Well, in a truly he said/she said story, it turns out Mr. Ben Bradlee is on tape alluding to Richard Armitage as the original source for Woodward, and therefore probably the original source for Novak. In an interview, Mr. Bradlee said that he had been told about Mr. Woodward’s source although he did not recall […]

Here is an interesting and rare insight into the workings and key personalities involved in our nation’s intelligence and anti-terrorism efforts: Allen “has to solve the internal problem of getting 22 units working together,” said Loch Johnson, a political science professor at the University of Georgia who has written often about the CIA. “It’s a […]

Paksitan is really getting serious about monitoring their border regions and cracking down.  They have decided to make a serious investment in unmanned aerial vehicles: London, March 15 (PTI): Pakistan is acquiring two types of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles from Europe to enhance surveillance capabilities while continuing with its indegenous development efforts, a defence weekly reported […]

As posted here earlier, the two thirds of the Democrat base which are hard core liberal are really pushing for their Democrat leaders to back Russ Feingold’s censure petition against President Bush. But the Democrat’s in the Senate are cowering and hiding, and basically committing political suicide: “I haven’t read it,” demurred Barack Obama (Ill.). […]

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 […]