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Dear Friend, In this video commentary, I discuss how Obama’s tax proposals are more than deficit reduction solutions. They are the opening rounds in his re-election strategy of class warfare. But it will backfire massively!

At the rate Barack Obama is going, his lack of qualification to serve as commander in chief of the U.S. armed forces will be painfully obvious long before November. The man has far too few carefully considered opinions and far too many shoot-from-the-hip-and-hope-it-sounds-good opinions. Unfortunately, that weakness seems to be shared by the advisors with whom Obama has surrounded himself. Obama's latest pronouncements on Iraq are a good example of the problem. From James Taranto at WSJ's Best of the Web (emphasis added): Cut and Run and Then Run Back With Hillary Clinton being written off (perhaps prematurely), the eight-month...

WASHINGTON - House Democrats have decided to quit emphasizing that they will not negotiate changes to Social Security until President Bush drops his idea for private accounts. The switch in strategy comes after Democrats learned from focus groups that people frown on the lawmakers for being obstinate. "People feel like it doesn't show a good-faith effort," said a top House aide, who like several others spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the internal data. "It makes us seem like we're 'typical politicians."' The shift in tactics comes with Democrats and Republicans unsure what will happen...

Heard a radio appeal by mayor Kwame Kilpatrick urging citizens to vote. He said that even if you have been convicted of a felony, you can vote as long as you are not in prison. Weird message. Can this be legal? They are hoping to match Saddam's 100% of the vote in Wayne County to counter the 99% Republican rest of our great Great Lake state.

I am looking for an online strategy game to play. I am not talking about some corny Dungeons & Dragons affair. Something that halfway resembles real situations. Any ideas?