Senator Russ Feingold is wisely posturing to be the liberal’s candidate, the one who will be the New Howard Dean, in 2008. He will steal the base from all other contenders because while liberals make up a small fraction of the US population (around 20%) they make up roughly 2/3rds of the Democrat base. Feingold […]

When will the journalists stop thinking about scoops, Pulitzers and raises and start thinking about the implications of what they are doing.  I have said many times the media has a right as long as it is responsible with it, otherwise it is as open to charges of criminal negligence and exposing national secrets as […]

I was reading this and had jumped to the conclusion of the puzzle being pondered on just how material from extremely energetic processes are found in the cold ice of comets.  The answer in my head was the ‘heavy’ material with high periodic numbers found in comets is most likely remnants of (a) when the […]

Folks, I have to apologize for the reduced quality of posts in terms of grammar and speel checking.  When we promoted our site to Word Press 2.0 lots of things broke.  On of them was the ability for me to run my posts through MS Word for final clean up before publishing.  Before the links […]

It took a few days to get used to, but I am beginning to really like the New RCP. I’ll be shamelessly honest and state the new format allows RCP more opportunities and ways to reference second and third tier blogs (like this one) which is one thing I do like. However, if our blog […]

I have been expecting this news for a while now since the Iraqi Army and Police have been successful in managing security for the elections and the recent attempts to ignite civil war. President Bush vowed for the first time yesterday to turn over most of Iraq to newly trained Iraqi troops by the end […]

I have created a new topic solely on news from Pakistan because it seemed apparent to me that this was becoming a major focus of the Global War On Terror (GWOT). Seems I am not alone in this. Bill Rogglio posts on his belief Pakistan is not the prime battlefield in the GWOT: The Battle […]

The DPW deal seems to have done something which needed doing: expose some serious flaws on the right side of the political spectrum. I called the isolationists Chickenhawks for not being able to stand next to an Arab businessman while they supported sending troops into the Middle East to arm, train and fight by Arab […]

Pakistan is booting the Afgahn Taliban out of their norther province. Authorities in a Pakistani tribal region troubled by Islamist militants said yesterday that thousands of Afghans thought to be living there must leave and return home. The North Waziristan tribal area bordering Afghanistan has been the scene of military strikes this month in which […]

** Updates at the end ** The AP is reporting an FBI informant has claimed that Zawahiri, Bin Laden’s number two in Al Qaeda was in the US prior to 9-11: An FBI informant testified today that Osama bin Laden’s right-hand man lived in the Central Valley town of Lodi before the 2001 terrorist attacks. […]