Mexico goes to the polls Sunday to elect a new President. The race is reported to be too close to call. Should the leftist mayor of Mexico City, Andres Lopez Obrador, win, the consequences for the United States (and Mexico) could be profound. Obrador, like Pat Buchannan here, wants to put the... More

The Department of Defense has released an article making official the designation of the 500 warheads found in Iraq as WMD: The 500 munitions discovered throughout Iraq since 2003 and discussed in a National Ground Intelligence Center report meet the criteria of weapons of mass destruction, the... More

Many people have observed the democratizing effect of the internet on public discourse, disempowering elites by diminishing their preferential position in the distribution of information. I had never before thought about it, but one of the most important spheres in which the national conversation... More

The Supreme Court has handed another victory to the terrorists in our custody who will now enjoy new levels of legal protection in addition to their Korans, prayer rugs, and three—course meals, far costlier than the fare served to our own soldiers. This development is truly something to... More

A new poll bears bad tidings for the New York Times. Most Americans support the government program to track possible terrorist funding, one of the few areas where majorities of both parties agree. In addition, the public thinks people who leak classified information —— as well as news... More

In a bid to free a captured Israeli soldier, IDF ground forces moved into the Gaza Strip on Wednesday.  The Israeli Army mounted a combined arms operation with tanks, infantry, attack helicopters and self—propelled artillery.  Their initial objective: the airport near the southern... More

A trial of an already—famous figure, someone implicated in the biggest financial scandal in history is underway. Yesterday, an iconic figure from a hallowed previous presidential administration was found to be involved. Yet the major press organs in the United States have blacked out news... More

The Chicago Tribune editorializes today about the spending spree the governor of Illinois has embarked upon, to ensure re—election. Democrat Governor Rod Blagojevich campaigned against pork barrel spending when he defeated Republican Governor George Ryan. But times have... More

Sky News reports: A senior judge has quashed control orders made against six men under the Government's anti—terror legislation. A judge said the orders were incompatible with the European Convention On Human Rights. Mr Justice Sullivan, sitting at the High Court in London, said the orders... More

Rather than actually investigate the WMD information revealed by Sen. Rick Santorum and Rep. Pete Hoekstra, the legacy media is instead either ignoring the report or dismissing it with the claim that the recovered war gasses have 'deteriorated to the point of harmlessness.' Now, this may true... More

In what surely is an astonishing development, the New York Times editorially blames Hamas for the Israel offensive in Gaza.   Maybe Pinch and Keller are both on vacation. Clarice Feldman   6 29 06 More

John Negroponte, it's nothing personal, but you don't seem terribly concerned about the fact that certain individuals in your employ, who are supposed to be protecting us against a determined army of blood—thirsty fanatics, are instead blabbling to the New York Times and other media types at... More

"No major media outlet in the United States has ever knowingly, and over the objection of the United States government, ever published classified information that could assist the nation's enemies. Period. What the New York Times has done ——and the Los Angeles Times copied——... More

Are we engaged in a religious war? Certainly many of the radical Islamists who attack us think so. But there are some real disadvantages to openly proclaiming so. There are many complexities to consider in figuring out both how to understand and and how to speak and write about the long war... More

The New York Times today defends its outing of the secret program to trace financial transactions of terrorists. The editorial brings up John F. Kennedy's rhetorical wish that the press had disclosed plans to invade Cuba in the Bay of Pigs operation. I find this line of defense very... More

The blog called What Would Tyler Durden Do? has picked—up some offhand comments made by the writers of the latest Superman movie, opening today.  Mike Dougherty and Dan Harris, the two credited screenwriters for 'Superman Returns' have changed Superman's famous motto, "Truth,... More

The BBC reports that after conducting its inquiry, the Council of Europe has accused several member states of 'colluding' with the CIA on rendition flights. This comes on the heels of a report issued by a Swiss Senator whose accused fourteen European countries of 'helping the CIA spin a spider's... More

Peter C. Glover is a pro—American British blogger, whose struggles with PC in the UK are an ongoing saga. An unusually thoughtful man, Peter today writes in Wires from the Bunker about his relief that the flag burning amendment failed. I have to say I am pleased that the Senate failed (by a... More

I haven't written of the fratricidal warfare going on in America's left as the NYT and TNR duke it out with lefty blogger Kos. (Just One Minute has been doing a blow by blow for the past few days, and if you have time pop in.) But Dan Riehl sees is as a sign that the Dems know that they are... More

Given the kinds of cases they're getting these days, French courts are starting to resemble clown circuses. Last week a French court had to listen to "Goldfinger" George Soros' whine about his human rights being violated for an inside trading conviction. This week, a French court gets to... More

French officials raided the offices of parent company EADS. The probe is widely seen as crucial to the future of Co—Chief Executive Noel Forgeard, facing a media and political storm over a 2.5 million euro ($3.2 million) profit he made from stock options before big stakeholders sold... More

While digging my way out from under the many thoughtful and measured responses to my recent piece on Ann Coulter, I came acrossthis column by Dave Astor, media critic for Editor & Publisher. Astor makes a point I haven't seen elsewhere: that Coulter has a habit of publicly calling for... More

The left, and most of all, the Democrats in the United States need to come out and state categorically whether or not they believe we (the West) are in a war or not. Some Democrats have made their position quite clear. For example, John Kerry stated in 2004 that he believed the war on terror should... More

Sweetness & Light does it again, finding a New York Times editorial dated three days after 9/11 demanding the Administration monitor international financial transactions to cut off funding to terrorists: The Bush administration is preparing new laws to help track terrorists through their... More

Like 99.9% of Marines operating in Iraq, the men of 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marines are out there every day operating with courage and professionalism in a hostile environment.  In this case, it was LT Posselt's platoon from India Company patrolling the streets of Haditha.  Acting courageously... More

The frighteningly frantic Al Gore can be seen Jetting around the world painting it green. The fossil fuels used to carry this guru Might kill a rain forest, if his words were really true.   Of this teller of tales, this dreamer of fantasy, One might ask the question, 'But why on earth can't he... More

Daniel Freedman, at the New York Sun's blog reports: "Belgium's government said on Monday it was investigating the legality of counter—terrorism searches by U.S. officials of thousands of private records held by Brussels—based international bank cooperative SWIFT," Reuters reports. So... More

In a recent appearance  President Bush contended that rather than arguing about whether human activity is a factor in global warming, we should take concrete steps to alleviate it. Said he: The truth of the matter is, if this country wants to get rid of its greenhouse gases, we've got to have... More

Logic Times takes a hard look at the propagandized Iraqi civilian casualty figures: Logic Times demonstrated in the Civilian Casualty Fable that the majority of dead people counted by IBC represent not innocent bystanders, but terrorists and Iraqi security forces. And when, after the fall of... More

