Right Side of the Rainbow

News briefs for the South Park Republican

• On the ground with U.S. troops in Ramadi, Michael Fumento says America is winning the war in Iraq.

• Democrat Patricia Madrid has conceded to Republican Heather Wilson in one of this year’s closest congressional elections. Wilson, the incumbent, won re-election to New Mexico 1 by 875 votes out of more than 210,000 cast.

• Most Americans favor a guest worker program with a path to citizenship for illegal aliens, according to a poll by Quinnipiac University. “But Americans also want to close the borders to keep out illegal immigrants in the future,” according to the poll’s director.

• In a bid to draw attention to the “worst form of bigotry confronting America today,” Republicans at Boston University are offering a scholarship to applicants who are at least 25% Caucasian.

• The American Family Association (AFA), an organization of Christian conservatives, is urging a boycott of Wal-Mart, the Nation’s largest retailer. Among other things, AFA is unhappy with Wal-Mart’s decision to join the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce.

• According to the Associated Press, Senate Democrats are unlikely to block the confirmation of Robert Gates as defense secretary.

• Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney says fellow GOP presidential candidate Sen. John McCain is being “disingenuous” on gay marriage. Relatedly, “National Journal’s Hotline, a compendium of insider political analysis, predicted Monday that ‘Romney will run squarely to the right of John McCain and Rudy Giuliani in what’s fast become a three-man GOP race.’”

• Rep. Alcee Hastings, impeached as a federal judge for bribery, subsequently elected to Congress and now facing millions of dollars in legal debt, is drawing tepid support in his bid to become chairman of the House Intelligence Committee.

• The Freedom of Information Act does not require the National Security Agency to release details of its terrorist surveillance program, a federal judge has ruled.

• Sen. Sam Brownback of Kansas says he will decide next month whether to seek the 2008 Republican presidential nomination.