In the annals of great whoppers there will be “Want to buy the Brooklyn Bridge”, “No of course that outfit doesn’t make you look fat”, and “we don’t need new laws, we just need to enforce the laws we have”. OK, John Kerry and Al Gore have a list of whoppers so long I don’t […]

I tell you what, the political heat in DC is causing a lot of people to lose it – and badly. We have the far right all in a lather because the country won’t bow down to their world view, so they go to the courts to make legislation they cannot pass in a Congress […]

An analysis of captured al Qaeda correspondence, spanning many years, shows an al Qaeda that is inept, fumbling and in disarray. From its beginnings when Bin Laden apparently ran the organization aground in Somalia, to its recent failures and fractures in Iraq, the analysis concludes al Qaeda has barely been able to retain its brand […]

LJStrata has added a new feature to the site that will hopefully allow more people to help support The Strata-Sphere. Just below our link for direct donations (top of right column) you will now find a button that takes you to the Strata-Sphere book shelf. The book shelf is a listing of books we are […]

I have to laugh at Pelosi’s recent moanings about the base she and the demagogues created by their over-the-top rhetoric and exaggerations. Since they created the monster they have no place to complain about a mob mentality on the left that is now rampaging all over the Dems and Reps equally. [Pelosi] “I had, for […]

Update: This is why this kind of mob-attack is so self destructive – this is passion run amok which is now a news media representation of the GOP on health care: But while the Frosts were helping a bipartisan majority in Congress sell a plan to expand the program, they were not prepared for comments […]

The UK’s Telegraph is doing some great reporting from the ground in Iraq. One of their reporters is out in the provinces getting his eyes and ears on the stories and it is turning out to be quite an interesting read. I have linked to them before because of the fresh, objective reporting on Iraq […]

The Holy month of Ramadan was supposed to be al-Qaeda’s Holy month of massacres (the only trick they have left in their arsenal). But it turns out that al-Qaeda just can’t field the same force of violence as it used to be able to last month, let alone last year: As Ramadan draws to a […]