Ariel Sharon has announced he is leaving the Likud party which he has been a part of for decades and is striking out to start a new party. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon will quit his ruling Likud party to run separately in national elections and will ask Israel’s president to dissolve parliament for a snap […]

The Watcher’s Council has selected the best posts for this week and here are the results. First place in the Council Category went to Let’s Discuss Bush Derangement Syndrome Again by Dr. Sanity. There was a second place tie between Questioning Their Patriotism by The Glittering Eye and The Untouched Hot Potato by Gates of […]

UPDATE III: This update comes from the Counterterrorism Blog and provides good news irregardless of whether Zarqawi was among the AQ recently killed in Iraq. It also has a major dousing of cold water in it. Despite recent reports to the contrary, Al-Qaida’s Committee in Iraq has suffered numerous casualties during recent combat operations in […]

Mac Ranger teases us some more with his still pending analysis of the Niger/Africa uranium trade, the Wilson trips to Niger, and the forgery scam clumsily used to try and win Joe Wilson a seat on the Kerry campaign. I have posted on this same theory here (with links to other posts) and continue to […]

UPDATE: Mac Ranger pointed out a glaring problem with the Sunday Times article – it was written by serial forger Micheal Smith. We were on of the early blogs that pointed out the insanity of the Downing Street Forgeries which caught Michael Smith making up ridiculous excuses for the forgery efforts – including the question […]

The Washington Post runs an interesting editorial on Woodward, the press, confidential sources and the need to investigate crimes. WE’VE SAID from the start of the investigation into the leak of Valerie Plame’s identity that if administration officials deliberately set out to unmask a secret agent, they should be punished. But we’ve also said that, […]

The liberals in Congress and the media took a pounding tonight as they were forced to stand and fight for what the believed in or cut and run. The House voted 403-3 to reject a nonbinding resolution calling for an immediate troop withdrawal. The dems cut and ran to the face saving vote that said […]

Updates at End Time has the story on the events that brought Woodward forward and his source to Fitzgerald. In his press conference announcing Libby’s indictment, Fitzgerald noted that, “Mr. Libby was the first official known to have told a reporter when he talked to Judith Miller in June of 2003 about Valerie Wilson.” Woodward […]

One reason the French can never, ever set foot in Iraq is there is a good chance the Iraqis would want to attack them. Same for the UN. John Kerry’s silly call for the UN to take over in Iraq is now exposed for the sheer stupidity it was. Captain Ed posts on the French […]

Mac Ranger has heard something that tells him Able Danger is going to explode into the open, applying generous helpings of egg to the faces of the democrats, media and 9-11 Commission. The hint Mac Ranger lays out is Able Danger connected the 9-11 terrorists to Iraq somehow. This is not surprising actually. The purging […]