Over the past year, anecdotal evidence for a cooling planet has exploded. China has its coldest winter in 100 years. Baghdad sees its first snow in all recorded history. North America has the most snowcover in 50 years, with places like Wisconsin the highest since record-keeping began. Record levels of Antarctic sea ice, record cold [...]

Obama, Farrakhan, & Jeremiah Wright
There has been a lot of angry chatter on the Left side of the blogosphere today about Tim Russert’s badgering of Obama on Louis Farrakhan. Here’s the transcript,
MR. RUSSERT: Senator Obama, one of the things in a campaign is that you have to react to unexpected developments.On Sunday, the headline in [...]

Proper Messaging On Illegal Immigration For Republicans Running For Office
Last night, I was talking with a political operative I’m friends with about an illegal immigration ad the op’s candidate is developing.
Here’s the advice I gave them: Simply talking about amnesty or border security first doesn’t work because politicians lie so much about illegal immigration. Whether [...]

What a way to mark the 15th anniversary of the WTC bombing yesterday, huh? Via CQ Politics:
House Republicans tried again Tuesday to force a floor vote on Senate-passed legislation to overhaul the nation’s electronic surveillance law.
But Democrats stood fast, insisting that negotiations continue between the House and Senate on a compromise version of the legislation.
By [...]

Boehner to GOP lawmakers: Get off your “dead asses”
By Michelle Malkin  •  February 27, 2008 10:03 AM
Politico reports on the mess that is the House GOP:
House Minority Leader John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) challenged Republicans on Tuesday to get off their “dead asses” and start raising money for the National Republican Congressional Committee.
And the Republican leader wasn’t the [...]

REMBER, PORK PARTY at MURTHA’S 
Rep. John Murtha is hosting a gala dinner tonight at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Pentagon City for defense industry lobbyists who have received and who hope to receive millions of tax dollars via earmarks sponsored by the Pennsylvania Democrat.
Murtha is one of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s closest allies and one of [...]

Marines Call
New Body Armor
Heavy,  Impractical
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
By Jennifer Griffin

BAGHDAD, Iraq —  The Pentagon and Marine Corps authorized the purchase of 84,000 bulletproof vests in 2006 that not only are too heavy but are so impractical that some U.S. Marines are asking for their old vests back so they can remain agile enough to fight.
Marine Commandant Gen. [...]

Rice Seeks Japan’s Help in
Pressing North Korea
to Abandon Nuclear Weapons
Wednesday, February 27, 2008 
TOKYO —  Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, seeking Japanese help in pressing North Korea to abandon nuclear weapons, said Wednesday she hopes the alleged rape of a Japanese teenager by a Marine on Okinawa will not harm U.S.-Japan ties.
After ordering her top Asia hand [...]

Go Back to Black  
By K. A. DILDAY
Published: February 27, 2008
London
I’M black again. I was black in Mississippi in the 1970s but sometime in the 1980s I became African-American, with a brief pause at Afro-American. Someone, I think it was Jesse Jackson, in the days when he had that kind of clout, managed to convince America [...]

Senate Democrats Focus on Economic Cost of War
By DAVID HERSZENHORN
Published: February 27, 2008
WASHINGTON — Undeterred by President Bush and Senator John McCain proudly pointing to progress in Iraq, Congressional Democrats are trying to mount new lines of attack against the administration’s war policies.

In a shift from last year’s failed legislative efforts to force a reduction [...]