President Obama’s neophyte view of the world just got the expected slap in the face from the violent radicals of Iran:
US President Barack Obama’s offer to talk to Iran shows that America’s policy of “domination” has failed, the government spokesman said on Saturday.”This request means Western ideology has become passive, that capitalist thought and the system of [...]

 
Major Update: From a tip I saw over at Black Five, this election is more historic than I first thought. The al Qaeda version of Islam designates women as property which can be stoned for transgressing strict male rules. In Iraq’s version of Islam they are an army of up and coming political leaders:
Four thousand women [...]

It seem Pajama Media is kicking out the small fry so they can have more $$$ for themselves. The Anchoress responds here, Protein Wisdom here, Ace of Spades here.  
Not a surprise. I have been approached by some large blogs from time to time, the minute I discuss a contractual arrangement they go silent. Contracts [...]

 
There is hope for the GOP, it has turned another corner and is back on a positive track. The GOP has begun the necessary process of ‘purifying’ itself from the unreliable far right (or ‘true conservatives’) who spend more time insulting fellow conservatives who don’t toe their line than making conservative progress in manageable steps. [...]

Great news coming out of Pakistan as security forces were able to uncover a distributed suicide/bombing attack on two major Pak cities before it could be executed. The terrorist cells had connections to the top al Qaeda leader in Pakistan who was recently killed in a predator strike:
“We have busted a gang of nine high-profile [...]

 
As the exaggerated promises of embryonic stem cell therapies continue to fall short of the hype, adult stem cell therapies (click on image to read up on adult stem cells) continue to produce medical miracles:
Stem cells transplanted into early-phase multiple sclerosis patients stabilised, and in some cases reversed, the debilitating neurological disorder, according to a [...]

It seems President Obama is probably as sane as his home state Governor – Rod Blagojevich. It has been a tradition in this country for its officers and military to take an oath to protect the constitution, the instrument by which We The People execute our rights and power.
It seems President Obama wants to do [...]

All you need to know about how badly the purity wars crippled the GOP is to look at this graph:

The chart shows how the far right was able to run off those nasty moderate RINOs and push them into the Democrat camp. That includes some serious conservatives like the Anchoress, and keeps conservative independents like [...]

1215 PM Eastern: Governor Blagojevich is stating his case to the Illinois Senate and the people of Illinois. He may have some powerful ammunition in his hip pocket. Right now is claim is he deserves is day in court first. I happen to agree with him. There is no PROOF of anything, simply a criminal complaint. If [...]

It seems the House passed bill on ’stimulus’ is not going to survive the Senate. First off, no Republicans (rightfully) voted for it and 11 Democrats joined them. Now Rassmussen is showing that support and opposition for the bill is now equalized:
Forty-two percent (42%) of the nation’s likely voters now support the president’s plan, … The latest Rasmussen [...]

Is President Obama negotiating a truce with al Qaeda? Is he going to legitimize these nut jobs by actually opening a dialogue and discussing terms as equals on the world stage? 
Barack Obama was working with Arab intermediaries to establish an unofficial dialogue with Al Qaida long before his election as the 44th U.S. president, according [...]

We have been seeing the insanity that takes over politicians when they gain power. They somehow think the office bestows them with (a) demigod-like insight into the workings of the universe (though many cannot keep up with basic science) and (b) have been given the right to tell others how to live.
Our laws were once [...]

 
Unintended consequences. Sometimes these are accidental benefits, serendipities. In these cases the lack of forethought preceding the result is forgiven with humble amazement of the thing called ‘luck’. But when the results are disastrous, then the question becomes could someone reasonably have foreseen the potential for disaster and stopped it.
So let me remove all doubt about [...]

It is becoming quite apparent that some zealots in the federal government have been rigging their data to create the false impression there is an ecological emergency – where there is none:
When first implemented in 1990 as USHCN version1, it employed 1221 stations across the United States. In 1999, NASA’s James Hansen published this graph [...]

The economy is hurting because so many people lost so much wealth their consumption has slowed down incredibly. This slow down in consumption has caused a massive and expanding ripple effect. Now many industries are seeing their revenues slow down or dry up, which causes them to lay off people – and the cycle continues. The initial jolting [...]