In a June 26 editorial entitled 'Responsible Use of Eminent Domain,' the New York Times displays what can only be described as the ultimate in hypocritical chutzpah as it attempts to justify its own nefarious land—grab made under the guise of the principle of eminent domain. A Supreme Court... More

Senator Santorum and Congressman Hoekstra last week revealed some recently declassified material establishing that our forces had found significant quantities of WMDs in Iraq after the invasion.   The United States has found 500 chemical weapons in Iraq since 2003, and more weapons of... More

Henry Mark Holtzer, author of Keeper of the Flame, the much—praised book on the jurisprudence of Justice Clarence Thomas, has written an indictment of the New York Times, and published it on the Conservative Voice. He doesn't think the Times will be charged, but the indictment is still... More

In contrast to the video Time relied on to condemn Kilo Company, a video of dubious provenance and authenticity, the military apparently has another, one taken by an unmanned aerial vehicle which recorded the entire battle and which confirms the Marine's version of events, or so NewsMax... More

Brian Maloney of the Radio Equalizer offers further thoughts on Denice Denton and the scandals at the University of California system. As a UCSC grad and former Santa Cruz resident, he is more wired—into campus talk than I am, and offers an anonymous faculty source commenting on Denton's... More

Via AP's George Gedda: "Global opium cultivation down 22 percent." What? Hasn't the New York Times been peddling the line that Afghanistan has been so chaotic that opium production has been soaring? Opium poppy cultivation worldwide was down 22 percent in 2005, a United Nations report said Monday,... More

Venezuelan—born champion baseball manager for the Chicago White Sox, Ozzie Guillen, likes to shoot his mouth off and then blame the ensuing controversy on his Venezuelan "heritage." He's lately taken to calling a baseball rival impolite forms of the word 'homosexual,' and when he was called... More

In response to our noting of Denice Denton's death by suicide jumping from a skyscraper, reader Linda Petty of Davis, CA wrote the following: Dear Mr. Lifson I thought the "American Way" was to use the capitalist system to make as much as possible legally and to work as hard as possible to be... More

Forget that 72 virgins (or raisins) version of paradise.  For an adolescent male Palestinian terrorist, paradise is right next door——in an Israeli prison. Yep, you read that correctly——paradise for a certain kind of teen ager is being jailed by the oppressive Israeli... More

Kudos again to Ray Robison and Fox News for translating some of the vital documents capotured in Baghdad, recently declassified and and made publicly available for open source translation. Ray and his Iraqi associate "Sammi" have now published their third installment of direct evidence that... More

The US, with its liberal laws, is fertile ground for every cause—seeking extremist with a destructive rage burning in his skull. Case in point is Dr. Jerry Vlasak, a practicing trauma surgeon in Los Angeles, who also acts as a spokesperson for several extreme animal rights groups.... More

I subscribe to the NFL Sunday Ticket and I found the free kick by David Beckham in today's England — Ecuador match right up there with the most artistic 70 yard TD pass.  To me what is un American about soccer isn't the low scoring. It's the often arbitrary officiating.   In a... More

Newsweek's Jonathan Alter, in offering the Dems advice on how to beat Cut and Run,аmakes it clear why he'd better stick to being a lefty shill in a Democrat party propaganda rag rather than try to be a serious advisor to even the most desperate Democrat candidate on campaign matters. Attempting to... More

Senator Santorum and Congressman Hoekstra last week revealed some recently declassified material establishing that our forces had found significant quantities of WMDs in Iraq after the invasion.   The United States has found 500 chemical weapons in Iraq since 2003, and more weapons of... More

A sign of the times from our friends at Ummah News Links. French President Chirac: marked 90 years since the Battle of Verdun by unveiling a monument to Muslims who fell in the key WWI battle. The memorial is the first to Muslims who died in 300 days of clashes over the strategically located... More

An ex—Special Forces officer very familiar with the region who writes under the nom de plume Bellisaurius gives his latest assessment of the Somalia situation in this newsletter dated June 24. Recent Developments Other than the assassination of seasoned Swedish journalist Martin Adler in... More

Denice Denton (about whom I wrote critically) took her life yesterday, in one of the most dramatic manners possible, jumping 43 floors from the roof of "San Francisco's tallest luxury rental apartment building."  On leave and on probably payroll, she was still not slumming,... More

Gitmo is closing. Well, not all at once, but the prison population at Guantanomo Bay has been steadily declining as prisoners are released.  The Media have almost completely ignored this trend.  Fourteen Saudi Arabians were released Saturday from the detention center at the American... More

There is a peculiar form of madness in evidence across America. Its victims hate their own country despite the fact that it is the best and greatest in the world. So affected these unfortunates are that they even wear their contempt publicly as something to be proud of. Yet not all hope is lost and... More

Is the New York Times is revealing National Security secrets to spur sales of books written by its reporters? A troubling coincidence does not yet make a pattern, but the record raises concern. The latest SWIFT disclosure coincides with the June 20th release of the new book, The One Percent... More

The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times today disclosed the existence of a secret, but entirely legal, program to monitor financial transactions between America and overseas nations. A priceless counter—terrorism tool may have been rendered ineffectual.  For certain kinds of... More

The UK Guardian is reporting the results of a Pew poll that looked at relations between Muslims and non—Muslims in thirteen countries. The survey yielded some startling findings for Britain. It found, for example, that its Muslim population is among the 'most embittered in the western... More

The Los Angeles Times privides two views on the question on its op—ed page. Of course, the writer who approves of appeasing terrorists and murderers and allowing them to "get off" scott—free is a former State Department official whose most arduous task was probably making... More

A letter commenting on a comment on the latest Airbus article: The premise of this comment, "Airbus: a note of caution" I think is well understood by many in the aerospace industry, but the analysis of the situation which was presented was very short sighted.  One that only reads the... More

Fresh from giving birth in Africa, movie star Angelina Jolie continues touring the continent and speaking about the horrors she witnesses such as a refugee camp in Sierra Leone. "It was an amputee camp ... the worst camp I've ever seen ... It changed me for the better ... Suddenly you see... More

AP reports: The Marine Corps on Wednesday announced that seven Marines and a sailor had been charged with murder in the April death of an Iraqi civilian. All eight also were charged with kidnapping, according to a Marine statement issued at Camp Pendleton, Calif. Other charges include conspiracy... More

Jack Risko of Dinocrat.com picks up on more bad news for Airbus. According to Flight International's Max Kingsley—Jones in Toulouse, the delays may be considerably worse than have been so—far disclosed by Airbus: Airbus has a battle on its hands if it is to complete certification of... More

In light of the news that some 500 weapons munitions containing degraded mustard or sarin nerve agent have been recovered by coalition forces since 2003, it might be to re—visit the  Iraq Survey Group's Duelfer Report.  Here is the link:  For a charted overview, go to "Regime... More

While it's fun to sit back a watch the troubles Airbus is having today with the A380 and, the A350 or A370 or whatever the current designation of its competitor to the 787 will be, I think now is a good time to reflect on the fact that Boeing hasn't delivered on it's promises yet. Much of Boeing's... More

