Stuart Koehl has an excellent piece up at the Weekly Standard on a Washington Post article that characterized the Army’s Stryker combat vehicle as a “kevlar coffin.” Koehl’s not an unmitigated supporter of the Stryker, but his main point is that criticism of the Stryker’s ability to protect infantry in Afghanistan [...]

Nate Silver goes out on a limb and opines that Presidential popularity is tied to perceptions about the economy. Yes, he knows as well as the rest of us that this is a chestnut, since his post it titled 'It's...

A CNN poll released today finds that “opinion about which political party is responsible for the severe economic downturn is shifting.”  According to the survey, “38 percent of the public blames Republicans for the country’s current economic problems. That’s down 15 points from May, when 53 percent blamed the GOP. According to the poll 27 [...]

Friday’s front-page “news analysis” by New York Times health care reporter Kevin Sack, “ Culture Clash in Medicine ,” dealt with two recent recommendations from quasi-government panels on limiting testing for breast cancer and cervical cancer. The recommendations have caused some outcry as a possible prelude to Obama-care rationing, concerns Sack dismissed as “anger and confusion” and some “political posturing.” That stance is predictable: Previous front-page Times stories have nudged readers toward rationing with tales of “costly” new heart valves for the 'frail' old, 'wasteful' medicines and 'expensive' new medical procedures that are only worth 'a few months' of extra life. The Times, which editorially supports universal health care coverage, seems to be trying to soften people up into accepting...

Read this poll for the depth of the Independent abandonment of the dems. These are the things of which elections are won and lost.