When will the journalists stop thinking about scoops, Pulitzers and raises and start thinking about the implications of what they are doing.  I have said many times the media has a right as long as it is responsible with it, otherwise it is as open to charges of criminal negligence and exposing national secrets as […]

I have been expecting this news for a while now since the Iraqi Army and Police have been successful in managing security for the elections and the recent attempts to ignite civil war. President Bush vowed for the first time yesterday to turn over most of Iraq to newly trained Iraqi troops by the end […]

I have created a new topic solely on news from Pakistan because it seemed apparent to me that this was becoming a major focus of the Global War On Terror (GWOT). Seems I am not alone in this. Bill Rogglio posts on his belief Pakistan is not the prime battlefield in the GWOT: The Battle […]

The DPW deal seems to have done something which needed doing: expose some serious flaws on the right side of the political spectrum. I called the isolationists Chickenhawks for not being able to stand next to an Arab businessman while they supported sending troops into the Middle East to arm, train and fight by Arab […]

Pakistan is booting the Afgahn Taliban out of their norther province. Authorities in a Pakistani tribal region troubled by Islamist militants said yesterday that thousands of Afghans thought to be living there must leave and return home. The North Waziristan tribal area bordering Afghanistan has been the scene of military strikes this month in which […]

** Updates at the end ** The AP is reporting an FBI informant has claimed that Zawahiri, Bin Laden’s number two in Al Qaeda was in the US prior to 9-11: An FBI informant testified today that Osama bin Laden’s right-hand man lived in the Central Valley town of Lodi before the 2001 terrorist attacks. […]

John over at Stop The ACLU alerted me to this supposed ‘final warning’ from a supposed western Al Qaeda member. It is always a tough call on these things to post or not to post. We do not need to seed a new Al Qaeda movement by giving it the press it wants, but at […]

Good news: But Frist, R-Tenn., acknowledged that if an American buyer is not found, and the Bush administration determines there are no security risks, a deal for DP World to manage and operate major U.S. ports still could go through. ”If everything that the president, the administration has said, and that is that there is […]

I am still proudly amazed that President Bush visted our ally Pakistan to show support, at no small personal risk to himself: Beyond that, it was critical to maintain good relations with a country, however problematic, that is at the center of the battle against terrorism. “It was the proper call and a gutsy one,” […]

For doing nothing but being a solid ally of the US economically, militarily and on intelligence efforts, plus offering to fund extending the inspection and monitoring cargo as it is loaded on the ships to come here to America, Dubia Ports Wolrd and The UAE were treated as terrorist criminals. It had something to do […]