The Republican Party is holding their national meeting this winter. This is standard fare for both parties, and these meetings are generally taken up by electing and appointing various people, tweaking the platform in small ways, and generally being an excuse for party leaders to get together and schmooze each other once in awhile.
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Secretary of Defense Robert Gates just this past week announced the details of the Obama Administration’s Department of Defense budget. For once, it isn’t the size of the budget that has made a lot of waves, but instead the details of the budget. Gates and Obama want to radically restructure the military. [...]

Imagine that you’re a sociologist studying childhood conflict, and you want to know what kinds of parenting techniques are most likely to calm fighting children down and get them to play nice. So you set up an experiment. You put pairs of siblings in different rooms, and then when they start to fight [...]

I like Obama, don’t get me wrong. But there are two things in particular that just drive me nuts every time he utters them.

Given the date, I thought it would be a good day to go over the differences between the two presidential candidates when it comes to The War on Terror. (If you were hoping that I’d discuss whether or not Senator Obama believes that Governor Palin is a barnyard animal, I’m sorry to disappoint.) [...]

I’ve said it before, but it bears repeating as the Democrats gear up for Foreign Policy Day at their convention: the Iraq War was a bad idea for reasons that have absolutely nothing to do with WMDs.

Right now, the United States is an active participant in two civil wars: Iraq and Afghanistan.

I apologize for not posting much lately. I’m in the middle of what will be a crazy couple of weeks here, so I might be writing much more sporadically on leftfielder than I normally do. I ask for your patience, and I promise I’ll be back to normal by mid-June.
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The conservative punditry has been going after Obama pretty hard lately for not visiting Iraq since the surge began. “How can he know what’s really happening?” they ask. McCain has been leading the chorus, as yet another way of implying that Obama is so young and inexperienced that he doesn’t know up from [...]

From a McCain Speech that he is expected to give today, as quoted by the New York Times:
“By January 2013, America has welcomed home most of the servicemen and women who have sacrificed terribly so that America might be secure in her freedom,’’ Mr. McCain is to say, according to excerpts of his speech provided [...]