If anyone is interested the nomination process is starting for the 2006 Weblog Awards. I just learned of these awards last year when I started blogging. I did not nominate anyone but did vote for those who ran blogs I connected with. This is not a post to get nominated. Just passing on the information. […]

The term “Swift-Boating” is now defined as the unforgivable act of bringing out someone’s checkered past and/or their own, damning words to challenge the political facade politicians like to create to decieve voters. So if you are being “Swift-Boated”, then that means you have something to be ashamed of! I am so glad Kerry and […]

One of our more liberal readers thinks Turkey, being an Islamic country and tilting towards Islamic law, has become complicit as Syria in the war on terror and would never work against Al Qaeda. As usual, the liberals are all fantasy and no reality. Turkey has been the target of Al Qaeda terrorism and is […]

The ‘Fence Only’ crowd, which helped bring about the Republican debacle, are at it again and threatening further damage to Reps if they don’t get their way. Just like Cleavon Little holding a gun to his own head in Blazing Saddles, they bring us this silliness: Now that Democrats are in control on Capitol Hill, […]

The war on terror is raging in Afghanistan and Pakistan. NATO and Afghani forces were very successful this weekend in their efforts to confront the terrorists. But it is becoming clear that the center of the terrorist effort has moved to the Northern Provinces of Pakistan. This can be evidenced by the fact Pakistanis seem […]

I find it interesting that the Turks see the Democrats in a very similar light as I do – the true source of instability in the ME. Read this op-ed and ponder why Turkey might find the naivette of the Democrats to border on the dangerous. This person is supporting Democrat rosey scenarios: They might […]

I know PM Blair and others are opening up the discussion to possible alternatives to the Iraq and ME solution – to look at options that are more engagement oriented. But let’s not get unrealistic, like we did in the 1990’s when we dismissed the ferocity coming from the Saudi Madrassa’s and we felt the […]