War on Terror:

A Disarming Candidate, April 18, 2008
Barack Obama promises to disarm America, in the middle of a war. Idiocy or insanity, you make the call....

Moment of Truth in Iraq, April 15, 2008
Michael Yon's great new book, Moment of Truth in Iraq: How a New 'Greatest Generation' of American Soldiers is Turning Defeat and Disaster into Victory and Hope, has soared up the Amazon rankings into the top 10 big sellers on...

The Appeaser in Chief, April 14, 2008
While Barack Obama assails church-going gun-owning Americans, ex-President Jimmy "Malaise" Carter heads off to the Middle East to do a little freelance diplomacy with Hamas, a terrorist organization that has killed Americans and is dedicated to the destruction of Israel....

Saving Fallujah, April 14, 2008
Michael Totten's latest must-read article, Hope for Iraq's Meanest City: How the Surge Brought Order to Fallujah, is now online at the website of City Journal. Nowhere has 'the surge" been more successful than in Fallajah - yet Barack Obama,...

Why McCain Must Win, April 14, 2008
Here's a very good explanation of why we must not leave Iraq until the job is finished....

Abandoning the Murderous "Religion of Peace" for the Prince of Peace, April 4, 2008
For the future of the world and the future of the souls involved, pray that this trend continues....

Krumm To Baghdad, April 4, 2008
I just got word from Nashville blogger extraordinaire Bob Krumm that he has been activated by the military and is being deployed to Iraq. Krumm emails, "I will be assigned to Multi National Corp-Iraq as an analyst. I'm looking forward...

Yoo Who, April 2, 2008
Berkeley law professor John Yoo's name has surfaced in the media lately in connection with the ongoing debate over the use of coercive interrogation techniques on captured terrorists. Here's an illuminating interview of Yoo and University of Chicago law professor...

Do Tennessee Tax Dollars Fund Terror?, April 1, 2008
Are Tennesseans' tax dollars helping fund terrorism? It's a question I first raised on this blog more than three and a half years ago, and one the legislature is now also asking. According to this report in yesterday's Tennessean, the...

Freedom of Speech, March 28, 2008
The Los Angeles Times reports on reaction to the Dutch film Fitna, which looks at the Islamofacist threat to Europe. The 17-minute film is available all over the 'net. The LAT notes that it spread virally and very, very fast.The...

At the Edge of Insanity, March 24, 2008
Network Solutions - the giant domain name marketer and web-hosting company - cowers before the Islamofacists. ... Meanwhile, in Chicago, anti-war protestors disrupt a church Easter service, and get cheered on by a radical pro-Palestinian-terrorists group....

You Won't See This In the Paper, March 23, 2008
Learn some history via a Tennessean user blog. His previous posts are quite informative as well....

Support for Iraq War Rises Sharply, March 13, 2008
The Politico reports:According to late February polling conducted by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, 53 percent of Americans - a slim majority - now believe "the U.S. will ultimately succeed in achieving its goals" in...

"I have not yet begun to fight.", March 3, 2008
Whenever I hear a Democrat talk about how tough the Iraq war has been, and how it is time to bring the troops home whatever hell may come to Iraq, I think back to one of my favorite heros of...

Too Green, February 29, 2008
Hillary Clinton has launched a devastating new ad, titled "Children," suggesting - rightly - that Barack Obama is simply too green to handle a major international crisis. Though polls show that, even more than Sen. Clinton, it is John McCain...

Hey, Obama, Al Qaeda's Not Just In Iraq, They're In America Too, February 28, 2008
From the Wednesday Washington Post: Imam From Va. Mosque Now Thought to Have Aided Al-Qaeda...

Sweeping Out The Trash, February 28, 2008
What does a link from Daily Kos and attention from the Left get you? A flood of appalling comment-sludge. Not spam. Sludge, dumped by angry left-wingers who can't seem to make an argument without using a bucket full of foul...

Not In Position to Know, February 27, 2008
Barack Obama: Naive about Al Qaeda in Iraq. Though, to be fair, Iraq probably wasn't a big issue before the Illinois state senate, where Obama was in office back when such issues were being decided....

The Long War, February 26, 2008
Today is the 15th anniversary of an event that, in hindsight, should have been more of a wake-up call than it was. Today is the 15th anniversary of the first attack on the World Trade Center by the Islamic jihadists....

Democrats Put Politics Before National Security, February 16, 2008
Rich Galen explains why the Democrats are wrong to stall on passing the FISA legislation - and, for those of you who don't know what FISA is, he explains that, too. Also, the Tennessee Republican Party issued a statement yesterday...

