For some reason, the "gays in the military" issue seems to come up only in presidential elections. However, the law that keeps gays out of the military comes from Congress, not the President or the military itself More

With all due respect to Matthew May, with whom I usually agree, his arguments in his interesting article of today must be answered. More

The fallout from the fiasco CNN "debate" continues. Red State and Human Events propose to host their own More

Fox News reports: A prominent Egyptian human rights activist has been muzzled after YouTube and Yahoo! shut down accounts belonging to the award-winning blogger. More

(On CNN's planting of a Gay general at the GOP debate. To be sung to the tune of Gilbert & Sullivan's I am the very model of a modern Major-General.) More

More people now believe we are winning the War on Terror than at any time since the beginning of Bush's second term according to the most recent Rasmussen Poll: More

Mitt Romney's endorsement by David Keene of the American Conservative Union may be the most significant declaration of support by any individual or group on the right to date. More

It was like something out of a medieval nightmare, the circumstances so bizarre and ridiculous to our western eyes that one begins to wonder if places like Khartoum are existing in the same century as the rest of us. More

The very day after Canada's Defense Minister warned of a dirty bomb or nuclear device entering North American ports in a cargo container, Slovakian police thwarted the sale of enough weapons grade uranium to prove him right. More

Has hell frozen over? More

Welcome to the brave new world of John Edwards. More

If I recall,there is the equivalent of a Chavez Caucus in Congress. Where are they now when Chavez is in the process of imposing a dictatorship in Venezuela? More

You can't make stuff like this up. The snicker factor just keeps mounting over the antics of global warming alarmists More

Finally, some good news for the GOP in Senate recruiting efforts. More

There's a new Osama Bin Laden tape out. Dang! If it had been released a day earlier CNN could have used it in the debate. More

Bringing some answers to the rapidly dying Shoah (Holocaust) survivors and historians of all types studying that period, finally: "After more than 60 years, Nazi documents stored in a vast warehouse in Germany were unsealed Wednesday" More

Today is Partition Day; sixty years ago, on the Gregorian Calendar, on November 29, 1947 the UN agreed to partitioning the land into two states: Israel and Palestine. Israel accepted, the Arabs did not. More

Excellent news, worthy of praise: The American Islamic Council has denounced the government of Sudan for jailing a British schoolteacher, and demands her immediate release. More

Bill Clinton went on the record recently stating that he should pay more taxes, and is full of resentment that he doesn't. Help is at hand. More

The coming referendum on turning Venezuela into the personal fiefdom of President Hugo Chavez may not be quote the sure thing that most experts were predicting just a few weeks ago. More

Well, at least the candidates were all probably Republicans. More

Former Representative Henry Hyde, a conservative voice in the House of Representatives for 32 years before retiring in 2006, died early this morning: More

Dr. John Brignell, a British engineering professor, has compiled what has to be the most complete collection of links to media stories ascribing the cause of everything under the sun to global warming. More

Military plotters standing trial for a 2003 coup attempt in the Philippines surrendered after walking out the courtroom and holing up in a 5-star hotel in downtown Manila: More

Left wing talk radio is apparently seeing another celebrity-based show going down in flames. More

There is an extremely disturbing item in the current USAID report on Iraq, considering (a) the venue - the principal official reporting vehicle on the Iraq War - and (b) the source - General Odierno More

What kind of sissy-men get their fun/ Whipping and jailing women who haven't done/ Anything wrong. They minister hurt with glee/ And blame it on Allah, but they're not fooling me. More

In the hot air peace conference that George Bush and Condoleezza Rice are currently hosting, the Saudi Arabian delegates refused to shake hands with the Israelis More

In a sentence: Guantanamo has a big vacancy sign out front since so many suspects have been released to their respective nations More

Lebanon may have a new president by the weekend and with him, a political breakthrough in the year long cabinet crisis. More

Yesterday, Bill Clinton stated he's always opposed the war in Iraq, which if true would have placed him at odds with his position in 1998 when he bombed an aspirin factory just as he was about to be impeached More

The British press is actually being more coy than the American press in covering the riots in the Paris suburbs, being vague about who is rampaging. More

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, under intense pressure from domestic opponents and the international community, has stepped down as Chief of Staff of the Army More

More bad news for Pinch and the gang that can't report straight. More

As the countdown toward the referendum on Hugo Chavez's "constitutional coup" continues, students from all over the country refuse to be quiescent in the face of a campaign of intimidation carried out by the police and pro-Chavez thugs against supporters of democracy: More

Maybe we're going about fighting terrorism the wrong way? More

The website TYGRRRR EXPRESS today is running a fairly extensive print interview with AT political director Richard Baehr. More

