All Things Conservative has bravely taken up the role on monitoring progress in Iraq from the great blogger Arthur Cherenkoff, who has decided to retire from blogging. And an excellent job it is! Check it out.

Here is NARAL’s 3rd grade attempt at claiming Judge Roberts ‘supports’ fringe anti-abortion groups: he supports the right to free speech. The first TV ad opposing federal Judge John Roberts’ nomination to the Supreme Court ignited controversy Monday by accusing him of supporting violent anti-abortion “fringe groups” in a case before the court in 1991. […]

UPDATE III: I have seen another wave of dismissive rationalizations that use the argument that it was only in hindsight that the Able Danger folks found the names of Atta and Al-Shehhi and the two others from the thousands that would have surfaced from a data mining activity after 9-11. Basically they claim the names […]

It is good to see Discovery has returned safely – not because they were in any danger or risk. But to give some confidence back to a media too focused on some minor challenges with some elements of the system, and not respectful enough of the engineering that goes into space flight. For those who […]