Engram at Back Talk has some excellent analysis on the drop in violence in Iraq, noting two important points: where the bombing of the Gold mosque ignited the violence and how the Surge and Awakening movement have brought back a relative peace. Here are two of the charts contained in the analysis which is best […]

Well, that did not take long. I predicted on Feb 21st that the newly elected Pakistan government was going to get a wake up call and that they need to forget about vengeance on Musharraf and figure out how to protect the people of Pakistan who voted by large margins for peace. Some snippets of […]

What is it with the media and tipping off terrorists when they are under surveillance? Are the bonuses and fame so good you would tip wannabe be mass murderers off that they are being watched? I seriously doubt the money is THAT good – so what would cause a news outlet to broadcast to terrorists […]

Violence in Iraq is down for US forces to the third lowest level ever. AT LEAST 29 US troops died in Iraq in February, the third-lowest monthly casualty toll for the US military since the American-British invasion in 2003. Troop fatalities declined from 40 in January, and from 81 in February 2007. Which means al-Qaeda […]

Seems that there is a serious clash of civilizations forming in Pakistan as the terrorists realize they may not be getting any reprieve from the new government. First off is news that we will be increasing our presence in Afghanistan to train the Pakis. (and on rare occasions attack al-Qaeda). The United States military is […]

Updates Below! The problem phenoms such Obama is they come to believe they have super human powers and can change the world from its gritty, some times deadly, reality into a Sesame Street paradise where all is as simple as counting to twenty. The crowds start intoxicating their mind with the idea the mob-think is […]

Two things on Drudge illustrate how uncontrolled liberal bias in the news media, built up over decades, has destroyed the icons of the US News Media. The rot in the profession became glaringly apparent with the RaTHergate story and the forged documents used to make up a story about Presidential candidate George Bush. The fact […]

Security and Safety – these have to be exceptions to the media’s pursuit of money and fame (face it, the ‘people need to know’ excuse is just to cover up the true motivations). And this includes Prince Harry’s tour of duty to his country. I have seen and heard the lamest excuses from the media […]

We all know the political talking heads (left and right), the media elites and all the pols and political consultants in DC are some place else than America. They don’t get the country and they don’t understand how things resonate. They have been stumped by this year’s election path and will continue to be if […]

al-Qaeda has been attempting to salvage their losing effort in Iraq by increasing their body counts. They had some success in January in getting a slight up-tick in the US casualty number, as I noted in this post and as can be seen in the chart below from that post: As the graph notes the […]