So you're Hillary Clinton, and your past can't withstand examination. What do you do? Well, try a little Black PR operation. More

Some clear headed thoughts on the Annapolis conference by Caroline Glick in the Jerusalem Post: More

Compare and contrast News Corporation's stock performance with that of The New York Times Company. More

It seems that a friend Al Gore in the business of taking wealthy eco-warriors on tours uses a ship (at this point, a former ship) with a history of inspection problems, and that ship sank last Friday in Antarctic waters. More

This is one of those stories that after reading it, you have to stop and look around in order to make sure you're still in the 21st century: More

Former Massachussets governor Mitt Romney, trailing badly in the national polls and with time running out, has tapped his inner attack dog and has started to lay into his rivals with a gusto not seen in GOP presidential politics in a while. More

Paris police were out in force on Monday night, attempting to tamp down a second night of violence set off by the deaths of two youngsters whose moped struck a police cruiser: More

It's the little things that always tell the tale... More

Does it strike anyone that the Democratic Party is hypocritical when it comes to Hollywood and income inequality? More

Unfortunately, the diminutive leader still holds onto office as president of Venezuela, but his neighbor Colombia has dumped him as a mediator with narco-terrorists holding hostages. More

The media narrative on the Cosco Busan oil spill into San Francisco Bay finally gets around to their favorite golden oldie: poor and minorities hardest hit. More

Ho hum! Another day, another beheading in Saudi Arabia: Sunday's execution brought to 136 the number of people beheaded in the kingdom this year More

Lebanese Shi'ite cleric Muhammad Al-Hajj Hassan slams Hezb'allah Sec-Gen Nasrallah, and the "Godfather of Idiots" Assad in this TV clip from Future TV in Lebanon. Hezb'allah may have overstepped More

Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has returned from exile and promises to complicate an already dicey political situation: More

Senator Trent Lott (R-MS) has told close advisors that he plans to retire from the Senate by the end of the year: More

Former Tennessee Senator and presidential candidate Fred Thompson's campaign has released a detailed tax plan that has won praise from the conservative Club for Growth: More

Rioting has broken out in Paris as a result of a traffic accident involving two Muslim youths whose moped struck a police cruiser, killing the boys: More

In a grim column appearing in the Financial Times, former Treasury Secretary and Harvard University President Lawrence Summers says that the financial crisis gripping credit markets is only going to get worse: More

The latest anti Iraq war propaganda movie that Americans refuse to see, More

Our [Australian] MSM is very much like your MSM in that it is very biased towards one party, in our case, the Labor Party, therefore someone like Kevin Rudd, our incoming Prime Minister, can expect to go along without ever being seriously challenged. More

The fire season in California continues, driven by high winds and low humidity. More

Methinks the High Churchman needs a remedial history lesson: More

More than 130,000 Americans sent messages of gratitude this week to the nation's troops through the "Giving Thanks" text messaging initiative. More

Thompson fired away at Chris Wallace of Fox News this morning, accusing the network of being biased against his campaign: More

Elites attending the UN conference on climate change in Bali are expected to generate the equivalent of the annual carbon emissions of the African state of Chad. More

Opposition leader and former chess champion Gary Kasparov was arrested and sentenced to 5 days in jail for trying to lead a march protesting the upcoming parliamentary elections. More

It has been suggested that radical environmentalism is a religion because its believers act more on an unshakable set of beliefs than on skeptical scientific analysis. More

Well, at least the opposition in Venezuela knows where they stand in the lead up to the referendum early next month on whether to make that country a socialist dictatorship: More

Isabel Kershner of the New York Times Jerusalem Bureau must have slipped under the radar of the incumbent Sulzberger administration More

It had to happen sooner or later. The End of the World meme has gone cosmic. More

A bus carrying intelligence personnel from the Interservices Intelligence Agency (ISI) was rammed by an explosive laden car, killing at least 35 people: More

Saudi Arabia has agreed to attend the summit in Annapolis next week where a deal is still being sought that will restart the peace process between Israel and the Palestinians: More

One of America's staunchest and most reliable allies in the War on Terror, Australia's Prime Minister John Howard, has gone down to defeat: More

What Lahoud left behind was political chaos that threatens to engulf the country in civil war. More

Tom Enders, CEO of Airbus, has told German unions that the company is in a 'life-threatening' situation thanks to the decline of the dollar against the euro. More

Bernadette Chirac, wife of the former French president, came out in support of Hillary Clinton More

A series of coordinated terrorist bomb attacks on Court buildings in Northern India has authorities scrambling to protect the legal system: More

According to a study by the Heritage Foundation, the Democratic party might want to re-examine some of it's populist rhetoric. More

