How the GOP Can Reclaim the Hispanic Vote

In a PajamasMedia blog entry, Ruben Navarrette, Jr. shares his insight and advice on how we can retake the Hispanic vote, a demographic that will likely be represented by one in every four voters by 2042.
Republicans need to re-brand their party and convince Hispanics they’re welcome. If they believe their ideas on education, economics, defense, [...]

New York Times: Obama and Democrats To Bring Victory In Iraq

Thomas Friedman is losing it.
Witness his opinion piece in the New York Times today, wherein he attempts to salvage the Democrats nonexistent national security creds by claiming responsibility for victory in Iraq.  Yes, you read that right.  According to Friedman, the Democrats, the folks who put the D in defeat, are [...]

How Lavish Should the Coronation Be?

Last week, Michelle Malkin opined:
President Obama’s Chicago machine is kicking into high gear to plan and fund his massive, unprecedented inaugural festivities. … To deflect attention from the costs, the One’s party planners are patting themselves on the back for limiting inaugural donations to individual contributions of $50,000 — a move they say is historic. But Bill Clinton [...]

New for 2008: The 48 Month Presidential Campaign?

It looks as though the Republicans have decided that one “take-away” from the 2008 election is that we didn’t start campaigning early enough.  Within days of Barack Obama’s election, the soft campaigning had begun.  A book release full of choice quotes from one candidate, open letters to Congress and Detroit from others, high profile touring [...]

Terror In Mumbai: Possibly No Meaning at All

Very interesting postulation rom BBC News today:
…for all the horror of the Mumbai attack, there might have been much less to it than first met the eye, and a hasty and exaggerated response might have played more of a part, and given more meaning to the attack than it should.
Nobody appears to have heard of [...]

This Just In: George Bush Solves Global Warming

From Gateway Pundit today - 
Oogedy-Boogedy…
The oceans have been cooling since 2003.
Sea ice is growing at the fastest pace on record.
There are growing fears of a coming freeze worse than the ice age.
And, for the second straight year the Earth is, in fact, cooling… not warming.

This US Climate Map October 2007-November 2008 shows that temperatures are well below normal throughout the US this year.
But, the fact that global warming [...]

Good Advice for the GOP: Stop Embarrassing Black Republicans

In a very thoughtful opinion piece for the Washington Post, Sophia A. Nelson provides us Republicans of pallor some insight into our failings vis-a-vis appealing to black voters.
I can vouch that being a moderate black Republican isn’t easy. My black GOP colleagues and I endure endless ridicule and questioning from other African Americans, including close [...]

From the “Grossly Overpaid Professional Athlete” Files

New York Giant’s receiver Plaxico Burress shot himself in the thigh in a Lexington Avenue nightclub Saturday night.  It is unclear what the consequences, professional and possibly criminal, will be.  

Burress signed a five-year, $35 million contract with the Giants just before the season opener and, luckily for him, not long before firing a loaded weapon into [...]

US Military Kills Taliban Commander Attempting to Escape in Burqa

Via Gateway Pundit:
The Taliban leader tried to escape the scene in women’s clothing.

But, when he tried to kill US soldiers he was shot dead in his burqa. 
US troops today killed a Taliban Commander clad in a burqa in Afghanistan.
FOX News reported, via LGF:
Gunbattles and airstrikes by NATO and Afghan troops killed 53 militants in Afghanistan, including a [...]

George Bush Moves to Protect American Businesses From OSHA

The Bush Labor Department is working on a new rule to change how workplace risks to workers are measured and assessed by agencies such as OSHA (Occupation Safety and Health Administration) and MSHA (Mine Safety and Health Administration.)  
The text of the proposed rule has not been made public, but according to sources briefed on [...]