The Debate Over Troop Levels Will Rage

If Hillary Can't Win The Nomination - And It's Clearly Very, Very Hard For Her - She's Basically A Stalking Horse For Mccain. She's Preparing The Demographic Ground For Mccain, By Getting White Working-class Democrats Used To (if You Will) Not Voting For Obama.

Peter Beinart Excoriates The Doughface Liberals Who During The Cold War Put Anti-imperialism Before Anti-totalitarianism And Demanded Total Moral Purity On The Part Of The United States, Thus Opposing Any Action In The Real World To Resist Soviet Expansionism. If The Democrats Were, As He Advocates, To Return To The Trumanesque Anti-totalitarian Liberalism That Held Sway In The Party From Roughly 1947 To 1972, The Party And The Country Would Be Better Off.

What (the Arizona Immigration Law) Is Likely To Mean Effectively Is That If In The Course Of A Traffic Stop, A Cop Asks You For A Driver's License, And You Don't Have One, And He Asks You For Other Identification, And You Have None, And He Calls Ice And They Have No Record Of You As A Legal Immigrant, You're In Trouble. This Is Near-fascism?

The Horn Of Dilemma Of Energy Politics Is What Really Drives Concern About This Energy In This Country, At The Gut Level For Most People, Is High Gas Prices. And If You Really Want To Fight Global Warming And Try To Reduce Our Carbon Emissions, The Cleanest, Easiest, Most Rational Way To Do It Would To Make The Price Of Gas Even Higher Through Very Stiff Gas Prices.

America Roused To A Righteous Anger Has Always Been A Force For Good. States That Have Been Supporting If Not Osama Bin Laden, People Like Him Need To Feel Pain. If We Flatten Part Of Damascus Or Tehran Or Whatever It Takes, That Is Part Of The Solution.