The news media’s most valued asset, as a business, is its credibility to provide news (not propaganda). Here is what I wrote back in June 2005 when the NY Times started its propaganda putsche: If you have money invested in stock of the NYTimes – sell it now. The only value a news organization has […]

While the US commanders in Iraq are wisely waiting to declare any complete victory of al-Qaeda in Iraq, there prime hot spots of Anbar and Diyala Provinces are clearly victories, and the US forces are making adjustments as a result. First in Diyala: he Associated Press is reporting that U.S. forces in Iraq will begin […]

Seems some frustration at the UN led some Syrian diplomats to admit, albeit off the record, that they did indeed lose a secret nuclear facility to a recent Israeli air raid: The Israeli delegation to the talks, headed by Miriam Ziv, the Foreign Ministry’s deputy director general for strategic affairs, accused Syria of smuggling mass […]

The public mood is not good when it comes to DC. The Dems scorched-earth efforts in gaining power are starting to destroy this country’s confidence in its leaders. A new poll shows 11% approve of Congress – which means nearly 90% dissapprove. While Bush is losing ground (mainly to frustrated and angry conservatives who are […]

Some of you maybe can tell by the light posting I am on travel again. It’s going to be like this for about 3-4 weeks. Anyway, I should be able to update some posts later this afternoon but here are some stories I find interesting: On the politics front the GOP is being given a […]

Courts should not be involved in military decisions and fighting wars. There is no legal justice in war. There is the enemy and American lives on the line. There are rules of conduct and a military judicial process for dealing with trangressions. Domestic courts have no business montoring the trenches and dictating processes. Especially when […]

A President, to lead, needs to know how to ignite energetic support among the people and get them to redouble their efforts. It is this surge of focused activity that makes ‘progress’. Sen Hillary Clinton (and her PR team apparently) is do damn tone death to the subtleties of leadership and admiration and respect, and […]

Why should Dems stop using child props on healthcare when the far right is doing such a bang up job of crashing and burning by missing the entire point of the debate? Don’t attack the people used to front for the programs, show how screwed these same people would be if they had to live […]

As I posted below I would wait a while before making such a declaration of victory in Iraq. There is not rush. But with the news media starting to face the stunning possibility that Surrender in Iraq was not the only option, the country and the world may be preparing to accept a Bush victory […]

While some want to give the results more time to solidify, the fact is al-Qaeda had lost Iraq because the people of Iraq rose up and are swearing on the Koran to destroy them: The U.S. military believes it has dealt devastating and perhaps irreversible blows to al-Qaeda in Iraq in recent months, leading some […]