If nothing else, the petition signed by 300,000 Shias in southern Iraq proves that Iraqi Shias are not a monolithic bloc and that there is a substantial body of support for a free and independent Iraq: More

Thanks to a sympathetic court, packed with hand picked loyalists, the last legal challenge to the re-election of President Pervez Musharraf to a second term has been overcome: More

Another deadline, another delay for the Lebanese government who are finding it extremely difficult to reach a consensus on who should be the next president: More

Want an antidote to the politically correct Thanksgiving? How about celebrating the accomplishments of some truly extraordinary people: the Pilgrims of Plymouth Rock: More

An eight day walk out of transit workers in France took a new turn yesterday as fires broke out on four separate rail lines of the high speed TGV system: More

Today's Australian is offering new details almost too horrific to believe about last month's attempt to kill former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto More

Mark your calendars. The next big MSM storyline on the Democratic candidates surfaced this week More

Yes, children, human-caused Global Warming is even worse now. No, wait --- it's not actually worse. It's not like we have any actual facts. No, the latest banner headlines are about ifs and maybes ... More

It was just this past spring that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was proclaiming: "We're going to pick up Senate seats as a result of this war," More

From the Associated Press: U.S. and Russian officials announced agreement Monday on how to safely dispose of 34 metric tons of Russian weapons-grade plutonium More

More and more families have given up on the public school system, and for good reason. More

By now you've likely heard your fill of the MSM's overreaction to excerpts, released on Monday, of former White House spokesman Scott McClellan's forthcoming book. More

Someone in the Pentagon should pay for this stupidity. More

Barack Obama thinks that living abroad for four years gives him "a better feel" for international issues than other candidates: More

Hillary Clinton was not too happy that a picture of a nude man was on a wall in a home where a fundraiser was to occur. More

Forget about what anyone in America says about Iraq. The Iraqi people are doing all the talking that matters at the moment. More

As I predicted three weeks ago, the election of the left-leaning Civic Platform Party to the majority in Poland has prompted "further study" of the strategically important ballistic missile defense agreement. More

Leave it to "sanctuary city" San Francisco to pull something like this: More

Britain's venerable Oxford University has followed the lead of the US's Columbia University renouncing their honorable status in the name of perverting the concept of academic freedom of speech. More

According to this report from the Washington Post, the United Nations is planning to acknowledge that it has vastly overstated a supposed looming global catastrophe. This time around it is not global warming, but AIDS. More

Candidates to question each other? More

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has released almost 3500 opposition leaders in a hopeful sign that his rule by decree may be easing. More

Bilal Hussein will get his day in court. More

From our "News that is sure to be buried by the MSM" Department comes the latest figures from the FBI on hate crimes. More

It's official: The New York Times sees improvement in the security situation in Iraq: More

On both sides of the political divide, the race in Iowa is so much closer than what the national numbers have been saying for months. More

The Associated Press misleads the public about hate crimes, creating a false impression that anti-black hate crimes have risen significantly. More

Dan Riehl catches a not very internet savvy Clintonite, dumping dirt on Obama to Drudge: More

A blog at the New York Times called the DealBook is reporting that Rupert Murdoch considered making a run at the New York Times Company. More

For an industry supposedly in touch with breaking events and trends, the newspaper business has been extraordinarily thick-headed in understanding the looming failure of its traditional business model. More

In attempt to boost the standing of Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas prior to next week's Annapolis conference on Middle East peace, Prime Minister Olmert has gotten cabinet approval to release 441 Palestinian prisoners: More

A series of events this year led officials in Oregon to believe that Holman State Wayside Park was no longer providing 10 acres of wholesome diversion. More

A party led by a former Kosovo Albanian rebel is set to win the election held last Saturday, which were boycotted by the Serb minority. More

Hugo Chavez and Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, neither of whom has ever demonstrated much economic sophistication, contended at the recent OPEC Summit that the weak dollar is at the root of high oil prices. More

International aid agencies are saying the death toll from the Bangladesh cyclone will top 15,000 with more than a million made homeless: More

Even with French Foriegn Minister Bernard Kouchner shuttling between the pro-government and opposition sides, trying to find some formula that would allow a consensus candidate for president to be elected later this week, it appears that all of his efforts are going for naught. More

It's pretty easy to triumph if you stack the deck in your favor More

The Washington Post is reporting that attacks in Iraq against civilians and the US military have declined 55% over the last nine months: More

Barack Obama really dropped the ball on the driver's license question in the latest CNN-staged debate. He could have scored major points with undecided and even conservative voters, and established his superior intellect and depth. More

