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Drudge’s link to this story says “STANDING OVATION FOR RUMSFELD IN D.C”. However, I was unable to find a reference to a standing ovation for Rumsfeld anywhere in the Reuters story by Cate Hescox. What I did find were these quotes:
Bush, who avoided combat in Vietnam while serving as a pilot in the [...]

The silliest thing I have heard lately is the claim that Bush is actually following Kerry’s Iraq policy now. Nancy Pelosi made it yesterday on Meet the Press (just after rationalizing her venomous rhetoric against a sitting President during war by accusing Bush 43 of saying nasty things about his father’s 1991 actions in [...]

William Safire gives readers a rundown of the rudimentary formation of an Iraqi government, then ends with the reality of the situation:
The purpose of all this jockeying is to form an organization capable of holding an election in a country beset by Saddam loyalists and terrorists determined to block that election. This will take Iraqi [...]

Read this entire column by Mark Steyn because he is brilliant, and in this Memorial Day piece he is even more brilliant than usual. In case you don’t believe me, here is an excerpt:
More than 600,000 Americans died in the Civil War — or about 1.8 percent of the population. Today, if 1.8 percent [...]

In a brilliant piece at opinionjournal.com, P.J.O’Rourke (in his uniquely humorous way) imagines how the world might look if America did as the anti-war protestors, France and many others suggest and just recused ourselves from our international responsibilities and commitments. Don’t miss the last paragraph where O’Rourke reminds us how this country we are [...]

Friday night on Dennis Miller’s show on CNBC, Gary Sinise appeared to promote Operation Iraqi Children. He brought some of the many pictures he has that he says show the good news that is happening everyday in Iraq. He has been there two or three times, and he was in some of the pictures. [...]

Kathryn Jean Lopez at NRO’s The Corner posted a link to this picture and comments:
There’s something remarkably American about one scene in particular at the dedication of the WWII Memorial today. Right after the ceremony, George W. Bush was chatting with Bill Clinton and his dad. Clinton must have said something silly or sarcastic. Suddenly [...]

This is not a bad idea.

Check out this excellent ad at Junkyard Blog (I was clapping at the end) using the latest Al Gore speech. I would love to see an ad like this on television. Excerpts from Gore’s “meltdown” last week are run after showing earlier quotes from Gore about the danger posed by Saddam Hussein and [...]

I was joking earlier today in the comments section of one of the threads below about Kerry using any issue whatsoever to bring up his Vietnam service. I wasn’t terribly far from the truth; and it seems that even the NYT has noticed. Real heroes don’t talk about their heroism at all, much [...]

Chris Matthews has made quite a few comments over the past 6 months or so about how incredible it is that polls show many Americans believing there was some connection between Saddam and al Qaeda or even Saddam and 9/11. He has even had a few guests on that have presented evidence that some [...]

In this American Spectator article , crushkerry.com founder, Patrick Hynes, argues that although Bush has been successful in painting Kerry as a waffler, it doesn’t really hurt him much with voters. I have thought about this a lot lately because so many of the Kerry jokes I hear on Leno and elsewhere sound exactly [...]

Over the past month, both Republicans and Democrats have had occasion to read columns of dismay and woe, based on the polls numbers and their siren song of imminent disaster. While I have found polls to be interesting, I am well aware of their inability to do anything more than provide a signal for [...]

Kate O’Beirne makes an excellent point at National Review about how much attention the media pays to the “villains and victims” and how little to the heroes of Iraq and Afghanistan. (The Boston Herald editorial linked to below makes the same point about the Gore speech.) Read the entire O’Beirne piece to learn about [...]

Instapundit has a great sampling of reactions to the Gore speech. The following quote from the Boston Herald is posted there:
He never mentioned Nicholas Berg. Or Daniel Pearl. Or a single person killed in the World Trade Center. Nor did former Vice President Al Gore talk of any soldier by name who has given his [...]