The AP (via My Way News reports that Bush said that they are constantly changing tactics, that Snow said that Bush will not change the “overall strategy” and: Bush, at a political fundraiser in Washington for the National Republican Senatorial Committee, railed against Democrats who criticize the war. Calling the Democrats the party of “cut and run,” Bush said voters need to ask: “Which political party has a strategy for victory in this war on terror?’” That...

The Washington Post has a good editorial up about the October Surprises: The October surprise: It’s as much a seasonal sure thing in Washington as cherry blossoms and the National Christmas Tree. When leaves fall and elections loom, the term gets tossed around more than a Manning family football. This October, too, is chockablock with shockers. Already “October surprise” has been applied to: several unflattering new books about the White House, an upwardly revised civilian casualty...

A lot of political revelations in the US last night. Bryan reports at Hot Air about a plan Kennedy seemed to have in 1983 to defeat Reagan during the US Presidential elections. Quote: There’s a new book on Ronald Reagan making the rounds, The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism. Its author, Paul Kengor, unearthed a sensational document from the Soviet archives. That document is a memo regarding an offer made by Sen. Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts via former Senator John Tunney,...

The AP reports that Joe Lieberman is expanding his lead on Ned Lamont and Alan Schlesinger. A poll released one month ago, gave Lieberman and 10-point lead. Today’s poll gives him a 17-point lead. Schlesinger: 6% Lamont: 35% Lieberman: 52% The debate between Lieberman and Lamont on Monday was their first since the August primary. Among those in the poll who watched the debate or read or heard about it, only 3 percent said it changed their minds. “Ned Lamont needed to score a knockout...

For those who do not know: earlier this year the Court in Amsterdam ruled in favor of Ayaan’s neighbors – in appeal – when they stated that Ayaan’s presence in their appartment building was threatening their own (sense of) safety and that she, therefore, should move. As should be obvious, Ayaan was in a protection program from the Dutch government due to the serious death threats she received (one of them being put on Theo van Gogh’s body by his murderer, Mohammed Bouyeri)....

It’s not about the argument, it is about how controversially one can word one’s message.

I will not even comment on this. The top US general defended the leadership of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, saying it is inspired by God. “He leads in a way that the good Lord tells him is best for our country,” said Marine General Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

James Joyner published a post about a new RNC ad. Watch the ad yourself at Outside the Beltway. James compares this ad to the one from Johnsen attacking Goldwater: they share some remarkable similarities.

“I’m sooo sorry!” The AP (via Breitbart) reports that Kim Jong-Il has apologized to a Chinese envoy for North Korea’s nuclear test. North Korean leader Kim Jong Il expressed regret about his country’s nuclear test to a Chinese delegation and said Pyongyang would return to international nuclear talks if Washington backs off a campaign to financially isolate the country, a South Korean newspaper reported Friday. “If the U.S. makes a concession to some degree, we...

C.Stanley sent me the an e-mail with a link to this article joined by the words “Between this and Maliki forcing the release of the the Sadr’ist instigator yesterday, and the army’s admission that the Baghdad offensive isn’t working…. I really do think it’s all over. I’ve thought it probably was for some time, but I think we’ve now passed the very last point of no return. I tried to give Maliki the benefit of the doubt that it would take him a while...

I love Halloween. It is official. We have to introduce Halloween in the Netherlands as well. Yes, terrible, just terrible. There are not words enough in the English language to express my disgust for this. Therefore I will just look at the picture and say nothing…

An interesting DVD is for sale here, for those interested in the Jewish American heritage. UPDATE BY HOLLY IN CINCINNATI: And These Are Jews | a documentary by Ruth Goldman I saw a free showing of this film last night at HUC Cincinnati sponsored by the American Jewish Archives, JCC Cincinnati, Rockdale Temple, Wise Temple and the American Jewish Committee. A trip through the oral history of the German-Jewish community of Cincinnati and its interrelationship with both Eastern-European Jewish immigrants...

Kansas: do you really want this man to represent you? I missed this a couple of days ago, but comment ‘Rambie’ e-mailed a link to me to the story about it at the Washington Post. He – rightfully – wrote in the e-mail ‘It shows how “Sexual McCarthyism” to use InstaPundit’s term is indeed alive and well in American Politics, but not exclusively by the party he thinks is using it.’ From the editorial: IF YOU THOUGHT that fights over judicial nominations...

