http://www.gopusa.com Conservative news, information, and commentary Copyright 2008 Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:12:52 EDT http://www.gopusa.com/images/gopusa_logo_sm.gif http://www.gopusa.com http://www.gopusa.com/news/2008/july/0703_mccain_evangelicals1.shtml Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:14:30 EDT (AP) -- Conservative evangelical leaders met privately this week to discuss putting aside their misgivings about John McCain and coalescing around the Republican's presidential bid while urging him to consider social conservative favorite Mike Huckabee as a running mate. news http://www.gopusa.com/news/2008/july/0703_rnc_ad1.shtml Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:14:30 EDT WASHINGTON (AP) -- An independent arm of the Republican National Committee plans to spend $3 million on an ad campaign contrasting GOP presidential candidate John McCain to Democrat Barack Obama on energy security. news http://www.gopusa.com/news/2008/july/0703_mccain_trade1.shtml Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:14:30 EDT CARTAGENA, Colombia (AP) -- John McCain hailed the economic benefits of free trade to Colombians Wednesday, raising the possibility of an eventual hemispheric-wide agreement. news http://www.gopusa.com/news/2008/july/0703_obama_service1.shtml Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:14:30 EDT COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) -- Barack Obama urged people Wednesday to look past the "bustle and busyness" of their everyday lives this Fourth of July weekend to find a way to help make the American dream real not just for themselves, but for all. news http://www.gopusa.com/news/2008/july/0703_mccain_staff1.shtml Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:14:30 EDT WASHINGTON (AP) -- John McCain put a top adviser in control of day-to-day campaign operations Wednesday after weeks of private concerns among Republicans that the GOP presidential campaign had not made the transition for the general election. news http://www.gopusa.com/news/2008/july/0703_israeli_strike.shtml Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:14:30 EDT WASHINGTON (AP) -- An Israeli strike on Iranian nuclear facilities would be a high-risk move that could destabilize the Middle East, the Pentagon's top military officer said Wednesday. news http://www.gopusa.com/news/2008/july/0703_mccain_mexico.shtml Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:14:30 EDT MEXICO CITY (AP) -- John McCain has insisted that his trip through Mexico and Colombia was not supposed to be campaign-related. But there have been plenty of political overtones throughout. news http://www.gopusa.com/news/2008/july/0703_bush_g81.shtml Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:14:30 EDT WASHINGTON (AP) -- The issues are as difficult as ever, but the conditions are likely to be more conducive to agreement as President Bush attends his eighth and final economic summit. news http://www.gopusa.com/news/2008/july/0703_troops1.shtml Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:14:30 EDT WASHINGTON (AP) -- Grappling with a record death toll in an overshadowed war, President Bush promised Wednesday to send more U.S. troops into Afghanistan by year's end. news http://www.gopusa.com/news/2008/july/0703_solar_aps.shtml Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:14:30 EDT WASHINGTON (AP) -- The government said Wednesday it is calling off a recently announced moratorium on applications to build solar plants on public lands. news http://www.gopusa.com/news/2008/july/0703_missile_bases1.shtml Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:14:30 EDT WASHINGTON (AP) -- The United States and Poland have tentatively agreed to base American missiles in Poland for a future missile shield against Iran. news http://www.gopusa.com/news/2008/july/0703_medical_intelligence.shtml Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:14:30 EDT FREDERICK, Md. (AP) -- A military intelligence unit that had tracked medical threats to troops worldwide is expanding its mission to include civilians at home. news http://www.gopusa.com/commentary/mreagan/2008/mr_07041.shtml Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:12:52 EDT By Michael Reagan -- Americans are worried. Americans are angry. Soaring gas prices are seriously crippling our economy and hitting us where it hurts the most -- in our pockets. We have a right to be angry, but anger is no longer enough. It's time for rage -- good, old American rage aimed at those elitist Democrats who prefer to see the folks beggared by soaring fuel prices rather than take the action this very real economic crisis demands. commentary http://www.gopusa.com/commentary/lkudlow/2008/lk_07031.shtml Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:12:52 EDT By Lawrence Kudlow -- President Bush was on message Wednesday in a Rose Garden news conference, when he kept up the pressure on his a drill, drill, drill offensive. commentary http://www.gopusa.com/commentary/cadamo/2008/cga_07031.shtml Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:12:52 EDT By Christopher G. Adamo -- As far back as Sun Tzu, military strategists have well understood the concept that victory in war does not require the destruction of one's enemy. commentary http://www.gopusa.com/commentary/cmolin/2008/cdm_07031.shtml Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:12:52 EDT By Carol Devine-Molin -- It was reported a few weeks ago that Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama warned his supporters that the election season might "get ugly", stating, "If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun." That's tough talk from a guy who let's others do his dirty work. commentary http://www.gopusa.com/commentary/rnovak/2008/rdn_07031.shtml Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:12:52 EDT By Robert D. Novak -- Yousuf Raza Gilani, prime minister of Pakistan, will lunch with George W. Bush in the White House on Monday, July 28. That will not be merely another of the president's routine meetings with foreign leaders. The lunch symbolizes a turn away from Washington's attachment to the discredited Gen. Pervez Musharraf. commentary