The Watcher’s Council has selected their choices for best posts of the week. In the Council Category the winner was The Intellectual and Moral Bankruptcy of Today’s Left by Dr. Sanity, with a second place tie betweeen Crime, Punishment, and Debts to Society: The Concept and Practice of Felon Disenfranchisement Laws by Wallo World and […]

On this Veteran’s Day we at the Strata-Sphere want to thank one and all for the sacrifices made to create this great country. I see all veterans through the image of my father, World War II Navy veteran who served in the North Atlantic, Invasion of Africa and South Pacific. A simple man from West […]

The conservative civil war continues. When the anti-Miers crowd called for a civil war because they feared the unknown, they sent a clear signal to all elements of the conservative party – get what you can and ignore the other factions. It also sent a message to moderates = you are not true conservatives. The […]

Interestingly enough, the continued calls for our surrender in Iraq by the liberal media here and in the West can easily be interpreted by all as the last key element of hope driving Al Qaeda’s resident butcher Al Zarqawi. In his desparate hope to stoke more western media consternation and fear and calls for surrender, […]

A hearty congrats to Commissar at Politboro Diktat for reaching one million visitors in two years of blogging!

Updates below – keep coming back and checking the end for new information I’m back! Weldon’s timing is horrific – as usual. The same day the oil execs are testifying he schedules a news conference. No way the media-previously-known-as-mainstream is going to pre-empt big oil on the witness stand (so to speak). There has been […]

UPDATE: Latest death toll in Jordan for the liberals to lash out at Bush with. END UPDATE Check out this post by Stan at Two Minute Offense regarding a CNBC producer’s comments on the bombings in Jordan today: CNBC has been running with the story about the bombings in Jordan. A little while ago they […]

Major Update: Tom Maguire has been pounding Kristof’s behind the Pay Pal wall at Times Select (which I select not to buy). Today, he finds an interesting tidbit about Valerie Plame: And the fact is that his wife’s career at CIA has been destroyed; she’s never going to be Rome Station Chief. Interesting. The Iraqi […]

Since we have a lot of new readers I should again point out “Fly By” posts are my attempt to not babble endlessly about a specific topic, but to babble lightly on a whole host of different news items for the day. “Round Ups” and “Updates” focus on a series of stories on a single […]

The AP is a source for late breaking, critical news that informs the American citizen about events they may not be aware of, but need to know about. Today we have a classice example of this important, up to the minute information service provided by the AP: Study Says There Is More Sex on TV […]