Liberals are using the concept of Anthropogenic Global Warming to advance their favorite causes, and that the whole War of the Worlds AGW scare is a tool to that end. More

While FBI agents and officials are very concerned about Nadim Prouty and her work, some CIA officials are arguing that there's nothing going on here. More

A Pentagon website provides helpful advice on a way to say thanks to those who are far away from home this holiday season, risking their lives for us: More

Now, not only are the CIA and FBI tarnished badly by the Prouty matter, the State Department is linked to her, too. More

All six of the CNN debate questioners described as "undecided voters" were in fact Democratic operatives, notes Doug Ross. He provides substantial detail about the backgrounds of each. More

He may be, in his own words, a "misfit unassimilated foreigner." But Mark Steyn is also gem of a writer More

If it weren't so dangerous, the naïveté demonstrated by the foreign ministers of France and Germany would be almost touching. The two grandees have in effect endorsed a violent Islamist. You haven't read about it in our mainstream media, of course. More

Surprising rationalism from the Times on Pakistan. More

The Branch Berkeleyan sect has been ordered out of their tree huts by an Alameda County judge, so let's play Monday morning quarterback as to what the forest people could have done differently More

The Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), the main election monitoring group in Europe, has cancelled its plans to observe the Russian parliamentary elections early next month: More

The word Nazi is a contraction of the German for National Socialism. National socialism as compared to what? As compared to international socialism, which was communism. More

Just in time for Thanksgiving, the IPCC has delivered another warning of impending doom. This time, it has to do with the world's oceans' ability to absorb carbon dioxide. More

9/11 families square off in unseemly political row. More

That today's leftists do not know or pretend to not know that the Nazis were socialists as well as ardent secularists is astounding, for it means they do not understand the simple, documented facts of history. More

This week's USAID report on Iraq has an item on refguees returning to Iraq: "The number of Iraqis returning to their country after fleeing abroad is growing, with more than 46,000 people coming home last month" More

One of the foremost scientists in stem cell research, Prof. Iam Wilmot, the creator of Dolly the cloned sheep, has decided to completely abandon his work with embryos in favor of the more productive, and morally acceptable, adult stem cell research. More

More than 15,000 Pakistani troops are poised to assault Islamic extremists in the Swat Valley according to the Associated Press: More

Hillary Clinton's performance at the Las Vegas debate has been overshadowed by charges of planted questions, a planted audience, and curious behavior by CNN that seemed to favor Clinton over other candidates. More

The January 15 Michigan primary is now off, the result of a court decision that found part of the law authorizing it illegal. More

A US economist working for the Carnegie Endowment for Peace and citing recent data from the Asian Development Bank estimates that the Chinese economy is actually 40% smaller than previously thought: More

A conference sponsored by the United Nations on the internet broke up yesterday with grumbling about US control but no serious proposals on how to change it: More

Did you know that a man described as "a former top aide" of George Soros took a guilty plea on federal charges of conspiring to defraud investors, and faces sentencing next week? I didn't. More

Some good news on the stalled Indo-US nuclear treaty is being reported by Bloomberg. Indian Communists have backed down More

Senate Democrats voted almost along party lines 53-45 to pass a House measure that would have paid for the Iraq War but required the President to start bringing the troops home. Since the measure failed to get 60 votes thus making it filibuster proof, additional funding for the troops is dead for the moment: More

A new poll conducted by Elon University's Institute for Politics and Public Affairs of 5 southern coastal states from Florida to Virginia shows some strength for Fred Thompson. More

We all make mistakes, but some mistakes are bigger than others. And some end up costing nine figures More

Want a quick way to end a promising Hollywood career? If you're a conservative in Tinsletown, the anonymity of the closet is the safest way to avoid calamity: More

The Las Vegas Democratic Debate began with the fanfare of an NBA game. The players individually took the court to the cheers of their fan groups in attendance. More

AP reports: "Barack Obama's political action committee contributed $128,000 from July through September to local candidates and political organizations in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina" More

Democrats apparently attempted to burnish their green credentials last night at the debate by recycling questioners: More

The headline is sensational: "Suicide Epidemic Among Veterans" says CBS News. The network asked all 50 states (45 responded) for their suicide data for veterans and non veterans going back to 1995. What they found was disturbing: More

The long expected indictment of baseball slugger Barry Bonds has come down as the four year investigation into his shady dealings with steroid supplier Victor Conte and his sports supplement company BALCO resulted in charges that Bonds lied to a grand jury and obstructed justice: More

Cambridge, Massachusetts, home of Harvard and MIT, lived down to its reputation of liberal closed mindedness when Boy Scout collection boxes for troops in Iraq were ordered removed from polling places More

