The Federal Government is a lumbering giant that is impossible to re-direct most of the time. War is one of the few instances where corrections can finally be imposed rapidly. The problem is the changes may spring back to their previous, inept conditions if there is not enough time to establish the new norm. We […]

The Dept of Justice just released a very strong case for Bush’s authority for the NSA monitoring (which we learned has been doing this surveillance for decades) Myth: The NSA program is illegal. Reality: The President’s authority to authorize the terrorist surveillance program is firmly based both in his constitutional authority as Commander-in-Chief, and in […]

I am not surprised (I predicted this a few hours ago) that the Dems are surrendering on Alito: Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid admitted on Friday he and fellow Democrats lack the votes to block President George W. Bush’s nomination of conservative appeals judge Samuel Alito to the U.S. Supreme Court. “Everyone knows there is […]

Why is it Big Media cannot see the importance of a story linking Saddam to Al Qaeda and Hamas and attempts to sneak into the US? Ed Morrissey caught this stunner: Colombian authorities have broken up a counterfeit ring that manufactured passports for al-Qaeda and Hamas terrorists, used by the lunatics to enter the United […]

The deadline for posts to the Coalition of the Chillin’ Carnival is being extended to Sunday night at 6:00 PM. The final confirmation vote is tentatively going to be Tuesday: Near the close of a second day of debate, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, a Tennessee Republican, moved to force a confirmation vote on Tuesday. […]

Lots and lots happening – and no time to blog! (Plus updates imbedded below!) fixed missing link to Senate Report on NSA Well, let’s just have a quick Fly By of great posts from others with a little more time on their hands. Beginning with my current obsession – the NSA-FISA dust up – there […]

Fitzgerald is trying to hide information from Libby’s defense team which probably blows his charges against Libby out the window: Lawyers for Vice President Dick Cheney’s former chief of staff asked a federal judge on Thursday to order the prosecutor in the C.I.A. leak case to turn over all documents in his possession related to […]

UPDATE III: US Dept Of Justice just released a strong argument against the left’s rantings. More Updates below Work is beginning to impinge heavily on my blogging time, so there will be some delays and a lower pace of writing on occasion. Of course this all hit when Gonzales and Hayden went out to defend […]

When the moderates departed the Democrat Party for the independent middle, they left the Democrats with the poor, lost, classless liberals. The liberals who honestly think we have no need to go to war after 9-11, and that is our fault Arab and Muslim societies failed their people. It took some time, but the liberals […]

Alito has been confirmed by the Senate Judiciary Committee on a party line 10-8 vote. Now it goes to the Senate floor. Members of the Coalition of the Chillin’ (and any others who wish to chime in) might like to know Mark Coffey and I have been discussing a Carnival of the Coalition to mark […]