Speaks for itself.
One of the Senate’s top Republicans has called on President Bush to start bringing U.S. troops home from Iraq by Christmas, telling reporters Thursday that a pullout was needed to spur Iraqi leaders to action.
Sen. John Warner, the influential former chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said he has recommended that [...]

I guess that they take care of their own.
Florida’s top police agency said Wednesday its investigation into former U.S. Rep. Mark Foley’s lurid Internet communications with teenage boys has been hindered because neither Foley nor the House will let investigators examine his congressional computers.
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement says it hopes to conclude its [...]

This is Guss’ and my great-aunt. She was also a surrogate mother to us, hence we called her Mama-Auntie.
She was kind but very strict. In this photo you see her sitting on the front deck of her basket shop making a shopping basket.
From the looks of the shawl around her I would think [...]

I’ve been stressed out all week because my favorite dog has been sick and we don’t know why.
She is a cancer survivor and when she began to vomit for no apparent reason the doctors and we were quite concerned.
She’s been in the hospital since Monday.
Yesterday she had exploratory surgery and no cancer or blockages were [...]

What an interesting take on our two party system at The Evangelical Outpost.
United by Our Differences:Electoral Politics in an Age of Choice
Almost everywhere I go I am faced with vast array of options: I can choose between 180 channels on my television, 170 stations on my satellite radio, 10,000 books at my local bookstore, [...]

May be we’ll have mini protests.
A day after George Bush compared the potential consequences of exiting Iraq to the aftermath of the Vietnam conflict, US intelligence will today warn that extremists could create a “mini-Tet” in the country, an official revealed.
The defence official said the national intelligence assessment, due to be released later today, [...]

I love a good family fight.
                                                                         Guess who?
                                                                     
If President Bush is serious about getting tough on U.S. employers who hire illegal aliens, he can start with his own administration, which employs thousands of unauthorized workers, says the top Republican on the House immigration subcommittee.
A 2006 audit showed federal, state and local governments are among [...]

Chicago Sun-Times reporter Jennifer wrote a piece about Michelle Obama on the campaign trail and quoted her as saying:
At another stop, in Atlantic, Michelle said she travels with her husband in part “to model what it means to have family values,” adding “if you can’t run your own house, you can’t run the White House.” [...]

I love football and I can never wait for the preseason to start in August. If anything will turn me against the NFL it will be if they let Vick play again.
An NAACP leader said Michael Vick should be allowed to return to the NFL, preferably the Atlanta Falcons, after serving his sentence for [...]

I don’t know about you but I think what he is doing is just fine but I do think he is going from one extreme to the other.
A year ago, in the middle of the nation’s most bitterly fought union organizing drive of the past decade, management at the Smithfield Foods pork slaughterhouse in Tar [...]

My heart goes out to the families of the missing miners.
The Utah coal mine where three rescuers were killed and six men remained trapped will cease operations when the flagging effort to locate the missing is finally called off, mine operator Robert E. Murray said Wednesday. The statement by the combative chief executive of Murray [...]

Congratulations, let’s throw a party.
Texas, which leads the nation in carrying out the death penalty, on Wednesday executed the 400th person since the state resumed capital punishment in 1982.
Johnny Ray Conner, 32, who was convicted in the shooting death of a convenience store owner in Houston in 1998, was the 21st man put to death [...]

What’s new?
Failure to end the Iraq war has so divided Democrats it could jeopardize their chances of consolidating power in U.S. elections in November 2008, analysts said.
Nearly a year since the party parlayed discontent over the unpopular war into a majority in Congress, liberal Democrats, prodded by influential Internet bloggers, are pressing harder than ever [...]

Speaks for itself.
U.S. troops in Iraq will receive at least 1,000 fewer special armored vehicles than expected this year due to the amount of time needed for shipment, the Pentagon said on Wednesday.
Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell said the Defense Department expected defense contractors to produce 3,900 Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles this year. [...]

Speaks for itself.
Al Qaeda fighters kidnapped 15 Iraqi women and children after rival Sunni Arab militants repelled their attack on two villages in a fierce battle on Thursday in which 32 people were killed, police said.
The fighting, rare on such a large scale, underscored the growing split between Sunni Arab militant groups and al Qaeda [...]

Speaks for itself.
The American withdrawal from Vietnam is widely remembered as an ignominious end to a misguided war — but one with few negative repercussions for the United States and its allies.
Now, in urging Americans to stay the course in Iraq, President Bush is challenging that historical memory.
In reminding Americans that the pullout in [...]

It’s like they are making up the rules as they go.
The Bush administration argued in court papers this week that the White House Office of Administration is not subject to the Freedom of Information Act as part of its effort to fend off a civil lawsuit seeking the release of internal documents about a large [...]

Do Republicans have a counting problem? At the rate he’s going, Tom Cole, chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, might wind up a dollar short and a month late come Election Day.
Cole (Okla.) this week e-mailed a fundraising letter, laden with exclamation points, to GOP supporters asking them to join the NRCC’s “Campaign for [...]

Speaks for itself.
Democrats Wednesday strongly rejected President Bush’s comparison of the Vietnam War to the conflict in Iraq, saying that drawing parallels is inaccurate and irresponsible.
Bush, in a speech to the annual convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, used the example of the Vietnam War to show the possible consequences of withdrawing troops from [...]

The Pentagon will fall far short of its goal of sending 3,500 lifesaving armored vehicles to Iraq by the end of the year. Instead, officials expect to send about 1,500.
Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell said Wednesday that while defense officials still believe contractors will build about 3,900 of the mine-resistant, armor-protected vehicles by year’s end, [...]

Speaks for itself.
According to the Evans-Novak Political Report, former House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) will be resigning from Congress in November, instead of retiring at the end of his term. If true, this could have significant ramifications in determining his successor.
A shortened special election campaign would likely benefit the candidates with the highest name recognition [...]