Today’s Posts Below

Victor Davis Hanson has the best piece out today regarding our nation’s birthday:
On this troubled Fourth we still should remember this is not 1776 when New York was in British hands and Americans in retreat across the state. It is not 1814 when the British burned Washington and the entire system of national credit collapsed [...]

Well, we seem to have discovered the ‘true’ Barack Obama - he is your classic ’say anything to win’ politician! During the primaries Barack Obama was the liberal candidate, he was far left’s candidate who would take their issues to Washington and make them relevant again! Here is some of what he said (or implied, [...]

Updated Below
I have the honor of being grouped with some of the best bloggers in the world on a blog-burst call for action regarding the 9-11 memorial for flight 93. You can visit The Bigsibling Blog here, the site that called for this action.
 
When the Crescent of Embrace memorial to Flight 93 was unveiled [...]

No need for me to add this. The esteemed Anchoress provides a reminder of all we have to be thankful for this 4th of July weekend, and all the things Obama’s campaign and the dems are doing wrong in light of it. A must read this 4th!

The lunacy of the left never stops! This is what happens when you watch too much TV and don’t study math and science enough - you become fools running a fools’ errand. Think about it. If the far right claimed the end of the world was nigh and it was time to build an [...]

I expect to see a rush coming on watermelons and a world wide watermelon shortage on this news:
Experts claim that the red-fleshed fruit contains an ingredient that affects the body’s blood vessels in the same way as when a man takes the sex drug.
Researchers believe that the juicy fruit could be used to help men [...]

Our question of the day is: who does the ‘fear mongering’ and who is doing security and protection for the nation?
(Updated Below)
The liberal media and their Surrnedercrat minions have been attempting to claim terrorism is a myth, despite bombings, public statements by terrorists, captured terrorist statements, and all those dead and injured people we have [...]

Waterboarding is not ‘torture’ in my mind. Torture should define the inflicting of real injury. Thumbs screws, electrocution through car battery jumper cables, etc. Waterboarding actually taps into the body’s natural reflexive responses to drowning. Yes, it is horribly unnerving, as Christopher Hitchen’s just learned. No one likes to be helpless and controlled [...]

Updated!
Lots of discussions today on whether we could target Bin Laden with a drone if we discovered his hide out (see here and here). From the second link we read this:
Pakistan long ago gave Washington the right to launch an immediate Predator drone strike on Osama bin Laden, without first notifying Islamabad, if he [...]

The Surge and Awakening that hit Iraq last year (in the face of dour predictions from Democrats that Iraq was a failure, the Surge was a failure, etc) has succeeded, victory is at hand. The Surge had many goals, nearly all of which have been met, according to a US State Department Government Report [...]

I have been hoping for months now that the pressure we have been seeing put on the Taliban and al-Qaeda remnants inside the tribal areas of Pakistan might bear some fruit. Back in January of this year there were reports that a new Taliban leader, Baitullah Meshud, was charting a new and dangerous course by [...]

The International Herald Tribune (IHT) ran a reasonable article (for them) recently on the al-Qaeda and Taliban forces who retreated from Afghanistan into the Pakistan area and efforts over the years to deal with them. I want to take some key information from that article to lay out the case that we are seeing the [...]

Marc Ambinder and I agree that the far left and far right have gone too far in their attacks on McCain (which folds into my post below on how the fringes are ruining America).

I am going to fisk Obama today - he has had it coming for a long time. I am going to challenge the empty suit’s soaring and vacuous rhetoric on “Patriotism” to demonstrate why fancy words woven together in a nice cadence are meaningless without purpose and value against our challenges. Obama’s speeches have [...]