The Fight for Ramadi

From Times Online comes a story about the fight for Ramadi. I don't know if we'll see this in the national media. Maybe we'll see more positive spin with the democrats in Congress. I don't know on this one.

The Run-Down on Paris Hilton

So I was browsing online, and I happened upon this post from cityrag, where Tina Fey bags on Paris Hilton while on the Howard Stern's show.

Which took me to this post which pretty much runs down Paris Hilton's flaws. My favorites are "Paris Hilton looks like an Emu" and "Paris Hilton is a prissy bird".

I love the interent.

Via Treacher.

John Kerry gets funny.

Cracked has the scoop.

Via Treacher.

The next war in Lebanon

Is coming pretty soon, according to Michael Totten.

Hat tip Instapundit.

Going forward in Iraq

Check out this article from the Weekly Standard's Bill Stuntz.

War is not poker; the stakes in Iraq are much higher than a little money or a few chips. But war's psychology bears some resemblance to a well-played game of cards. The only way Americans lose this war is to fold. That seems likely to be the next move, but it is the last thing we should do. Far better to call and raise. Our cards are better than theirs, if only we have the nerve to play them.

Hat tip Instapundit.

The national political races

A couple of weeks ago the buzz in the news was the democratic tsunami that was going to retake Congress.

Now, there seemed to have been some tightening of the leads.

Tom Elia of The New Editor seems to think the republicans will retain control.

Link to poll courtesy of The New Editor.

No Nukes!! Attack Iraq, No?

So the Iraqis had a nuke program? And they were going to reconstitute it? No way!

I'm shocked, shocked....

Hitchens on Kerry

Oh, you know what I'm talking about!

On Wednesday evening, on Hugh Hewitt's high-octane radio show, I accepted his challenge and gave out my private email. I had said that my emails from soldiers in Iraq were generally relaxed about the Kerry flap: He wanted me to hear different.

I have since had the chance to read about 500 or 600 messages. Almost all of them politely phrased (I exempt one from "the Riordan family" who evidently have not forgiven the long history of British depredation in Ireland) and almost all of them appending the list of college degrees as well as of medals and citations held, these letters show a very deep and interesting rift in which Mr. Kerry plays only a secondary part. Many of my respondents agreed that his words may not have meant or intended quite what they first seemed to mean, but they also felt that the klutziness was Freudian, so to speak, in that the senator's patrician contempt for grunts and dogfaces was bound to come out sooner or later.

One thing I already knew is confirmed--there is a very great deal of class resentment in these United States. Another thing I wasn't so sure of is also confirmed--James Webb in Virginia is right to stress the huge rage felt by those of Scots-Irish provenance who feel that they have born the heat and burden of the day in America's wars, and been rewarded with disdain.

Check our the whole thing. If just for the reference to Kerry as "the fresh prince of Massachussettes".

Edited to add hat-tip to The New Editor.

This is what Victory in Iraq looks like

Right here. We did what we said we would do: Remove Saddam Hussein from power, and change the regime.

I think alot of talking heads are missing that part of the story.

Kid Rock loves America

Mary Katherine Ham told me, so it has to be true.

Right-wing nutjobs respond to Kerry

These guys are definitely wingnutters.

Via Instapundit

You don't say?

Kerry steps on his crank. I'm shocked, I tell you, shocked at how the rightwingers are twisting his nuanced words:

"You know, education, if you make the most of it, if you study hard and you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, uh, you, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq."