It is sad to wake up this morning and have the first news be that of the death of a good President. The news stories will say it better than I can, but Gerald Ford was the ultimate example of sacrificing political gain in order to do right by the country. After Bill [...]

Some things in life are near absolutes, and Joseph Biden making a political blunder of things is one of those sure fire results you can almost count on. Biden is trying to position himself for a Presidential campaign in 2008, and his plan to is run as the modern day Neville Chamberlain:
President Bush is [...]

Now that the Congressional Republicans have made themselves impotent on national issues by sacrificing progress to grasp onto politically unsustainable positions, the President is going to do what it takes to get major problems addressed. And while no solution is perfect, progress is a winning strategy over holding issues hostage. The big issue [...]

One of the truly under reported aspects of the Litvinenko incident is how all the players in this mystery are linked together. Even the suspected poisoners (for those who subscribe to the assassination theory) are associates with ties to Boris Berezovsky and Litvinenko. It is well known that Lugovoi had ties to Berezovsky, [...]

I want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas, and I hope their day will be filled with the cheer and warmth of family and friends. I want to thank everyone who takes time out of their busy days to come by and read my ramblings and share their thoughts and take part in the [...]

For the naive, like James Baker and the Iraq Surrender Group [H/T Rush Limbaugh], the concept of negotiating with Iran to achieve a political solution in Iraq has just become a political disaster. What Democrat will demand we negotiate with the enemy now that the US has caught Iranians striving to kill Americans in [...]

Well I hope everyone is enjoying their Christmas day as much as we are. And thankfully, to the efforts of those who watch over us we have been safe from attack so far this holiday season. But I should note that warnings came out in the last few days regarding a possible Al [...]

In a strange twist to a strange story one of the key players in the litvinenko incident has been arrested:
Police today arrested an Italian security expert who met former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko the day he fell ill from poisoning.
Mario Scaramella was arrested in Naples, where he landed on his way back from London, Italian [...]

Did the exit of the waffling Kofi Anan allow the UN to grow a spine and slap sanctions on Iran? Or was it the mad rantings of Ahmadinejad finally worried the moribund UN that maybe the nutter was actually serious and willing to martyr an entire country for Allah. Whatever the source of [...]

Al Qaeda is impatient for the Democrats to make good on their election year promises (yes, Al Qaeda is that naive as to believe a US politician in DC). In fact, they have now offered up terms for our safe surrender of Iraq to Bin Laden so that the Democrats know for sure that [...]

A top Taliban leader close to Osama Bin Laden and Mullah Omar was killed in a US air strike this past week, which is another indication that, contrary to he media and the liberal Chicken Littles, we are still making a lot of progress against the terrorists:
U.S. forces said on Saturday they had killed the [...]

Thanks to some privacy groups who more concerned with our government knowing anything about them - as opposed to knowing enough about people travelling here to protect us from attack - it appears the terrorist watch list has been removed from our national defenses:
A counter-terrorism measure by the U.S. Transportation Security Administration violated the 1974 [...]

A lot of people here who adhere to the theory that the Litvinenko incident was an assassination and not a smuggling effort have queried where is the money trail. It is clear a money trail will be the nail in the coffin for those thought to be involved with this incident because it is [...]

I noticed this Powerline post which linked to an article on Brian Ross’ ABC News The Blotter site which describes the enivitability of a terrorist attack in the UK around Christmas:
British intelligence and law enforcement officials have passed on a grim assessment to their U.S. counterparts, “It will be a miracle if there isn’t a [...]

The Russian news outlet Kommersant has the chilling recollections of Marina Litvinenko regarding the illness and death of her husband. It is a gruesome reminder of what the wrong material in the wrong hands is capable of doing. And the path to death was a terrible one, that is clear. It is a [...]