The Republican Race

Guardian: Reports that former Senator Rick Santorum won the Kansas caucuses, and is correcting in noting that “ The victory boosts Santorum going into next Tuesday's contests in Mississippi and Alabama. ”. Thus folks this race is OVER, the Republican Nominee will be Governor Mitt Romney, one can postulate that by the Republican Convention Romney will either have gained a majority of the delegates or close enough for his to gain delegates from the other Candidates. Of course he might be forced to place Rick Santorum on the ticket, this would make sure the Social Conservatives will come out to vote in November, but it would give the liberal New York Times a field day, they would pick apart every social issue that Santorum is on the fringe off, it would be a disaster folks. Thus lets hope the Republican voters finish this race fast, otherwise Obama could win by default.

Afghan Massacre - Afghan Front

Telegraph: Reports that a US Special Forces Soldier has killed or wounded up to sixteen Afghans after going on a killing spree. This is not the kind of PR that NATO forces in Afghanistan will need at the moment, the Taliban PR machine will go in to overdrive, the burnings of the Koran and now these deaths or injuries, this is why the US and the UK have to get out of Afghanistan and fast, the decision has already been made, the wait will invite this kind of incident, Soldiers who just lose it, Afghanistan is a nasty War folks, the West play by the rules, while the Taliban/Al Qaeda don’t, that is not to excuse the above incident, but these kind of incidents happened in Vietnam, Soldiers just go berserk after a long tour, losing their fellow Soldiers to IED attacks and also not knowing who the enemy is, time to get out folks, this can only end badly for the West.

Coalition Government and the NHS

BBC News: Reports that Liberal Democrat Leader and Deputy PM Nick Clegg has stated that he supports the NHS reform Bill, ever after a Party Conference called for its defeat. At least Mr Clegg is the grown up in the Liberal Democrats, that is the problem when a Political Party has been out of effective power since 1921, they don’t do hard core politics, they jump on any popular policy and don’t take risks, this is risky for Mr Clegg, it could go either way, the Liberal Democrats could suffer at the next election or the voter will start to take the Lib Dems more seriously as a real Political Party, that is the end game that Mr Clegg is looking for after 5 years of Coalition Government.