** updates at the end ** update: I am highlighting what I think are important items with a bold font. I decided to start a fresh post as a slog on through these hearings. You may want to check out Part I (which has nothing in it really) and Part II (which takes us through […]

** Updates at the end ** I am going to predict the NY Times is going to rue the day they got the congressional investigation they so desperately wanted Leaders of the House Intelligence Committee said Thursday that they had agreed to open a Congressional inquiry prompted by the Bush administration’s domestic surveillance program. But […]

I had no idea John Loftus was such a blatant BS-er. Debbie Schlussel and others are pulling out of the Intelligence Summit this weekend because of the fraud John Loftus is and his role in leading this event. Schlussel has some very disturbing accounts about Loftus: My first experience with Mr. Loftus, in 2002–well before […]

Again, to all you judges I hold dear and respect, this is not aimed at judges generally. But this has to be one of the dumbest (and unconstitutional) moves I have seen (from Stop The ACLU): On Thursday, a federal judge decided that Americans’ safety and security takes a back-seat to a left-wing groups’ right […]

The Watcher’s Council has seleced this week’s top posts and here are the results. In the council category the winner is A Dialogue by Gates of Vienna, with second place going to Shame, Guilt, the Muslim Psyche, and the Danish Cartoons by Dr. Sanity. In the non council category the winnder is The 10 Commandments […]

Again my apologies to everyone for the light posting. I am starting to work the NASA Exploration Initiative and it is sucking up a lot of time as I ramp up. The good news is I think I know what I will be doing the next 20 odd years. I also plan to finish reviewing […]