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January 31, 2007
Manipulating the ISG's conclusions
James Baker and his pal former ambassador Edward Djerejian are fingered in manipulating Iraq Study Group report to pressure Israel, according to a report in The Forward. More

January 31, 2007
Why not take Chavez's offer?
I genuinely do not understand why Marc Sheppard so vehemently opposes Mr. Chavez's initiative. It is the first time a famous dictator and a threat to all of us stretches a hand of help to his adversaries. More

January 31, 2007
Give Peace a Chance: Support the War!
Thirty or so Gilbert, Arizona teens were out marching for peace on the same day of the national rally for peace in Washington, D.C. As reported in the Arizona Republic, the teens didn't even know that the national rally was taking place More

January 31, 2007
The flying palace
Airbus has unofficially christened (oops, make that "named") the personal jet transport version of its A380 super-jumbo jet "The flying palace" More

January 31, 2007
The heroes of Herouxville (updated)
Kudos to the mayor and six city counselors of Herouxville, a small community northeast of Montreal. Fed up with the demands of immigrants that the city change its values to accommodate them -- can you guess the religion of these demanding immigrants? -- the city has published a set of standards that is, well, priceless More

January 31, 2007
More global warming contradictions
There is evidence that Global Warming theorists try to ignore. More

January 31, 2007
New York Times reports massive loss
The New York Times Co. posted a $648 million loss for the fourth quarter on Wednesday as it absorbed an $814.4 million charge to write down the value of its struggling New England properties More

January 31, 2007
Instability in Iran
The New York Sun offers a trio of items today offering hope for the possibility of regime change in Iran. More

January 31, 2007
Indictment and separate guilty plea in threats against Debbie Schlussel
The wheels of justice have ground slowly in the case of two Muslims who issued death threats against internet and newspaper columnist Debbie Schlussel. More

January 31, 2007
Play "fair" with the liberals
Selwyn Duke recently exposed the duplicitous little game of "fairness" that Liberal Democrats in Congress are trying to impose on talk radio. More

January 30, 2007
Honoring a murderer
There is an effort underway in New York City to have one of the city's streets named after convicted cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal, a man whose effort to evade justice has become a cause célèbre for many on the left. More

January 30, 2007
Palestine: the reality
Around the world, across the planet one issue seems to unite most--not all, but most--of its inhabitants; most of the world's problems would be solved if the so called Palestinians had their own country. More

January 30, 2007
Harsh tradition continues in the Russian Army
The Christian Science Monitor reports today that the Red Army practice of senior non-commissioned officers maintaining discipline through beatings and torture of junior enlisted soldiers continues in the Russian Army, despite Putin's stated intent to reform the military. More

January 30, 2007
Thoughts On The National Review Institute's Conservative Summit
This past weekend, my wife and I attended the National Review Institute's Conservative Summit at the J.W. Marriott in Washington, D.C. This was a fantastic event. More

January 30, 2007
Bell's folly
A Los Angeles Times op-ed piece by Professor David Bell raises the question, was 9/11 really that bad? More

January 30, 2007
More fauxtography
Michael Totten has found another example of fauxtography. He skillfully demonstrates the steps needed to produce the photoshopped end product. More

January 30, 2007
Air America assets sold
Air America could potentially be re-born, with creditors stiffed, and new owners free to search for another path to viability as a left wing talk network. More

January 30, 2007
In ill wind
Subsidies and guarantees are among the favorite tools of governments seeking to manipulate the private sector and untrusting of the market. So what would happen if the US had a European style alternative wind energy project? More

January 30, 2007
Now Dickerson Knows How Libby Must Feel
At yesterday's hearing in the Libby Trial, Ari Fleischer testified under an immunity deal that he had eaten a lunch with Libby, who told him Mrs. Wilson worked at the CIA, that she played a role in sending her husband to Niger and the whole thing was "hush hush." More

January 30, 2007
Bono's pretend invasion of Venezuela
In a Bloomberg News Service article on Bono which ran in yesterday's New York Post, aside from a rehash of Bono's moving his business to the Netherlands for tax purposes, an interesting tidbit emerged More

January 30, 2007
His Smartness, Liberali Maximallus (a poem)
All of a sudden I can't decide/ If my thinking is coming or going/ 'Til I'm watching TV when it hits me./ If losers and sinners/ The made for TV winners,/Why not swap losin' for reason? More

January 29, 2007
Why do they hate us? (a continuing series)
Dinesh D'Souza has unleashed a torrent of criticism with his new book, The Enemy at Home, which "explains" the hatred of the Islamic world for the United States and the West as a reaction to the excesses of our cultural left. More

January 29, 2007
The media and war
After reading J.R. Dunn's article, "The Media Have Changed War," a legal proposal has come to mind. Since what is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander, I propose a McCain-Feingold law for military operations More

January 29, 2007
Effort to silence free speech on terror
The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) is attempting to shut down speech with which it disagrees. More

January 29, 2007
We are going to win this fight for civilization
So writes our contributor Paul Jackson in his Calgary Sun column. He's been talking with the US ambassador to Canada. Sometimes, a little distance from the day-to-day political struggle helps clarify matters. More

January 29, 2007
Clarice Feldman on-air
Clarice Feldman will be a guest on the Dennis Prager show today (Monday) at 10:20 AM PST, 1:20 PM EST. The program is carried nationwide on the Salem Radio Network, and is also available online More

January 29, 2007
The return of the killing fields
The Examiner publishes a telling editorial today on what is likely to happen after Hillary Clinton and other Democrats get their way, and the US makes a hasty withdrawal from Iraq. More

