The news media is supposed to run with solid stories with very little doubt to them – in order to stand up against legal backlashes. Think of it has publishing as if presenting a case in court. Of course this guideline can be blasted when bias and political agenda as we saw in RaThergate and [...]

Some more quick hits on stories I was reading this morning before heading out for the day. Turkey has a man in jail who claims to have trained the 9-11 hijackers. While this could be faux bravado or some effort to divert attention, the man does seem to have the characteristics one would expect in [...]

Some “experts” in physics in the UK have decided mankind’s destruction of the world through Global Warming is not extreme enough. Now they claim our viewing the light coming from distant worlds is in actuality destroying the universe – I kid you not! The startling claim is made by a pair of American cosmologists investigating [...]

A bit busy this Thanksgiving weekend, hope everyone is had a great Thanksgiving day. We are spending some excellent family time together, so blogging will be light for a few days. But I won’t leave folks totally high and dry, so here is a Fly By of some interesting stories on al-Qaeda and Iraq. One [...]

The proponents of embryonic stem cell research continue to deny their mistakes in light of the new process of turning skin cells into stem cells. And they continue to try and rationalize why they were not that wrong, and in the process exposing their gaping ignorance of the basic science of biology that is at [...]

You know the general in charge can really make a difference in a war. Just look at General McClellan and General Grant in the civil war. General McClellan was unimaginative and risk adverse, and therefore let the civil rage for two bloody years to basically a stalemate. The North had the people and resources to [...]

The SurrenderMedia continues to carry al-Qaeda’s water for them by carrying every successful attack al-Qaeda pulls off (which are becoming few and far between). The good news is the sea change in Iraq has basically forced them to start reporting stories that tell the complete picture – the Iraqis standing up to al-Qaeda. To me [...]

Boy, the far left is tying itself into mental knots trying to throw cold water on the Iraq war and its path to success. Needless to say the Twisted Logic Express is being led by the Gray Lady herself. Check out this headline, and then compare it with what is actually being reported on (and [...]

Stem Cell Lies Continue – but at least it is the falsehood of pretending what positions the ESCR fanatics took now that they have egg on their face with the recent news on stem cells derived from skin cells. Those who claimed you had to kill young humans to gain access to stem cells are [...]

OK, I did not think the Surrendercrats in Congress were so self-destructive and stupid they would go all out and try and reverse all the progress in Iraq. I was wrong. They are that stupid. If we withdraw al-Qaeda will try and regain a modicum of success from their butt whooping they have received. As [...]

What can one say about the former CIA head of the Bin Laden unit, who prior to 9-11 underestimated Bin Laden’s abilities, now taking each exaggeration and faux bravado quote by Bin Laden as gospel? Nearly a month since Osama bin Laden published his message to “our people in Iraq”, it is worth taking a [...]

I have to admit, even I hesitate at times to say Iraq is a victory – but it is. Yes, there is an ever dwindling chance al-Qaeda will attack their fellow Muslims in Iraq and inflict more atrocities on them. But it would be their last act as part of Islam, because they would then [...]

Want to see an up to date map of terrorist activities and associated news stories? Go here – it’s awesome.

What does it tell us if hundreds of thousands of Iraqi refugees are returning to Iraq? Update: I guess we can add another metric to the mix of indicators showing a path to victory in Iraq: Civilian casualties are down 60% across Iraq since June, Smith said, and the figure for the capital is even [...]

Update: Jeff at DadManly thinks the Iraqis deserve “Times Persons Of The Year” award. I agree, and the Nobel Peace Prize as well. – end update I have to say I think we are moving from ‘winning’ in Iraq to ‘won’ in Iraq. As the stories of normalcy returning to Iraqi society continue to come [...]