Something is definitely brewing in Pakistan it seems. More and more activity in the northern provinces: Karachi, 10 March (AKI) – US surveillance aircraft have begun flights across the tribal belt of North Waziristan which lies on the Afghan-Pakistan border. Tribal sources told Adnkronos International (AKI) that the flights have been taking place over the […]

Great news out of Iraq as the Sunni’s in there are chasing Al Qaeda out of their provinces: The people of Iraq are rising up against an insurgency bent on derailing democracy in the country, a Multinational Force Iraq spokesman said today. “The people of Iraq are uniting against the insurgency,” Army Maj. Gen. Rick […]

The Watcher’s Council selection of the best posts for the week are out and here are the results. In the council catefory first place easily went to The Bloody Borders Project by Gates of Vienna, with second place going to From Way Up Here by The Glittering Eye. In the non council category first place […]

The outlook on what we lost-won looks worse with each passing hour. From Mac Ranger we have this post-port realization: But it is also likely to keep the heat on a simmering belief abroad that U.S. markets can sometimes be more trouble than they’re worth, economists and foreign trade experts said Thursday. “People are making […]

Powerline reviews an article by Daniel Pipes regarding the CAIR organization and its history of members being tied to terrorist organizations.  The question is asked: “How long will it be until the establishment finally recognizes CAIR for what it is and denies it mainstream legitimacy?” The answer is obvious: when CAIR takes over terminal operations […]

If 2006 is the perfect Democrat storm, why is Hillary being rejected in her ‘home’ state of New York? Six in 10 New York voters believe Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is planning to run for president in 2008, but only about a third of her home-state voters say they would back her if she did […]

I want those who are ranting about foreign ownership and Arab ownership, etc, to consider one possible, legitmate source of their antagonism to the outside world: the outside world. I have been in the trenches of Europe dealing with the anti-American crap for years. All the world’s woes are set at our feet, we can […]

** updates continue at the end ** We lost more security world wide. Recall DPW operates a lot of ports sending goods here to the US. They are our first line of defense for stopping WMDs being smuggled in. Here is just a fraction of what we lost: Until Rove’s decision, Dubai’s business leaders had […]

The media is all happy about Bush’s falling poll numbers, and assuming it spells doom for Bush. From the latest AP/Ipsos poll: Nearly 70 percent of people say the U.S. is on the wrong track, a 6-point jump since February. … Bush’s job approval among Republicans plummeted from 82 percent in February to 74 percent, […]