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November 30, 2007
Why Ask Presidential Candidates About Gays In The Military?
For some reason, the "gays in the military" issue seems to come up only in presidential elections. However, the law that keeps gays out of the military comes from Congress, not the President or the military itself More

November 30, 2007
Reply to Matt May
With all due respect to Matthew May, with whom I usually agree, his arguments in his interesting article of today must be answered. More

November 30, 2007
Do-over debate
The fallout from the fiasco CNN "debate" continues. Red State and Human Events propose to host their own More

November 30, 2007
Fox News, YouTube, and our friends, the Saudis
Fox News reports: A prominent Egyptian human rights activist has been muzzled after YouTube and Yahoo! shut down accounts belonging to the award-winning blogger. More

November 30, 2007
I am the very model of a modern Gay Lib General
(On CNN's planting of a Gay general at the GOP debate. To be sung to the tune of Gilbert & Sullivan's I am the very model of a modern Major-General.) More

November 30, 2007
Public Sees Gains in War on Terror
More people now believe we are winning the War on Terror than at any time since the beginning of Bush's second term according to the most recent Rasmussen Poll: More

November 30, 2007
Romney's ACU Endorsement a Plum
Mitt Romney's endorsement by David Keene of the American Conservative Union may be the most significant declaration of support by any individual or group on the right to date. More

November 30, 2007
Thousands Demand Death for 'Teddy Bear' Teacher
It was like something out of a medieval nightmare, the circumstances so bizarre and ridiculous to our western eyes that one begins to wonder if places like Khartoum are existing in the same century as the rest of us. More

November 30, 2007
Weapons Grade Uranium Seized Day after Nuclear Warning
The very day after Canada's Defense Minister warned of a dirty bomb or nuclear device entering North American ports in a cargo container, Slovakian police thwarted the sale of enough weapons grade uranium to prove him right. More

November 30, 2007
Murtha Finds Military Progress in Iraq
Has hell frozen over? More

November 30, 2007
Edwards Would Garnish Wages to Force People into Insurance Scheme
Welcome to the brave new world of John Edwards. More

November 30, 2007
Chavez Caucus in Congress Silent on Coming Referendum
If I recall,there is the equivalent of a Chavez Caucus in Congress. Where are they now when Chavez is in the process of imposing a dictatorship in Venezuela? More

November 30, 2007
Warmist polar expedition was cancelled due to extreme cold
You can't make stuff like this up. The snicker factor just keeps mounting over the antics of global warming alarmists More

November 29, 2007
A GOP Senate seat pick-up in Louisiana?
Finally, some good news for the GOP in Senate recruiting efforts. More

November 29, 2007
OBL tape
There's a new Osama Bin Laden tape out. Dang! If it had been released a day earlier CNN could have used it in the debate. More

November 29, 2007
The evil people do lives after them
Bringing some answers to the rapidly dying Shoah (Holocaust) survivors and historians of all types studying that period, finally: "After more than 60 years, Nazi documents stored in a vast warehouse in Germany were unsealed Wednesday" More

November 29, 2007
Partition Day, 60 years ago, Nov 29, 1947
Today is Partition Day; sixty years ago, on the Gregorian Calendar, on November 29, 1947 the UN agreed to partitioning the land into two states: Israel and Palestine. Israel accepted, the Arabs did not. More

November 29, 2007
Moderate Muslim group slams Sudan over teddy bear case
Excellent news, worthy of praise: The American Islamic Council has denounced the government of Sudan for jailing a British schoolteacher, and demands her immediate release. More

November 29, 2007
So you liberals think you should pay more taxes?
Bill Clinton went on the record recently stating that he should pay more taxes, and is full of resentment that he doesn't. Help is at hand. More

November 29, 2007
No More Sidewalk Sex in Berkeley?
The Berkeley, California, City Council has passed a new ordinance -- called the Public Commons for Everyone Initiative -- that "cracks down on yelling, littering, camping, drunkenness, smoking, urinating and sex on sidewalks and in parks," More

November 29, 2007
Former Chavez Supporters Turning Against Him
The coming referendum on turning Venezuela into the personal fiefdom of President Hugo Chavez may not be quote the sure thing that most experts were predicting just a few weeks ago. More

November 29, 2007
CNN Puts on GOP Debate - Mostly
Well, at least the candidates were all probably Republicans. More

November 29, 2007
R.I.P. Henry Hyde
Former Representative Henry Hyde, a conservative voice in the House of Representatives for 32 years before retiring in 2006, died early this morning: More

November 29, 2007
Everything is Caused by Global Warming (600+ links)
Dr. John Brignell, a British engineering professor, has compiled what has to be the most complete collection of links to media stories ascribing the cause of everything under the sun to global warming. More

November 29, 2007
Philippine Coup Plotters Surrender
Military plotters standing trial for a 2003 coup attempt in the Philippines surrendered after walking out the courtroom and holing up in a 5-star hotel in downtown Manila: More

November 28, 2007
Another one bites the dust
Left wing talk radio is apparently seeing another celebrity-based show going down in flames. More

November 28, 2007
A warning from General Odierno
There is an extremely disturbing item in the current USAID report on Iraq, considering (a) the venue - the principal official reporting vehicle on the Iraq War - and (b) the source - General Odierno More

