I was thinking what kind of political loss would straighten up the Conservatives so the would accept their border and employer enforcement enhancements and accept the guest worker program. I was thinking if Rick Santorum had been on the hard line side (instead of the hard success side) then he could be a reasonable sacrificial [...]

The new X-Men movie is fair. But if you expect to feel like good has triumphed over evil this one leaves you pondering. Good movie, just not what one wants from a Marvel Comic. I won’t spoil it for folks, and I may be too harsh. But I found the movie wanting. At least is [...]

In a fit of twisted logic, Congressional Republicans are afraid they will get voted out of office is they support any leniancy on immigrants – any! Rep. E. Clay Shaw Jr. (Fla.), who is not known as an immigration hard-liner but is one of the party’s most vulnerable incumbents, said there is virtually no chance [...]

*** Updates at the end *** Mac Ranger has been hinting that there are possible connections to Joe Wilson and Rep William Jefferson (bribery scandal). Turns out there may be. Recall that Joe Wilson was running his own international business consulting firm when the CIA asked him twice (through his wife) to visit Niger in [...]

I really enjoy the reading The Anchoress because she says things in such a way as that light bulbs start popping on with every sentence.  Some people just have a frim grip on the world at large.  We all spend our lives tearing down our initial impressions (usually from childhood) in order to learn the [...]

The final stages of transitioning soveriegnty to the new democratic government of Iraq will begin soon, too soon for Mad Murtha, Dean and other liberals to surrender Iraq to Bin Laden and Zarqawi: Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has said that Iraqi security forces will start assuming full responsibility for some provinces and cities next [...]

This post is based on unsubstantiated and leftwing biased reporting. However, if true, all the left wing spin in the post cannot hide the true implications of this news. What interests me is the possibility that the source of the reporting – the French Intel Reports – are accurate. If so then this is just [...]

What I really like about this administration is the people all serve for a hire purpose. They shun polls, they go forth in the face of bad press, and they stick by their positions no matter what. And they do it quietly (something that truly sets them apart from the camera hungry pols and bureacrats [...]

In Fitzgerald’s latest filing he demonstrates a level of twisted logic (immersed in tortured english grammar) I find stunning. To us mathematically oriented the terms ‘likely’ and ‘unlikely’ are ends of a common spectrum called ‘probability’. On one end is the probability of zero, the other end a probability of 1 (which equates to 100%). [...]

Fitzgerald’s case is taking on water faster than I thought. In a 40 page decision (H/T Tom Maguire at JOM), Judge Walton gave Libby all sorts of impeachable information against Fitzgerald’s witnesses. He did let Miller’s schedule and phone records be excluded, but as you read through it seems there was other evidence that could [...]

News outlets have one thing of value: credibility.  Lost that and all that is left is capitol assets for the bankrupcy court.  The NY Times has decided it is better to crash and burn in a liberal flame out than be the outstanding news outelt it once was. Moody’s has just announced a downgrade in [...]

Scooter Libby won a decision against Time and Cooper, which doesn’t bode well for the other media outlets and personalities facing subpoenas or Fitzgerald: A federal judge on Friday ordered Time magazine to turn over documents for a White House aide to use in his defense to perjury and other charges in the CIA leak [...]

Hat Tip to Mac Ranger on this CNN report regarding the focus on Congress as the source of the leaks to the NY Times regarding the NY Times story. Recall that the original leaks occurred a year before the story broke last fall – so the leak happened during or prior to December ’04: The [...]

When someone compares Mexico to Bin Laden and Al Qaeda it is time to write them off your list of people to listen to: Consult with Mexico about securing US borders? Can you imagine? That’s like conferring with Osama bin Laden prior to implementing airport security. You know, if you cannot discern the difference between [...]

General Hayden was confirmed in a totally lopsided vote as the new head of the CIA in the Senate today: May 26 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. Senate voted 78-15 today to confirm Michael Hayden as director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Hayden, who is deputy director for national intelligence, will take over an agency that [...]