Apr
03
2006
Is another man’s nightmare: Democrats have a dream. They dream that they will wake up on November 8 and that West Virginia senator Robert Byrd, the 88-year-old antiwar firebrand, will be in charge of appropriating every dollar spent in Iraq. They dream that Patrick Leahy, the Vermont senator who led the effort against Samuel Alito, […]
Apr
02
2006
This week’s Watcher’s Council selections are out. In the council category first place went to A Slap in the Face by Right Wing Nut House, while there was a tie for second between Walking Out On Their Futures? by The Education Wonks and What Bush Needs To Do To Come Back by Joshuapundit. In the […]
Apr
02
2006
The GWOT is now clearly centered in the Norther regions of Pakistan along the Afghanistan border. That is where confrontation between the moderate and facsist arms of Islam is playing out: Suspected Islamic militants attacked a military base in a tribal region in northwestern Pakistan, killing one soldier and injuring four others, an intelligence official […]
Apr
02
2006
Sorry folks, the internet was out all day yesterday. It looks like Fitzgerald has started to take some heat and attempt a tactical retreat. He must have been assessing Libby’s defense claim that his mandate is unconstitutional and learned the cold hard truth: the defense is right: Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald is narrowing the description […]
Apr
02
2006
Iran’s supporters pandering to the US media have created a serious mistep. They say Iran will threaten the US with terrorism if we take out their nuclear weapon processing capability. As tensions increase between the United States and Iran, U.S. intelligence and terrorism experts say they believe Iran would respond to U.S. military strikes on […]
Apr
02
2006
The ‘send them packing’ group has to recognize they are a small, small minority and, if they want something done – like ejecting the real criminal element from the country, documenting who is here with background checks, and getting people to pay taxes and belong to health insurance pools – then they need to figure […]
Apr
02
2006
Well, the Patriots hung in there and had a good showing. The kept it close up until the half. Of course they allowed Florida to get too much distance on them coming out of the half to recover. If they had been making their three pointers it would have been a different game. At least […]