Ron Paul Blames US Policy for Bhutto Killing  —  Ron Paul blames the assassination of Benazir Bhutto on the “interventionist” policy of the United States, and says Al Qaeda is justified in being “annoyed” at us.  (Click the picture for the video.)

Obama runs even with Clinton in two key states  —  A new Times/Bloomberg Poll finds them statistically tied in New Hampshire and in a three-way race with Edwards in Iowa.  GOP's Huckabee has a big lead in Iowa but trails Romney by a wide margin up north.  —  WASHINGTON — Barack Obama …

Iowa Saturated by Political Ads  —  DES MOINES — One week before Iowa kicks off the presidential nomination contest, the campaigns are spending three times as much money flooding the airwaves and the Internet as candidates did in 2004, hoping to sway the huge number of undecided voters after months of on-the-ground appeals.

Spider-Man, Spider-Man, does whatever a UNuch can't  —  This is a waste of a perfectly good ficticious super hero. … The UN has to resort to fiction to bolster its image because a book about the UN doing any good would by definition have to be a work of fiction.

Obama Adviser: Bhutto Assassination Reminds Us That Hillary Made Wrong Call On Iraq War  —  Okay, the battling among Dems over how the Bhutto assassination will affect the Dem primary is officially underway.  Today after Barack Obama's closing argument speech in Iowa, Obama adviser David …

Trouble With Trade  —  While the United States has long imported oil and other raw materials from the third world, we used to import manufactured goods mainly from other rich countries like Canada, European nations and Japan.  —  But recently we crossed an important watershed …

Priests brawl at Jesus' birthplace  —  BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) — Greek Orthodox and Armenian priests attacked each other with brooms and stones inside the Church of the Nativity as long-standing rivalries erupted in violence during holiday cleaning on Thursday.

YODA IS THE REASON FOR THE SEASON  —  Michelle Malkin reminds us of the reason for the season.  She also reminds us what it's like to have that acidic pukey taste in our mouths:  —  Nothing says “baby Jesus is the reason for the season” like a pagan tree decorated with Yoda and Pikachu ornaments.

Immigrant-rights groups critical of upcoming radio event  —  DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Immigrant-rights groups are criticizing the organizers of an upcoming radio event that will promote a crackdown on illegal immigration.  —  The groups accuse the Federation for American Immigration Reform of endorsing bigotry and racism.

Revisiting the Stupid Party  —  The nineteenth century English philosopher John Stuart Mill bequeathed to modern conservatism a lasting inferiority complex when he dismissed the conservatives of his day as “the stupid party."  No one likes to be called stupid, as we can all agree …

It's like the blind leading the really, really blind  —  Dr. Mrs. Ole Perfesser is discussin' Liberal Fascism with Jonah hisself: … SIGH:  —  1.)  When someone who complains about people throwing the term “fascists” around too freely then turns around and writes an entire book explicitly comparing …

Pakistan and the Candidates  —  Mike Huckabee, in his Foreign Affairs article once suggested that we might have to invade nuclear Islamist Pakistan.  On the death of Ms. Bhutto, his Carteresque gut reaction is now to apologize-but for what?  —  Barack Obama likewise once thought …