Welcome Powerline readers. Updates at end – keep checking back Reports are out this morning that the FBI has foiled a terrorist plot to bomb the Holland Tunnel in NY City and send a deluge of water into parts of Manhatten. he FBI has uncovered what officials consider a serious plot by jihadists to bomb […]

Most anyone who has tried to predict election cycles, or who will be in the World Series or the World Cup, what the next set of offensive plays will be in an NFL game, or what the next month at work will be like understand the difference between attempting to predict and prepare for something […]

What do you do when an intelligence unit has five+ years to do a job and fails in its mission? You shut it down. How does

Somalian leaders are not-so-quietly telling Osama Bin Laden that they were practicing Islam while the Al Qaeda terrorist was still sucking his thumb and that they do not need his help or guidance. Basically, the have publically told Bin Laden to ‘shove it’: The Prime minister of Somalia, Ali Mohamed Gedi has angrily reacted to […]

Boy, Oh Boy. Something must be in the water in DC because the place is LOSING ITS MIND! In my 46 years living in the DC area I have never seen it this bad with the pols so out of touch that no one would be surprised if they all worked for MIB. Today the […]

Iraqi and US forces have been battling Shiite Militias, militias which have been staffed by Iranians clearly working to destabilize the Iraq democratically elected government. Iraqi and U.S. troops battled Shi’ite militiamen in a village northeast of Baghdad on Thursday, and witnesses and police said U.S. helicopters bombed orchards to flush out gunmen hiding in […]

The US Supreme Court has determined Criminal Courts are the only venue to prosecute our wartime enemies. Well, if we can’t try them without exposing more national security details to the enemy through (our? their?) the press we will just have to kill them. Bring on more virgins! Maybe we should just release them and […]

Honestly,the only thing holding up the Republicans in Congress this year for me is the horrid option the dissarayed Democrats represent. The idiocy of pandering to the KoSKids and DU dumps in a string of failed Senate votes to surrender the field of Iraq (and hide out in Okinawa) just underscored the nation’s core problem […]

Real Clear Politics has a load of good pieces up today discussing the Iraq war – though, we are not at war with Iraq so I find this misnomer most of the problem with the current debate. We have an allied people who we freed from tyranny and brutal oppression we are trying to protect […]

Well, if one understands that only 3 Sarin gas shells is all it took for Saddam to obliterate a Kurdish village of 5,000 people (many women and children), then finding over 100 times that many shells gives credence to the lable Weapon of Mass Destruction.