In a speech yesterday, Gordon Brown — the man most likely to succeed Tony Blair as Prime Minister — stated his commitment to renewing Britain's nuclear arsenal when the current Trident system comes to the end of its operational life in 2024. Brown's position, however, was met with anger... More

Here's an opportunity for Human Rights Watch and other NGOs to take a stand in defense of human rights. I am not holding my breath. Eil Lake of the New York Sun reports: Iran's delegation to the U.N. Human Rights Council faces being isolated by the envoys of free nations this week after it emerged... More

Sacre blue! Chirac, defender of Saddam Hussein who opposed the overthrow of a genocidal dictator, did some overthrowing of his own? Where are the editorials in the NYT or Le Monde or International Herald Tribune? Captain Ed notes: A Paris Criminal Tribunal ruling has pinned the government of... More

We have written repeatedly about the case of Professor Thomas Klocek formerly of DePaul University. Now, John Miller of National Review Online brings us news of a petition in support of the man fired "for allegedly offending Muslim students when discussing Christian interests in Israel,... More

Our contributor Stefania Lapenna has moved her blog to a new site, Free Thoughts. Stefania blogs in both Italian and English from her home in Sardinia. It is just getting started so there will be much more content posted from the old site soon, and more new writing to follow.   More

Ralph Peters, writing in the New York Post, reminds us that French President Jacques is guilty of responsibility for 1995 coup in Comoros. Our friends the French. It is a lesson in Imperialism 101: I visited French—speaking West Africa. Wherever I went, two things remained consistent: The... More

Steven Stalinsky of MEMRI writes about the world's fifth richest man, Saudi Billionaire Prince Al—Waleed bin Talal Abd Al—Aziz, who is also a funder of Georgetown and Harvard (Prof. Walt's employer). The Prince has a new Hate TV channel, Al—Resalah, on the way to cable and... More

Why did a supposedly neutral human rights organization not only take upon itself to attempt to refute Israel's investigation, but also now seems to be ignoring the second thoughts of its own researcher? The Jerusalem Post reports: On June 13, Human Rights Watch issued a press release citing... More

According to a survey  published in the local newspaper, The Londoner, ninety—three percent of the city's inhabitants believe that global warming is a serious problem. Even allowing for the usual pollster shenanigans this is an astonishingly high number. London's Mayor Ken Livingstone... More

Not only does politics make for strange bedfellows apparently it makes for no loyalty.  Only six years ago Gore was bestest, closest political pals with Joe Lieberman, choosing him as his surprise vice presidential running mate.  But that was then, this is so now that: Interviewed on... More

Rick Ballard's AP watch is underway. If you haven't checked it out yet, here's a sample: "President Bush raised $27M the other day so AP's headline reads Congressional Democrats pass GOP in funds which is a lie which can be easily disproven by going to Soros—funded Open Secrets. Year to date... More

The EU's External Relations Minister admits not every country would respond defensively when attacked (incontrast to America and Israel, I suppose). If this does not encapsulate and make clear the appeasement mindest of the Europeans, I don't know what will. The Jerusalem Post reports: Kassam... More

An interesting exchange took place on the June 9th edition of MSNBC's Hardball show hosted by Chris Matthews.  Chris was discussing the events of the week on his Friday 'roundtable with Hardball hotshots.'  They included MSNBC hosts Rita Cosby and Tucker Carlson along with Mike Barnicle... More

My pal Gary Larson delivers a well—deserved thrashing in The Intellectual Conservative to the editorial pages of the Minneapolis Star—Tribune, the laughably bad newspaper serving our mutual home town. Sheer, ironic hypocrisy is standard fare in Minneapolis (MN) Star Tribune... More

Fred Dicker of the New York Post reports that HGillary's approval ratings in New York state have declined. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's approval rating has fallen to an 18—month low, as she comes in for increasing criticism for backing the war in Iraq, a new poll yesterday showed. The... More

Students in Zhengzhou, the capital of Henan Province in central China, have rioted over the prestige of the diplomas they will receive. Authorities have decided that students at  Shengda Economics, Trade and Management College in Zhengzhou will no longer receive diplomas carrying the name of... More

There is a cat in Connecticut — Lewis by name — that has brought terror to its neighborhood. Using its sharp long claws and stealthy feline tactics, it has attacked at least a half—dozen unsuspecting individuals. So appalling has been its behavior that the animal is in danger of... More

Human Rights Watch now concedes it cannot refute the IDF claim that it was not the cause of the deaths at Gaza Beach: The Jerusalem Post reports: While sticking to its demand for the establishment of an independent inquiry into a blast on a Gaza beach 10 days ago that killed seven Palestinian... More

Recall all those claims by European detractors after the tsunami about American stinginess? Claims: This commitment, however, was not generous enough for Jan Egeland, the Norwegian bureaucrat who heads up relief efforts for the United Nations. "It is beyond me why are we so stingy, really,"... More

Le Monde, the leading newspaper in France, yesterday quoted an American Thinker piece by me in the first sentence of an article on American press coverage of the battle between Boeing and Airbus. Selon le magazine The American Thinker ("le penseur américain"), il s'agit de la plus "fascinante... More

Stuart Taylor and Benjamin Wittes, writing in The Atlantic, advocate a bold move to improve the Supreme Court: firing the law clerks and forcing justices to write their own opinion. Noting the extensive travel and other outside activities of the justices, and taking shots at conservative and... More

A couple of weeks ago, British security forces raided a house in east London on the suspicion that it contained a chemical weapons lab. During the operation — which involved around 250 personnel some of whom wore chemical suits — a young Arab male was shot in the shoulder. His injuries... More

Dennis Sevakis examined the role of the IRS in enabling illegal aliens to file tax returns via the establishment of a program to provide Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers, even citing the head of the Houston IRS office: 'We had to do something,' says Leandro Leon, education and... More

Mike G., one of our regular emailers who has a habit of asking very interesting questions, asks a good one: Is it just me, or does it seem beyond coincidental that the federal government reduces New York City's Homeland Security budget, whereupon a NYC and al—Queda  subway scare... More

Jack Kelly syndicated columnist of the Pittsburgh Post—Gazette, cites our own Clarice Feldman today in  piece on prosecutorial abuse. Mr. Fitzgerald is a sloppy prosecutor who rushes to judgment, and then has to backtrack, charged Washington, D.C., lawyer Clarice Feldman. In one recent... More

It has been left wing sacred writ for some time that Karl Rove was to be indicted and "frog marched" (in Joseph Wilson IV's words) out of the White House. The anticipation of "Fitzmas" half a year ago was palpable. But all this lies in ruins now, in the wake of Patrick Fitzgerald's... More

If you've ever thought that radical left—wing liberals aren't hilarious then you've never been to a site I found on Friday.  It's called the Wings of Justice, sponsored by BuzzFlash.com.  A completely serious site dedicated to honoring some of the most far—left in our... More

