The Watcher’s Council’s selections for this week’s best posts are out and here are the results. In the council category the winner was Perspectives on Foreign Command of U.S. Forces by The Glittering Eye, with second going to Misogyny Day by New Sisyphus. In the non-council category the winner was Patterico’s Los Angeles Dog Trainer […]

I first saw the story at Ed Morrissey’s on how the local Iraqi insurgents are beginning to fight the foreign Al Qaeda elements in a positive sign that we truly are making progress in Iraq The German magazine Der Spiegel reports today on the developing factional rift between the different insurgent groups in Iraq. Increasingly, […]

The Washington Post has vindicated my suspicions on the role of the NSA and FISA. David Ignatius has done his homework and concluded the NSA does international intel, and when they get a solid lead the pass it to FISA. Before FISA is involved, people in the US are under surveillance as contacts communicating with […]

The liberals are taking a well deserved shellacking on their calls to Impeach Bush for using the NSA to stop Terrorists in the US. Fox News has the latest Opinion Dynamics Poll showing the country lining up behind Bush, which means against the liberal democrats 25. Do you think the Patriot Act has helped prevent […]

Well, it took their shameful self destruction to finally realize that these hearings are not allowing the people to understand the candidates for the Federal Bench, but simply allow the Senators to look foolish. Biden has come out calling for an end to these hearings, which were not always required: Supreme Court nominees are so […]

What is nice about Tom Maguire on a role is he saves me lots of typing. I am much more bullish on the results I expect to see from Libby’s trial than Tom – but he does have the right list of topics: (1) It *MAY* be the case that Tim Russert and Andrea Mitchell […]

The democrats really did a number on themselves yesterday. They presented the perfect example of what WE DON”T want our political leaders to be – arrogant bullies. Too many have said too well today for me to waste time trying to add my two cents. I think Kennedy did more damage in more ways than […]

FoxNews is reporting on Brit Hume’s Special Report by Carl Cameron (right before the midpoint) that Russell Tice did tell someone in Congress about the NSA program. My guess – Sen Rockerfeller. Carl is also reporting Tice did not work on the program which Risen and the NY Times leaked – so therefore it is […]

I seriously doubt Ted Kennedy and his Senate Democrat co-conspirators realize what a bone head move they just made regarding the CAP subpoena for dirt on Alito. While Congress has the power of subpoena, it is clear this planned invasion of privacy of a US Citizen not even involved in the hearings on Judge Alito […]

Our reader SBD does some excellent research using Lexus-Nexus. He has found a case where the FBI alerted all the agencies they had a terrorist lead and wanted intel on the person gathered in the normal routine of the intel agency! Nothing special, just watch for this name and give us what crosses your desks. […]