Not by me. A comparison between Barack Obama and former Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev is suggested by a blogger at Crooks and Liars, using this graphic to attack Obama’s decision to increase U.S. troop levels in Afghanistan.

The Soviets invaded Afghanistan to help prop up a Communist military regime as part of...

Congratulations Senior Citizens. Your self-appointed advocate, AARP, has intervened again in favor of Democratic health care restructuring proposals:

As the Senate prepares to vote on a controversial Medicare funding amendment to the $848...

Via the TaxProf, GOP Introduces Geithner Penalty Waiver Act:

Congressmen John Carter (R-TX) and Lynn Westmoreland (R-GA) yesterday introduced the Geithner Penalty Waiver Act, requiring that the IRS assess the same penalty against U.S. taxpayers that came forward in the UBS tax fraud investigation as paid by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner for...

From Mr. Privacy:

I have let my family down and I regret those transgressions with all of my heart. I have not been true to my values and the behavior my family deserves. I am not without faults and I am far short of perfect. I am dealing with my behavior and...

Some more thoughts on the Obama Afghanistan speech, the morning after.

I understood why Obama wanted to go to West Point to give the speech. It would show that he...

“A camel is a horse designed by a committee.” That’s the feeling I had listening to Obama’s speech tonight about his military designs for Afghanistan.

The speech followed pre-speech reports of Obama’s plan. There were no substantive surprises, but Obama seemed truly moved by the decision ahead of him. As he should...

Maurice Hinchey is the Congressman whose district includes Ithaca, NY, where I live during the school year. Hinchey is as “out there” as they come.

Hinchey led an effort to impeach George W. Bush in the Summer of 2008, when Bush was just a few months away from leaving office anyway. ...

Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs says he’s parting ways with the right because people who disagree with him are fascist, racist, homophobic, white supremacists. And he names names.

In fact, this is just another attention getting ploy to get back at people who have criticized Johnson. Go to The Other McCain...

Let’s review the past two days.

On Sunday, the Democratic health care restructuring proponents were trumpeting a report by an MIT economist claiming, based on a prior CBO scoring of Harry Reid’s bill, that private premiums in the non-group m...

Hondurans voted yesterday, and it appears that a rival of Manuel Zelaya has won. For those of you who regularly read this blog, you know of the struggle of Honduras not only against Zelaya and his primary backer, Hugo Chavez, but also against the Obama administration.

The Honduran election is a massive...

Best line of the weekend. Bill Kristol on Fox News Sunday, asked whether the White House party crashers should be prosecuted:

Yes, we should put them on trial in New York in a courtroom right next to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed

(My transcription from memory, until I can get a transcript)

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The list of potential GOP presidential candidates just narrowed. If reports are accurate, a convict to whom Mike Huckabee granted clemency is sought in the killing of four Seattle policemen.

This is Huck’s Willie Horton. Sure, there are differences. Horton committed rape while on weekend furlough granted by Mike Dukakis.

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I want to believe Tiger Woods’ statement that the rumors about his wife attacking him are false. Refusing to speak with the police, however, is not a good sign.

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Democrats have a thrill running up their legs because health care economist Jonathan Gruber of MIT has proclaimed that private insurance policies “in the non-group market” will cost $200-$500 less if Harry Reid’s plan becomes law.

The analysis is rudimentary.