Those are the words about doing business in Berkeley of Tom Bates, our mayor, former California State Senator, and man so hard left that he used to vacation in East Germany in the "good old days" when communists rans the show there. He was commenting on the long struggle to gain city approval for... More

The Los Angeles Times publishes what should be called a sop—ed, claiming it is wrong to "blame victims" of Katrina when they broke the law. MOVE OVER, RECKLESS CONSUMERS. The Federal Emergency Management Agency has outdone your irresponsible spending by racking up a debit card bill so... More

A trial  is underway in Britain of seven men charged with planning various acts of terrorist mayhem. One of them was to hijack a British Airways plane and crash it. The idea was to recruit 30 men to overwhelm with raw power whatever resistance may have occurred on board. Fortunately, the plot... More

Has a new day dawned in Europe? With attitudes toward Palestinians becoming more unfavorable and France planning to expel illegal aliens, perhaps reality is seeping in. Even the EU, normally in utter thrall to political correctness, is coming around. Reuters reports: Immigrants must adhere to... More

The French, led by Nicholas Sarkozy (who may well be the next President), are engaged in a crackdown on undocumented aliens, known as sans papiers, French (perhaps evoking memories of the sans coulottes of the French Revolution?). As in this country, the left is standing up for those who flout the... More

In addition to Ray Robison's work we noted yesterday, the Texas Rainmaker has linked to further evidence of Saddam's role in the war on terror. Let them Democrats continue their "no WMD" cry. They will look all the sillier when it comes time to ;ick the next leader of the free world. Thomas... More

Since Iraq's security advisor Mowafak al—Rubaie released the contents of a captured Al Qaeda document several days ago, speculation has been rampant as to its authenticity.  Intense skepticism has been registered especially by the anti—war crowd because the document's contents... More

Our contributor Ray Robison continues his pathbreaking work at Foxnews.com: Did Saddam Hussein's inner circle and the Taliban rulers in Afghanistan actively court each other in hopes of forging an anti—American alliance in the region? Ray Robison, a former member of the CIA—directed... More

In a recent statement Nancy Pelosi bemoaned the price of the Iraq war where we have so far lost 2,500 lives and which may cost more than one trillion dollars before it is over. Ms. Pelosi needs to be reminded that on 9/11 we lost more than 3,000 lives and nearly two trillion  in treasure. In... More

John F. Kerry's statement that his previous vote in support for the war was a "mistake" is earning him justifiable scorn. The Washington Times editorializes: John Kerry's sorriest moment, until now, sounded like this: "I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it." But this... More

Sometimes little statements, off—handedly uttered and little—noted, tell us about important changes that have snuck up on us. Such was the case yesterday in an AP dispatch from Baghdad. Iraq's National Security Adviser Mouwafak al—Rubaie was speaking about the treasure trove... More

It is unsurprising and appropriate that the denser the population, the greater the relative support for Democrats. Timothy Egan, writing about the battle for the 'burbs in the New York Times, writes: In "The New Metro Politics," a study he conducted with Thomas W. Sanchez, Dr. Lang found that in... More

Contributor Rick Moran catches the Los Angeles Times forsaking balanced reporting for sheer propaganda aimed at convincing the public that today's economy is somehow like the Carter economy. I found this article on the economy in the LA Times interesting for two reasons. First, it mentions... More

Paul Belien, the distinguished editor of the free market blog  The Brussels Journal,  has been "summoned for interrogation" by the Brussels police for the second time in two months. The first time was for "racism"  ——— a plainly false charge, and of course a thought... More

As a companion to Jerry Gordon's article today on the divestment movement within the Presbyterian Church USA, now in the midst of its general assembly meeting in Birmingham, AL, see David Paulin's account of a conference at the Austin Theological Presbyterian Seminary in Texas. The capture of... More

In one of those PR moves that might just do the opposite of what was intended, the United Nations has cancelled a lucrative contract with leading Southeast Asian Islamofascist terrorist cleric, Abu Bakar Bashir. The latter was released from a Jakarta prison this week after doing just a piddling two... More

George Soros, for those of you who are unaware, has a conviction for inside trading. A French court found him guilty of that in 2005, based on a purchase of Societe Generale shares in 1988. The leftist billionaire, who finances moveon.org and Human Rights Watch, has spared no expense in... More

Two elected New Jersey Democrats, angry about Ann Coulter's characterizations of the Jersey Girls, are asking the booksellers in the Garden State not to stock Ann Coulter's new book, Godless: The Church of Liberalism.  Are they aware that one of the Jersey Girls widows, described at Amazon.com... More

I just received a newsletter report from LTC Craig Osborne, commanding officer, 1st Battalion, 22nd Infantry, in Iraq. Here is what he has to say: FROM THE COMMANDER      Hello from western Baghdad!  We have now completed our six month here and we have had a month filled... More

In last Sunday's New York Times, Ethan Bronner wrote an article which belittled the claims  that the Iranian President has called for the destruction of Israel. The argument was quite hairsplitting and absurd: basically, a replay of "you say TomAhTo I say ToMayTo." This sophistry, of course,... More

Samuel Rossner, US correspondent for Haaretz, sees a shoft in European attitudes toward Israel, one that may have been caused by the spectacle a Palestinian self—rule in Gaza. The new Pew Global Attitudes Project offers an interesting reading for both Americans and Israelis. "In past Global... More

The chief advisor to Iran's Ahmadinejad said on June 9 that "The Resolution of the Holocaust Issue Will End in the Destruction of Israel." In the same speech, Mohammad Ali Ramin also managed to pinpoint the real reasons for plague and typhus, the AIDS epidemic, SARS and Bird Flu. (Translation... More

Our friend and contributor Rick Ballard at YARGB ("Yet Another Really Great Blog") has begun an AP Watch feature there, documenting bias in the largest news agency in the United States. The first post is here. This is a much—needed service, and a strong niche for Rick and YARGB. We wish them... More

From Haaretz:  "...the British newspaper The Independent on Wednesday quoted a former Pentagon "battle damage expert," who visited the site of the incident, as saying that "all the evidence points" to a "155mm Israeli land—based artillery shell" as the cause of the blast. "According to... More

As more details emerge, the media have begun to ask whether Zarqawi's life could have been saved given that he was alive for almost an hour after the bombing. They have even floated the possibility that medical aid was purposefully denied to him. The media's concern for Zarqawi contrasts glaringly... More

Jed Graham of Investors Business Daily reports "Bush May Meet Vow To Halve The Deficit Three Years Early" Aided by surging tax receipts, President Bush may make good on his pledge to cut the deficit in half in 2006 — three years early. Tax revenues are running $176 billion, or 12.9%,... More

