Bumped – update below The SurrenderMedia sees what it wants to see. It sees profits and it sees liberal political dominance. And anything that supports those two visions is all some care about – that is the essence of their ‘journalism’. Well blogs have a different standard. And so it was probably not hard for […]

The need for Embryonic Stem Cell Research is now gone. Instead of creating factories full of young human beings (they ain’t monkey embryos) and heading towards a future where there are more human embryos waiting to be harvested for spare parts than in wombs waiting to live, the Adult Stem Cell path has proven to […]

I noted a while back that I felt Musharraf would make a final push to purge his country of the terrorists, and he might even invoke the help of the US. The stories, like this one, keep coming out of Pakistan concerning the push to cleanse the lawless lands of Pakistan of Islamic extremists. But […]

The current crop (or is that ‘crap’) of Democrat Leaders is a wonder of a disaster. They cannot accept victory in Iraq, so they try to short shrift those on the front lines. Gingrich tried a shutdown of government services to force President Clinton to do the bidding of Congress. Lots of people got angry […]

Sorry folks for the blegging, but if you could start your Amazon Christmas shopping here at the Strata-Sphere by clicking through the link on the top right column you would be supporting this blog at no cost to you. Amazon will be passing some of their profits our way, but it is not a lot. […]

The stories of al-Qaeda’s problems are starting to avalanche as Iraq turns the corner, causing a domino effect across the Muslim world in terms of al-Qaeda’s falling credibility and respect. The wave of good news is so strong I can only synopsize and link to the stories these days. So here we go: Coalition forces […]

Ohio is a notoriously bellweather (or maybe in this 50-50 nation that should be weathervane) state. It totters left and right depending on the prevailing mood of the country. Like FL it is considered a purple state at best. So it is always useful to know what the people of Ohio (my mother’s home state) […]

While there is reasonable caution that things in Iraq could still reverse, I think those reasons are swiftly vanishing. Let me first start with the new picture of Iraqi life, as presented by Newsweek: Meanwhile, though, I can contemplate activities that were once unthinkable: like going out to dinner. Baghdad’s famous mazghouf restaurants, selling barbecued […]

We in America our experiencing a Tsunami of good news out of Iraq (see all my posts on Iraq here). It is becoming all too clear I will not be able to keep posting on all of them – there are now just too many! But let’s do one more simply because it is from […]

Only Hitchens can say the obvious with such power and force. A tidbit: A few weeks ago, in Britain’s Prospect magazine, the paper’s foreign editor, Bartle Bull, published a bold essay saying that the high tide of violence in Iraq was essentially behind us and that the ebb had disclosed some interesting things. First, the […]