Just in case you've missed it lately.
Circulation must really be collapsing. Every day, there's a big stack of them left out for free at the library. My mom picks one up if she sees it.
Anyway, the news from Iraq is nothing but upbeat.
Presence of U.S. troops adds calmAugust 3, 2006
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
BAGHDAD -- Iraqis living in Baghdad's most violent neighborhoods have been able to leave their homes safely for the first time in months, as American foot patrols moved in as part of a beefed-up security plan.
An additional 3,700 U.S. troops deployed in the capital in the past two days to join the roughly 56,000 U.S. and Iraqi troops already in the city.
The deployment is part of a six-week security operation intended to stop sectarian killings.
"Everybody knows that if Americans are there, then it is safe," said one young man who had just brought his pregnant wife home from the hospital.
So let's get all the way to end, where we see the money quote:
Police said nine persons were slain yesterday, a day after a wave of bombings and shootings killed more than 70.
• The writer's name has been withheld for security reasons. Sharon Behn contributed to this report from Washington.
Right. Things are so safe that "the writer's name has been withheld for security reasons." And some people were killed too.
OK, let's check out
Inside Politics.
Harsh words
The American Conservative magazine, in its latest issue, ... the harsh tone of some conservatives toward ... Bush and today's conservative movement in general.
Jeffrey Hart, a senior editor of National Review, had this to say: "The common denominator of successful presidents, liberal or conservative, has been that they were realists. Because Bush is an ideologue remote from fact, he has failed comprehensively and surely is the worst president in American history -- indeed, in the damage he has caused to the nation, without a rival in the race for the bottom. Because Bush is generally called a conservative, he will have poisoned the term for decades to come."
Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr., president of the Ludgwig von Mises Institute and editor of LewRockwell.com, said: "A crude form of Hobbesianism has corrupted every conservative thinker in this country."
....
He added: "Do you protest? Have I misstated your own political views? You truly love liberty and hate the state and all its works? Good. Bail out of conservatism. Call yourself a libertarian, a liberal, an anarchist, an independent, a revolutionary, a Jeffersonian radical. Or make up your own name. But please, wake up and smell the massive espresso: When it comes to mindless party loyalty, conservatism today is as bad as communism ever was."
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