The New York Sun reports that Joseph Wilson IV is hinting he may file a civil suit against Karl Rove in the wake of Patrick Fitzgerald's notification that he will not pursue criminal charges against the White House aide. Ms. Plame's husband, Joseph Wilson IV, who has alleged that his wife was... More

Our contributor Jonathan Strong reviews the worrisome growing ties between Russia and Venezuela at his site The Strong Conservative. The US recently announced that it would be restricting military arms sales to Venezuela. It seems as though Russia is now stepping up to fill that vacancy. Russia... More

Context is vital in all news reporting, because without it one cannot make reasoned judgments about the importance of any event. Sadly, context is almost always lacking in coverage of both the Iraq conflict and the War against Islamo—Fascism. As the events surrounding Haditha or future such... More

Human Rights Watch, the Soros—funded group at the heart of the Haditha Massacre story, is working with the Veterans Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS), the group behind the Wilson/Plame imbroglio, to challenge Israel's claim that the explosion at the beach in Gaza was caused by the... More

Denmark endured a brief if intense boycott in the wake of its free press offending those Muslims who wish to impose Shari'a law restrictions on the entire world with regard to their Prophet Muhammad. A reader from Denmark who will remain anonymous (Denmark is a small country with inflamed jihadis... More

Another black op against Al Qaida has been blown by State Deparment leakers, along with our Permanent Ruling Class at the New York Times. According to John B. Roberts II in the Washington Times Until now, I refrained from writing about the Somali front in the war on al Qaeda because of its... More

Libs think Hillary's smart as a whip, I think she's just a fraud. She couldn't hold Ann Coulter's slip; Ann's America's sharpest broad. She chews up liberal talking heads, With wit so quick and cunning, Rips Alan Colmes to bloody shreds, And sends Matt Lauer running.   But now she's really... More

I suppose by now that it is pitifully akin to the concept of flogging a dead horse to point out inconsistencies in Liberal Media's thought processes. However, it occurs to me that the same liberal, mainstream media who gleefully report the latest American casualties from IED's in Iraq, are the same... More

Palestinian Media Watch has the goods on how Palestinian television doctored video clips to decieve viewers about the source of the eplosion which killed and left a daughter crying over her father. The official IDF report as well as common sense observations of the lack of a crater on the beach... More

Great commentary  today in the WaTimes on the Somalia situation and the exposure of our CIA op by "careerists" at State. I was optimistic last year that in the wake of what I thought would be a successful op with help from our guys in Djibouti, we could introduce African Union... More

A panel of International Jurists hired by UN employees reports "UN is in breach of human rights standards." The pot that calls the kettle black finally gets its own just deserts. Benny Avni of the New York Sun reports: Far from a beacon of justice to the countries of the world, the United... More

The Washington Post's E.J. Dionne is one of the smarter liberal pundits, though he cannot stop thinking about conservatives in stereotypical fashion. In his column today, he recognizes that the old liberal model of unions pushing up wages through monopsonistic control of the labor supply has... More

So it is official now. Their economy may be in the dumps, but the French are the vacation champions of Europe. Taking on average 39 days of paid vacation a year, French workers enjoy 63% more holiday time than their British counterparts and almost four times as much as Americans who get only... More

Robert Luskin, the lawyer for Karl Rove, issued a statement this morning, reported by Byron York of National Review Online: On June 12, 2006, Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald formally advised us that he does not anticipate seeking charges against Karl Rove.In deference to the pending case,... More

Bookworm links to a story from the Marin Independent—Journal of Marin County, California, on the continuing, even accelerating problems in the Sausalito—Marin City Schools, which spend over $22,000 per student yet yield such terrible results that students are fleeing for private and... More

The MNF—Iraq website has posted today's press briefing on the Zarqawi autopsy with spokesman MG Bill Caldwell and Command Surgeon Col. Stephen Jones. A forensic specialist in on the autopsy also participated. The briefing article contains several slides illustrating the location &... More

As a former US Marine who is quite familiar with the effects of artillery, I must point out that a careful viewing of the media video of the after effects of the Gaza explosion showed NO artillery round craters. Israel's IDF uses 155 mm artillery shells. These are quite powerful and invariably... More

Victims as propaganda, the ploy of the unfeeling Left. Using the distressed and bewildered is totally bereft Of any human kindness, compassion or understanding, Propping up those weakened and dazed and summarily demanding The world take note of their wrenching words, deviously force fed By... More

An article in yesterday's UK Times unwittingly offers striking evidence of the depth of the crisis our civilization is in.  Titled 'Beware: The New Goths are Coming,' it speaks about the forecasts of Rear Admiral Chris Parry, a high—level official charged with identifying future... More

Our contributor Ray Robison has written an important article on the Fox News website: "What was the relationship between Saddam Hussein's inner circle and Islamic terrorists? A newly released document captured in Iraq, but never before seen by the public, offers glimmers of new insight at the... More

 About that Gaza tragedy... Who could not be moved by the picture of a little girl hysterically crying near her father's body; killed in an explosion, along with others,  as the family was enjoying a picnic on the Gaza beach?  Now she will forever mourn as it turns out the deadly... More

Something between 200,000 and one million people took to the streets of Madrid (see photo) for a demonstration against appeasement of terrorists. The ETA Basque terrorists, who are to enter talks with the government were the proximate cause. But also the Muslim terrorists who dream of reconquista... More

It took the US Navy only six years to develop a new kind of combat ship: The Littoral (shallow—water) Combat Ship, which will launch later this year. What's the hurry? Well, take a look at the map of the Persian Gulf. It is a narrow and shallow body of water, one of the classic geostrategic... More

Licia Corbella, editor of the Calgary Sun, one of my favorite newspapers, interviews and a Canadian Muslim, Professor Mahfooz Kanwar, on multiculturalism. It is the sort of truth—telling that ought to be routine, but isn't. Kudos to both fearless Canadians. "Multiculturalism takes away our... More

Press accounts of a graphic video of three Shia militiamen being beheaded indicate that it was made and distributed after the successful airstrike on Zarqawi. The implication being that his death changes nothing, that the violence will continue. Actually, the tape was made and distributed on June... More

A judge has told Alec Baldwin that he needs to get a psychological evaluation, something which many of us have believed necessary since he went on television and said "...if we were in another country... We would stone Henry Hyde to death and we would go to their homes and we'd kill their wives... More

Translation is a subject I happen to know a few things about. For many years I was president of one of the country's most prominent multilanguage communications companies whose clientèle included more than a fair number of America's best—known multinational corporations. Among the things... More

Ever wonder what happened to Cindy Sheehan?ааThree articles show the rise and fall of the Peace Mom.а The first from CNN illustrates how the main—stream media will allow you to explode onto the national scene if you have the correct background and you say the right things. (i.e., George... More

A.J. Strata provides two posts at his excellent website the Strata—Sphere, based on poster SBD's research, with further indications of a hoax in Haditha. So far nothing is conclusive, but common sense dictates the utmost suspicion. SBD posted this comment on June 8th (from this... More