November 28, 2007
Sissy-men (a poem)
What kind of sissy-men get their fun/ Whipping and jailing women who haven't done/ Anything wrong. They minister hurt with glee/ And blame it on Allah, but they're not fooling me. More

November 28, 2007
No Facebook friendships
In the hot air peace conference that George Bush and Condoleezza Rice are currently hosting, the Saudi Arabian delegates refused to shake hands with the Israelis More

November 28, 2007
Guantanamo no longer a Democratic party talking point
In a sentence: Guantanamo has a big vacancy sign out front since so many suspects have been released to their respective nations More

November 28, 2007
Possible breakthrough in Lebanese Political Stalemate
Lebanon may have a new president by the weekend and with him, a political breakthrough in the year long cabinet crisis. More

November 28, 2007
Deconstructing Bill (again)
Yesterday, Bill Clinton stated he's always opposed the war in Iraq, which if true would have placed him at odds with his position in 1998 when he bombed an aspirin factory just as he was about to be impeached More

November 28, 2007
Press coverage of the Muslim riots in Paris
The British press is actually being more coy than the American press in covering the riots in the Paris suburbs, being vague about who is rampaging. More

November 28, 2007
Musharraf Steps Down as Army Chief
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, under intense pressure from domestic opponents and the international community, has stepped down as Chief of Staff of the Army More

November 28, 2007
More Economic Woes for the Times
More bad news for Pinch and the gang that can't report straight. More

November 28, 2007
Students in Caracas clash with police and pro-Chavez thugs
As the countdown toward the referendum on Hugo Chavez's "constitutional coup" continues, students from all over the country refuse to be quiescent in the face of a campaign of intimidation carried out by the police and pro-Chavez thugs against supporters of democracy: More

November 28, 2007
Great News! Saudis announce 1500 terrorists have 'repented'
Maybe we're going about fighting terrorism the wrong way? More

November 27, 2007
Richard Baehr interview
The website TYGRRRR EXPRESS today is running a fairly extensive print interview with AT political director Richard Baehr. More

November 27, 2007
The Huma ruma is Hillary disinformation
So you're Hillary Clinton, and your past can't withstand examination. What do you do? Well, try a little Black PR operation. More

November 27, 2007
Caroline Glick on Annapolis
Some clear headed thoughts on the Annapolis conference by Caroline Glick in the Jerusalem Post: More

November 27, 2007
NYT Co. and News Corp: a tale of two stock charts
Compare and contrast News Corporation's stock performance with that of The New York Times Company. More

November 27, 2007
Gore pal's eco-warrior ship deposits big carbon footprint in sensitive Antarctic waters
It seems that a friend Al Gore in the business of taking wealthy eco-warriors on tours uses a ship (at this point, a former ship) with a history of inspection problems, and that ship sank last Friday in Antarctic waters. More

November 27, 2007
British Teacher in Sudan in Trouble over Naming of a Teddy Bear
This is one of those stories that after reading it, you have to stop and look around in order to make sure you're still in the 21st century: More

November 27, 2007
Romney lashes out at Rivals
Former Massachussets governor Mitt Romney, trailing badly in the national polls and with time running out, has tapped his inner attack dog and has started to lay into his rivals with a gusto not seen in GOP presidential politics in a while. More

November 27, 2007
2nd Night of Rioting in Paris
Paris police were out in force on Monday night, attempting to tamp down a second night of violence set off by the deaths of two youngsters whose moped struck a police cruiser: More

November 27, 2007
Saudis Rule out Shaking hands with Israelis
It's the little things that always tell the tale... More

November 27, 2007
The 'Party of the little guy?'
Does it strike anyone that the Democratic Party is hypocritical when it comes to Hollywood and income inequality? More

November 26, 2007
Hugo Chavez gets fired
Unfortunately, the diminutive leader still holds onto office as president of Venezuela, but his neighbor Colombia has dumped him as a mediator with narco-terrorists holding hostages. More

November 26, 2007
Poor and minorities hardest hit (updated)
The media narrative on the Cosco Busan oil spill into San Francisco Bay finally gets around to their favorite golden oldie: poor and minorities hardest hit. More

November 26, 2007
Record year for beheadings in Saudi Arabia
Ho hum! Another day, another beheading in Saudi Arabia: Sunday's execution brought to 136 the number of people beheaded in the kingdom this year More

November 26, 2007
Lebanese Shiite cleric slams Hezb'allah
Lebanese Shi'ite cleric Muhammad Al-Hajj Hassan slams Hezb'allah Sec-Gen Nasrallah, and the "Godfather of Idiots" Assad in this TV clip from Future TV in Lebanon. Hezb'allah may have overstepped More

November 26, 2007
One more headache for Musharraf
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has returned from exile and promises to complicate an already dicey political situation: More

November 26, 2007
Senator Lott to Resign by end of year (updated)
Senator Trent Lott (R-MS) has told close advisors that he plans to retire from the Senate by the end of the year: More

November 26, 2007
Thompson Unveils Detailed Tax Plan
Former Tennessee Senator and presidential candidate Fred Thompson's campaign has released a detailed tax plan that has won praise from the conservative Club for Growth: More

