Ron Paul won’t win the GOP nomination!
Friday night, Representative Ron Paul, a long-shot G.O.P. candidate from Texas, basically conceded that he’s not going to win the party’s nomination.
Seems Ron Paul is the last person on Earth to figure this out - which says a lot about his powers of observation generally!

It has been a LONG time since I have dusted off the “Duh! Files” to blog on the blatantly obvious. But I couldn’t pass this up. The Democrat House Whip notes that success in Iraq would split the Dems and make a surrender/withdrawal impossible:
House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-S.C.) said Monday that a [...]

It seems everything coming out of DC is pretty inane and idiotic, so I have not had to use the Duh! Files tag for sometime. But occassionally something bubbles out of DC so ridiculous it is hard to believe anyone ever debated the idea for even a split second - let alone two years. [...]

Obviously unsatisfied with her second straight slur at CPAC, Ann Coulter is now trivializing murder.

Is this acceptable discourse? I don’t think so.

This is a bit off the beaten path, but it is frustrating to see the federal government giving indications that it is going to fight the merger of XM and Sirius.

Unless they have proof of nefarious intent, then they need to lay off. The biggest reason I have NOT purchased satellite radio is the [...]

Over at Captain’s Quarters, there is a discussion of civility. On the previous thread is what appears to be his response to Ann Coulter’s comments. It’s a good post, but the comments at the second link are instructive as well.

They are part of the reason that Republicans got spanked in the 2006 mid-terms. [...]

What happens when you disarm law abiding citizens so that only criminals have weapons? Simple: More criminals feel comfortable commiting crimes with guns (allows them to control the situation). Ask Washington DC, which has one of the nation’s bans on personal firearms. And then come across the River to VA where [...]

The news media is all atwitter today that Hillary wants to be President. Well - Duh! Why did she pretend to be a NY resident so she could sit in a Senate seat for so many years and do what again? Think Hillary could stand up to Bin Laden? Think Hillary [...]

You think the Western governments have their act together after 5+ years of adjusting to the post 9-11 world and then you read something like this and you just have to wonder what people are doing all day long:
The Government’s terrorism watchdog is to call for tighter checks on executive jets arriving in Britain amid [...]

Reports out today Iran won’t give up their nukes. Duh! Who was naive enough to think they would? In fact, who was naive enough to think all the waffling and attempts at appeasement by the UN and EU did anything but convince Iran they had nothing to worry about from the impotent [...]

Folks in the media are all atwitter with the idea Iraq could sink into civil war. Here from

How can the fighting in Lebanon and Gaza be stopped through a cease fire? Well, the requirement for cessation of hostilities has always been the same:

Israel would agree to a cease-fire in its six-day-old offensive against Hezbollah if the Lebanese guerrillas withdraw from the border area with Israel and release two captured Israeli soldiers, a [...]

I am not even going to waste time providing links. The US has always said the detainees and prisoners in this war on terror would be dealt with in compliance with the Geneva conventions. OK, one link from 2003 for the brain dead news media:

Statement by the Press Secretary on the Geneva Convention
The [...]

North Korea tried to intimidate the world yesterday with a serious of rocket launches, which culminated in a series of spectacular failures:
A Pentagon official said there were “multiple launches from multiple locations” and added that more launches may come from North Korea in the coming days.
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The 9,300-mile-range Taepodong-2, which can reach parts of the [...]

Two Duh! Files in one day!  Liberal columnist Margaret Carlson has a new article out entitled:

What CIA needs is new president

Well Duh!  Why do you think they have been leaking national security details to the media?  They are trying to get Bush Impeached, since they couldn’t tip the election towards Kerry