January 29, 2007
Why Fitzgerald went off the rails
Azaghal is a new poster at Just One Minute who has made an interesting point I wish to share: More

January 29, 2007
Self-detonating houses
Brian Ledbetter of Snapped Shot raises an interesting question about the vitriol heaped on Israel for detstroying houses used to attack it - as during the past summer's war with Hezb'allah. More

January 29, 2007
Boxer and CAIR in a tree...
Well that didn't take long! Barbara Boxer, having shown unusual sense in withdrawing an award to a CAIR official, has gotten back to hugs and kisses with them. More

January 28, 2007
Le jet-man
Someone has lived the dream! And he is a French-speaker, albeit of Swiss nationality. More

January 28, 2007
The Iranian nightmare continues
Nobel Prize mathematician, Professor Yisroel (Robert) Aumann, of Hebrew University presented a must read (and learn from) paper last week at a conference on the Balance of Israel's National Security. Aumann, whose specialty is game theory, of course spoke about Iran's threat. More

January 28, 2007
Censoring Obama's name?
The Washington Post mounts its editorial high horse to denounce those who use Senator Obama's middle name "Hussein" when mentioning him. More

January 27, 2007
Learned idiocy
Robert Godwin, the often-brilliant proprietor of One Cosmos, offers some comments of relevance to the puzzle I mentioned in the previous blog post on leftist Jews trying to be "constructively" critical of anti-Semitism on the left. More

January 27, 2007
Leftist Jews grapple with anti-Semitism on the left
The San Francisco office of the Anti-Defamation League, concerned at the rise of anti-Semitism on the left, is convening a conference tomorrow on the subject. Finding Our Voice [is] a daylong conference in San Francisco aimed at empowering Jewish progressives to respond to anti-Semitism on the left. More

January 26, 2007
Israel's worst nightmare
Iran's impending nuclear weapons are an existential threat to Israel, and have already changed the terms of political discussion there. More

January 26, 2007
Get into jail free
While Carter scuttles around the country promoting his lying, error filled book about Israel, the reality on the ground is much different.  The Arabs that Carter believes Israel should negotiate with so they could then live peacefully side by side,... More

January 26, 2007
How bad things have gotten in Venezuela
David Paulin writes at The Big Carnival of the degeneration of the Chavez regime into a thug state. It has gotten so bad that some of Chavez's leftist supporters are now disowning him More

January 26, 2007
NYT investigates conservative hedge fund manager
In a front-page article that ran on Jan.25th regarding hedge fund managers becoming involved in politics, the New York Times gave prominent coverage to Paul Singer whom it describes as a "private reserved man." Clearly that was chum for the NYT sleuths More

January 26, 2007
A dime a dozen
It's the start of another Presidential campaign season. Granted it comes earlier every cycle -like Halloween decorations popping up in stores in August - but the rituals are the same. First come the announcements, then the committee formations and soon thereafter my favorite, the endorsements. More

January 25, 2007
A conspiracy of silence
Britain's Channel Four presented a documentary showing that imams at Birmingham's Green Lane mosque and some other British mosques previously thought to be moderate, in fact preach radical Islamic beliefs. More

January 25, 2007
The first 3 witnesses in the Liby trial
Cecil Turner, a careful reader and most logical Just One Minute poster has done an outstanding job summarizing the testimony of the first three witnesses in the Libby trial. I cannot improve on it. (No one can.) More

January 25, 2007
Uranium-235 (highly enriched) sales plot foiled
Reuters reports from Georgia (the nation in the Caucasus, not the US state) that local authorities have confirmed they broke-up a plot by a Russian citizen to sell highly enriched uranium, the stuff of which nuclear explosions are made More

January 25, 2007
At last! A clear view
James Woolsey, former Director of the CIA, in an interview with Israel National Radio, has spoken a blunt truth. More

January 25, 2007
Encouraging signs in Iraq
Nibras Kazimi has a column in today's (Thursday January 25, 2007) New York Sun titled "Turnaround in Baghdad." His thesis is that we are making real progress in Iraq More

January 25, 2007
Ahmadinejad stormtroopers in Iraq
While the MSM and Democrats are too busy gazing at their navels to figure out the difference between Sunnis and Shiites, things are moving very fast in Iraq. More

January 24, 2007
Sen. Webb's comparison
I had a different thought when Senator Webb mentioned Korea. More

January 24, 2007
Obama = JFK?
Mr. Lewis better avoid watching commercials for the Biography Channel (if he doesn't want to run screaming from his house). More

January 24, 2007
Don't let your brains fall out
That's the advice of Breath of the Beast for those famously "open-minded" PBS viewers who watched the recent documentary on anti-Semitism. More

January 24, 2007
Sen. Webb's comparison to Korea
I was struck by Senator Webb's comparison, in his reply to the State of the Union address, of the present Iraq situation with the Korean war. I thought about this comparison in my blog some months ago. More

January 24, 2007
General Petraeus' assessment of U.S. mistakes in Iraq
As part of his testimony in his promotion hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee today (Tuesday January 23, 2006), General Petraeus submitted answers to a series of questions from the senators More

January 24, 2007
The 800 pound gorilla
Democrat Senator Hillary Clinton entered the 2008 presidential race, taking a jab at President Bush along the way as she finally made the long anticipated move. More

January 24, 2007
Global warming malaise (a poem)
I'm afraid I've gone and gotten a Global Warming malaise. I actually haven't thought of it in days and days and days. More

January 24, 2007
Boxer outclassed in Condi dustup
Leave it to the left-wingers to trip over their tongues every time they try to throw more dirt on the Bush administration. More

