Mar
21
2007
The Democrat House “Leadership” has lost control of its members as the Democrats splinter over a bill that, at its essence, fully funds the Iraq war. The far left liberals are fed up with platitudes and excuses and I seriously doubt they plan to support any more facade votes on Bills that do exactly opposite […]
Mar
21
2007
Update: So far nothing has been found at the nuclear plan (though the search continues) so the alert levels have been lowered somewhat. – end update Two bits of news out of Sweden today are quite disturbing. The first is the discovery of a sizeable bomb outside a bank in central Sweden: A bomb was […]
Mar
21
2007
Three days of fighting between local tribesman, against an al Qaeda stronghold seems to tell me there is some very important reason al Qaeda is holding strong and taking the beating they apparently are taking: Fighting between local and Uzbek militants escalated in northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, as the death toll from three days of […]
Mar
21
2007
I knew Governor Blanco of Louisiana was a disaster during Katrina, but I never knew how much until I read this in a local paper – and her screw ups seem to have started from day one and dominoed from there. Her failure to take quick action to remove the tolls from the Crescent City […]
Mar
20
2007
The Dems are learning a few brutal political lessons, the first of which is they are not President and no one wants them to be, and no one asked them to pretend to be. Check out the WSJ’s commentary on the foolishness (and the wasted actions) of the Congressional Democrats: In wartime, day-to-day military operations […]
Mar
20
2007
All of those who quit on the administration, who called for Gonzales to step down, who looked forward to a replacement – in essence every conservative and Republican who sided with the liberal dems – welcome to a lesson in both backbone and timing: President Bush warned Democrats Tuesday to accept his offer to allow […]
Mar
20
2007
If anyone doesn’t think the tide is turning in Iraq they missed this news where Iraqis opened a can of “WhoopAss” on al Qaeda in Fallujah: Members of an Iraqi tribe along with local police managed to kill 39 al-Qaeda fighters in the town of Falluja, west of the capital city, Iraq’s state TV said […]
Mar
20
2007
When scientists outright lie about science where can people go to expose this outrageous behavior? For example, here is a story proposing a whole new, unfounded and unsusbtantiated theory that biological clocks are tied to the length of day (or when the Sun finally returns being fully overhead at the equator during the Spring Equinox) […]
Mar
20
2007
A quick Flyby this morning before a full day of work. Here is an interesting account in the BBC from someone who has taken two trips into Ramadi – the heart of al Qaeda’s dream caliphate and a center of terrorism and insurgency in Iraq. A snippet: This city of some 400,000 people has been […]
Mar
19
2007
Update: President Bush, one of the few Reps out there with a spine, did as I suspected and is backing Gonzales. And the liberal media and Dems are going to remain distracted (and therefore off balance) on this lame AG shake up – opening opportunities for Reps to show some leadership on serious issues – […]