There are times when irony transcends its own definition and enters the realm of parody. More

The website Sultan Knish claims the group "Jews for Ron Paul" is a fraud. More

In a scathing editorial, the Washington Post has called out Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, referring to his "socialist reforms" as nothing less than a constitutional coup: More

NY Governor Eliot Spitzer has reversed himself on his intention to attempt to force New Yorkers to pay as much as 8.375% sales tax on all purchases bought online More

Even though the President suffers from record low approval numbers, the Democratic Congress is, if anything, faring worse as far as popularity is concerned according to a new Gallup Poll: More

The case against France 2 and their manufacturing the iconic images of a young boy named Mohammed al-Durah being shot by Israelis on during a fire fight was bolstered today when 18 minutes of additional raw footage was presented as evidence to the presiding judge. More

NBC has learned that Nada Prouty, the woman who has pled guilty to conspracy and unauthorized access to a classified computer played a larger role in American national security than either the FBI or CIA have let on: More

Yesterday's article by Andrew Walden on the Ron Paul campaign's disturbing unwillingness to distance itself from neo-Nazi supporters predictably drew a lot of reaction. Some of the responses were rather surprising, and one of them, from a respected website, deeply disturbing. More

Does Roger Cohen of the New York Times realize that all this hubbub about Obama knowing the world rests on his brief experience in Indonesia when he was a young boy? More

Democrats in the House got their way and passed a $50 billion troop funding bill that would force the President to begin withdrawing troops immediately and have all troops out of Iraq by December, 2008: More

Do not miss this account of the courtroom viewing of the Al-Durah footage (outtakes of the supposed shooting of Palestinian boy Mohammed al-Durah by Israeli troops) More

With all of his conclusions we may not agree,/ But FDR wore his great office magnificently. More

We received two interesting responses to Charles J. Sykes' article, "The Strange War on Homework." More

If only the Palestine Solidarity groups would lead a mass demonstration to the nearest Hamas Office, to protest their savage murder of 7 unarmed Fatah supporters while engaged in a peaceful rally in Gaza More

One of the tree-sitting protestors illegally attempting to block construction of new athletic facilities next to Memorial Stadium at the University of California has fallen from his perch and sustained serious injury. More

New Yorkers going Christmas shopping online at Amazon.com will find an 8.375% surprise at the virtual cash register, courtesy of Governor Spitzer More

The list of countries leftists like Alex Baldwin can threaten (promise?) to flee to if another Republican is elected president is thinning. More

The New York Times' political agenda at work that has once again degraded its journalistic standing. More

Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has let it be known that she now considers Musharraf a lost cause and will refuse to negotiate any further with him: More

Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Sfeir has spoken. Will the Christians listen? More

Iran has finally handed over the proof that their nuclear enrichment activities were not entirely peaceful More

Under intense national pressure, New York Governor Eliot Spitzer has shelved his controversial plan to give illegal aliens drivers licenses: More

The latest CBS News-New York Times poll shows a tight 3-way race in Iowa among Democrats and a surprising surge by former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee in the GOP contest. More

I was temporarily heartened to read this today: "A former agent for the FBI and CIA pleaded guilty Tuesday to faking a marriage to win U.S. citizenship, clearing the way to being hired and given security clearances by the two intelligence agencies." More

Reuters reports that Georgian billionaire, Badri Patarkatsishvili, will seek the nomination for president as leader of the 10-party opposition coalition aligned against current Georgian President and staunch US ally, Mikhail Saakashvili. More

During the recent wildfires, San Diego came perilously close to being blacked out, thanks to the vulnerability of its connections to the national power grid and the low portion of its electric power that is generated locally. More

Reuters reports that Georgian billionaire, Badri Patarkatsishvili, will seek the nomination for president as leader of the 10-party opposition coalition aIigned against current Georgian President and staunch US ally, Mikhail Saakashvili. More

The candidate who is running as the candidate of change and who decalred he wants a more ethical campaign and Administration isn't above using some below the belt tactics. More

The New Oxford American Dictionary has chosen its "Word of the Year" and the winner is: More

Kansas became the very first state in our blessed nation to reject a clean burning, job boosting, economy growing, coal fired power plant because of concerns that it will harm the environment by releasing carbon dioxide. More

The campaign of former Senator Fred Thompson received a much needed boost when it was announced that he would recieve the endorsement of a key conservative group More

Gabriel Schoenfeld notes that on its own the CIA released correspondence indicating that in 2005 it sought Barack Obama's covert assistance on a "diversity" project More

The candidate continues to pander to the kooks and crazies. More

Eminent intellectual dissidents have arisen and are taking on the leftist establishment which has dominated the study of Middle East affairs in the United States. More

