Bob Dole kicks, and the rice in Kerry's ass aches.

AAAAAIIIIIEEEEE!!!!!!! Say it isn't so, Ernie!

Hat tip to Instapundit

Here's an account of a memorable period during Kerry's service in the Senate

Meet Zack Exley, the Kerry campaign's director of online communications and organizing, courtesy of Swimming through the Spin: I don't practice what I preach because I not the kind of man I preaching to...

Vast conspiracy, but not the direction that the "main stream media" would have you believe The American Thinker: Why couldn't the MoveOn.org founders stuck with flying toaster screen savers?

I think that the controversy over Kerry's medals is the weakest part of the accusations against him. Witnesses have different recollections as one would expect. Again, take the example of an auto accident where reports from the cars in the accident may differ, and may be refuted or substantiated by third party witnesses. Certainly an adrenalin-fueled combat episode obscured by more than thirty years of time would be just as hard to pin down to the absolute truth. This is especially true when some of the witnesses are no longer with us. NewsMax.com: deceased Kerry crewmate Tom Bellodeau claims to have shot VC with B-40 launcher

While we're waiting for Kerry's secret plan to win the war, we can read about his secret record in the Senate. Sort of like those secret missions to Cambodia that none of his shipmates corroborate.

This is the most complete, best referenced indictment of UN, French and Russian complicity in Saddam's corrupt "oil for food" program that I have found to date. Well worth reading, and wondering about whether the reputations of those people and agencies who were co-conspirators in this scandal can ever be repaired, or if they and perhaps the UN itself must go. Erik Svane on "The Peace Camp's Humanitarian Scam"

Who handles pressure better?

The Democrats criticize the President for sitting in a class full of children for 7 minutes before leaving the FL school on 9/11.

The Democratic nominee has still not dealt with the charges made by the Swift Boat Vets directly by forthrightly answering their charges directly, point by point, including copies of his diaries and medical records, and calling for the Navy to release all contemporaneous orders, after action reports, river conditions (the winter months in Vietnam are the dry season during which the canals and rivers are at their lowest) and the corresponding orders to the Swift Boat crews on how to operate their boats on rivers that are narrower--and shallower--than may be safe to take a 35 foot boat with a 4 foot draft into enemy territory. He should call on the CIA, the Navy (on behalf of the SEALS) and the Army (on behalf of the Green Berets) to declassify any missions to Cambodia that were supported by Swift Boats during his time in service.

He should also call for the release of his attendance records in the Senate Intelligence Committee for both public and private sessions, and deal with those charges directly. He should have a news conference as the President did on his National Guard record after releasing all this material to the press for review.

Until he does so, the charges leveled by his critics will continue to have traction. The Carville-Lanny Davis tactic of attacking his critics rather than responding to their charges will not work in my opinion.

Just as I believe that the American people may not like George Bush in some cases, the one clear impression that they have at this point is that the President has responded to some of the most intense scrutiny ever by the press, pro-opposition forces not formally associated with a particular party (Soros, MoveOn.org, Michael Moore, Hollywood celebs, etc.) and that he has released, under pressure from these forces in some cases, more material that Kerry. The thoughtful voters among them should compare that standard to the standard Kerry is held to, and expect it from the press if the press is to remain credible. Even if voters have no idea how to analyze and compare the qualifications of applicants for the job of a CEO of a company, they should realize that they owe it to themselves to apply the same level of scrutiny to both applicants to determine the best qualified candidate. “Buyers remorse” after a Presidential election is difficult to handle for what will be a four year period full of challenges from Al Qaeda, Iran, North Korea, China and our allies in name only, France and Germany, to name two, not to mention the economy, immigration, health care, the morality issues (abortion, gay marriage, etc.), and a host of other issues we don't know will exist yet.

I ask again, who handles pressure better, a President who has been tested in almost every conceivable way, or the aspirant to the office who cannot address questions raised by critics head on, despite his promise to "turn his boat" towards his attackers.

More trouble for this guy from someone who was there.

Kerry and his handlers better hope that others in positions to know the names of individuals and/or units that were sent into Cambodia from the CIA, the SEALS, and the Green Berets--and when if at all in 1968-69--are dead or are very loyal Democrats.

This one isn't as spot on, in my opinion.

In a season that has been a failure by any measure, it is bittersweet to see the ancient Mariner announce that this will be his last Edgar hangs 'em up

No better friend, no worse enemy, indeed United Press International: An American in Sparta

In politics, nothing is more interesting than the Kerry Cambodiagate scandal. It may take him down, if the main stream media ask the questions any business manager would of an applicant who may have engaged in "resume inflation", depending upon what the meaning of "in Cambodia" is...

Yep, he'll have the full respect of the military and every living vet--just ask them. A word of advice, Flipper: don't impose on them to pose for pictures when they support the other guy New York Post Online Edition: news

Sounds like the Canadians have a hand on this immigration "issue"Toronto Sun: NEWS - Baring all for Canada

A slightly different report on Saddam's first day in court Rock Paper Saddam

As our local baseball broadcaster would say, "My, oh my!"

It appears that one of the main cornerstones for the enviro-wacko claims for global warming is wrong. The data have been fudged.

"'Corrections to the Mann et al (1998) Proxy Data Base and Northern Hemisphere Average Temperature Series' Energy and Environment 14(6) 751-772.
Abstract: The data set of proxies of past climate used in Mann, Bradley and Hughes (1998, “MBH98” hereafter) for the estimation of temperaturefrom 1400 to 1980 contains collation errors, unjustifiable truncation or extrapolation of source data, obsolete data, geographical location errors, incorrect calculation of principal components and other quality control defects. We detail these errors and defects. We then apply MBH98 methodology to the construction of a Northern Hemisphere average temperature index for the 1400-1980 period, using corrected and updated source data. The major finding is that the values in the early 15th century exceed any values in the 20th century. The particular “hockey stick” shape derived in the MBH98 proxconstruction a temperauret index that decreases slightly between the early 15th century andearly 20th century and then increases dramatically up to 1980 -- is primarily an artefact of poor data handling, obsolete data and incorrect calculation of principal components."

Good grief! More proof that President Bush told the truth. Hopefully, not too late for the electorate to realize that they have the real deal in the White House now.

No, nope. Iraq had no WMD; no Sarin-filled shells (found by Polish soldiers), and certainly no nuclear material Defense Tech: IRAQI URANIUM NOW IN U.S. LABS

Well said by one who was there StrategyPage.com - Measure of respect- ?No One Asked Us

One of the first accounts of Iraqi reactions at the time of the handover of sovereignty on 6/28, including words that Mr. Bremer said in Arabic as his farewell to the nation IRAQ THE MODEL