There is a distinct possibility that the first US SC retirement could come as early as next week ,as predictions fly that Rehnquist may finally step down. Both sides are gearing up for the battle royale that will take place in the Senate: Like hostile nations on the edge of apocalypse, Washington’s political right and […]

Don Surber has a great list of how the liberal pols (and to some extent the MSM) support our troops. Here is a snippet, please read the whole thing 1. By banning military recruiters from their campuses. 2. By voting against new weapons. 3. By using the military to debate social issues. 4. By voting […]

The NYPost has a stunning op-ed piece out today by Ari Melber which claims 50% of democrats do not think Al Quaeda is a priority: Exactly 50 percent of Democrats do not believe dismantling al Qaeda should be a top foreign-policy goal. In fact, when recently asked to name the top two “most important foreign […]

The AP is reporting that Bush may bypass the dysfunctional senate democrats and recess appoint Bolton to his position as Ambassador to the UN. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is keeping open the possibility that President Bush will bypass the Senate to get John R. Bolton installed as U.N. ambassador temporarily if Democrats persist in […]

While the left and many in the MSM wring their hands about the Bush policies on the Global War on Terror, those policies are gaining traction. Actually, the left and MSM seem fixated on marginal minutiae regarding this subject; like flushed Korans, AC levels at GITMO, which music is blasted at GITMO, and of course […]

Welcome Powerline readers! Welcome CQ readers! Up front let me say I share Powerline’s skepticism regarding why anyone would go through the effort to forge such non-news. And the lack of any rebuttal from Blair’s administration is curious. But it is also curious why Mr. Smith had to find a typewriter and then not scan […]

Have we become a self centered and vain species? Apparently so. If to be ‘enlightented’ is to use dead human beings to look younger, count me in as the unenlightened. The Scotsman [free registration required] has a story about stem cells harvested from aborted fetuses for use by the wealthy (and sadly vain) in Russia. […]

I posted earlier on a story about how unions are set to split apart from the AFL-CIO in order to spend less money supporting democrats and more resources supporting the unions themselves (gee, wonder who thought up that bright idea). There are updates to this story out today. Howard Fineman has a Newsweak article and […]

The NYTimes is reporting on a scene of brutal torture, beatings, shackled prisoners, electric wire. Oh….., never mind. It was torture of Iraqis by terrorists. I’m guessing Dysmal Durbin is only interested in stories about fellow Americans torturing people.

An intriguing opinion piece in the Washington Post today addresses this question. It begins with a statement that is both true and enlightening: Serious scholars still debate whether the Civil War was necessary, never mind the more obvious “wars of choice” such as World War I, the War of 1812, the Spanish-American War, the Korean […]