As most things in life tend to be, things have to hit bottom before conditions finally force people to act. The pressure cooker that was Iraq, which came from distrust and anger after years of pain and suffering, torture and death under Saddam Hussein, had to blow off after the liberation. Ged by lies and […]

Gen Petraeus is developing a troop draw down plan which can be implemented in stages and as conditions warrant: The top American commander in Iraq said Wednesday that he was preparing recommendations on troop reductions before he returns to Washington next month for a report to Congress. He predicted the U.S. footprint in Iraq would […]

The Iraq war is having a profoundly negative effect on al-Qaeda in the eyes of the Muslim world. In no small part this is due to the endless brutality and mayhem al-Qaeda is inflicting on Muslims in Iraq, as today’s headlines clearly illustrate: Four truck bombs exploded in two Iraqi villages in a Kurdish-speaking area […]

You can tell something serious is happening when a story blossoms and then goes absolutely silent. Only when it is a serious matter does the Federal Government go pitch dark on a subject. The latest was the search of DoJ Lawyer Thomas Tamm’s house in regards to the NSA leak investigation. This is not the […]

It seems the bombing of that Russian commuter train which was supposed to have tumbled off a bridge (but its speed was too high and so it flew over the bridge before derailing) was apparently a terrorist attack – at least that is the claim of a Chechen terrorist outfit: A man identifying himself as […]

Please Check Updates Below It will be one of those historically ironic moments if the Battle of Donkey Island outside Ramadi was one of the places where Iraq tipped from unending quagmire to hard fought success. It will be ironic because it might be the day the Donkey Party in America was forever tainted with […]

It seems a terrorist tried to derail a high speed commuter train in Russia and dump it and its passengers over a bridge. The angle about dumping the train over the bridge can be found in this Russian news article (translated into reasonable English). According to the investigation, a homemade bomb with power capacity equivalent […]

The liberal media, grasping for some dark cloud in the silver lining now spreading in Iraq, is now worried that al-Qaeda’s B-Team is ready to go and just as potent: U.S. and Iraqi units have killed or captured nearly 20 senior al Qaeda leaders in Iraq since July 1, but if the past is any […]

While I come down hard on the conservative core in the post below, I have nothing but contempt for the radical left which is so immature that they have succumbed to fantasizing about Bush and killing as an analogy to impeachment: Bush and Cheney merit — overwhelmingly, screamingly — impeachment and conviction. But that doesn’t […]

The political observers are scratching their heads at the Iowa Straw Poll results, but the fact is the GOP stalwarts are way out of sync with the broader GOP base. Just look at the winners of this inside-GOP contest and the national polls – worlds apart. The GOP Congress and the conservative media darlings screwed […]