The Pakistani authorities have detained Mrs. Bhutto, who was staying at a house in Lahore, More

Afghanistan was supposed to be the "good war" according to the Liberal Media Party, their Democratic Party affiliates, and our sometimes fickle and fair weather European allies. More

Nancy Morgan writes a heartfelt and wise column in Rightbias.com on her mother: "A die-hard, take no prisoners, true-blue feminist. Armed with a hard-won PhD., she has made her life's work the counseling of the transgendered, the gay and the sexually confused." More

Following on the success of the surge is an encouraging trend in crude oil production in Iraq. More

Waterboarding has at last claimed a victim. Rachel Marsden, a Toronto Sun columnist, was fired last week over a column she wrote on the topic More

A real head scratcher of a column from Roger Cohen today. More

A "cultural exchange" performance at a public high school by a Palestinian Folklore dance troupe Al-Ghad has backfired on sponsors, including liberal Protestant advocates of replacement theology. More

We've all heard that 2008 is shaping up to be a big year for Democrats at the polls. But what about it being a big year for liberals? More

Terror came to Argentina on July 18, 1994 in the form of a massive car bomb that blew up the Jewish Community Center in that city (AIMA), leaving 85 dead and nearly 300 injured. More

Admiral William Fallon, head of the US Central Command in the Middle East told the Financial Times that an attack on Iran's nuclear sites was not imminent: More

Pleading with the American military to let them attack the enemy without US assistance, Sunni tribesmen - former enemies now allies - enthusiastically engaged al-Qaeda in an hours long, stand up fight and came out on top: More

There is good news and bad news from Pakistan. More

Mickey Kaus points to Nora Ephron's whining at the Huffington Post, which I'll repeat with my own editorial comments interspersed More

On Veterans Day the flag on high,/Against a brilliant November sky,/The cynosure of upturned faces,/Gazing upon its tri-colored graces - /Red for valor, white for purity & innocence, blue for/ Vigilance & perseverance More

This poem is dedicated to Sergeant Aaron C. Elandt, who fell in battle on 30 May 2004, as well as to the millions of American Fighters who paid and are paying for our freedom with their lives and sprits. More

"The Golden Compass" and the attempt to ensnare children in anti-theism. More

David Thorpe, the hoaxer with the fake climate science journal, now writes for the left wing UK Guardian as a paid freelancer. More

It's still Hillary and Mitt in the Granite state. More

Democratic Presidential candidate John Edwards appeared on stage with pop rock icon John Cougar Mellencamp and was promptly and loudly booed by JCM fans: More

He was considered one of America's greatest writers, a man whose novels and essays powered the New Left through the 1960's and 70's More

King Juan Carlos of Spain finally did something about the biggest, most obnoxious mouth on the world stage. More

Does Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf have a death wish? More

Check out this essay, "Today I Met The Finest," from Free Republic today. More

Two hundred and thiry-two years old, and always faithful. We are forever in the debt of the United States Marine Corps More

The New York Times today offers not just an editorial, but an additional op-ed by former opinion editor Gail Collins, slamming Rudy Giuliani over Bernard Kerik. Talk about "flooding the zone" More

Gaius of Blue Crab Boulevard has tracked down the hoaxer who created a fake scientific journal to discredit critics of global warming theory. More

Vandals have defaced the Tippecanoe Battlefield Monument in Indiana, on the 196th anniversary of the battle, and just in time for Veterans Day. More

The psycho-dynamics of the marriage between Hillary and Bill continue to fascinate and appall me. Bill Clinton now claims that he was responsible for the failure of the health care plan More

It seems I was right to be suspicious of the Clinton Campaign's version of the tip story at the Iowa diner last month. Hillary's contempt for actual flesh & blood ordinary working people keeps coming through loud and clear. More

Michael Scheuer, the man in charge of al Qaeda at the CIA prior to 9/11, specifically labels Commentary, National Review, and American Thinker as "Goebbels-wannabes" and "anti-American." More

Diana West, writing in the Washington Times, examines the split in the conservative blogosphere over Pakistan More

Bizzyblog aggregates newspaper circulation data for the past 60 months and gives us a quote of the day: More

Bloomberg brings news of a huge new oil field discovered off Brazil in the Santos Basin. More

Rush Limbaugh was hoaxed today by a very slick and superficially plausible Global Warming fraud. This resembles the kind of Black PR operation we have just been warning about. More

Let the cries of the evil of the powerful, destructive Jewish/Israel lobby and the whining of the loss of academic freedom begin. More

David Greene of NPR reports that Hillary and her entourage swept into an Iowa diner, had a meal on the house, spoke to her waitress who reported she had to work two jobs to support her family then left without leaving her a tip More