November 26, 2007
Rioting in Paris
Rioting has broken out in Paris as a result of a traffic accident involving two Muslim youths whose moped struck a police cruiser, killing the boys: More

November 26, 2007
'Odds now favor a recession' - Summers
In a grim column appearing in the Financial Times, former Treasury Secretary and Harvard University President Lawrence Summers says that the financial crisis gripping credit markets is only going to get worse: More

November 26, 2007
'Redacted Has no Impact
The latest anti Iraq war propaganda movie that Americans refuse to see, More

November 25, 2007
The Australian election
Our [Australian] MSM is very much like your MSM in that it is very biased towards one party, in our case, the Labor Party, therefore someone like Kevin Rudd, our incoming Prime Minister, can expect to go along without ever being seriously challenged. More

November 25, 2007
Fire destroys 49 homes in Malibu
The fire season in California continues, driven by high winds and low humidity. More

November 25, 2007
Archbishop of Canterbury calls US 'Worst" Imperialist
Methinks the High Churchman needs a remedial history lesson: More

November 25, 2007
Update: Text 89279 and say 'Thank You'
More than 130,000 Americans sent messages of gratitude this week to the nation's troops through the "Giving Thanks" text messaging initiative. More

November 25, 2007
Thompson Unloads on Fox News for 'Bias'
Thompson fired away at Chris Wallace of Fox News this morning, accusing the network of being biased against his campaign: More

November 25, 2007
The UN's climate circus in Bali
Elites attending the UN conference on climate change in Bali are expected to generate the equivalent of the annual carbon emissions of the African state of Chad. More

November 25, 2007
Kasparov arrested at anti-Putin Demonstration
Opposition leader and former chess champion Gary Kasparov was arrested and sentenced to 5 days in jail for trying to lead a march protesting the upcoming parliamentary elections. More

November 24, 2007
The Green Follies
It has been suggested that radical environmentalism is a religion because its believers act more on an unshakable set of beliefs than on skeptical scientific analysis. More

November 24, 2007
Chavez: Only a 'Traitor' Will Vote No
Well, at least the opposition in Venezuela knows where they stand in the lead up to the referendum early next month on whether to make that country a socialist dictatorship: More

November 24, 2007
Isabel Necessary?
Isabel Kershner of the New York Times Jerusalem Bureau must have slipped under the radar of the incumbent Sulzberger administration More

November 24, 2007
Stop astronomy before it's too late!
It had to happen sooner or later. The End of the World meme has gone cosmic. More

November 24, 2007
At Least 35 Dead in Pakistani Suicide Bomb Attack
A bus carrying intelligence personnel from the Interservices Intelligence Agency (ISI) was rammed by an explosive laden car, killing at least 35 people: More

November 24, 2007
Saudis Will Attend Annapolis Summit
Saudi Arabia has agreed to attend the summit in Annapolis next week where a deal is still being sought that will restart the peace process between Israel and the Palestinians: More

November 24, 2007
Australia's Howard Defeated (updated)
One of America's staunchest and most reliable allies in the War on Terror, Australia's Prime Minister John Howard, has gone down to defeat: More

November 24, 2007
Political Chaos in Lebanon
What Lahoud left behind was political chaos that threatens to engulf the country in civil war. More

November 23, 2007
Airbus in 'life-threatening' situation?
Tom Enders, CEO of Airbus, has told German unions that the company is in a 'life-threatening' situation thanks to the decline of the dollar against the euro. More

November 23, 2007
Hillary Gets Backing of French Ex-President's Wife
Bernadette Chirac, wife of the former French president, came out in support of Hillary Clinton More

November 23, 2007
Terrorist Bombs Rattle Northern India
A series of coordinated terrorist bomb attacks on Court buildings in Northern India has authorities scrambling to protect the legal system: More

November 23, 2007
Surprise! Guess Which Party Really Represents the Rich?
According to a study by the Heritage Foundation, the Democratic party might want to re-examine some of it's populist rhetoric. More

November 23, 2007
Iraqi Shias Condemn Iran for violence, interferrence
If nothing else, the petition signed by 300,000 Shias in southern Iraq proves that Iraqi Shias are not a monolithic bloc and that there is a substantial body of support for a free and independent Iraq: More

November 23, 2007
Musharraf Clears Last Legal Hurdle to Election
Thanks to a sympathetic court, packed with hand picked loyalists, the last legal challenge to the re-election of President Pervez Musharraf to a second term has been overcome: More

November 23, 2007
Deadline Passes and still no Lebanese President
Another deadline, another delay for the Lebanese government who are finding it extremely difficult to reach a consensus on who should be the next president: More

November 22, 2007
On this Thanksgiving, Give some Props to the Pilgrims
Want an antidote to the politically correct Thanksgiving? How about celebrating the accomplishments of some truly extraordinary people: the Pilgrims of Plymouth Rock: More

November 22, 2007
Strikers Sabotage Rail Lines in France
An eight day walk out of transit workers in France took a new turn yesterday as fires broke out on four separate rail lines of the high speed TGV system: More

November 21, 2007
Beneath Contempt -- even by Jihadist Madman Standards
Today's Australian is offering new details almost too horrific to believe about last month's attempt to kill former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto More

