Politics Blog

Arthur Chrenkoff has an invaluable round-up of the elections.

Is the North Korean regime disintegrating? Here’s 4 pages of argument that say it is.

If true, this is terrific news. I’ll miss those hilarious KCNA “news” dispatches, though.

This is an amazing story.

Talk about easy choices.

I have a friend who doesn’t follow politics, but she watches the news some. Yesterday she told me she hoped that Saddam Hussein’s jail cell had a television in it and that he was forced to watch the people of his country vote all day. If he had he would have listened to voters compare the bogus election he gave them to the one they just participated in, and he would have heard stories about family members that he had tortured and murdered, and he would have seen the joy and vitality the people of his country could have been enjoying for decades if not for him.

Freedom isn’t easy and it sure isn’t cheap, but it is worth the cost. Our troops and their families and the Iraqi people will continue to pay the price for some time to come, and unfortunately there will be more deaths at the hands of madmen. But yesterday was a big step toward a day when elections in Iraq are commonplace and polling places don’t have to be guarded like Fort Knox. It was a great day for the Iraqi people and a bad day for Saddam Hussein and the terrorists and no amount of spinning can change that fact.

Gateway Pundit captures the day in a poem.

Today, Social Security is strong. But by 2013, payroll taxes will no longer be sufficient to cover monthly payments. And by 2032, the trust fund will be exhausted,and Social Security will be unable to pay out the full benefits older Americans have been promised.

The best way to keep Social Security a rock-solid guarantee is not to make drastic cuts in benefits; not to raise payroll tax rates; and not to drain resources from Social Security in the name of saving it.

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Specifically, I propose that we commit 60 percent of the budget surplus for the next 15 years to Social Security, investing a small portion in the private sector just as any private or state government pension would do. This will earn a higher return and keep Social Security sound for 55 years.

– President . . . William Jefferson Clinton, January 19, 1999. (Emphasis added.)

As usual, Bill Roggio writes eloquently. This time about the Iraqi elections and the underwhelming succes of the bad guys in disrupting them.

Lifelike Pundits has a list of new reasons to “dis” Iraq. The last one is my favorite. While there, check out the site. (Warning: there are some goofy John Kerry pictures posted. And, yes, I know that most John Kerry pictures are goofy.)

Fox News reports that Hillary Clinton is hospitalized after collapsing during a speech. There are no details available at the time of this posting.

UPDATE: The report above was updated and corrected to say that Senator Clinton declined to go to the hospital and plans on keeping her scheduled speech planned for later today.

I remember hearing a report yesterday about an individual thought to have Down’s Syndrome being somehow related to one of the bombings in Iraq, but heard nothing else about it until Polipundit reader, Jill, emailed me the link to this story.