According to the gutsy Brussels Journal, the Dutch are bracing to be the next target of Jihad mob demonstrations. The reason? Ayaan Hirsi Ali's soon to be released new movie, Submission 2. The first  Submission film was made by Dutch film maker Theo van Gogh with the help of Ayaan Hirsi Ali.... More

Haroon Siddiqui, who once edited the editorial page of Canada's largest newspaper, the Toronto Star, pens a pathetic column that could have been predicted, on the arrests of the terror suspects. The problem, you see, is not that members of the same mosque allegedly conspired to behead the PM and... More

The epic battle between Boeing and Airbus for dominance of the world's commercial airliner market may be see—sawing back in the direction favoring Airbus. After delivery delays, weight overruns, and other problems (including worrisome reports of structural issues)аwith the A—380... More

I'm always amused when I hear liberals pretending to be outraged over controversial comments from conservatives. While the US has thousands of troops in harm's way in Iraq and Afghanistan, liberals have been bashing the commander in chief for 'recklessly taking us to war.' Some on the left have... More

While many blame multi—national corporations for the ills of the world — despite evidence that foreign trade is the single most important factor in economic growth  for less—developed nations — they always neglect to mention the role in keeping so many nations mired in... More

Should  Patrick Fitzgerald decide to continue to pursue the 2 counts in the Libby indictment even though the Judge has found impeaching evidence in Time's documents, I suggest Libby may want to use this evidence of Cooper's journalistic malfeasance to further impeach him. The Haditha... More

Political analyst Charles Cook lays out the field for the 2008 Presidential races , and quickly concludes that Rudy Giuliani can not be nominated due to his liberal views on social issues. As a result, he finds John McCain a clear leader in surveys of  Washington insiders, or... More

Cell phone tracking helped find al—Zarqawi U.S. military: Terrorist alive briefly after air strike BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) —— Intelligence from cell phone technology helped U.S. forces find and kill Abu Musab al—Zarqawi, said an Iraqi army colonel Friday in an exclusive... More

Aleksander Boyd is a Venezuelan and the proprietor of Vcrisis, a website which opposes the left wing Hugo Chavez. I am proud that he has been a great friend of our site, a sentiment which we fully reciprocate. We have long admired his steadfast bravery in the face of intimidation, and his insight... More

Bookworm slices and dices David Denby's review of An Inconvenient Truth in the New Yorker. Sample: ...in Denby's mind, what's really great about the movie is how it shows the human side of Al Gore (and you thought he didn't have one). Thus, Gore "speaks in an intimate voice that we've never heard... More

The Multi—National Force—Iraq website has the following recap of yesterday's historic news posted there.  Buried by that news: the fact that Iraqi PM Maliki named a Sunni and a Shiite to the key posts of Defense and Interior minister. John B. Dwyer   6 9 06  ... More

The most prominent Wall Street firm, which has provided two Treasury Secretaries in the last decade or so, now rates the New York Times Company to "underperform." Imagine all the money share buyers might have saved if Goldman Sachs had done this when Pinch Sulzberger was appointed... More

The 17 Muslim terrorists determined to blow up as many Canadians as possible are covered by an anti—war American press that refuses to call them "Muslim" terrorists. It has been painful to watch the linguistic contortions with which the mainstream media have carefully avoided using the "M"... More

Israelis bring justice to man responsible for death of Americans in US convoy sent to Gaza to help Palestinians: Jamal Abu Samhadana, who... headed the Hamas government's Interior Ministry security force in the Gaza Strip, was killed in an air strike on a Palestinian militants' training camp in... More

If you were wondering whether the Dark Side of Old Europe was rising again, doubt no more. On Sunday, May 30, a mob of Black Panther—type militants stormed the Old Jewish Quarter of Paris, shouting and threatening people. The "Ka Tribe," led by one "Fara (pharaoh) Kemi Saba" has the usual... More

The UK Guardian brings chilling news of a call for euthanasia without consent, i.e., murder. All for te best and most human of reasons, at least in the view of the proposers: One of the country's leading experts on medical ethics today calls for doctors to be able to end the lives of some... More

The reaction to Ann Coulter's Jersey Girls reference in her new book, Godless, The Church of Liberalism, proves the point she was making.а You cannot be critical of, or in any way respond to the leftist message that comes from someone classified as victim. Think of Christopher Reeve and Cindy... More

That's the very difficult message Phil Angelides has to sell to California voters this November, now that he has secured the Democrats' nomination for governor. "Calling for a $5 billion tax increase is always a challenge, but the defeat of (Prop. 82) makes that effort even tougher,'' said Dan... More

Early this morning the father of Nick Berg, one of the hostages that Abu Musab al—Zarqawi beheaded personally, did a phone interview on Fox News. They almost had to cut him off because he launched into an anti—Bush rant that bordered on a Cindy Sheehan moment. Mark my words...that... More

Abu Musab Zarqawi is dead, courtesy of the United States Military. A man who personally beheaded hostages in the name of Allah, experienced hellfire from the heavens, as precision—guided ordnance destroyed the safe house in which he found temporary shelter. His instantaneous death deprived... More

Sweetness & Light raises some very interesting and important questions about the timing of reports of the Haditha massacre, and about the "group" which is behind the reports. This story seems to be unraveling. Just as we are trying Saddam for the slaughter of innocents, those who may be his... More

Mickey Kaus reminds his readers that State Treasurer Phil Angelides' nomination for Governor of California creates a ready—made campaign issue:Ron Burkle, Clinton's "zipping around with" California buddy, and invites them to check Google. I'll save you the time. Clarice Feldman   6... More

Reminding his readers that Joseph A. Wilson IV and William J. Clinton worked together on an initiative to increase U.S. investment in Africa,  Mac Ranger has been hinting for some time, that there is a lot more to come on the scandal surrounding Congressman William Jefferson which will be... More

The GOP has held onto the seat vacated when Duke Cunningham headed for the Graybar Hotel. Reports of the death of the Republican Party have been exaggerated, to paraphrase Mark Twain. Expect much comment about the meaninglessness of the outcome. More

Our friend Peter Glover of Wires from the Bunker, the U.K. blog, alerts us to the latest outrage from the taxpayer—supported BBC: ...the BBC Today programme newscast announced boldly to one and all that the USA was "flying terror suspects around Europe to torture them". The 'evidence' for... More

Gerard Baker of the Times of London has a hilarious take in Real Clear Politics on the Bolshie BBC's invasion of the American media market. Called "BBC Bringing 'Sophisticated' News to America," it gives a British conservative's view of the government—owned BBC's attempt to sell... More

A reader who prefers anonymity writes: Did you know, that since the number of the AntiChrist is 666, his neighbors must therefore be 664 and 668, and 665 across the street? And that the number 333 is the number of the SemiChrist. I bet you didn't know that. Now you do. More