January 23, 2007
Downsizing the C-17?
The C-17 military transport is a 4 engine workhouse, the newest generation long range small field harsh terrain aircraft. Some startling pictures of a one-ninth scale model of a C-17 transport got me thinking way, way outside the box. More

January 23, 2007
Brandeis Koshers Carter
Of all the universities, in all the towns, in all the states, it had to be Brandeis that chose to make itself a patsy by providing a protected platform for Jimmy Carter to spout his anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian propaganda More

January 23, 2007
The man just can't get any credit
According to the latest poll George Bush's approval rate stands at thirty-three percent, comparable with that of Richard Nixon during the Watergate crisis. This is frankly astonishing given the situation over which he is presiding. More

January 23, 2007
A buzz of secret talks in the Middle East
Some progress in the Israel-PA-Syria standoff may be in the works, as reported by sources ranging from the Jerusalem Post to WorldNetDaily and others. More

January 23, 2007
Reviewing possible Libby trial witnesses
Just One Minute, the excellent website run by Tom Maguire, is reviewing possible witnesses in the Libby trial More

January 23, 2007
Turns out small towns are smile towns
It took me a while to stumble across it, but it turns out that my thesis in "Small Towns are Smile Towns" -- that small towns are, indeed, friendly, connected places in which to live -- is absolutely correctly. More

January 23, 2007
Journos can't get the facts straight
John Podhoretz skewers the description of the Libby case (which is riddled with errors) given by the head of the Columbia School of Journalism. Tom Maguire shreds the Neil Lewis account of the case in the New York Times More

January 23, 2007
Jack Bauer and fantasy
While it is interesting to point out the technological errors and exaggerated capabilities in 24, there are more obvious fantasy elements More

January 23, 2007
Socialized medicine is not the solution
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has advocated some type of government sponsored health insurance for those Californians who lack it More

January 22, 2007
Two thoughts on the Duke case
A significant part of the Duke Faculty - always excepting the magnificent James Coleman, the Duke law professor who is the Atticus Finch of this affair, a righteous man unafraid to speak the truth in public - hates a significant part of its student body More

January 22, 2007
Mitchell Mystery update
Tom Maguire who knows more about the Libby case than anyone is back. More

January 22, 2007
Dignity through development
Last Friday night my wife and I attended a screening in New York City of a new "anti-environmentalist" movie called Mine Your Own Business. (Yes, the movie was funded in part by the mining industry.) More

January 22, 2007
Giuliani and Abortion
Deroy Murdock has a piece on National Review Online today about former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani's record on abortion. More

January 22, 2007
Smoking and political realignment
Thanks for the AT Blog item "Nanny State Nevada" It's all so true. The jihad against smoking has been, more than any other single issue, the cause of my own re-examination and gradual political reorientation More

January 22, 2007
24 Panic (a poem)
With terrorists wreaking havoc and nukes exploding, The correct media is pathetically imploding. Jack Bauer is scaring them all to death. More

January 21, 2007
North Korea folding on nukes?
First Libya, now North Korea folds on their nuclear program - if this news from the South Korean national daily Chosun Ilbo is to be believed. More

January 21, 2007
Biting the hand
Graham Cunningham's fascinating essay observes that left-wing anti-bourgeois invective originates in the academy. Part of this anti-commerce culture derives from the tradition in British Universities in which Oxbridge Dons were aristocratic gentlemen scholars, the second sons of families whose wealth derived from great landed estates More

January 21, 2007
LDS 101
We are all going to be learning about the Latter Day Saints, should Mitt Romney gain the nomination. One side benefit of a Mormon candidacy for the president would be sustained attention to a fascinating religious group More

January 21, 2007
Nanny State Nevada
The Las Vegas Review-Journal has an article about the statewide anti-smoking law that just went into effect. It forces restaurants, convenience stores and taverns that serve food to ban smoking More

January 21, 2007
Urgent care and universal care
I am a Canadian, and have been following the health care discussion initiated by Patrick Poole and Steven M. Warshawsky. More

January 20, 2007
US secret force against Iranian influence in Iraq
US News & World Report tells us of a secret unit operating in Iraq to erode Iranian influence More

January 20, 2007
"Hizbullah is a tool... of Iranian intelligence"
Those words come from former Hizbullah secretary-general Sheikh Subhi Al-Tufeili in an interview with Kuwaiti daily newspaper Al-Siyassa, as translated by MEMRI. More

January 20, 2007
A True Tall Tale
For Kim Bullock, size does matter - but not the way you're thinking! More

January 20, 2007
The Libby prosecution: a personal grudge?
The Wall Street Journal's Opinionjournal.com carries a provocative editorial today, laying out a possible personal grudge that might help explain the peculiar prosecution of Scooter Libby by Patrick Fitzgerald. More

January 19, 2007
Seinfeld disappoints
Confession: I miss the Seinfeld show; I watch the reruns as consolation. More

January 19, 2007
Picking a Jury: The Libby Voir Dire
Yesterday, as part of the Media Bloggers Association, I covered the ongoing voir dire of potential jurors for the upcoming Libby trial. This is the first time bloggers have been issued press credentials to cover a federal trial. More

January 19, 2007
CAIR's concern
One week into the new season of 24, CAIR is already complaining More

January 19, 2007
The oil price weapon
Numbers of leftists predicted with certainty that following the November elections oil prices would rebound. Their conspiracy theory had it that Bushalliburton was conspiring with its flunkies to dupe the ignorant masses into voting Republican. More

January 19, 2007
The specter of space war draws closer
China's destruction of its own satellite in space with a ballistic missile is doing more than cloud the earth with yet more orbiting debris. It raises the specter of war in space. More

