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Attended a great tea party today on the shores of Lake Michigan in Milwaukee. It was a sunny and almost crisp afternoon and 10,000 American Patriots came to Veteran's Park on the lakefront. Among the speakers were our County Executive Scott Walker - running for governor; James T. Harris - who became a liberal target for telling John McCain to fight harder against the One; David Clark - our County Sheriff, a powerfully tall black man who resembles but is more handsome than Samuel Fishburne (he also spoke very non-partisanly and anti-tax); Joe the Plumber - an impressively articulate young...

How We Decisively WON in Iraq in 2008 One of the boldest predictions ever made on The Futurist was back in May 2006, when I made a detailed case for why victory in Iraq would arrive precisely in 2008, not sooner or later. There was also a half-time update in September 2007 to the initial May 2006 prediction over here. This was an unusually bold prediction to make, given the state of Iraq in May 2006, which was before the Surge was even discussed. So now, in 2008, I am happy to declare that the United States has WON in...

So crowed a couple thousand can't get in. They expected 8000. Standing next to Demcrat who will be voting McCain-Palin. Enthusiasm is high.

South Koreans Have Had Enough Engagement The South Koreans have pressed for engagement with North Korea and the Kim Jong-Il regime for decades. They have protested against the American military presence in their nation and tried to appease their northern neighbor into playing nice on the peninsula. Kim's latest nuclear test appears to have finally demonstrated the folly of that approach. In less than a week, public opinion has shifted profoundly towards a hard-line policy and even arming the South with nuclear weapons: In less than a week since North Korea claimed to have tested a nuclear weapon, public opinion...

Al Qaeda has desicively lost the Iraqi battlefield. Overall 94 percent have an unfavorable view of al Qaeda, with 82 percent expressing a very unfavorable view. Of all organizations and individuals assessed in this poll, it received the most negative ratings. The Shias and Kurds show similarly intense levels of opposition, with 95 percent and 93 percent respectively saying they have very unfavorable views. The Sunnis are also quite negative, but with less intensity. Seventy-seven percent express an unfavorable view, but only 38 percent are very unfavorable. Twenty-three percent express a favorable view (5% very). Views of Osama bin Laden...

I saw this several months ago and the controversy about NSA surveillance relates to the communal anxiety we face in the war on terror. It will help if we can get this across to the sheep. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lt. Colonel Grossman, a far better man than me, a man who does things I only talk about, writes in his introduction to The Bulletproof Mind: One Vietnam veteran, an old retired colonel, once said this to me: "Most of the people in our society are sheep. They are kind, gentle, productive creatures who can only hurt one another by accident." This is...

Bryan Preston is founder of Junkyard Blog, where he has done excellent work on the New Orleans Bus Fiasco. He has exceeded his bandwidth limit and his blog is down, but he is still gathering info on local government failures in the hurricane aftermath. [UPDATE: Bryan will be guest-blogging here until Junkyard Blog comes back online.] Bryan sends along a transcript from a DoD press briefing about the meltdown of the New Orleans Police Department--an abject failure that the Left simply cannot pin on President Bush: GEN. BLUM: ...The real issue, particularly in New Orleans, is that no one anticipated...

Humana announces major expansion for Louisville ... Posted on July 5, 2005 Provided by: Louisville (June 30, 2005) - State and local leaders announced today that Louisville-based Humana Inc. has chosen its hometown for a major expansion that will create approximately 1,100 new jobs. The announcement came after the Kentucky Economic Development Finance Authority approved incentives for the project at its monthly meeting this morning in Frankfort. “Louisville is Humana’s home – as the company was established here and continues to experience significant and positive growth here. We are excited about what this tremendous expansion will mean to the economic...

Don't usually post vanities, but this Able Danger information has just jogged a memory of mine that has me spooked. My friend's daughter flew out of Logan on September 10th 2001, the evening before the World Trade Center Attacks. When we got together after the attacks she recounted that there had been unusal activity at that airporat that night. There seemed to be lots of police looking for something, she said. Also, she was on a project opening a new store and had a box cutter in her luggage. When she arrived home it was not there. She's a pretty...