Efforts proceed at pace in Diyala to reconcile differences between Shia and Sunni tribes and forge an alliance to rid the area of al Qaeda: Approximately 45 local sheiks met with Diyala provincial leadership in Baqouba, Iraq, to discuss their tribe’s concerns, reconcile grievances and discover solutions to rid terrorism from the province, May 23. […]

The Democrat who are pandering to the anti-war base in the face of their all out surrender on the Iraq war funding are stretching credulity again with a promise that they have just begun to fight: Democrats may have lost the first round with President Bush on ending the war in Iraq since taking over […]

al Qaeda clearly brings nothing but bloodshed, killing, heart ache and – worst of all – defeat. The Middle East is slowly realizing that for all their brave talke al Qaeda’s efforts results in massive muslim deaths – more often than not at the hand of al Qaeda themselves. al Qaeda seems to think mass […]

Major Update:: It seems that the investigation into the Litvinenko case is not shut down and the Lugovoi angle is not the only scenarion being investigated: A source close to the investigation said Wednesday that a version involving Leonid Nevzlin, a core shareholder of bankrupt oil company Yukos, in the death of the former secret […]

The votes to support the troops and the war effort were crushing defeats for the Dems and the left. In the House it was two-to-one in support of Bush, in the Senate even more crushing: Bush, who had vowed to veto any legislation with restrictions on troop deployments, announced he would sign the $120 billion […]

The hard right is self destructing on the immigration issue just as the Dems self destructed on the withdrawal of troops from Iraq. Americans may not be happy with the current situation in either case. But they are not ready to surrender Iraq or punish those workers here in the US doing nothing more than […]

John Edwards has really stuck his foot in his mouth with his speech that terrorism is not all that bad and we need to get over it. 9-11 was THE WORST single attack on this country in its history. In a matter of hours 3,000 good souls lost their lives. Edwards goes as far as […]

The House of Representatives has gone back to the pandering days of Jimmy Carter – which elevated the price of gasoline to heights (accounting for inflation) never seen before or since. The House has decided to pass legislation on ‘price gouging’: Congress is desperate to show it feels your pain at the pump. The House […]

On the immigration bill now being debated in the Senate I have this observation: so many people keep posting “why can’t I get what I want and nothing else?” – or variations on that theme. Why? Because this is a democracy. You will not get what you want because others want that aspect and we […]

Berezovsky has been apparently sending messages to his old family bodyguard – Andre Lugovoi – that he needs to stay quiet or else. This is not the first time Berezovsky has sent a message to Lugovoi his life was in danger. When Litvinenko died and Berezovsky’s PR machine ramped up he and his messengers (Alex […]