January 19, 2007
UK to leave Euro Human Rights Convention?
The creation of transnational bodies clothed in the lofty rhetoric of human rights and justice all too often ends up constraining the ability of truly democratic states to defend themselves. After all, who can really resist an imperative delivered by a body cloaked in such a righteous mantle? More

January 18, 2007
Where is our Churchill?
Re: J. Peter Mulhern's question Who is our Churchill? He is a prominent member of the American public forum, just as Churchill was of the British forum. More

January 18, 2007
Clintonites hedging their bet with Obama
There are few politicians shrewder or tougher than Rahm Emanuel, my Chicago Northside neighbor. More

January 18, 2007
You knew this was coming
According to a news agency called All Headline News, a Jack Bauer action figure (aka, doll) is going to be coming to toy stores everywhere. More

January 18, 2007
Obama and apostasy from Islam
Barack Obama was born to Muslim father, married to an American atheist. His father's religion is the reason both his first and middle names, Barack and Hussein, are Islamic in origin. According to Islamic scripture, one born to a Muslim father is a Muslim. Forever. More

January 18, 2007
CAIR's big lie on America's Muslim population
Investors Business Daily gives us yet another invaluable editorial today, deconstructing the lie that America's Muslim population has soared to 8 million. More

January 18, 2007
Militias on the wane in Baghdad
One can only hope that the New York Times' editorial board reads today's news story by Sabrina Tavernise More

January 17, 2007
Carter interceded for Nazi SS defendant (updated twice)
From my old office, the Department of Justice's OSS, a report how Jimmy Carter interceded to try to stop a prosecution for an SS Guard. More

January 17, 2007
O little terrorist town of Bethlehem
Just before Christmas a few weeks ago several Christian clerics scooted off to Bethlehem, ostensibly to celebrate the holiday. While there but definitely not in the spirit of the season, these clerics denounced Israel More

January 17, 2007
Speaking of blame
Peter Mulhern today looks at the blame game that would follow a serious terror attack. I have a similar sort of question. More

January 17, 2007
Haditha counsel accuses Pentagon of deceit
Counsel for the Marines on trial for a supposed massacre in Haditha is charging that Pentagon officials intentionally misled or deceived the public about the case More

January 17, 2007
Lack of Health Insurance Is Not the Problem
The problem that is repeatedly pointed to by those seeking "universal" health care isn't what it is assumed to be. More

January 17, 2007
Blacks benefit from crackdown on illegal immigrants
Stark evidence now exists that a crackdown on illegal immigration greatly benefits poor blacks. We have a teachable moment in the immigration debate, if only the movement to protect our borders has the wit to capitalize on it More

January 16, 2007
Flight or fight
The Detroit News reports that The Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations is expected to hold a news conference today regarding the treatment of 40 American Muslim pilgrims More

January 16, 2007
Disappointed By "24" So Far?
As William Shatner famously once said on Saturday Night Live in reference to Star Trek, "It's just a TV show." (HT: Debbie Schlussel.) Yes, 24 is just a TV show. But for the millions of Americans who cannot abide the pervasive liberalism of contemporary TV, 24 has been a breath of fresh air. More

January 16, 2007
Jimmy Carter and the Palestinians
Jimmy Carter and his peculiar attitude toward the Palestinians have taken another whuppin', this time at the hands of one of the most provocative and brilliant columnists in the English speaking world. More

January 16, 2007
Did the Mullahs destroy the Golden Mosque of Samarra?
For many months Al Qaida in Iraq has tried to stir up a civil war between Sunnis and Shi'as. They have told us so. But that assumption is now in doubt. More

January 16, 2007
Castro condition reported "very serious" (updated)
Reuters reports that Fidel Castro is in "very serious" condition due to complications from what should be routine surgery. More

January 16, 2007
Tarnished Globes
The Golden Globes honored Warren Beatty's vast career achievements during its lovefest awards celebration last night. One of those achievements, according to Tom Hanks' script, was having the "balls to go to capitalist Gulf and Western" to finance the movie Reds" More

January 16, 2007
More questions about NCIS
We reported earlier that the Hamdaniya court martial was suspended while the Judge looked into defense charges that the NCIS had put into evidence false witness statements. In the Haditha case, defense counsel has also raised questions about the conduct of the NCIS. More

January 16, 2007
Secret agreement between Isarel and Syria? (updated)
The Israeli paper Haaretz is reporting tonight that secret understanding were reached between representatives of Israel and Syria during a series of secret meetings that occurred in Europe between September 2004 and July 2006. More

January 15, 2007
The attack on KSFO
KSFO radio, a conservative icon in San Francisco is under attack by those who seek to destroy it. More

January 15, 2007
Positive signs in Iraq
A look at the price of the Iraqi dinar through today, Jan. 15, shows that it keeps moving up. More

January 15, 2007
Emergency update (updated)
As of 7 AM Pacific time, we have had a very fragmentary and intermittent restoration of some email service. The problem is at the server level, and it appears that repairs are still underway. More

January 14, 2007
American Thinker HQ email problems
We have been undergoing severe internet and email problems at American Thinker since Saturday afternoon. More

January 14, 2007
Aussiegirl, R.I.P. (updated)
The blogger known by her screen name Aussiegirl, whose website Ultima Thule we have often linked to, has died at the age of 59. More

January 13, 2007
A thought for Condi
Since Barbara Boxer, by her own criterion of personal family involvement, has no standing to be involved with the Iraq War, why bother to answer any more questions from her on that subject?... More