November 21, 2007
The next big MSM storyline
Mark your calendars. The next big MSM storyline on the Democratic candidates surfaced this week More

November 21, 2007
Run, kids!!! It's the Warming Monster!
Yes, children, human-caused Global Warming is even worse now. No, wait --- it's not actually worse. It's not like we have any actual facts. No, the latest banner headlines are about ifs and maybes ... More

November 21, 2007
The Iraq issue in 2008
It was just this past spring that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was proclaiming: "We're going to pick up Senate seats as a result of this war," More

November 21, 2007
Where have all the weapons gone? (Long time passing)
From the Associated Press: U.S. and Russian officials announced agreement Monday on how to safely dispose of 34 metric tons of Russian weapons-grade plutonium More

November 21, 2007
Reclaiming high school education
More and more families have given up on the public school system, and for good reason. More

November 21, 2007
Matthews plays Fantasy Hardball over McClellan 'Bombshell'
By now you've likely heard your fill of the MSM's overreaction to excerpts, released on Monday, of former White House spokesman Scott McClellan's forthcoming book. More

November 21, 2007
Whose Bright Idea was This?
Someone in the Pentagon should pay for this stupidity. More

November 21, 2007
Hillary Chides Obama for his Ludicrous Foreign Policy 'Experience'
Barack Obama thinks that living abroad for four years gives him "a better feel" for international issues than other candidates: More

November 21, 2007
Hillary imitates Johnny Cochran
Hillary Clinton was not too happy that a picture of a nude man was on a wall in a home where a fundraiser was to occur. More

November 21, 2007
Voting with their feet (2)
Forget about what anyone in America says about Iraq. The Iraqi people are doing all the talking that matters at the moment. More

November 21, 2007
Poland 'reconsiders' Euro-US missile defense deal
As I predicted three weeks ago, the election of the left-leaning Civic Platform Party to the majority in Poland has prompted "further study" of the strategically important ballistic missile defense agreement. More

November 21, 2007
San Francisco Rolls out the Welcome Mat for Illegals
Leave it to "sanctuary city" San Francisco to pull something like this: More

November 20, 2007
British legislators defend truth
Britain's venerable Oxford University has followed the lead of the US's Columbia University renouncing their honorable status in the name of perverting the concept of academic freedom of speech. More

November 20, 2007
UN's 'tendency toward alarmism' exposed
According to this report from the Washington Post, the United Nations is planning to acknowledge that it has vastly overstated a supposed looming global catastrophe. This time around it is not global warming, but AIDS. More

November 20, 2007
Panel Picks 4 Presidential Debate Sites
Candidates to question each other? More

November 20, 2007
Musharraf Releases Some Detainees
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has released almost 3500 opposition leaders in a hopeful sign that his rule by decree may be easing. More

November 20, 2007
US Plans Charges Against AP Photographer in Iraq
Bilal Hussein will get his day in court. More

November 20, 2007
Jews 5 Times More Likely to be Hate Crime Victim than Muslims
From our "News that is sure to be buried by the MSM" Department comes the latest figures from the FBI on hate crimes. More

November 20, 2007
Hell has Frozen Over
It's official: The New York Times sees improvement in the security situation in Iraq: More

November 20, 2007
Obama Surges Ahead in Iowa
On both sides of the political divide, the race in Iowa is so much closer than what the national numbers have been saying for months. More

November 20, 2007
AP Plays Loose With FBI Hate Crime Statistics
The Associated Press misleads the public about hate crimes, creating a false impression that anti-black hate crimes have risen significantly. More

November 19, 2007
When first we practice to deceive
Dan Riehl catches a not very internet savvy Clintonite, dumping dirt on Obama to Drudge: More

November 19, 2007
NYT blog reports Murdoch mulled bid for Times
A blog at the New York Times called the DealBook is reporting that Rupert Murdoch considered making a run at the New York Times Company. More

November 19, 2007
Downsizing a newspaper with 'dynamite'
For an industry supposedly in touch with breaking events and trends, the newspaper business has been extraordinarily thick-headed in understanding the looming failure of its traditional business model. More

November 19, 2007
Israel Approves Release of 441 Prisoners
In attempt to boost the standing of Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas prior to next week's Annapolis conference on Middle East peace, Prime Minister Olmert has gotten cabinet approval to release 441 Palestinian prisoners: More

November 19, 2007
The love that dare not speak its name in the NYT
A series of events this year led officials in Oregon to believe that Holman State Wayside Park was no longer providing 10 acres of wholesome diversion. More

November 19, 2007
Kosovo Warned against Independence
A party led by a former Kosovo Albanian rebel is set to win the election held last Saturday, which were boycotted by the Serb minority. More

November 19, 2007
Pricing oil in dollars
Hugo Chavez and Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, neither of whom has ever demonstrated much economic sophistication, contended at the recent OPEC Summit that the weak dollar is at the root of high oil prices. More

November 19, 2007
Bangladesh Cyclone Death Toll now at 15,000
International aid agencies are saying the death toll from the Bangladesh cyclone will top 15,000 with more than a million made homeless: More

