I know others have posted on The New Republic article by Peter Bergen and Paul Cruickshank, which came out May 23rd, but I want to add this assessment on the decline of al-Qaeda to the list of other similar articles I have been highlighting this week. With one important additional angle – how this article […]

Major Update At The End As I noted in the earlier post below, al-Qaeda has been retreating from a range of defeats in Iraq, Lebanon (and I forgot to mention Afghanistan which is over 75% pacified) and is being surrounded by allied forces. This has allowed allied forces to use intelligence to take out 3 […]

Yesterday I posted on many diverse articles that indicate a rapidly declining al-Qaeda as their credibility has been destroyed through their fascist efforts to violently oppress their fellow Muslims, resulting in innumerable stories of atrocities and the creation of Muslim heros in those who fought back against al-Qaeda.  Today we get another report on the […]

overreach |ˌōvÉ™rˈrē ch | verb1 [ intrans. ] reach too far : never lean sideways from a ladder or overreach. • ( overreach oneself) defeat one’s own purpose by trying to do more than is possible : he was an arrogant egotist who overreached himself. The GOP is a very lucky party right now.  By all measures it is supposedly headed towards huge losses this fall in Congress and the […]

OK, did you know that CO2 levels in the atmosphere were so high back in 1874 that there was a risk of run-away Global Warming which threatened the existence of mankind? Me neither. On of the things I love about “record temperatures” is they always break records from a past that could not have been […]

I would not have predicted, in the year or so after 9-11, that we would find ourselves 7 years later without any new terrorist attacks in the US, and al-Qaeda and their ilk fading in popularity across the Muslim community. And (if one wants to skip to the end of this post) who would have […]

I predicted a couple of times in recent months Obama was heading for trouble because he was losing moderated democrats who were flocking to Hillary (see here and here for examples).  The indicator this would happen would be polls showing no bump for Obama if he won the nomination ‘outright’.  If there was no celebratory […]

It is well known that there is always a downside to all leaps in progress. In the case of the internet and blogosphere the upside was how legions of real experts on subject broad and wide were able to shatter the monopoly the news media held on informing the people on the issues and challenges […]

Before you ask people to commit economic suicide, you best have your predictions coming true and not falling apart as reality overturns all your assumptions and claims. The WSJ notes today how badly the Church of Al Gore played their hand in trying to ram through Congress useless farces on Climate Control: But it would […]

Embryonic Stem Cell Research is another over-hyped activity that has never produced a single cure or therapy.  In fact, because of the complexities involved in controlling the human genetic code the idea of turning on and off the genes like switches on a board to make a cure was always a fantasy fed to the […]