January 13, 2007
Nifong Still Doesn't Get It
The Associated Press reports that Mike Nifong, the rogue prosecutor who is railroading the three Duke lacrosse players for a sexual assault they did not commit, has asked the North Carolina Attorney General to remove him from the case and appoint a special prosecutor. More

January 13, 2007
Comment on "why Europe abandoned Israel"
There is one more major difference between Europe and America that bears mentioning, and it has to do with the nature of the organized labor movement. More

January 13, 2007
Why has Europe abandoned America, as well?
Richard Baehr writes a very thoughtful piece today, entitled "Why Europe Abandoned Israel." I would only suggestion a second question. More

January 13, 2007
NCIS on the hot seat
Lawyers for a defendant in a court martial have charged that the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) altered the statements of the soldier's fellow marines and the trial has been halted for an investigation of the charge. More

January 13, 2007
Democrats and disdain
First it was John Kerry calling American troops child killers and rapists, as in the days of "Jenjis Khan." Then there was his wife Teresa saying that Mrs. Laura Bush staying at home raising two daughters "didn't have a real job." More

January 13, 2007
Dhimmitude in the UK
In the UK, efforts to mollify Muslims continue to lead to absurd positions by pubic authorities. More

January 13, 2007
Time to end academic tenure
Judge Posner, compares job security and the economic consequences of different models. He notes that academic tenure has been scrapped in England More

January 13, 2007
Keith Ellison and impeachment
Rep. Keith Ellison may have a hand in the effort to impeach the President, if a left wing blogger is to be believed. More

January 13, 2007
Blair blames media
Tony Blair has once again made an eloquent case that I wish President Bush had made. More

January 12, 2007
More New York Times hypocrisy
Yet another heartless greedy profitable American corporation is downsizing and outsourcing, while cutting benefits. Sounds like just the sort of thing the New York Times loves to highlight. More

January 12, 2007
The real stakes
Investors Business Daily today nails it on the basic issue of the debate over the President's strategy for Iraq: it's about the consequences of defeat and GW's renewed efforts to achieve victory More

January 12, 2007
The decline and fall of academic standards
Dr. Karla Holloway carries two lofty titles at Duke University: William R. Kenan Jr., Professor of English and Professor of Law. More

January 12, 2007
Oil prices on the way down
Phil Gallagher thinks gasoline prices are heading below two dollars a gallon. More

January 12, 2007
Bungler Brzezinksi finds fault
Zbigniew Brzezinski takes to the op-ed pages of the Washington Post to (surprise!) to point out "five flaws" in President Bush's plan More

January 12, 2007
The Irbil raid
Yesterday, we cited a BBC report of a raid on an Iranian "consulate" in Irbil, Iraq. It wasn't a consulate, and it may have yielded something important. More

January 12, 2007
Persian Gulf or Arabian Gulf?
Place names can be charged with politics. More

January 12, 2007
The troop surge: how many trigger-pullers?
A little perspective on what the President's 20,000 troop surge means on the ground: More

January 12, 2007
Time Magazine hits new low, keeps digging
TIME Magazine presents the "Year in Photos." More

January 11, 2007
Things are getting tense in Iran
Regime Change Iran is reporting some very interesting news. More

January 11, 2007
"Surge" or change in rules of engagement?
The Washington Post reports that the U.S. has taken strong steps against Iran in Iraq: More

January 11, 2007
An Ivy-League Response to "College Degrees, Social Status, and Affirmative Action"
The "social status" aspects of an Ivy League degree are most frequently found in the legal profession and in the executive suite in business. I studied engineering, where the halo effect of a prestige degree wears off quickly in the workplace. More

January 11, 2007
Newsweek's Fineman unglued
Noel Sheppard, writing on Newsbusters, calls attention to Newsweek's Howard Fineman's descent into inane propaganda. Bush Derangement Syndrome is the only explanation for a journalist debasing himself to this extent. More

January 11, 2007
Old War Dogs teach new tricks
This past year I came up with an idea that, strangely enough, bore fruit. More

January 11, 2007
The press, stringers, and American defeat in Vietnam
revisionist school holds that the Vietnam War was far from un-winnable, but was that victory was denied thanks to bad decisions, in many instances influenced by journalists and their coverage. More

January 11, 2007
Bush's course correction: will it work? (updated)
Last night President Bush presented something for everyone. His long-carping critics got an admission of mistakes to crow about. More

January 10, 2007
A missing piece
A good speech by Bush tonight. We all hope this will work. But there is a missing piece More

January 10, 2007
LTG Petraeus (updated)
You should at least note that the author [of The Right Stuff], Frederick J. Chiaventone, works under LTG Petraeus. More

January 10, 2007
Latest Judiciary Committee member
Prominent rising Democratic star Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) the first Moslem member of Congress, has been rewarded. After having first been named to the important House Financial Services Committee he was also just selected to sit on the influential Judiciary Committee. More

January 10, 2007
"Left Fascists" are fascists too...
J.R. Dunn points out today that leftists cannot be fascists, at least according to leftists. That's nonsense, of course, and it deprives political taxonomy of a perfectly useful term created by the Left itself, i.e., "left fascist". More

January 10, 2007
Coincidence or pattern?
A friend notes that The New York Sun article today about the dropping of FBI investigations into intelligence leaks (mentioned in an earlier blog) contains lots of interesting news. (emphasis supplied) More

January 10, 2007
College Degrees, Social Status, and Affirmative Action
What have minorities lost with the putative end of affirmative action at the University of California? More

January 10, 2007
There's something happening here
The Iraqi dinar continues its sharp move upward to its current record valuation (the new dinar was introduced in October 2003). More

