The news is all over the blogosphere on how Iraqis in Anbar and Diyala Provinces are uniting against al Qaeda and the other foreign fighters (and possibly foreign trained fighters coming out of Iran). The fact the US news media is even behind the BBC in reporting this just illustrates the depth of their loathing […]

Update: More on the stunning new data coming from the Solar-B probe and how it has turned science on its head. Start rewriting all those climate models folks. – end update A brand new spacecraft (Solar-B or Hinode) is up studying the Sun with a fidelity never before seen. If you saw the news on […]

If Iran is training people to kill our troops in Iraq I will say this again: that is an act of war and requires a response – and not a whimpy verbal one.

Al Gore thinks in simplistic analogies because that is all the poor sap has to try and grasp scientific fact. The man claimed “the planet has a fever”, and then claimed you don’t go read science fiction to address it. There goes that liberal art of projection again. The earth’s normal temperature range has been […]

As goes Ramadi goes Anbar Province, as goes Anbar Province so goes Iraq. The last bastion of resistance to a democratically run Iraq is the Sunni triangle. And the tide is turning against al Qaeda and the other foreign fighters and the insurgency as the Bush Surge starts to gain ground and momentum. And you […]

I KNEW there was something screwy with that video of a man blowing up a Bradley APC, but now that it has been pointed out to me (H/T Spook 86 at In From The Cold) I just cannot believe I missed it! One reader (named Tony) notes that a Bradley is about 10 feet tall, […]

This is really a great new plan to inform and show women what “their choice” really actually means: The South Carolina House gave key approval Wednesday to a bill that requires women seeking abortions in this state to first review ultrasound images of their fetus before the procedure. If enacted, it would be the first […]

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Major Update: It seems the fighting to rid Anbar of al Qaeda is broader than I initially thought. So why is the US liberal news media sitting on this news? – end update It seems the locals in Anbar Province are taking up arms alongside the US and Iraqis and attacking al Qaeda militants at […]

Some naive folks think the concept of Executive Privilege and the ability of Congress to compel testimony is unsettled law – too bad they forgot about Darth Cheney and his energy task force. The case law there is clear – Congress will lose any and all court battles. If Congress cannot gain access to visitors, […]