November 19, 2007
Consensus Eludes Factions in Lebanese Presidential Election
Even with French Foriegn Minister Bernard Kouchner shuttling between the pro-government and opposition sides, trying to find some formula that would allow a consensus candidate for president to be elected later this week, it appears that all of his efforts are going for naught. More

November 19, 2007
Musharraf 'Wins' his Court Case
It's pretty easy to triumph if you stack the deck in your favor More

November 19, 2007
Attacks in Iraq down 55%
The Washington Post is reporting that attacks in Iraq against civilians and the US military have declined 55% over the last nine months: More

November 19, 2007
Obama missed a slam-dunk
Barack Obama really dropped the ball on the driver's license question in the latest CNN-staged debate. He could have scored major points with undecided and even conservative voters, and established his superior intellect and depth. More

November 19, 2007
Blaming Americans again
Liberals are using the concept of Anthropogenic Global Warming to advance their favorite causes, and that the whole War of the Worlds AGW scare is a tool to that end. More

November 18, 2007
There's something about CIA 'sources' (updated)
While FBI agents and officials are very concerned about Nadim Prouty and her work, some CIA officials are arguing that there's nothing going on here. More

November 18, 2007
Text 89279 and say 'Thank you'
A Pentagon website provides helpful advice on a way to say thanks to those who are far away from home this holiday season, risking their lives for us: More

November 18, 2007
Syrian Spy Prouty Married to Foreign Service Officer
Now, not only are the CIA and FBI tarnished badly by the Prouty matter, the State Department is linked to her, too. More

November 18, 2007
CNN: Uniters Not Dividers
All six of the CNN debate questioners described as "undecided voters" were in fact Democratic operatives, notes Doug Ross. He provides substantial detail about the backgrounds of each. More

November 18, 2007
Mark Steyn on Thanksgiving
He may be, in his own words, a "misfit unassimilated foreigner." But Mark Steyn is also gem of a writer More

November 18, 2007
French and German foreign ministers sing along with an Islamofascist
If it weren't so dangerous, the naïveté demonstrated by the foreign ministers of France and Germany would be almost touching. The two grandees have in effect endorsed a violent Islamist. You haven't read about it in our mainstream media, of course. More

November 18, 2007
New York Times Gets Real on Pakistan
Surprising rationalism from the Times on Pakistan. More

November 18, 2007
Some advice for the Berkeley tree sitters
The Branch Berkeleyan sect has been ordered out of their tree huts by an Alameda County judge, so let's play Monday morning quarterback as to what the forest people could have done differently More

November 18, 2007
Election Watchdogs Cancel Russian Poll Monitoring Effort
The Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), the main election monitoring group in Europe, has cancelled its plans to observe the Russian parliamentary elections early next month: More

November 18, 2007
Further thoughts on Nazis and Christianity
The word Nazi is a contraction of the German for National Socialism. National socialism as compared to what? As compared to international socialism, which was communism. More

November 18, 2007
Politicized Science and the IPPC
Just in time for Thanksgiving, the IPCC has delivered another warning of impending doom. This time, it has to do with the world's oceans' ability to absorb carbon dioxide. More

November 18, 2007
9/11 Counter-Narrative Threatens Giuliani's Candidacy
9/11 families square off in unseemly political row. More

November 17, 2007
Nazis and Christianity
That today's leftists do not know or pretend to not know that the Nazis were socialists as well as ardent secularists is astounding, for it means they do not understand the simple, documented facts of history. More

November 17, 2007
Voting with their feet
This week's USAID report on Iraq has an item on refguees returning to Iraq: "The number of Iraqis returning to their country after fleeing abroad is growing, with more than 46,000 people coming home last month" More

November 17, 2007
Prominent scientist abandons embryonic stem cell research
One of the foremost scientists in stem cell research, Prof. Iam Wilmot, the creator of Dolly the cloned sheep, has decided to completely abandon his work with embryos in favor of the more productive, and morally acceptable, adult stem cell research. More

November 17, 2007
Pakistani Army Readies Assault on Extremists
More than 15,000 Pakistani troops are poised to assault Islamic extremists in the Swat Valley according to the Associated Press: More

November 17, 2007
Clinton, CNN and Fall out from the Debate (updated)
Hillary Clinton's performance at the Las Vegas debate has been overshadowed by charges of planted questions, a planted audience, and curious behavior by CNN that seemed to favor Clinton over other candidates. More

November 17, 2007
Michigan Primary Now in Limbo
The January 15 Michigan primary is now off, the result of a court decision that found part of the law authorizing it illegal. More

November 17, 2007
Chinese Economy 40% Smaller than Thought
A US economist working for the Carnegie Endowment for Peace and citing recent data from the Asian Development Bank estimates that the Chinese economy is actually 40% smaller than previously thought: More

November 17, 2007
Future Darkens for US Control of Internet
A conference sponsored by the United Nations on the internet broke up yesterday with grumbling about US control but no serious proposals on how to change it: More

November 16, 2007
Buried news: Former Soros top aide faces fraud sentence
Did you know that a man described as "a former top aide" of George Soros took a guilty plea on federal charges of conspiring to defraud investors, and faces sentencing next week? I didn't. More