January 10, 2007
UN gone wild
The UN ignores its own rules and tradition by allowing a state (Iran) that has promised to destroy another state (Israel) continue as a member. The same UN has financed a document by another group that also calls for the destruction of that very same state (Israel). More

January 10, 2007
Obstruction of justice?
In looking at the shocking account in the New York Sun of FBI investigations into leaks from intelligence agencies that have ben "stymied" by a lack of cooperation from the unidentified "victim agencies", I am scratching my head and wondering whatever happened to charging uncooperative people with obstruction of justice More

January 10, 2007
Chafets to "realists": get real
Writing in the Los Angeles Times, Zev Chafets pulls no punches on the subject of Iran. More

January 10, 2007
Venezuela expropriates (updated)
Emerging markets were severely rocked yesterday by news of Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez's announced expropriation of the electrical and phone companies to advance his 'revolution.' It's part of a long string of expropriations intended to destroy the Venezuelan private sector More

January 10, 2007
Cutting our own throat
I often wonder at the motivations of those who oppose exploiting the oil resources of arctic Alaska. More

January 09, 2007
Berger report
Because of the way it was handled and explained, many believed that Berger's removal and destruction of classified documents from the National Archives, preventing review by the 9-11 Commission was not a serious matter. A newly released Congressional report should put that notion to rest. More

January 09, 2007
Hose Colored Glasses
Recently Clarice Feldman addressed the issue of discriminatory affirmative action, making the case that ``looking at race`` is discriminatory against Asian college students. More

January 09, 2007
Multi-culti pretensions skewered
David Paulin, who inhabits the Austin, TX political ecosystem, has endured yet another Kwanzaa season celebrating a holiday invented out of whole cloth by a Marxist with a violent criminal past More

January 09, 2007
Strange NYT preview of PBS documentary on anti-Semitism
Does anyone else have have a problem with this paragraph found in Alessandra Stanley's story? More

January 09, 2007
Saddam on the joys of gassing people (updated)
For those who thought Saddam's demise was just too, too crude; for those who thought the post hanging cell phone videos popping up everywhere just too, too undignified here are some truly wrenching videos and recordings More

January 09, 2007
Pelosi sells women short
Perhaps Nancy Pelosi, the first Speaker of the House to wear Armani suits with real pearls in public, just doesn't really think highly of women. More

January 08, 2007
A European retreat for wealthy Arabs
It was inevitable. All the wealth flowing into the hands of Arabs has spawned an exclusive high-end resort community in the EU, designed with Arabian themes and marketed to Arabs. More

January 08, 2007
Moving the deck chairs as TIME Magazine sinks
Eagle-eyed Noel Sheppard, who writes both for AT and Newsbusters, spotted the New York Times covering a new rescue strategy for TIME Magazine, a fellow media battleship taking on water and listing (to port, naturally). More

January 08, 2007
Amen
Today Jed Babbin demands that the Department of Justice declassify the suspect CIA referral in the Plame case and I can only underscore my agreement with his position. More

January 08, 2007
Iraqi dinar continues its surge
The Iraqi dinar continues its recent surge, now up 11% from its early September value. As anyone familiar with financial markets knows, it is not in their nature to go in one direction indefinitely More

January 08, 2007
When "looking at race" Is Surely Discrimination
At last an Asian American student has protested anti-Asian admission policies in private institutions. Jian. Li, a Yale student, sued Princeton in a case which could cost Princeton federal funds. More

January 08, 2007
Columbia University Minutemen protest update
Jim Gilchrist of the Minutemen Project, whose basic rights of free speech and safety were brutally curbed, when Columbia University students violently disrupted his talk advocating border controls and opposing illegal immigration, has returned to the school--as a protestor. More

January 07, 2007
NYT finally admits to its lie
Give the New York Times more credit than Dan Rather. A full week after its own public editor Byron Calame laid bare the facts behind the misreporting in a prominent Sunday Magazine cover story, stating that a Salvadoran woman had been sent to jail for 30 years for having an abortion, the Times has finally issued a formal correction. More

January 07, 2007
Who betrayed the military?
The exchange and rebuttal about our failures in prosecuting post-WW II conflicts to total victory has brought to light critical issues that need to be resolved for ensuring success in the Iraq Campaign and the larger Global War on Terror. More

January 07, 2007
AT article is making waves internationally
Herbert E. Meyer's article "How to Think about the War" is attracting considerable attention, internationally. More

January 07, 2007
Who was that unmasked man?
Liberal thought unmasked was expressed at New York's Public Radio station affiliate. More

January 07, 2007
More on transplanting al Aqsa
Herbert E. Meyer's fine response debunking "Dan Gordon's astonishing" (and appalling) proposal that Israel turn over Al-Aqsa, on the Temple Mount to Saudi Arabia, appeases an insidious bias against Jews, a gesture that is unworthy of those professing commitment to Jews and Judaism as does Mr. Gordon. More

January 07, 2007
War plans
Jules Crittenden lays it out rather sharply on his blog site, and doubles down on President Bush being a tough leader making the tough choice. More

January 07, 2007
Mullah knife fight in progress?
The mullahs of Tehran are in midst of the most dangerous power struggle since Jimmy Carter handed Iran to Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979. Think of it as a knife fight for keeps, with nuclear weapons and control of Middle East oil at stake. Michael Ledeen's sources report that Supreme Guide Khamenei is dead, but Iranian media are not confirming that point. More

January 06, 2007
"Mr. Kristof made things up"
Nicholas Kristof is the columnist for the New York Times whom some may recall was the first reporter to megaphone Joseph A Wilson's serial lies against the administration. Mr. Kristof is also a defendant in the defamation suit brought against the New York Times by former Army scientist Steven Hatfill. More

