Here are the most recent poll results for the Massachusetts Senate race. You will note that of the polls done in the last week, one poll has Scott Brown up big, another has Coakley up big, and two others have it very close. I think it will be close, but no one really knows as no one can predict what turnout will be like as it is a special election.

At this point, it almost does not matter who wins. I think a powerful political message is already being sent to elected Democrats across the country. The people are mad as Hell, and they're not going to take it anymore. This feeling leads to political tsunamis, and one is building for this November.

Jon Keller believes the message is clear. The backlash is coming!

Rich Lowry writes about the "revolt in Camelot".

The New York Times has this story about how the race in Massachusetts has unnerved Democrats about the health reform bill.

Charlie Cook says the Democrats have created this problem because of their colossal political miscalculation concerning health care reform.

Jonathan Chait explores the possible strategies Democrats in Congress could follow concerning health care if Coakley loses.

Charles Krauthammer says we are seeing the fall of Obama.

Andrew Bacevich says the American military has a poor record at winning wars since 1945. He has a point. I think the poor record reflects the fact that, first, when wars were fought during the Cold War it was impossible to go for a total victory without risking global thermonuclear war. For instance, in Korea the war was won by the end of 1950 with North Korean forces totally defeated. But Communist China intervened. At that point, any attempt to win in Korea would require total war against the Chinese, which was unthinkable. In Vietnam, the war could have been won with an invasion of the North, but that would have risked Chinese intervention again, or war with the Soviet Union. Again, unthinkable. Since the end of the Cold War the U.S. has engaged in interventions, some successful (Dominican Republic, 1965, Grenada, 1983, Panama, 1989), some not (Lebanon, 1983, Somalia, 1993). We ejected Iraq from Kuwait in 1991 and toppled the Taliban in 2001 and Saddam in 2003 but, of course, our troops are still in both Afghanistan and Iraq as those wars seem to have no end (although we may be close to getting out of Iraq). Bacevich's central point, I think, is that we should put the use of military force aside as a method of last resort. I agree. In my opinion, unless it is a very small scale intervention designed to safeguard American interests or lives, we should no longer employ the forces of war without a Congressional declaration of war. Let's follow the Constitution, for a change.

Ralph Peters blasts the Army report on the massacre at Fort Hood as a bunch of politically correct nonsense.