Susan Estrich: Al Gore for President?
Sunday, March 30, 2008
By Susan Estrich
 
 LOS ANGELES —  Al Gore?
Say it ain’t so, Joe.
Actually, Joe, as in Joe Klein, is the one who’s saying it is so, on the cover of last week’s Time magazine.
Are Democrats really in that much trouble? I don’t buy it.
Here is Klein’s scenario:
“Let’s say the elders [...]

CIA Director:
 Afghanistan-Pakistan Border
Is ‘Clear and Present Danger’
Sunday, March 30, 2008 
WASHINGTON —  The situation in the border region between Afghanistan and Pakistan where Al Qaeda has established a safe haven presents a “clear and present danger” to the West, the CIA director said Sunday.
Michael Hayden cited the belief by intelligence agencies that Usama bin Laden is hiding [...]

Uncertain economy awaits next president

By TOM RAUM, Associated Press Writer Sun Mar 30, 1:51 PM ET
WASHINGTON - Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack Obama and John McCain have diagnosed the swooning U.S. economy and have come up with rival plans to revive it. If the downturn lasts as long as some economists predict, one of the three [...]

Al-Sadr pulls fighters off streets

By KIM GAMEL, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 4 minutes ago
BAGHDAD - In a possible turning point in the recent upsurge in violence, Muqtada al-Sadr ordered his Shiite militiamen off the streets Sunday but called on the government to stop its raids against his followers.
The government welcomed the move, which followed [...]

The following “speech” was written recently by an
ordinary Maineiac [a resident of the People's Republic
of Maine ]. While satirical in nature, all satire must have
a basis in fact to be effective.  This is an excellent piece
by a person who does not write for a living.

The speech George W. Bush might give:

Normally, [...]

‘A Rank Falsehood’

By Charles Krauthammer
Friday, March 28, 2008; Page A19
Asked at a New Hampshire campaign stop about possibly staying in Iraq 50 years, John McCain interrupted — “Make it a hundred” — then offered a precise analogy to what he envisioned: “We’ve been in Japan for 60 years. We’ve been in South Korea for [...]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. personal income rose more than expected in February as the economy teetered on the brink of a recession, while both personal spending and a key price measure increased only slightly, a government report showed on Friday.
The Commerce Department reported that February personal income rose 0.5 percent, exceeding a forecast of a [...]

RNC Responds to DNC Smear of Senator McCain
digg_url = ‘http://blogsforvictory.com/2008/03/28/rnc-responds-to-dnc-smear-of-senator-mccain/’; digg_title = ‘RNC Responds to DNC Smear of Senator McCain’; digg_bodytext = ‘From the RNC: RNC Deputy Chairman Frank Donatelli released the following statement today: “It is beyond comprehension that Howard Dean would smear John McCain’s [...]

Let’s highlight that conflict between rep. Murtha and the Marine Corps spokesman because it highlights extremely important information.
If Gen. Hagee did indeed brief Rep. Murtha on May 24, 2006, that means that Rep. Murtha couldn’t make these accusations based on irrefutable facts; at least he couldn’t do that on May 17, 2006.
That brings us to [...]

Heritage Foundation:
FISA Foes Fudge the Facts
Friday, March 28, 2008
By Andrew M. Grossman

It seems pretty simple: The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is the law that U.S. intelligence experts use to sniff out foreign terrorists. Considering that it became law in 1978 — and that technology has evolved quite a bit in the ensuing three decades — [...]