The tide may be starting to turn in Europe regarding the spurious methodology used to advance the concept that human activity is more responsible for global climate change than the sun. More

In a priceless admission, the President and general manager of the Washington Post reacts to some good news by saying, "but you wouldn't know that to read the newspapers." More

Ain't multi-culti grand? If an American can't explain the situation in American English why, just grab some words from another language and assume that the notoriously unilingual Americans will understand. More

Barack Obama is letting us know the kind of welfare state he has in mind for America. More

Hillary has trapped herself in a mess where she dare not take a clear position on illegal alien driver's licenses, and seemingly is unable to stop waffling and obfuscating. More

John Coleman, founder of the Weather Channel, has written an article in which he calls the idea of man-made global warming 'a scam:" More

Unidentified gunmen opened fire on students returning from a demonstration in Caracas injuring 8 with "one by gunfire" according to officials: More

When I saw this report that John Kerry is finally ready to take on the Swift Boat Veterans, my muse could not be held in check: More

Watching the Democrats yesterday on the House floor, one could be forgiven for laughing out loud at their dilemma. More

Palestinians, facing prospect of their own state, prefer Israel. AP reports: "e number of East Jerusalem residents seeking Israeli citizenship has risen sharply in recent months" More

By chance I received a last minute invitation to the Fortieth Anniversary party for The American Spectator, held as it turns out on the Fortieth Anniversary of Che Guevara's death. More

It is said that couples grow to resemble each other more with each year that passes. Mrs. Clinton now furnishes ample proof of that axiom: More

What observers have feared since President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan declared a State of Emergency on Saturday has come to pass. More

Older liberals don't seem to get it that the younger generations, the new liberals, are becoming fed up with the wailing, whatever-cards of the sixties hippies. More

ABC News has a lot to answer for today. More

The powerhouse publisher of conservative books, Regnery Publishing, is being sued by 5 conservative authors over royalty issues: More

Iran may have just hit the magic number for war - 3,000 centrifuges enriching uranium: More

Sarah Lai Stirland writes in Wired Magazine about political 'black op' websites. More

This sweeps week began with NBC pushing an "Earth Friendly" beverage cup during the Cowboys/Eagles Sunday Night football game and shipping Matt Lauer and Ann Curry off to "the ends of the Earth" More

Ray Robison highlights the lengths to which BDS sufferers will go in claiming "torture" by the Bush Administration. More

In a remarkable demonstration of the power of internet fundraising, supporters of Ron Paul raised more than $4 million in one day More

John Edwards joins Hillary in evading awkward questions. I guess this is slightly better than Hillary's piling-on-a-woman defense. More

Over the last two days, there have been two jaw dropping examples of how truly deranged the left has become. More

Lynn Sweet of the Chicago Sun-Times notes that while Barack Obama is making government transparency a centerpiece of this phase of his campaign, his own record of disclosure is somewhat lacking: More

One of the thorniest problems bedeviling the US and the world has yielded to a tough and clear-headed strategy implemented by the Bush Administration. More

The constant attacks on Hillary Clinton from both her Democratic rivals and Republican opponents is apparently beginning to tell on her poll numbers. More

Douglas Farrah turns his attention to Pakistan and what he sees should send chills down your spine: More

Congressman David Obey (D-WI) has a novel explanation for the large drop in casualties in Iraq. More

It has been less than a month but already the glow from Al Gore's Nobel Peace prize is tarnished. More

Tom Maguire looks at reports of the Democrats' disatisfaction and analyzes why and why this discontent will grow More

The American people show common sense when they once again "just say no" to the slanted coverage "on offer" by the national press. More

Congratulations to The American Spectator on marking 40 years of delivering some of the most vibrant and important conservative commentary on the right side of the political divide. More

In a preposterous article in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, author Bill McAullife postulates burying carbon dioxide underground in North Dakota to save the atmosphere More

Talk about burying your head in the sand. More

Daniel Pochoda, head of the Arizona ACLU's Legal Department, was arrested for misdemeanor trespass over the weekend by deputies from the Maricopa County Sheriff's Department. More

This is the $64,000 question that Kurtz reveals is surprisingly being ignored by the media: More

Information coming out of Pakistan is getting sketchier as the government clamps down on print and broadcast media. Filling the news void are rumors - including the apparently false story that President Musharraf himself was under house arrest: More

Disturbing numbers all around for the GOP. More

Celebrating the 28th anniversary of one of the most egregious violations of international law since the end of World War, the people of Iran gathered outside of the former US Embassy in Tehran - still the sovereign territory of the United States - to mark its takeover by Khomeneists and the kidnapping of American citizens: More

