Lots and lots of progress still pouring out of Iraq. First up is news of a Sunni-Kurd power sharing deal in the North of Iraq – ironically the last bastion of major al-Qaeda activity: Sunni Arabs ended a yearlong political boycott Tuesday in Kirkuk — the hub of Iraq’s northern oil fields — under a […]

From al-Qaeda itself we hear they are a defeated force in Iraq: Clarice Feldman jveritas reports this: In his speech released yesterday Abou Omar Al Baghdadi the supposed leader of the Islamic State in Iraq which is Al Qaeda in Iraq said that only two hundered Mohajeroon are left in Iraq. Mohajeroon which means immigrants […]

Tom Tancredo helped spearhead the effort to stop legislation that was going to pass Congress this year which would have secured the borders, created a guest worker program that would not provide a path to citizenship, would make it easy to deport criminal elements, and one thing he did not want – fines and milestones […]

I am starting to wonder if this NIE release wasn’t some form of a Trojan Horse filled with rope for the far left and the Iranians to hang themselves. First off, the NIE is clear – they don’t know if Iran has a nuke program up and running, all they know it they had one […]

Parts of Iraq starting turning around in the fall of ’06 when Sunnis finally had enough of al-Qaeda’s bloody brutality and starting switching sides to fight with the US against the Islamo Facists. This turn of events (not the US election in 2006, which just happened to coincidentally happen at the same time) presented the […]

After a year of hard work and sacrifice in Iraq this year which helped turn things around in that country what is Congress giving in return to all those in and out of uniform to make it happen? Well their Christmas present from Reid and Pelosi will be pink slips under the tree: Federal employees […]

OK, this is wild and very curious: “Florida Democratic Rep. Alcee L. Hastings resigned from the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence on Tuesday. Mac Ranger noted the story and is as perplexed as I am. Was this a forced resignation halfway through the Congressional Session? It’s not like Hastings doesn’t have ‘a past’.

The Washington Post is out this morning with story quoting intel officials who admit that the conclusion that Iran’s nuclear weapons program is still suspended was not a consensus view (hence the low confidence it was given), but was in fact challenged by key elements of the intelligence community: McConnell said his objective in preparing […]