November 16, 2007
Indian Communists reverse stance on nuke talks
Some good news on the stalled Indo-US nuclear treaty is being reported by Bloomberg. Indian Communists have backed down More

November 16, 2007
Senate Dems Fail to Get Enough Votes for House Measure to Leave Iraq
Senate Democrats voted almost along party lines 53-45 to pass a House measure that would have paid for the Iraq War but required the President to start bringing the troops home. Since the measure failed to get 60 votes thus making it filibuster proof, additional funding for the troops is dead for the moment: More

November 16, 2007
Elon University Poll Shows Thompson Strength
A new poll conducted by Elon University's Institute for Politics and Public Affairs of 5 southern coastal states from Florida to Virginia shows some strength for Fred Thompson. More

November 16, 2007
Ouch!
We all make mistakes, but some mistakes are bigger than others. And some end up costing nine figures More

November 16, 2007
Hollywood's 'Secret Society' of Conservatives
Want a quick way to end a promising Hollywood career? If you're a conservative in Tinsletown, the anonymity of the closet is the safest way to avoid calamity: More

November 16, 2007
Debate Lost the Debate
The Las Vegas Democratic Debate began with the fanfare of an NBA game. The players individually took the court to the cheers of their fan groups in attendance. More

November 16, 2007
The candidate of change tries to buy support in early states
AP reports: "Barack Obama's political action committee contributed $128,000 from July through September to local candidates and political organizations in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina" More

November 16, 2007
Recycling at the Dem debate
Democrats apparently attempted to burnish their green credentials last night at the debate by recycling questioners: More

November 16, 2007
CBS Cooks the Books on Vet Suicide Numbers?
The headline is sensational: "Suicide Epidemic Among Veterans" says CBS News. The network asked all 50 states (45 responded) for their suicide data for veterans and non veterans going back to 1995. What they found was disturbing: More

November 16, 2007
Bonds Indicted
The long expected indictment of baseball slugger Barry Bonds has come down as the four year investigation into his shady dealings with steroid supplier Victor Conte and his sports supplement company BALCO resulted in charges that Bonds lied to a grand jury and obstructed justice: More

November 16, 2007
In Cambridge, support for soldiers is pro war
Cambridge, Massachusetts, home of Harvard and MIT, lived down to its reputation of liberal closed mindedness when Boy Scout collection boxes for troops in Iraq were ordered removed from polling places More

November 16, 2007
Hillary Chides Rivals for acting like Republicans
There are times when irony transcends its own definition and enters the realm of parody. More

November 15, 2007
Website claim: 'Jews for Ron Paul' a fraud
The website Sultan Knish claims the group "Jews for Ron Paul" is a fraud. More

November 15, 2007
Washington Post Calls Chavez Drive for Power a "Coup"
In a scathing editorial, the Washington Post has called out Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, referring to his "socialist reforms" as nothing less than a constitutional coup: More

November 15, 2007
Spitzer backs down again
NY Governor Eliot Spitzer has reversed himself on his intention to attempt to force New Yorkers to pay as much as 8.375% sales tax on all purchases bought online More

November 15, 2007
Gallup Poll Shows Americans "Angry and Frustrated" with Dems in Congress
Even though the President suffers from record low approval numbers, the Democratic Congress is, if anything, faring worse as far as popularity is concerned according to a new Gallup Poll: More

November 15, 2007
Al-Durah Case Turns on Raw Video of the Incident
The case against France 2 and their manufacturing the iconic images of a young boy named Mohammed al-Durah being shot by Israelis on during a fire fight was bolstered today when 18 minutes of additional raw footage was presented as evidence to the presiding judge. More

November 15, 2007
CIA Agent with Family Ties to Hezb'allah Posted to Iraq (updated)
NBC has learned that Nada Prouty, the woman who has pled guilty to conspracy and unauthorized access to a classified computer played a larger role in American national security than either the FBI or CIA have let on: More

November 15, 2007
Reactions to Ron Paul campaign article
Yesterday's article by Andrew Walden on the Ron Paul campaign's disturbing unwillingness to distance itself from neo-Nazi supporters predictably drew a lot of reaction. Some of the responses were rather surprising, and one of them, from a respected website, deeply disturbing. More

November 15, 2007
Barack Obama: Global Citizen?
Does Roger Cohen of the New York Times realize that all this hubbub about Obama knowing the world rests on his brief experience in Indonesia when he was a young boy? More

November 15, 2007
House Approves Iraq Withdrawal Bill
Democrats in the House got their way and passed a $50 billion troop funding bill that would force the President to begin withdrawing troops immediately and have all troops out of Iraq by December, 2008: More

November 14, 2007
Al-Durah footage shown: game blown
Do not miss this account of the courtroom viewing of the Al-Durah footage (outtakes of the supposed shooting of Palestinian boy Mohammed al-Durah by Israeli troops) More

November 14, 2007
Where Did All The Liberals Go? (a poem)
With all of his conclusions we may not agree,/ But FDR wore his great office magnificently. More

November 14, 2007
Too much homework?
We received two interesting responses to Charles J. Sykes' article, "The Strange War on Homework." More

November 14, 2007
Hamas massacre of pro-Fatah Palestinians
If only the Palestine Solidarity groups would lead a mass demonstration to the nearest Hamas Office, to protest their savage murder of 7 unarmed Fatah supporters while engaged in a peaceful rally in Gaza More

