The short lived parity of the Dems fundraising against the GOP has come to a crashing end: Republicans trying to hold onto the House raised $12.5 million in July, outpacing Democrats by a 3-to-1 margin but leaving the GOP just $1 million ahead in cash on hand. … The NRCC has raised $70 million so […]

I am curious to see how many trains typically derail in a week or month after I noticed a lot of train derailments in the news. The largest today was in Egypt with 80 dead. Another one derailed in Spain with 8 dead. But then there was a train derailment in El Paso 7 days […]

I forgot that the US SC has allowed international mail to be opened without warrant or probable cause, as noted in this piece from the Enterprise Institute, which is dissects the amateurish opinion of Diggs Talyor: She also says that the surveillance violates the Fourth Amendment. But that provision only bans “unreasonable searches and seizures,” […]

RCP notes a great piece in the WaPo which takes all the quitters to task for giving up on Iraq while the Iraqis themselves are still fighting and dying for their future. As the debate on Iraq rages on, we hear more and more voices that call for throwing in the towel and leaving the […]

Iran is using the Hezbollah-Lebanon-Israeli situation as predicted – as a diversion to the Western Public (assisted by the western media) to allow them more time to work on the nuclear weapons program: Hamid Reza Asefi, a foreign ministry spokesman, said on Sunday: “We are not going to suspend [enrichment]. The issue was that everything […]

That fact France has shown once again what a pathetic ally they are by not committing any serious troops to the Lebanon peace keeping force tells me it is time to totally realign the UN. Europe doesn’t need France on the Security Council if it is going to surrender every time there is a tough […]

I posted two days ago on the bomb plot that was uncovered in Germany and only now am I seeing this story in the news. I wonder why the media has been slow to tell the public about this second attempted terrorist attack to be avoided this month? In this case the attack was underway […]