Canada must be the most relentlessly nice nation on earth. People in my native Minneosta make jokes about the local penchant for niceness, but Canada tops even Minnesota. Sweetness & Light found this in the Toronto Golbe and Mail: Before the raids came the sensitivity training:... More

Andrew Walden on FrontPageMag.com has a detailed discussion of the mores in Iraq about testimony in trials and the role of blood money in Iraqi culture.  He uses as an example a murder trial against several British troops that simply fell apart in court as witness after witness admitted to... More

Mark Levin , citing the WSJ article, says it is. Count me in. Writing at at The Corner referring to the WSJ editorial, he says: At the risk of offending my dear friend Andy McCarthy, I think it's time to replace Patrick Fitzgerald. This is just the latest mind—boggling twist in the... More

Former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, the most popular politician in America, is obviously considering a run for the presidency. If conservatives, who loath liberal Republicans more than they hate left—wing Democrats, will stop looking at him as a RINO (Republican in Name Only) long enough... More

Sweetness & Light caught the irony, and Little Green Footballs has posted a scan of the Sunday Toronto Star, in what will go down in the history of journalism as a classic instance of PC blinders crippling perception. It is hard to imagine serious people being so clueless. The picture... More

The bloggers at Kos are shoring up morale against what they see as a probable loss in the "test case" election in California's 50th Congressional District to replace incarcerated Randy "Duke" Cunningham. When it appeared close, the Kidz and their followers in the Democratic Party touted the race as... More

The Washington Post's The Fix blog provides a guide to the primary elections across the nation today. For a Califronian like me, the most significant ballot item is not mentioned: Proposition 82, which would create a state—funded (and controlled) universal day care ("preschool") program,... More

ABC News reports: If Francine Busby (D) defeats Brian Bilbray (R) in a district that President Bush carried by 11 points in 2004, Democrats will argue that it is a sign that a tidal wave is coming in November. If the GOP retains the seat, Democrats will still work to hype that they forced... More

The Wall Street Journal editorial page comes around to my way of thinking on the Libby case: All of this matters because it suggests that Mr. Fitzgerald is scrambling even now to explain why a seasoned attorney such as Mr. Libby would lie to a grand jury. The prosecutor's original indictment... More

I don't happen to believe in that three—times—222 number, or in the inevitable Armageddon that will pit the forces of Satan against God in a final apocalyptic battle between Good and Evil. But if anybody is taking nominations, I would certain think Mahmoud Ahmadinejad fits the bill for... More

Lawrence Summers, the man who was too honest and courageous for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences leftists and the pusillanimous members of the Harvard Corporation, is still the president of Harvard University, though not for long. He has used his remaining tenure in office to denounce the repulsive... More

Some people are having fun with the alleged significance of today's date combining three sixes (though you have to omit 2, which kind of spoils the game). But we should not forget that on June 6, 1944 incredibly brave Allied forces landed at Normandy and began the liberation of Europe from the... More

The history of the War on Iraq reveals that many of those who expressed strong support for the fight really have no stomach for the reality of war or are too easily off put by the horrible realities of combat. Andrew Sullivan comes to mind. Others prefer to show their moral purity by making... More

Solomonia covers an interesting case in Massachusetts where 4 students of a teacher in Andover High School (a public school, not the famous prep school) were found working collecting signatures for a petition to have the City of Somerville divest itself from stock holdings in Isareli companies and... More

Sean Osborne, Associate Director and Senior Analyst at the Northeast Intelligence Network relays a stunning report on the frustrations of retired Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI) agent Paul 'Dave' Gaubatz.  According to Gaubatz he has had a three year battle in trying to get... More

The wonderful Katherine Kersten of the Star—Tribune in Minnesota covers the decline of the United Methodist Church in Minnesota, as it increasingly devotes itself to left wing activism. This is territory covered for us by Matt May, with reference to another Upper Midwest state beginning with... More

The Washington Post publishes an op—ed by the director of the White House's Office of Strategic Initiatives, Peter Wehner, directing our attention to some of the good news that the Post's (and most of the drive by media's) reporters gloss over, if they don't ignore outright. Some... More

We welcome a new voice to the blogosphere, and give our thanks to Jim Wooten, associate editorial page editor of the Atlanta Journal—Constitution, for naming us one of his favorite websites. Equal thanks to our friend Scott Johnson at Powerline for posting the following... More

Chalk up another amazing discovery by Michelle Malkin  and fellow blogger Joe G. The UK Times published an article on June 1 headlined  " 'Massacre Marines blinded by hate.'"  Right next to the headline, a photo showed row of Iraqi bodies with their hands tied behind their back,... More

James Loney seems to need another "o" in his name, based on this report from the Canadian Press/CTV, via the invaluable Ummah News Links site. You may remember Loney's name as one of the three " Christian Peacemaker Team" members rescued by Allied forces in Iraq, after they were taken hostage... More

Our contributor Jonathan Strong, of the Strong Conservative has written to Haroun Siddiqui of the Toronto Star, a fan of Hamas and its ilk, over the latest terror attack. For a professional wordsmith, Mr. Siddiqui certainly has an evasive and minmalist approach to communication. Read the... More

Glenn Reynolds has been rounding up coverage of the Canadian anti—terror bust and the media coverage of Haditha, and has found a number of first—rate pieces.(See, i.e. this fisking of the New York Times editorial on Haditha)  My favorite Reynold's catch , however, is this comment,... More

Melanie Phillips thinks Britain has had it, and she makes a good case. Because British Prime Minister Tony Blair has been such a staunch friend to the United States, Americans assume that — unlike Europe — Britain generally is on side. They could not be more wrong. The dismaying truth... More

Whatever happened in Haditha, and given the identity of the witnesses that is becoming murkier as time passes, let's remember two things: 1. who the opposition is; 2. how the opposition is treated in the press. This is from an AP story today carried online in the Wall Street Journal in an article... More

Daniel Drezner traces the impact of the oil cartel's price rises on the developingworld. It makes you wonder why the developing nations uniformly support the petro—dollar—fuelled Arab world in diplomatic forums. Do the leaders of these nations hate the West more than they love their own... More

While a "progressive" judge gives Christians the boot, Muslim Imam Umar Abdul—Jalil of New York City's Department of Correction is paid $76,602 tax dollars a year and can publicly spew lies and anti—Christian hate speech without fear of any repercussions? Yet the Iowa Prison Fellowship... More

So says the Jerusalem Post: New public opinion surveys conducted among "opinion elites" in Europe show that support for the Palestinians has fallen precipitously, according to a leading international pollster, Stan Greenberg, who has been briefing Israeli leaders on his findings in the past few... More

Dinocrat spots another example of the mind—blowing arrogance and obstudeness of James Earl Carter: Jimmy Carter, as featured in, of all places, the leftist magazine Mother Jones: MotherJones: In your book, you talk about the intersection in recent years of religious and political... More

