There's some good writing out there.
- Jeff Harrell writes at Wizbang on his transition from liberal Democrat to conservative Republican. It started with the meaning of the word 'is' and finished on a bright sunny Tuesday morning in September, 2001.
"I came into the 2004 President election season disenchanted with my own party but ready to be won back. All the Democrats had to do was show even a token willingness to win the war. They didn’t do that. Instead they nominated an undistinguished legislator who saluted with one hand and pandered to the squeamishness of the anti-war bloc with the other." - Victor Davis Hanson offers the Democratic party an opportunity to grasp a national security issue, perhaps hand in hand with Republicans.
- Varifrank looks at the Venezuela-Iran "Axis of Oil." While you're there, check out his thoughts on James Risen's State of War.
"The CIA comes across as a disorganized, disheveled group not even capable of doing a job as even as competent as FEMA did in Hurricane Katrina. Yet, President Bush gets a finger wagging from Mr. Risen for not listening to these learned men whom even Mr. Risen clearly marks as having dropped the ball and left the nation lost and dithering during its dire time of need." - Rick Moran, proprietor of Right Wing Nut House, pens a moving tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. also at The American Thinker.
"As an orator, King had no equal in the 20th century. Blessed with a mellifluous voice and a razor sharp pen, King’s speeches not only inspired, they provoked. They got people angry. They made people think. In the end, he moved millions with his words." - Esoterica: Jimi Fallows explains the origins and nature of bluegrass music at normblog.
