Update: I have extended this topic in a second post above, for those interested. It discusses why this news eliminates the assassination theory as a possible explanation for Litvinenko’s death. – end update It seems the Litvinenko poisoning did take place inside a hotel room in the Mayfair hotel as I said it did, and […]

The notorious Glenn Greenwald, who will jump to a misconclusion like a penguin takes to cold water, is finally realizing that all his celebrations regarding the NSA terrorist surveillance program were all for naught: Maybe Bush didn’t back down on wiretaps Stop celebrating — it’s not yet clear whether the administration really intends to start […]

The Litvinenko saga is still, disturbingly, unsolved with possibly (and probably) a significant amount of the extremely dangerous Po-210 still unaccounted for. One of the strangest late breaking stories related to the Litvinenko poisoning was out of Russia, where authorities were seeing a connection between Yukos-related oligarchs in exile and a series of potential Mercury […]

Democrats are on a tear today. First they have pledged to help terrorists in detention and shield them from interrogation by giving the lawyers and constitutional status in our courts (even though it is our Constitution that is what Bin Laden and al Qaeda want destroyed). In essence they are protecting our enemies from our […]

With their poll numbers tanked and American seeing the Democrats as hopelessly lost (relative to the important issues of the day), the last thing the Dems should do is stretch out to try and protect those enemies of America who have been caught during the war on terror trying to kill us or fight for […]

The ‘surge’ continues to show results before it is even in full swing as we find an failry high al Qaeda leader was captured in Iraq: In a separate incident, Iraqi police captured a Sunni extremist, said to be the leader of several al-Qaeda terrorist cells, during joint operations with coalition advisers, the US military […]

Jeff over at Protein Wisdom went through the Q&A transcripts after the announcement of the new order from the FIS Court and there are numerous statements that the spying continues unabated: QUESTION: What has changed here? What has changed that allows you now allows the FISA court to approve this on whatever basis? SENIOR DEPARTMENT […]

The media are trying to put lipstick on the Pig that is the Democrat agenda for the nation – and failing. A new poll shows a devastating early report card. We all know Democrats came into power with a lot of insincere promises. They needed votes and said what they needed to get them. How […]

Time for another quick review of some interesting stories heading the blogs. First up is the news China may have demonstrated a space based weapon by taking out one of their aging weather satellites with a ground based launch. This is no easy feat, because weather satellites tend to be geosynchronous (that is the are […]

Iraqis rounded up an aid to Muqtada al Sadr in a further demonstration that they are beginning to take some real actions against the Shiia Militias: US and Iraqi troops seized an aide to Shia cleric Moqtada Al Sadr on Friday, confronting a movement that is a key element in the ruling coalition. The raid […]