November 14, 2007
Down from the trees (updated)
One of the tree-sitting protestors illegally attempting to block construction of new athletic facilities next to Memorial Stadium at the University of California has fallen from his perch and sustained serious injury. More

November 14, 2007
Spitzer's Attempted Tax Grab Could Affect Other States
New Yorkers going Christmas shopping online at Amazon.com will find an 8.375% surprise at the virtual cash register, courtesy of Governor Spitzer More

November 14, 2007
Another pro-American wins victory in Europe: Denmark
The list of countries leftists like Alex Baldwin can threaten (promise?) to flee to if another Republican is elected president is thinning. More

November 14, 2007
The NY Times Attempted Smear of Rudy Giuliani
The New York Times' political agenda at work that has once again degraded its journalistic standing. More

November 14, 2007
Musharraf Must Go says Bhutto
Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has let it be known that she now considers Musharraf a lost cause and will refuse to negotiate any further with him: More

November 14, 2007
Lebanese Patriarch Issues his list of Candidates for President
Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Sfeir has spoken. Will the Christians listen? More

November 14, 2007
Iran hands over Blueprints for Part of a Nuclear Device
Iran has finally handed over the proof that their nuclear enrichment activities were not entirely peaceful More

November 14, 2007
Spitzer Backs Off Licensing Plan for Illegals
Under intense national pressure, New York Governor Eliot Spitzer has shelved his controversial plan to give illegal aliens drivers licenses: More

November 14, 2007
Democratic Race Tightens in Iowa
The latest CBS News-New York Times poll shows a tight 3-way race in Iowa among Democrats and a surprising surge by former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee in the GOP contest. More

November 13, 2007
Your FBI in peace and war (updated)
I was temporarily heartened to read this today: "A former agent for the FBI and CIA pleaded guilty Tuesday to faking a marriage to win U.S. citizenship, clearing the way to being hired and given security clearances by the two intelligence agencies." More

November 13, 2007
Former Putin Associate seeks Georgian Presidency
Reuters reports that Georgian billionaire, Badri Patarkatsishvili, will seek the nomination for president as leader of the 10-party opposition coalition aligned against current Georgian President and staunch US ally, Mikhail Saakashvili. More

November 13, 2007
Powerlessness: San Diego almost blacked-out
During the recent wildfires, San Diego came perilously close to being blacked out, thanks to the vulnerability of its connections to the national power grid and the low portion of its electric power that is generated locally. More

November 13, 2007
Former Putin Associate Seeks Georgian Presidency
Reuters reports that Georgian billionaire, Badri Patarkatsishvili, will seek the nomination for president as leader of the 10-party opposition coalition aIigned against current Georgian President and staunch US ally, Mikhail Saakashvili. More

November 13, 2007
Obama's Idea of an 'Ethical' Campaign'
The candidate who is running as the candidate of change and who decalred he wants a more ethical campaign and Administration isn't above using some below the belt tactics. More

November 13, 2007
'Word of the Year'
The New Oxford American Dictionary has chosen its "Word of the Year" and the winner is: More

November 13, 2007
Kansas and powerlessness
Kansas became the very first state in our blessed nation to reject a clean burning, job boosting, economy growing, coal fired power plant because of concerns that it will harm the environment by releasing carbon dioxide. More

November 13, 2007
Thompson Campaign Receives Key Endorsement
The campaign of former Senator Fred Thompson received a much needed boost when it was announced that he would recieve the endorsement of a key conservative group More

November 13, 2007
Obama and the CIA's 'Mission Critical' Diversity Project
Gabriel Schoenfeld notes that on its own the CIA released correspondence indicating that in 2005 it sought Barack Obama's covert assistance on a "diversity" project More

November 13, 2007
Ron Paul's Nazi Supporters (Update for Paulbots)
The candidate continues to pander to the kooks and crazies. More

November 13, 2007
The battle for Middle East Studies
Eminent intellectual dissidents have arisen and are taking on the leftist establishment which has dominated the study of Middle East affairs in the United States. More

November 13, 2007
Bhutto under house arrest - again
The Pakistani authorities have detained Mrs. Bhutto, who was staying at a house in Lahore, More

November 12, 2007
NATO in Afghanistan
Afghanistan was supposed to be the "good war" according to the Liberal Media Party, their Democratic Party affiliates, and our sometimes fickle and fair weather European allies. More

November 12, 2007
She survived a feminist mother
Nancy Morgan writes a heartfelt and wise column in Rightbias.com on her mother: "A die-hard, take no prisoners, true-blue feminist. Armed with a hard-won PhD., she has made her life's work the counseling of the transgendered, the gay and the sexually confused." More

November 12, 2007
Attack trends and oil production trends in Iraq
Following on the success of the surge is an encouraging trend in crude oil production in Iraq. More

November 12, 2007
Daily Kos claims a victim
Waterboarding has at last claimed a victim. Rachel Marsden, a Toronto Sun columnist, was fired last week over a column she wrote on the topic More

November 12, 2007
NY Times Columnist thinks Al-Jazeera 'Balanced'
A real head scratcher of a column from Roger Cohen today. More

