I like Card a lot. He's pretty spot-on sometimes.
Those of you who like hard military SF who haven't already should check out John Ringo. I just finished reading the last book of the Alendata series. It rocked. if you go to Baen.com's free library, you'll find the first couple of books availsble for free download. He's fairly conservative, and generally fairly hard on the muslim hordes. If you get to the book "yellow eyes", you'll like his commentary at the end about the modern-day 'elite'.
I’ve met Ringo a couple of times, although he’s so full of himself he wouldn’t remember it. Generally a pretty good guy, for someone who wears a kilt all the time ;). Libertarian slant again. HOT wife.