Despite Canada's "free" health care--paid for by their very high taxes--many Canadians have become health care tourists to the private market USA because of Canada's notoriously long waiting times for doctors and facilities plus a lack of advanced medical technologies. More

The AP reports on a Johns Hopkins study of Afghani children, indicating that early childhood mortality has dropped dramatically. More

The head of Japan's Democratic Party resigned suddenly today, taking responsibility for "confusion" caused by his considering a power sharing proposal from the majority: More

Steve Gilbert reports that US military deaths are declining. More good news. The booze business is back in Baghdad! Now maybe the foreign service officers will go. More

Barack Obama on SNL last night: "I have nothing to hide," Obama said. "I enjoy being myself." More

In the category of news accounts you hope are true is this one More

According to some reports, up to 1500 democracy and human rights activists as well as lawyers and jurists opposed to the military rule of President Pervez Musharraf in Pakistan have been arrested. More

The analysis is in line with most all media reports coming out of Iraq over the last couple of weeks as the tide of press coverage turns cautiously positive More

Columbia University's bizarre idea of academic freedom continues as its women's college affiliate, Barnard, voted to grant tenure to Nadia Abu El-Haj, who was born in America and is of Palestinian descent: More

A new book on torture by the Japanese Navy during World War II puts things in perspective. More

The recent trend of our military deaths in Iraq is favorable, which is not what was expected by the critics of the Petraeus strategy: More

James Arlandson's series on the Gospels continues. More

Ray Robison's article yesterday outlining the emerging split between the tribal Taliban of Afghanistan and al Qaeda, run by the Saudi Arab Usama bin Laden, receives more support. More

The United Auto Workers announced they have reached a tentative 4-year agreement with Ford Motor Company that would lower costs for the automaker: More

A Federal Mediator has called for a last ditch negotiating session between the Writers Guild and studios on Sunday in a desperate effort to avert a planned strike by the writers on Monday: More

Attorney General nominee Michael Mukasey appears to be on the way to confirmation in the Senate when two key members came out in support of his nomination: More

The man who claims to have seen a UFO with Shirley McLain is now claiming that he can do what no Democrat has dared to do; More

President Musharraf, in defiance of the wishes of the United States, has declared a State of Emergency in Pakistan according to CNN: More

I suppose when the New York Times has a front page story about the turnaround in the security situation in Iraq without their usual parsing and caveats, we might be able to say that press coverage of the war has turned the corner More

In the misbegotten case against former AIPAC officials, the judge has just upped the ante on the government: More

James Lewis's brilliant essay today reminded me of physicist Alan Sokol's fantastically successful send-up of "Deconstructionism" which occurred over ten years ago. More

It seems incredible that the President of the United States should have to remind the opposition, but Bush's words yesterday at the Heritage Foundation were designed to do just that: More

Nobody ever accused bounty hunter and reality TV star Duane "Dog" Chapman of having the sharpest fangs in the pack More

This Energizer Bunny of an economy just keeps rolling along, creating 166,000 jobs last month - twice what was predicted: More

Jim Hoft has the gruesome pictures and video. More

A controversial program at the University of Delaware that forced students to attend politically correct indoctrination sessions regarding race, gender, sexual orientation, and even illegal immigration has been dropped by the University as of yesterday. More

The UK Telegraph has named the most influential conservatives in America and topping the list is something of a surprise; Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani. More

Steve Gilbert of Sweetness & Light shreds the AP/IPSOS poll reported today under a headline suggesting a vast majority of parents want schools to distribute birth control devices to their children More

Gabrial Schoenfeld discusses the CIA's HUMINT effort and Michael J. Sulick who's in charge of them and concludes, "...we're on the defensive, worried about an al-Qaeda mole in our ranks even as we are unable to place a mole in theirs." More

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee easily passed the new Law of the Sea Treaty and sent it on for consideration by the full Senate where it is expected to meet stiff opposition: More

More than 70 "militants" were killed when Pakistani military forces attacked the supporters of a radical cleric in the Northwest Frontier Province district of Swat: More

Slowly but perceptibly, the Iraq narrative in the media is beginning to change. More

Despite worries over credit and the housing market, the economy grew at a better than expected rate of 3.9% in the 3rd quarter: More

Well-informed observers think the world is edging closer to nuclear war than it has been since the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. These are deadly serious issues of national survival. Except if you're Senator Charles Schumer More

Blogger Ali Eteraz just completed a seven part series in the Guardian on developments within Islam. More

DebkaFile, the Israel-based military intelligence website, is reporting that they intercepted Arabic language website announcements on Monday declaring an imminent "cyber jihad on the west." More