November 12, 2007
Palestinian 'cultural exchange' backfires in Connecticut
A "cultural exchange" performance at a public high school by a Palestinian Folklore dance troupe Al-Ghad has backfired on sponsors, including liberal Protestant advocates of replacement theology. More

November 12, 2007
What's in a Name?
We've all heard that 2008 is shaping up to be a big year for Democrats at the polls. But what about it being a big year for liberals? More

November 12, 2007
Justice for AMIA Victims?
Terror came to Argentina on July 18, 1994 in the form of a massive car bomb that blew up the Jewish Community Center in that city (AIMA), leaving 85 dead and nearly 300 injured. More

November 12, 2007
US Strike at Iran "Not in the Offing"
Admiral William Fallon, head of the US Central Command in the Middle East told the Financial Times that an attack on Iran's nuclear sites was not imminent: More

November 12, 2007
Sunni Allies Ambush Al-Qaeda
Pleading with the American military to let them attack the enemy without US assistance, Sunni tribesmen - former enemies now allies - enthusiastically engaged al-Qaeda in an hours long, stand up fight and came out on top: More

November 12, 2007
Musharraf Sets Elections
There is good news and bad news from Pakistan. More

November 11, 2007
Nora Ephron: It's hard to be a Democrat
Mickey Kaus points to Nora Ephron's whining at the Huffington Post, which I'll repeat with my own editorial comments interspersed More

November 11, 2007
The Flag on Vetereans Day (a poem)
On Veterans Day the flag on high,/Against a brilliant November sky,/The cynosure of upturned faces,/Gazing upon its tri-colored graces - /Red for valor, white for purity & innocence, blue for/ Vigilance & perseverance More

November 11, 2007
A Soldier's Sacrifice (a poem)
This poem is dedicated to Sergeant Aaron C. Elandt, who fell in battle on 30 May 2004, as well as to the millions of American Fighters who paid and are paying for our freedom with their lives and sprits. More

November 11, 2007
Anti-theistic Film Premieres Next Month
"The Golden Compass" and the attempt to ensnare children in anti-theism. More

November 11, 2007
Global warming hoaxer now writes for The Guardian (updated)
David Thorpe, the hoaxer with the fake climate science journal, now writes for the left wing UK Guardian as a paid freelancer. More

November 11, 2007
Hillary's Lead Cut in Half in New Hampshire
It's still Hillary and Mitt in the Granite state. More

November 11, 2007
Edwards Booed at Mellencamp Concert
Democratic Presidential candidate John Edwards appeared on stage with pop rock icon John Cougar Mellencamp and was promptly and loudly booed by JCM fans: More

November 11, 2007
Norman Mailer, R.I.P.
He was considered one of America's greatest writers, a man whose novels and essays powered the New Left through the 1960's and 70's More

November 11, 2007
Juan Carlos to Chavez: 'Shut up'
King Juan Carlos of Spain finally did something about the biggest, most obnoxious mouth on the world stage. More

November 11, 2007
Musharraf Releases Top Taliban Official in Custody
Does Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf have a death wish? More

November 10, 2007
Where the heroes are
Check out this essay, "Today I Met The Finest," from Free Republic today. More

November 10, 2007
Happy Birthday to the United States Marine Corps
Two hundred and thiry-two years old, and always faithful. We are forever in the debt of the United States Marine Corps More

November 10, 2007
Flooding the Kerik zone
The New York Times today offers not just an editorial, but an additional op-ed by former opinion editor Gail Collins, slamming Rudy Giuliani over Bernard Kerik. Talk about "flooding the zone" More

November 09, 2007
Exposing a Global Warming hoaxer
Gaius of Blue Crab Boulevard has tracked down the hoaxer who created a fake scientific journal to discredit critics of global warming theory. More

November 09, 2007
Battlefield memorial defaced
Vandals have defaced the Tippecanoe Battlefield Monument in Indiana, on the 196th anniversary of the battle, and just in time for Veterans Day. More

November 09, 2007
And Her Ankles and Butt Are Gorgeous, Too
The psycho-dynamics of the marriage between Hillary and Bill continue to fascinate and appall me. Bill Clinton now claims that he was responsible for the failure of the health care plan More

November 09, 2007
Hillary campaign and the Iowa waitresses (updated)
It seems I was right to be suspicious of the Clinton Campaign's version of the tip story at the Iowa diner last month. Hillary's contempt for actual flesh & blood ordinary working people keeps coming through loud and clear. More

November 09, 2007
Michael Scheuer: AT is 'Goebbels wannabe'
Michael Scheuer, the man in charge of al Qaeda at the CIA prior to 9/11, specifically labels Commentary, National Review, and American Thinker as "Goebbels-wannabes" and "anti-American." More

November 09, 2007
Pakistan: no good options
Diana West, writing in the Washington Times, examines the split in the conservative blogosphere over Pakistan More

November 09, 2007
Newspaper circulation decline even worse
Bizzyblog aggregates newspaper circulation data for the past 60 months and gives us a quote of the day: More

November 08, 2007
Huge offshore oil discovery (updated)
Bloomberg brings news of a huge new oil field discovered off Brazil in the Santos Basin.