Soft on Security, February 7, 2008
Today the Republican National Committee has released a new web video, Protect America Alert, highlighting the failure of Congressional Democrats to permanently update America's 30-year-old terrorist surveillance law, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). In 2007, Senators Hillary Clinton, Barack...

Swift Boats, January 20, 2008
The New York Times has an interesting article today explaining what Iran is up to with its recent harassment of U.S. Navy ships in the Persian Gulf using small boats....

Blogger Killed in Iraq, January 4, 2008
Mil-blogger and U.S. Army Major Andrew Olsted, who blogged for his own site and for the Rocky Mountain News, has become the first American soldier killed in Iraq in 2008. He left a final message. The blog Obsidian Wings has...

Seeds, January 3, 2008
The website New English Review has an important article about the growth of the Muslim population in Nashville - and the troubling connections of some local Muslim organizations to radical Islamists....

Grodner Update, January 3, 2008
The worst lawyer in Chicago gets a http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-kass_03jan03,0,5792645,full.column">profile in the Chicago Trib....

Lowest Life Form Yet Discovered, December 31, 2007
The lowest form of life ever discovered on planet Earth has been found in Chicago, Illinois. It's lower than pond scum, less desirable than the ebola virus, deserving of none of the respect you gave that dog crap you once...

Threat Threads, December 26, 2007
Mark Steyn's latest column finds the underlying thread that connects a British TV reality show about living under Islamic law with the view of some eco-freaks that babies are pollution. Also, Steyn's free-speech rights are under assault in Canada. By...

Fighting Terrorism One Small Business At A Time, December 14, 2007
Entrepreneurship professor/blogger Jeff Cornwall, at the newly-redesigned Entreprenuerial Mind blog, writes that he's helping rebuild Iraq from right here in Nashville.I have had the pleasure to interact with the 502nd Infantry Regiment that is working to bring entrepreneurial economic development...

Silenced?, December 4, 2007
Deborah Tainsh, author of the book Heart of a Hawk will be speaking to the Republican Women of West Wilson at their next meeting, tonight (Dec. 4) at 7 PM at the Mt. Juliet Library. The book tells the story...

Winning in Iraq, November 29, 2007
Austin Bay examines the emerging defeat of al Qaeda in Iraq....

"If It Was Not For Us...", October 27, 2007
A liberal congressman tells the the truth and Don Surber adds some on-target commentary about Euro-queasiness in the war on terror....

On the Verge of Victory?, October 18, 2007
Rich Galen says, "We may be sneaking up on victory in Iraq."...

Denying Reality, October 17, 2007
The Holocaust happened, yet even today there are Holocaust Deniers. The Soviet Union stood for decades implacably committed to the defeat of the West and the conquest of the world to Soviet-style communism, and for decades it made military advances....

Better 28 Years Late Than Never, October 6, 2007
http://www.julescrittenden.com/2007/10/06/concerns-about-stability/">Jules Crittenden thinks bombing Iran's nuclear facilities and terrorist training camps "and the infrastructure that supports Iranian terrorism" would bring stability to the Middle East. Well, you can't win the War on Terror without confronting the enemy and more...

"The outcome of the war in Iraq has been decided...", October 3, 2007
The British news magazine Prospect details the political progress in increasingly less-war-torn Iraq. Short version: The job in Iraq is moving rapidly towards something closer to Iraqi police work than American war. The Prospect says,Three and a half years after...

Support Regime Change in Iran, September 25, 2007
Here's an important message via email from Gary Metz, the publisher of the vitally important website RegimeChangeInIran.com......

Message to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, September 24, 2007
Iranian lead terrorist/president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (last name rhymes vaguely with "I'm a nutjob") was in New York today. Pajamas Media has the round-up of news, commentary and assorted bloggage. Also, Fred Thompson had this to say about the hearty welcome...

Protecting Ground Zero, September 20, 2007
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad - a terrorist-sponsor, organizer of the hostage-taking at the U.S. embassy in Tehran in 1978, and planner of a future nuclear holocaust to destroy Israel - apparently intends to visit "Ground Zero," the site of destroyed...

Of Terrorists and Trial Lawyers, September 14, 2007
Ted Frank explains how terrorists can damage the global economy simply by inducing fratricidal litigation....

Speech!, September 13, 2007
President Bush gave a pretty good speech on Iraq tonight. You can read it here. Short version: The way to bring the troops home, and to make America safer, is to succeed in Iraq. The alternative vision - the MoveOn.org/Democratic...

Another Good Reason to Home-School Your Kids, September 13, 2007
Don't panic....

Six Years Later, September 11, 2007
On this day, the sixth anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks, some bloggers are showing readers what they were writing back on that world-changing day. I didn't have a blog six years ago today - I didn't launch my...

