Powerline has all the details.

This guy is an embarrassment to Georgia (where I reside), to the Oval Office, and to the United States of America.

Larry Kudlow has a great post at the Corner explaining why much of the economic hardship we are currently facing is self-inflicted.

Whether it’s energy, wheat, grain, corn, or whatever, since these raw materials are priced in dollars on global markets, a strong greenback will reduce commodity prices. And that, in turn, will lower both consumer and producer inflation. This would help corporate profits and would boost the purchasing power of wages.

In other words, a strong dollar would relieve gas prices and boost the economy. But so far as I know, the president never mentioned the dollar. And I don’t think any of the media people asked him about it.

Right now Mr. Bush should order his Treasury Secretary to appreciate the greenback and work with the G7 for concerted action that would send a strong signal to commodity and currency traders that they better close their short positions on the dollar and stop speculating on higher and higher commodity prices. Mr. Bush himself should adopt new rhetoric on a strong dollar. He should make it unambiguous.

Both Hank Paulson and Bush have beaten the drum loud and long on a “strong dollar” policy. Unfortunately that is all they have done and the US peso is now worth only $1.06 Australian, .5 Pound Sterling, $1.01 Canadian (!), .64 Euro, 103.4 Yen, and 1.03 Swiss Francs! This is beyond nuts it is only a course steered by someone with nothing left to lose. The reason we have crashed the value of the dollar is because that is the only way of keeping our ballooning national debt from taking away higher percentages of our GDP.

Now we are left with a weak US peso, inflation expectations of 6.8%, exploding food and fuel prices, an expanding national debt and greater federal spending than ever before. This is not how I expected the Bush years to end.

According to AllahPundit at HotAir:

The bottom line: After 20 years of friendship, if Obama didn’t know Wright held these beliefs he’s a moron and if he did know he’s a fraud.

Agreed.

Watch this video on Breitbart.tv.

While I am often a critic of President Bush’s administration, one can’t deny that the guy has passion and in some instances is not willing to back down from confrontation.

I do not know enough about the situation on the ground in Afghanistan to comment on our status there - but I do like his heartfelt response about how we must go after the “thugs and killers” i.e. the terrorists.

Now if only his administration could show this kind of fire in the belly when dealing with the region’s chief trouble maker, Iran…

After a super-majority of Ron Paul supporters captured control of the Republican state convention Saturday, state party officials abruptly canceled the event without electing delegates to the national convention.Early in the day, state delegates supporting Paul’s continued pursuit of the Republican nomination voted through a rules change that forced the state party to abandon its preset ballot of potential national convention delegates and open up the race to the rest of the state delegates.

The Reno Gazette-Journal

I like Ron Paul very much. I think he is one of the best Congressmen in Washington in regards to governing by our Constitution. However, these shenanigans by those who continue to support his failed Presidential bid need to stop.

I think Ron Paul would have made an excellent President and his candidacy was quite impressive, especially the amount of money he managed to raise, but it’s long past time to move on. There is absolutely no chance whatsoever that he will be able to get the Republican nomination and people like the ones who crashed this state convention are only attaching a negative connotation to the Congressman and making themselves look like a bunch of asses.

Republicans should sit back and enjoy the Democrats’ current chaos rather than drumming up their own.

What’s that saying about some environmentalists? Oh, yeah - the comparison to watermelon… green on the outside, red on the inside.

This is a good article detailing much of the sustainability movement’s political goals that exceed environmental conservation into the “social justice” that the Left espouses.

H/T to the Corner at NRO.

Former Republican Congressman Bob Barr, from Georgia, is now a Libertarian running for his party’s presidential nomination.  Here’s a really good interview with him in which I agree with much of what he says.

Save for his comments on Iraq (I don’t see how invading the country and deposing Saddam Hussein and then leaving wouldn’t lead to just another dictator popping up), I agree with most of his comments.

Just follow the link and see for yourself why the Bush Administration, the DoD and the Army brass are really letting down the soldiers who are returning from combat.

Where does all the money go I wonder?

UPDATE (Langley):  HotAir has the CNN video of the interview with the man who made the YouTube video, which has apparently gotten 70,000+ hits.  My grandfather told me it was in his local paper (Monroe, NC) this morning and area politicians are on it.  Web 2.0 strikes again forcing the government to think twice.