Only dozens showed up to hear Tea Party darlings Michele Bachmann and S.C. Governor Nikki Haley speak at a rally in Columbia, SC. While the media tries to talk up the significance of the Tea Party, the showings at recent rallies have told another story. Yesterday was a prime example of this, as the Taxed […]
The biggest failure with the Iraq War has been the total lack of planning. The people who laid out good plans lost their jobs, and instead the administration has decided to wing the entire thing. That deadly mentality is continuing: The administration lacks an updated and comprehensive Iraq strategy to move beyond the “surge” of […]
Time again to see how the surge is going in Iraq. This has become a monthly series for me, and a chart makes it so much easier to gauge. First for U.S. casualties. These past three months have been the deadliest three month cycle for U.S. forces since the war began. While June was not […]
I decided it was time to put the casualty rates of the surge into a graphical representation to see how the surge is actually working. Using numbers from the Iraq Coalition Casualties site, I was able to compile two different graphs. Take the same 3 month period over different years I came up with the […]