The military reports highlighted by WikiLeaks don’t provide a full picture of the war. July 28, 2010 By NOAH SHACHTMAN Echo company got into a gunfight last Aug. 25 in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. You’ll learn that by reading the report found in WikiLeaks’s database of Afghan war documents released on Sunday night. You’ll learn that, [...]

Why does the former Enron adviser write things that are flatly untrue? July 27, 2010 By JAMES TARANTO Former Enron adviser Paul Krugman delivers the good news that 2010 is “the year in which all hope of action to limit climate change died.” Needless to say, he thinks this is bad news, but that’s not [...]

Posted by Erick Erickson (Profile) Tuesday, July 27th at 5:00AM EDT A lot of the media and all of the Democrats seem to forget one simple fact about the Bush tax cuts: they were passed in response to a recession occurring as George W. Bush and Dick Cheney entered office. Moe Lane wrote an excellent [...]

Dick Morris and Eileen McGann Afghan Report Hits Obama Where It Hurts July 28, 2010 The leaked Afghan war documents will prove politically devastating to President Obama, hitting him in his most vulnerable place — his liberal base. Having already lost all Republicans and almost all independents, Obama is shedding Democrats these days. According to [...]

By Jonah Goldberg (Archive) · Wednesday, July 28, 2010 “The high standards and wise judgments of people like Walter Cronkite once acted as a national immune system, zapping scandal mongers and quashing wild rumors,” wrote former “green jobs czar” Van Jones in Sunday’s New York Times. This may be one of the most unintentionally hilarious [...]

Posted 07/27/2010 07:06 PM ET Immigration: Even with time running out, Democrats haven’t dropped the idea of ramming through illegal-immigrant amnesty to create more Democratic voters. Their new push shows an array of underhanded tactics to sneak that in. After passing major programs that most Americans don’t want — from a wasteful stimulus to a [...]

July 28, 2010 AFGHANISTAN STORIES:   RC-East, Bagram Media Center     Panjshir’s women plan for future  Story and photos by AF 1st Lt. Holly Hess   Army Spc. Allison Cherkosly, Panjshir PRT civil affairs member, assists Annisa Gul, District Development Assembly (DDA) for women’s affairs in the Paryan District, by holding paperwork while Gul [...]

President’s poll numbers slip as ‘same problems’ continue By Kara Rowland 9:02 p.m., Tuesday, July 27, 2010 The summer of the discontented voter steams onward and, unfortunately for President Obama, polls show voters are no longer blaming the bad times on the George W. Bush administration. Add Hispanics to the growing list of Obama supporters [...]

Explosion rocks vessel carrying 2.3 million barrels of crude near Oman July 28, 2010 msnbc.com staff and news service reports DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — An explosion damaged an oil tanker near the mouth of the Persian Gulf, Japan’s shipping company Mitsui O.S.K. Lines said Wednesday. The cause of the blast was “maybe an attack, [...]

Published July 27, 2010 Associated Press Senate Republicans blocked legislation imposing new restrictions on political activity by special interest groups Tuesday, likely dealing a fatal blow to a drive by the White House and congressional Democrats to rewrite campaign rules in the run-up to the midterm elections. The 57-41 vote was three short of the [...]