The Watcher’s Council has selected their picks of the week, and it was a tough choice because the posts this week were outstanding. In the council category first place went to No Relation to Reality, Indeed by Dr. Sanity, while  second place went to The Death of 1,000 Cuts by The Glittering Eye. In the non-council […]

The Washington Post is standing its ground in the Plame Game and the Iraq war – pushing back on anti-war zealots in an Ombudsman piece today.  Good stuff: The Post editorially has supported the war, and the purpose of the editorial — headlined “A Good Leak” — was to support that leak as necessary to […]

The last few weeks have seen hundreds of Taliban fighters killed in the norther provinces (the tribal areas) of Pakistan. I have been posting on those activities here. Well, today we add another 41 to the list of Taliban on their way to meet Allah, now in Southern Afghanistan across the border from the Pakistani […]

Want to do something dumb to screw up the immigration debate?  Be rude to your guests when asking them to stay on uninvited and see what happens: The coalition of grass-roots organizations that staged huge rallies on behalf of illegal immigrants in recent weeks is torn over an ambitious next step, a massive job and […]

No wonder CA is a basket case: Los Angeles’ policy of arresting homeless people for sitting, lying or sleeping on public sidewalks as “an unavoidable consequence of being human and homeless without shelter” violates the constitutional prohibition against cruel and punishment, a federal appeals court ruled today. One of the judges drops this stunner: In […]

Now why would anyone object to signing a statement they are not a terrorist and do not support terrorists? The law requires applicants under final consideration for a government job, contract or license to complete and sign questionnaires to determine if they have supported organizations on a federal list of terrorists. I guess for some, […]

From a reader who finds interesting information we find General Zinni is a part of a group which is quite leftwing in its ‘ideas’: The Center for Defense Information is dedicated to strengthening security through: international cooperation; reduced reliance on unilateral military power to resolve conflict; reduced reliance on nuclear weapons; a transformed and reformed […]

Great news out of Iraq – if true: Al Qaeda in Iraq and its presumed leader, Abu Musab Zarqawi, have conceded strategic defeat and are on their way out of the country, a top U.S. military official contended yesterday. The group’s failure to disrupt national elections and a constitutional referendum last year “was a tactical […]

If you go back and read the last Fitzgerald filing after reading the recent filing by Team Libby you see some interesting dynamics which maybe were not so obvious. In the recent Team Lubby filing the claim is made their are many documents regarding the OVP and White House plans to address Joe Wilson’s now-known-to-be […]

As the liberal media pointed out, the Iranians and the terrorist allies are much more of a threat than Iraq and Al Qaeda were.  So when we hear this we should take it very, very seriously: The president of Iran again lashed out at Israel on Friday and said it was “heading toward annihilation,” just […]