A must read editorial at The New York Times regarding the new law on military tribunals. I do not always (and that’s putting it mildly) agree with the editorials at the NYT, but this truly is a magnificent one. Once President Bush signed the new law on military tribunals, administration officials and Republican leaders in Congress wasted no time giving Americans a taste of the new order created by this unconstitutional act. Within hours, Justice Department lawyers notified the federal courts...

Providing facts to put a play in perspective. Great initiative and great approach by Judith Kesher.

Rush Limbaugh: “I am not at war with bloggers” – he just did not agree ‘with that Instapundit fellow‘ – Glenn Reynolds. Limbaugh also lists some bloggers he reads on a regular basis. Among them: AJ Strata and Ed Morrissey; two bloggers I greatly respect and enjoy reading as well.

‘River’ published a passionate and frustrated post at Baghdad Burning about the current situation in Iraq and more specifically the Lancet Study. It’s very difficult at this point to connect to the internet and try to read the articles written by so-called specialists and analysts and politicians. They write about and discuss Iraq as I might write about the Ivory Coast or Cambodia- with a detachment and lack of sentiment that- I suppose- is meant to be impartial. Hearing American...

Keith Olberman was on a roll last night. Crooks and Liars has the video up. Olberman – rightfully – attacked Bush for signing the torture law. As should be obvious to anyone who reads TMV at a regular basis, all of us at TMV greatly oppose this law. Those who are supporting it should be more than ashamed of themselves. The world is watching how America deals with terrorism, whether America is able to hold on to the principles it is founded on while fighting Islamists at the same time…...

The BBC reports that Charles Darwin’s works are being published online at Darwin Online (free of charge). The project run by Cambridge University has digitised some 50,000 pages of text and 40,000 images of original publications – all of it searchable. [...] “The idea is to make these important works as accessible as possible; some people can only get at Darwin that way,” said Dr John van Wyhe, the project’s director. Dr van Wyhe has spent the past four years searching...

Newsbusters has an excerpt and a video up of Stephanopoulos’s interview with Bush. There is quite some criticism coming from the Right regarding ABC’s ‘summary’ of what Bush said regarding Iraq-Vietnam: “Bush Accepts Iraq-Vietnam Comparison” reads the headline of the article about this at ABCNews. However, that is not what I found to be the most interesting part of it all. From the exchange: George Stephanopoulos: “You’ve used some pretty tough rhetoric....

Joe linked to an interesting article at Instapundit earlier today: Rush Limbaugh seems to be criticizing, if not Mr. Instapundit himself, than at least conservatives who have decided to sit the coming elections out. In the comment section of before mentioned thread started by Joe, Joe wrote the following: “I have LONG contended that if you look at the election results the GOP squeeked through because many independents gave Bush and the GOP the benefit of the doubt. You can’t just dismiss...

(image: Adbusters) The Washington Times reports that Karl Rove “yesterday confidently predicted that the Republican Party would hold the House and the Senate in next month’s elections, dismissing fallout from the sex scandal involving former Rep. Mark Foley.” At a luncheon with editors and reporters at The Washington Times, Mr. Rove — who is widely credited as the architect of the party’s historic 2002 midterm election gains — said Republicans are beginning to...

According to a Rasmussen poll published today, Rick Santorum is trailing Democratic challenger Bob Casey jr. by 13%, which is the same result as Rasmussen’s survey published on the tenth of this month. Where last time 50% supported Casey and 37% planned to vote for Santorum, the results are now 54% vs. 41%. More: When leaners are added, Casey leads by twelve, 55% to 43%. Leaners are those who don’t initially commit to voting for either candidate but express a preference when asked...

Believe it or not, it seems that workers can actually take care of themselves, that they do not need legislation to ‘protect’ them against, well, everything and – incredible enough – not even the backing of a union. H/t ‘Interested’

According to a Congressional investigation that has been made public today “Randy Cunningham pressured and intimidated staff members of the House Intelligence Committee to help steer more than $70 million in classified federal business to favored military contractors.” The inquiry also found that despite numerous “red flagsâ€? about the propriety of a particular contract for work on a controversial Pentagon counterintelligence program, committee staff members for three years...