Update:  Reader Crosspatch notes Gateway Pundit has discovered these same images have been used since 2006!  Talk about being duped. – end update Want to kill a business? Produce a shoddy product. One would think that news organizations, who supposedly are fact-checking their product, would have a process to detect fake images. After Rathergate and […]

All the focus on Jesse Jackson’s bitter feelings and comments about Barrack Obama, accidentally picked up on an open mic this weekend, is another useless distraction from the important issues this country faces. This is one of many side shows obsessed on by some conservatives which dilutes, and distracts from, other serious discussions to be […]

Update: Reader Merlin created this wonderful Waffler-in-Chief seal to commemorate Obama’s flip flops! Welcome readers from Lucianne.com Update: LJStrata reminded me I predicted this morning Obama would get this kind of radioactive fallout once he finalized his FISA flip – end update I have never seen the likes of this before. Since when have you […]

12:15 PM Eastern:  OK, they are now voting on the first of 3 Amendments to attempt to remove the telecom immunity from the new FISA bill.  My understanding is this requires a simple majority to pass.  Results soon. 12:18 PM Eastern:  Ayes 32, Nays 66! – Dodd’s telecom immunity amendment crashes and burns.  The FISA […]

I am really, really disappointed in how fevered the rightward swamps have become. After the purity wars and intolerance from the far right to differences of opinion from members of what was a governing conservative coalition, I did not think it could get much worse. But the lunacy over the Obama BC images is just […]

This is a must see for the day – H/T RCP.

Updates Below! A couple of weeks ago I realized Obama probably cannot win in November because the gulf between is radical base and the rest of America is too big to bridge. My premise was this: The calculus required for Obama to win enough votes against John McCain appears to be based on fantasy math. […]

Reader Snapple referred us to some truly fascinating information regarding terrorists we have captured in Iraq and elsewhere – they were drawn out of America to fight our forces overseas! In the 6 ½ years that the U.S. government has been fingerprinting insurgents, detainees and ordinary people in Afghanistan, Iraq and the Horn of Africa, […]

In Iraq the turning point came when Sunni Muslims, fed up and repulsed by their people being massacred by the Islamo Fascists of al-Qaeda, literally turned on their one-time al-Qaeda allies and began to purge their country of this cancer. President Bush and General Petraeus intelligently took advantage of this sea change in allegiance and […]

The Democrat led Congress has fallen to historic lows in terms of support from the American people: The percentage of voters who give Congress good or excellent ratings has fallen to single digits for the first time in Rasmussen Reports tracking history. This month, just 9% say Congress is doing a good or excellent job. […]