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« To Protect and To Serve (the Political Power Structure) | Main | Guest Bloggers Sought » November 14, 2005Today's Reading ListThe War: Glenn Reynolds rounds up lots of links to reviews of Jarhead, a movie about the first war with Iraq in the early 1990s, which Hollywood tried to turn into a blockbuster anti-war critique of the current Iraq war. It's getting dismal word-of-mouth. This marine calls Jarhead vicious and dishonest. ... Iran believes it can win a military clash with the United States. That's a big problem given that the evidence is mounting that Iran is developing nuclear weapons. ... Meanwhile, the Bush administration is rightly pushing back against the duplicitous "Bush lied us into the Iraq war" falsehood spread by the Democrats. Multiple links via Instapundit here, here, and especially here and here. Also, Ed Morrissey takes a look at the "Bush Lied!" lie. Contrary to assertions constantly heard from congressional liberals like Rep. Charles Rangel, D-NY, and mainstream media editorials, a comprehensive statistical analysis of 1999 and 2003 recruits demonstrates not only that the U.S. military is remarkably representative of America, but the proportion of recruits from America's most affluent neighborhoods increased dramatically after the 9/11 attacks.You can read the whole study here. It's by Heritage Foundation economist Tim Kane, whose work I have blogged about before. Politics: Bob Krumm offers Democrats "a sure-fire, absolutely guaranteed way to win the Presidency in 2008." It has the advantage of also being good for America. ... Matt White questions Tennessee Gov. Bredesen's commitment to taking the politics out of promotions in the Tennessee Highway Patrol - where, according to a Tennessean story Sunday, dozens of less-qualified officers got promotions after making donations to Bredesen's campaign. ... The Nashville City Paper reports that a $200 million surplus in revenue from the Tennessee lottery has some people thinking its time to increase the size of the college scholarships the lottery funds, while others defend letting the money sit in the bank, unspent, and others say it should go to other things than college scholarships. This is one issue where I find myself in agreement with the liberal Democrat state Sen. Steve Cohen of Memphis, and in disagreement with the governor and with state Rep. Beth Harwell, a moderate Republican from Nashville - not using the money for fully-funding college scholarships is a breach of faith with the voters who voted for the lottery under the impression that it was for that purpose. I've agreed with Cohen before. ... Cohen is the Democrat in the state Senate who I'd most like to see start a blog. If he asked for my help to start a blog, I'd be happy to say yes, and even provide him a free blog site at VolPols.com. ... Thanks to Adam Groves, you can track the 2006 Senate race in Tennessee - blogs, polls and MSM - here. This will be invaluable as the campaign progresses. Posted in Today's Reading List
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Bill, thanks for the plug. Hope you're feeling better. Thanks again. Posted by: Adam Groves at November 14, 2005 8:38 AMState Sen. Steve Cohen would make a good blogger. He has been an opponent on immigration-related bills we support, but I've thanked him for taking courageous, lonely (very lonely, Roy-Orbison-only-the-lonely, as in the only one sometimes) stands on issues on which he and I are simpatico. He has a conscience and the courage of his convictions, but then so do we. Donna Locke Thanks for posting on the Heritage Foundation Paper on Military recruiting demographics. I've been looking for exactly this to debunk the myths that some people I know insist is true. Posted by: Toni at November 14, 2005 11:21 AMPost a comment
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