January 06, 2007
Transplanting Al-Aqsa: response
Dan Gordon's astonishing proposal -- that Israel turn over Al-Aqsa, on the Temple Mount, to Saudi Arabia -- reminds me of all those Cold War liberals who twisted themselves into pretzels trying to find some formula for nuclear-arms control that the Soviet Union would accept. More

January 06, 2007
The National Guard needs to be guarded
Let me see if I understand this correctly. The National Guard is mobilized to help stem the tide of illegals across our southern border; only a percentage of them carry loaded weapons; the already stretched thin Border Patrol must protect our so-called protectors More

January 06, 2007
A soldier's thoughts
This column by a returned reservist speaks for itself. An excerpt: "By any measure of logic I should resign my commission, but I can't quite bring myself to do it." More

January 06, 2007
Ideas have consequences
From an Australian blog, The Mind of Flapjack, comes a reminder that some of our most troubling societal characteristics are not that recent in origin. More

January 05, 2007
Newspaper worth even less than thought (updated)
It appears that the money-losing sale of the Tribune for $530 million included five blocks of land on the edge of downtown Minneapolis! More

January 05, 2007
Unreported good news
Nancy Pelosi, the first Italian-American woman to hold the job of Speaker of the House, promised she would help the workers under her Democratic watch. Well, for the workers' sake (and that's most of us) let's all hope she doesn't help too much More

January 05, 2007
Frankly Jefferson
Roll Call notes that Congressman William Jefferson under investigation for bribery and last seen with $90,000 in cold cash hidden in his freezer, has startled his Congressional colleagues by illegally circulating a request for campaign funds using Congressional stationery and franking privileges More

January 05, 2007
Carter and Ford: an exchange
A reader and author exchange views. More

January 05, 2007
Defending Christopher Hitchens
Jennifer Verner whose work we've cited has written "Cow Pie",a strong defense of Chris Hitchens under attack for "plagiarism" by John Barrell. More

January 05, 2007
Barmy Barney
Perhaps one good thing about the Democrat take over of the Congress is that we will now get more coverage of the party members and their over the top thinking and rhetoric. More

January 05, 2007
Here comes the new boss; same as the old boss
It was announced today that President Bush will replace the top commander in Iraq, Gen. George Casey, Jr. with Army Lt. Gen. David H. Petraeus. One brilliant, intellectual soldier-statesman is being replaced by another intellectual More

January 05, 2007
Massive cuts in Royal Navy
The British Royal Navy has just been told to cut its fleet in half. This shocking report was just published by The Telegraph of London. More

January 05, 2007
Prodi rejects death; Death demurs
In a supreme gesture of Eurosilliness, Romano Prodi, the Prime Minister of Italy, has proposed that the European Union should take a united stand against the death penalty --- specifically, the hanging by the neck until dead of one Saddam Hussein More

January 05, 2007
More reasons to praise this country
Yesterday was truly a historic day for many Americans. More than five hundred years after Italian Christopher Columbus set sail for America, Nancy Pelosi ripped through the Parmesan ceiling becoming the first Italian-American Speaker of the House. More

January 05, 2007
Dogfight over MSP
If you arrive at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, 16th busiest in the world (just behind JFK and ahead of Hong Kong International), with a seeing eye dog and want to take a taxi, you may be out of luck. God help you if it is January and the temperature is twenty degrees below zero More

January 05, 2007
First lawsuit filed against Duke
A lacrosse player not indicted in the notorious case has filed the first of what may be a series of cases against Duke University More

January 04, 2007
New York Times Company dumps broadcast properties
The New York Times company has announced an agreement to sell its television station group to a private equity firm, Oak Partners for $575 million dollars More

January 04, 2007
ABC News embarrasses itself
Our contributor Matt May has spotted an embarrassing contention by ABC News in its celebratory reporting of Nancy Pelosi's assumption of the role of Speaker of the House. Not only does it betray a startling ignorance of the Constitution, it features a surprising lack of familiarity with the basic history of the 1970s. More

January 04, 2007
Conservative persuasion
One of the best short explanations of the different mentalities of government bureaucrats and private sector managers is found in this video posted on YouTube. I have no idea who created it, but I wish I could thank them. More

January 04, 2007
Are what point are we complicit in UN atrocities?
Captain Ed reviews the latest charge--this time in the Sudan--of the sexual abuse of children by UN peacekeepers. He asks an excellent question: when does our funding of this organization make us complicit in this conduct? More

January 04, 2007
The Flying Torah (updated)
The Arab airlines on which I have flown have all had copies of the Quran available for passengers in both Arabic and English. But Israel's "second "airline, Israir, a smaller competitor for the much larger and older El Al, has topped both its Israeli and Arab counterparts when it comes to religious texts. More

January 04, 2007
Jefferson's Koran
Curt at Flopping Aces highlights the very interesting history behind Thomas Jefferson's interest in the Koran More

January 04, 2007
Portrait of Congress
As the new 110th Congress takes office today here are some interesting facts about them. Religion, gender, age, race, ethnicity--the portrait of Congress is a portrait of America. More

January 04, 2007
Ah, wasted youth
As the old saying goes, time does have a way of healing most wounds, making apologies easier. More

January 04, 2007
Origin of Ellison's Jefferson Quran gambit
Keith Ellison has pulled off a PR masterstroke in using a Quran once owned by Thomas Jefferson to take his symbolic oath of office. But Steve Gilbert, writing in Sweetness & Light, debunks the claim Ellison has made that it was suggested by an anonymous person. More

