When Hillary Clinton pointedly refused to criticize the disgraceful Moveon.org ad in the New York Times which called General Petreaus a traitor, Rudy Giuliani’s campaign followed with its own ad bashing Hillary. 

Rudy has his own problems but this is exactly what Republicans must do before it’s too late.

Hillary Clinton was and remains a denizen of the hard left.  From her Yale Law School days defending radical causes to her rants about vast right-wing conspiracies against her husband, from her support of groups advocating the right to sue one’s parents to her efforts to socialize 1/7 of America’s economy, Mrs. Clinton has spent a lifetime exhibiting a world view that mainstream America abhors.

There’s plenty to criticize so let the criticism begin.

Granted, Hillary wants to become president and knows she can’t until she feigns a move to the center. 

But she can’t until she gets through the Democratic primaries, with its hordes of left-wing voters.  Until then, she is forced to stay where her heart truly is — with the Moveon left.

Hence the opportunity….Between now and the end of the primaries, Hillary can be bashed as a leftist.  She can’t fight back because if she does, she will outrage the Moveon Democratic base that will decide the outcome.

If and when she gets the nomination, she will attempt to move on from Moveon and occupy the center.   She will likely succeed because millions of general election voters don’t pay attention to what candidates say in primaries.

So if Republicans and others want to stop Hillary, the time to begin is now.

Nothing against Orion or the wonderful things government is doing to advance scramjets (and NASA’s cool new technology to eliminate sonic booms), but the real action is in the private sector. As usual.

With estimates of 14,000 space tourists in a little more than a decade — complete with a space hotel by 2012 and serious corporate money already making it happen — the new world is here, now.

Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan’s very annoying tell-all gets a lot wrong (his allegation that the Iraq war was “all about oil” certain doesn’t show up in the prices we’re paying at the pump, for instance), not least of which his failure to note that he personally caused the tech bust (and the farm bust before it) through really stupid monetary policy (policy, I might add, which quite a few of us rather loudly decried at the time, and for all the right reasons).

On the other hand, to be fair, Greenspan was America’s least-bad Federal Reserve Chairman yet (the jury is still out on Bernanke, but looking better still), and he does hit one note that is particularly important: his continued belief that America faced real deflation in the early part of this decade. This should not count as a brilliant insight — particularly since he caused it — but it does, since most mainstream economists were worrying about inflation the whole time, and since that exact kind of thinking by an earlier Fed produced the decade-long Great Depression (Milton Friedman, you’ll recall, earned his Nobel Prize proving this).

(He also smacks the President and Congress around for spending and says they “deserved to lose” in 2006, which of course is completely true.)

Of course, all of this begs the question: why should a commodity like money be better served by a government monopoly than a commodity like, say steel? Didn’t the Soviet Union’s collapse sweep all that statist thinking away? But unfortunately the answer is no, and so we are now reading this Randian’s memoirs of his time at America’s Gosplan. Such is the way of the world.

With Osama bin Laden reduced to posting videos that sound like Barack Obama speeches and with the Iraq situation turning around before our (not at all surprised) eyes, this is proving to be a very good 9/11 indeed (and it’s the 9/11 that’s 72 months after the first one, as in 72 virgins, and 72 angels around Allah’s throne, so that matters more than it might).

So what’s the Left to do? These are the folks, after all, who have completely invested themselves in America’s defeat, staked their electoral hopes on America’s global humiliation, and done everything they can to “help” America lose. And America isn’t losing. It would seem a quandry.

But it isn’t, at least not to MoveOn.org.

The loony left’s vanguard took the long-awaited report of America’s most-respected general — the (continue reading post »)