A Fourth to Remember... But a 9/11 to Forget?, September 11, 2007
Hey, Tennessee Democratic Party. Today's September 11. Not July 4. September 11. Perhaps you've heard of it. It's an important day. One that Americans - especially those who purport to offer political leadership - should always remember. Change your website....

The Post-9/11 Economic Boom, September 11, 2007
James Pethokoukis looks at how the American economy has fared since the September 11 attack, an attack that Osama bin Laden later declared was in part intended to help bring down the U.S. economy.Since September 11, the economy hasn't suffered...

A Nashvillian in Iraq, September 10, 2007
In case you live in the Nashville area or just happen to know Army Captain Phil Messer of Nashville you might be interested to know that he's featured in this lengthy post by embedded blogger Michael Totten, who is reporting...

DailyKos Equates Osama bin Laden with Ronald Reagan, September 10, 2007
I kid you not. DailyKos.com, the Left's most popular website and a key source of fund-raising for Democrats from coast to coast, says Osama bin Laden and Ronald Reagan have a lot in commonSo is Osama bin Laden truly "evil?"...

After the Surge, September 7, 2007
The American Thinker looks at what happens in Iraq after the surge - which is working! - ends, and the number of American forces in Iraq is reduced. A must-read piece....

Rumsfeld's New Job, September 7, 2007
Former U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, who also served previously as White House Chief of Staff, U.S. Ambassador to NATO, U.S. Congressman and chief executive officer of two Fortune 500 companies, will become a a Distinguished Visiting Fellow...

Hitchens on the War: "This must be supported whether it's going well or not.", August 31, 2007
The Hoover Institution at Stanford University has published a highly interesting video interview with author Christopher Hitchens in which he discusses the Iraq war. Regarding the American "surge" in Iraq, Hitchens - rightly, I think - calls it "a...

Majority of Americans Still Believe Victory Possible in Iraq, August 31, 2007
From Zogby: A majority of Americans - 54% - believe the United States has not lost the war in Iraq, but there is dramatic disagreement on the question between Democrats and Republicans, a new UPI/Zogby Interactive poll shows......

In The Mail, August 27, 2007
In today's mail: House to House: An Epic Memoir of War, by SSG. David Bellavia, an account of the Battle of Fallujah. Although I had too much to do today, I made the mistake of opening it to read the...

How irrelevant. The Post-Intelligencer. Goodbye Dinosaur, August 22, 2007
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer is continuing to refuse to publish the photos of two men the FBI says it needs to talk to in connection to a probe of possible terrorism-related activity on the Seattle ferry system. I've got the latest...

War Update, August 21, 2007
We're winning in Iraq. Update: Link fixed....

War Update, August 14, 2007
Here's a must-read war update, courtesy of Der Spiegel. It's another "the surge is working" story that's guaranteed to give Democratic National Committee the jitters....

Lies, August 9, 2007
Raising the specter of the infamous "Winter Soldier" fraud committed by now-Sen. John Kerry and the anti-war Left during the Vietnam War, left-wing anti-war magazine The New Republic is now being exposed for running a series of false stories alleging...

Harry Potter and Harry Reid, August 2, 2007
At ElephantBiz.com today: What Harry Potter Can Teach Us About The War Against Islamofacist Terror....

Terror Attack Imminent?, August 2, 2007
A former top Israeli counterterrorism agent says al Qaeda is prepping a simultaneous attack on a handful of American cities - and not the big coastal cities....

Will Europe Survive the 21st Century?, August 1, 2007
"What would Charlemagne make of Europe today? .... How long, the Emperor would surely ask, can a civilization expect to survive without arms, without faith, without children?" - from Will "Europe" Survive the 21st Century?, a must-read essay on the...

Sad Day for the Surrendercrats, July 30, 2007
The New York Times reports that public support for the Iraq war is rising, and Democratic analysts - again in the NYT - admit the surge is working. Harry Reid, Barack Obama and the rest of the Surrendercrats can't be...

Iraq Update, July 20, 2007
With Tennessee's U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander recently proposed that the White House and Congress "come together" on a way out of Iraq by implementing the Iraq Study Group recommendations, it's worth your time to watch this 30-minute video of Iraq...

Who?, July 12, 2007
Dan Riehl at Riehl World View asks an important question....

The Legalities of War, July 9, 2007
Here's video of an interesting discussion between two constitutional law professors about the legal issues in the War on Terror, featuring Richard Epstein of the University of Chicago Law School and John Yoo of the University of California-Berkeley School of...

Winner, May 4, 2007
Former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist describes the day he saved the life of a soldier named David Petraeus, who would go on to become "Gen. David Petraeus," currently leading U.S. forces in Iraq - and why he believes...