January 03, 2007
Fidel's Flunkies Keep Flailing
It's probably too early to award the 2007 prize for Dumbest Commentary, but this column by a former chief of staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee surely will be among the finalists. More

January 03, 2007
Saban coming to Alabama
The news today that The University of Alabama now has a head coach, Nick Saban of the Miami Dolphins and the LSU National Championship Team has driven throngs into Alabama churches rejoicing. Arms are waving high. More

January 03, 2007
Edwards' barn raising: paltry pap
Shawn Macomber has a devastating piece on both the phony and inconsistent text of John Edwards' positions and the smug self-satisfaction of his New Hampshire supporters. More

January 03, 2007
Rewriting the Rules of War: an exchange
Colonel T. Snodgrass responds to a critique of his article by Greg Richards. More

January 03, 2007
Libby Responds to Wilson's Motion to Quash Subpoena
Scooter Libby has responded to Joseph A. Wilson's Motion to Quash a Subpoena Libby isued to him as a "precaution" to assure he'd be available to tesify if necessary at the forthcoming criminal trial. More

January 03, 2007
Hispanic-on-black violence and PC
LaShawn Barber makes several important points in a blog post today on the strange lack of protest and the "stunning" lack of blanket coverage on the problem in California with attacks on blacks by Hispanic gangs. More

January 03, 2007
Times watchdog to get axed?
Once again the New York Times is embarrassed by exposure of its low journalistic standards, compounded by the paper's failure to retract a lie prominently published in a New York Times Magazine cover story. More

January 03, 2007
Iranians and Jews
Our contributor Amil Imani has an article today on the Arutz Sheva website, "Iranians are friends of the Jews." Of Iranian origin and American citizenship, Amil is proud of the pre-Islamic history of tolerance and friendship of his native land. More

January 03, 2007
Reality strikes British socialized medicine
So, still believe that socialized medicine is the cure for all that's supposedly wrong with the US's health system? Tired of smug Europeans crowing about their supposedly cheap, comprehensive health care system? More

January 03, 2007
New York Times lowballs homeless numbers
Estimates of the number of homeless have a long history of politics trumping accuracy. When President Reagan was in office, the American media often quoted made-up figures from "advocates". But yesterday, the New York Times published a surprisingly low estimate More

January 03, 2007
Kevin Barrett responds
To the American Thinker, David Rusin opens his ad hominem diatribe against me and other 9/11 revisionists with an amusing pleonasm about "living, breathing, sentient people" More

January 02, 2007
Is Ahmadinejad Jewish?
The Middle East is a mad, mad, mad, mad world (to quote an old movie title). Tehran and Saudi Arabia are the premier lolly-gaggers, wearing their turbans sideways, staggering in circles, rolling their eyes and sticking out their tongues. More

January 02, 2007
Africa defends itself
Ethiopia has trounced the Somalian jhadis; Kenya is closing its borders to deny them entry and now, Uganda acts and Nigeria may join them in the peacekeeping effort. More

January 02, 2007
"One of the most wide-ranging intellectuals in America today"
That is how the Vanderbilt Register quotes the chair of Vanderbilt's English Department head describing Houston Baker, a new hire from Duke. More

January 02, 2007
Fishing in the desert
Warning! Warning! Presbyterians, Episcopalians, Quakers and other humanitarian liberals, including academics, who encourage divesting from and boycotting Israel (because its citizens refuse to roll over and die when millions of so called third world citizens try to slaughter them), are urged not to read the following More

January 02, 2007
Nuclear doctrine in the age of terror
Yankee Sailor is the blog of a Surface Warfare Officer of 20 years standing in active duty and reserve service. He posts a thoughtful commentary on nuclear warfare doctrine in the age of terror. More

January 01, 2007
Iraqi reaction to Saddam's hanging
Our contributor Rocco DiPippo is working in Baghdad, and writes a first hand account of the Iraqis' reaction to Saddam's execution in The Autonomist. Rocco was opposed to brutality of a televised hanging More

January 01, 2007
Is energy independence finally in sight?
After years of hope and hype, there seems to be visible movement toward new energy sources that stand a decent chance in market competition with current oil, natural gas and coal. More

January 01, 2007
Iran's infernal combustion engines
Iran has seen well over one hundred Iranian-manufactured cars spontaneously burst into flames, in many cases killing the occupants. More

January 01, 2007
Eid in pictures (updated)
Sometimes a picture really is worth a thousand words. It is the season for Eid, the Muslim holy days. Sweetness & Light presents a series of photos of the colorful celebration More

January 01, 2007
Re: Breaking Private Ryan
As a career soldier for over thirty years, I can tell you that the most important factor of any scenario that portends to describe the breaking of the US Army or Marine Corps is that of losing the support of the American people. More

January 01, 2007
Bush and Africa
In probably the least read edition of the year, the Washington Post informs us of the President's unprecedented aid to Africa. Katheryn Lopez of NRO's the Corner contrasts this report with Edwards' jaw flapping on the subject More

January 01, 2007
Wardrobe malfunction strikes Japan
The New Year holiday is the major celebration on the Japanese calendar. This year saw quite a surprise. More

January 01, 2007
Force size in Iraq
One of the changes our forces in Iraq are undergoing is the shift from division size units to battalion size units. These are then subdivided into even smaller units used to embed with Iraqi forces. In the process, we greatly reduce the logistics tail for a given amount of combat force. This improved tooth to tail ratio will lessen the demands on our forces. More

January 01, 2007
The high cost of Jewish allegiance to the Dems
The always thoughtful Gabriel Schoenfeld has written an article about Jews, Muslims and the Democratic Party worth your attention. More