decent while 37% [...]