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Election 2010: A Pre-Game Report

After what seems like a decade’s worth of commercials, more talking head blather than should be allowed under the Geneva Conventions and spin enough to make even the most rabid rollercoaster fan nauseous, election 2010 is upon us. Any reading

National Security: The Morning After the Election

In the movie “The Candidate,” Robert Redford grabs his campaign manager on election night, pulls him into the closet and asks, “What now?” Whoever soon controls Congress will have to do better than that. On the national security front, there

Reforming Our Future

If current conditions hold through Tuesday, it is highly likely that Republicans will regain control of the House of Representatives, and quite possibly the Senate as well. The Democrats will leave behind a fiscal mess of gargantuan proportions. Under current

Bunker Mode: Pelosi Under Siege

[klaxon sounds] NANCY PELOSI: Red Alert! Damn! Get to your stations, people. Moving to DEFCON 1–imminent loss of the House. Steny–what’s happening? HOYER: [points to computer screen] Look here, Commander: concession rumors, rising in the blogosphere. We’re shooting them down

Left is Smearing Opposition to START

They failed to ram the hopelessly flawed New START treaty through the Senate this summer. Now the anti-nuke crowd has adopted a new strategy: misrepresent AND smear the opposition. Michael Krepon (below), for example, recently “argued” that those who raise

Missiles Off-Line Not An Argument for START

This week, fifty of our nuclear armed Minuteman missiles in Wyoming momentarily lost connectivity to one of the many command capsules at the F.E. Warren USAF base. The 1960’s computers in question got out of time-sharing sequence as they routinely

Murkowski Casts New Challengers as Dyslexiaphobic

Looking increasingly like the liberal Washington, DC politician critics so often accuse her of being, Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski invoked the state’s largest minority group… and dyslexics to cast a number of new challengers for the Alaska Senate seat as

AP: Write-ins Flood Alaska Senate Race List

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) – The number of write-in candidates for Alaska’s U.S. Senate seat has swelled to about 150 amid an effort by conservatives to target the write-in candidacy of GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski. The number by Thursday’s write-in deadline

Is the FAIR Tax a Political Liability?

In the past 15 years, I’ve debated in favor of a national sales tax, testified before Congress on the merits of a national sales tax, gone on TV to advocate for the national sales tax, and spoken with dozens of

I See Dead People and They Have Stimulus Checks

Senator Tom Coburn (R-O K) put out a report this morning titled “Federal Programs to Die for: American Tax Dollars Send Six Feet Under” showing rampant waste, fraud and abuse in government programs. This report has put together programs totalling

How Many Child Pornographers Has Barbara Boxer Employed?

If someone were to ask you how many now convicted child pornographers Senator Barbara Boxer has employed, what would your answer be? My answer would have been none, before beginning an investigation into media double standards, as a result of

Paul Supporter to Court, Gladney Still Seeks Justice

The AP certainly doesn’t seem to be wasting any time in making an incident at a Kentucky political event big news. Editor Dana Loesch recently posted on the incident here at Big Journalism. LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) – A Rand Paul