The Marine audience at Camp Lejeune sit in wild, rapturous applause for President Barack Obama. (Photo by Gerry Broome / AP) Barack Obama's campaign pledge, as written on his campaign website: Obama will give his Secretary of Defense and military commanders a new mission in Iraq: ending the war. Geo...

"One must take a stand. One simply must" "You have no idea what it's like to be me." -Christopher Hitchens Graphic courtesy of the Blacksmiths of Lebanon blog Apparently, about a week ago in Beirut, Christopher Hitchens could not help but be who he is, and stand on principle: Seeing a sign from the ...

In a thread about something else entirely altogether, the discussion turned into one about McCain-blame and party purging. I thought I'd share my comments which I don't expect many movement conservatives to agree with; but I figure since this is my blog, I should narcissistically share with readers ...

Recently, Curt posted on the retarded politics of Alec Baldwin and Val Kilmer. It doesn't take political bloviating, however, to show just how dysfunctionally bizarre some of these people are. Last night, Joaquin Phoenix was on Letterman, trying to out-do Crispin Glover and Farrah Fawcett: Here's th...

With the worst person in the world, Keith Olbermann: Ok...the kid's 19 and in school......he's lucky he even has a job at McDonalds; what the hell does he expect at 19 from McDonald's? Uh...no, he is not "like an every guy". Jesus.... Conservatives have "Joe the Plumber"; liberals have "Julio the Mc...

President George W. Bush dances in front of the media while he awaits the arrival of presumptive Republican Party presidential nomimee John McCain and his wife Cindy on the North Portico of the White House in Washington, March 5, 2008.REUTERS/Jason Reed People dislike Bush for what he did. You guys ...

Reality-check may force Obama to turn to "the dark side"....

An Islamist insurgent holds his machine gun the stadium in Mogadishu, one of the bases vacated by Ethiopian troops January 14, 2009. Insurgents fired mortar bombs at Somalia's presidential palace on Wednesday, underlining fears of more bloodshed a day after Ethiopian troops supporting the government...

President George W. Bush delivers a speech to crew aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, as the carrier steamed toward San Diego, California on May 1, 2003.REUTERS/Larry Downing President Bush speaking at yesterday's final press conference: Clearly, putting a "mission accomplished" on a (...

President George W. Bush and first lady Laura Bush dance on the Presidential Seal at the Commander-in-Chief Inauguration Ball at the National Building Museum in Washington, January 20, 2005.REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque "The Policies of the Bush Administration 2001-2009," a collection of policy fact sheets...