Melanie Phillips, the  author of the book about Islamic readicalism in the UK, Londonistan, highlights a report on Gateway Pundit on casualty statistics in Iraq.  Although of course this is a grim subject, still it is useful to see these numbers, which show a declining trend of... More

According to Human Events Online, Bill Clinton received $200,000 from a Chinese official for 30 minute talk.by "Chen Hua... a member of the Shenzhen Standing Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, which is organized by the National People's Congress. According to the... More

Jimmy Carter has a unique talent of always being exactly wrong on American foreign policy. But today's report, that he's offering us more incredibly bad advice——this time on Iran——makes clear why he may well go down in history as the worst U.S. President of all time.It's... More

The Toronto Star is one of the most left wing newspapers in North America. (Its publisher, the Torstar Corporation also publishes the Harlequin Romances series of "bodice—ripper" books, incidentally.) A regular columnist is Haroon Siddiqui, who was formerly the editorial page editor,... More

Canada has arrested 17 presumed terrorists in Greater Toronto, in a raid which uncovered three times the ammonium nitrate used against the Murrah Building in Oklahoma City. The consequences such a large explosion in a crowded area like downtown Toronto are almost too horrific to contemplate.... More

These terrorists/insurgents in Iraq must be very stupid. Now they're poking at the heretofore sleeping Russian Bear by kidnapping four diplomats and killing a fifth. I guess they hadn't heard: Putin said he was "satisfied with the level and quality" of U.S.— Russian relations. "In... More

Shelby Steele, Michael Steele, Condi Rice, Thomas Sowell, On and on goes this impressive roll Of sons and daughters whose forefathers bore With quiet dignity the chains they wore.   On the shoulders of giants they stand with pride And take to the full what this land can provide. Humble... More

The New York Times has resurrected the Kerry as Hero campaign  theme. But Tom Maguire has raised some  well—researched questions about that. Yesterday he asked: Are Michal Kranish, Boston Globe reporter and Douglas Brinkley, historian and Kerry hagiographer, capable of... More

George W. Bush is having a rough second term.  That's the impression even among his supporters.  The drive—by media is doing its best to make sure the President feels the pressure of his low poll numbers, by highlighting them daily.  And members of Congress in the President's... More

More reason to not jump to conclusions about charges that US troops deliberately slaughter civilians. From ABC News Troops appear in the clear on Ishaqi incident. Horrific images of Iraqi adults and children have fueled new allegations that U.S. troops killed civilians in the Iraqi town of Ishaqi.... More

Dean's World has a great post drawing a comparison between the cases against the two groups. ...the press is in full troop—bashing mode, with 90% of Iraq coverage now focused on Haditha. And almost to a word, the articles are written with the assumption U.S. Marines have committed an... More

My friend La Shawn Barber writes a review at NRO of what seems to be an important new book: He Talk Like a White Boy, by Joesph Phillips, "a semi—autobiographical collection of essays about his love for this country and his respect for the 'old school' values that make America strong.... More

Larry Henry satirizes the Senate amnesty bill for illegal aliens by offering similar logic applied to bank robbers, unlicensed drivers and shoplifters in The American Spectator. It is such a basic point that one might think even United States Senators could comprehend it. Guess again.  More

Presidente Fox of Mexico should turn his gaze toward Morocco, where being a good neighbor means more than cashing remittance checks sent home by emigrants to more prosperous countries. Ummah News brings us the story from a Reuters dispatch: Moroccan authorities have detained 102 people,... More

Rush Limbaugh has recently been telling his listeners that the elitists in the media and on the political left regard ordinary Americans as "hayseeds." As if to confirm the insight of El Rushbo, the Seattle Post—Intelligencer helpfully publishes a brief item on the Dixie Chicks and employs... More

Caroline Glick writes in her column for the Jerusalem Post about the way the liberal Israeli media are minimizing the news about Israel's strong economy, an exact dupplication of the behavior of the American liberal media. In Israel, as the country's steady economic growth and high placement on... More

Sweetness & Light has uncovered some interesting background about the doctor who examined the victims in Haditha allegedly massacred by Marines, and whose words have been widely picked—up in press acounts. Of course, transliterations from Arabic vary, so thgere is no certainty he is the... More

It appears that there is going to be bad news from Haditha.  Since this involves a war zone, we have to be very careful about coming to any conclusions before the fact. But it appears that women and children may have been killed by our Marines.  The question arises, is this a bad... More

The descent of most of our most revered institutions of higher edication is accelearting, it seems. How else to explain the hiring ofаNadia Abu El Haj, a Palestinian—American asаAssistant Professor of Anthropology at Barnard. She openly states thatаshe writes within a scholarly tradition... More

Saul Goldman writes us with observations on Haditha: Morality is not simply about the enemy; it is also how we protect our own. One sided chivalry is more than silly; it is self—destructive. Our strategic planners must ask themselves how do we deprive the enemy of the psychological benefits... More

Betsy Newmark highlights the insanity reigning in the Seattle Public Schools, with their definition of racism, which limits racism to whites only. I cannot type any further information because alternative waves of nausea and laughter immobilize my fingers. Besides, the entire post is well worth... More

A Silver Star, Bronze Star and three Purple Hearts for service in Vietnam is quite a resume. So to offer John Kerry some perspective on what it took to earn those awards, I'd recommend the book Acceptable Loss, by Kregg Jorgenson.  Of course Mr. Jorgenson's narrative is somewhat different than... More

In the infamous Vanity Fair article on Joseph Wilson and Valerie Plame (the one with a photo spread of them in their Jaguar convertible), an article obviously sourced by them, Alan Foley is described as Plame's boss: Cheney and his chief of staff, Lewis Libby, visited the C.I.A. several... More

Drudge has a link to a not—to—be—missed New York Times article  which should be required reading for all global warming nuts out there. A new study based on recently obtained soil samples from the ancient seabed found that some 55 million years ago the Artic was as warm... More

President Bush recently called Abu Ghraib our worst mistake in Iraq. It is not. Abu Ghraib was merely a petty episode turned into a scandal by those who want us to lose this war. This is the first conflict in the history of warfare where it is considered a crime to slap around a bunch of murderous... More

Ummah News Links brings us news that a recent survey of prisoners in France reveals that half of prisoners there are Muslims: A Le Monde news article wrote that according to a poll run by 'Religions World' magazine, although Muslims constitute 7—8 percent of the French population, 50 percent... More

Yesterday, the stock of the New York Times Company touched the price of $24.00 before rebounding slightly to 24.16 by the closing bell. It had not traded at such a low level since October of 1998. Pinch Sulzberger became chairman of the company in 1997, so the stock price is still slightly above... More

Try as I might, I just cannot get this picture out of my mind. It comes from the official website of the Presidency of Iran, and accompanies the text of the notorious letter sent by Ahmedinejad to President Bush. The sheer implausibility of the whole exercise boggles my mind. Are we to believe that... More