Tracking the Islamic Bomb, April 21, 2007
The Spectator's Melanie Phillips interviews the U.S. Air Force intelligence specialist who found Saddam's WMD bunkers. What? You didn't know that we'd found Saddam's WMD bunkers? There's a reason for that...The Republicans won't touch this because it would reveal the...

"People Feel Safe Again", April 4, 2007
It's working. So why do the Democrats want to cut off our soldiers just as they're turning the corner toward victory? What do the Democrats want to lose the Iraq war?...

Kurdistan Rising, March 20, 2007
Michael Totten reports from the part of Iraq where the war is over and the future is developing at full speed. With amazing photos of a rising American ally in the Middle East. I wonder - could continued American military...

Did Corker Vote to Defund the Troops?, March 19, 2007
According to a Senate roll call vote tally, Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tennessee, voted against a "concurrent resolution expressing the sense of Congress that no funds should be cut off or reduced for American Troops in the field which would result...

"No More Noble Missions", March 18, 2007
"Puppies for Peace" was my favorite hand-scrawled sign among those held by the 100-150 antiwar protesters who marched through downtown Nashville Saturday. It was carried by a man with a dog on a leash. The dog's true feelings about the...

Americans Are In It to Win It, February 20, 2007
A new poll shows that a majority of Americans want the United States to win in Iraq, putting them on a different page with the Democratic Party's push in Congress to "slow bleed" America into defeat. Continue on to read...

A Plan to Lose, February 18, 2007
Mark Steyn examines the state of things in Iraq, and how Democrats in Congress are trying to orchestrate America's defeat. Says Steyn "The Murtha plan is to deny the president the possibility of victory while making sure Democrats don't have...

Waving the White Flag, February 17, 2007
Democrats passed the surrender resolution in the House, though thankfully enough senators refused to vote for defeat....

Army Intelligence, February 1, 2007
Ben Cunningham passed along this link from the FOIA Blog.The Electronic Frontier Foundation ("EFF") has filed suit against the Department of Defense ("DOD") in its attempt to get information about the Army Web Risk Assessment Cell ("AWRAC"). News reports in...

Pledge Update, January 31, 2007
Nearly 31,500 people have signed The Pledge to not support any Republican senator running for re-election who votes for any resolution that amounts to less than 100-percent commitment to victory in Iraq. Hugh Hewitt has the latest on the Pledge...

Lessons of History, January 29, 2007
Foreign Policy magazine says...Vietnam taught many Americans the wrong lesson: that determined guerrilla fighters are invincible. But history shows that insurgents rarely win, and Iraq should be no different. Now that it finally has a strategy, the Bush administration is...

A Good Start, January 29, 2007
As seen on TV: Amazing cellphone video of intense fighting near Najaf, Iraq. Video shows Iraqi Army engaging terrorists/insurgents. News reports say 250 enemy killed. The gloves are off....

Stop The War!, January 29, 2007
Let's stop the War on Terror. Right now. Pull our troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan, stop helping the Somali government and its Ethiopian allies defeat the Islamist radicals that are trying to turn that wreck of a country into...

Iraq Myths, January 28, 2007
StrategyPage.com presents the Top Ten Myths of the Iraq War. Good stuff. Meanwhile, TigerHawk notes that there are two groups opposed to the "surge" - the president's deployment of more troops to Iraq to implement a new military strategy against...

The Gloves Are Off, January 26, 2007
An excellent essay today from Donald Sensing, who explores the new military strategy in Iraq: "Lethality is the focus now," says Sensing.Further evidence of the new focus on lethality is the President's approval of killing Iranian agents inside Iraq. I...

Weasels Wobble, January 26, 2007
President Bush has authorized the U.S. military to capture or kill Iranian agents in Iraq who are plotting attacks against U.S. and coalition forces. That's the good news today about the war on terror - instead of caving in to...

Alexander On Iraq, January 25, 2007
After reading in NashvillePost.com yesterday that Tennessee Sen. Lamar Alexander was not in favor of the "surge" of additional troops to Iraq, I went to the senator's website to express my thoughts on the subject. I received the following response...

Fighting Against Those Who Would Seize Defeat, January 25, 2007
Jules Crittenden's analysis of President Bush's State of the Union speech notes the iron will of the President to continue to seek victory in the main combat theatre in the war on terror, Iraq, even as more and more members...

Backing Down, January 24, 2007
And so the Senate Foreign Relations Committee has voted for a nonbinding resolution opposing the sending of more troops to Iraq to execute the Bush administration's new military strategy there. The vote was 12-9, with 11 defeatist Democrats and one...

"The Fight We Are In", January 23, 2007
The section of President Bush's State of the Union speech Tuesday night that dealt with the war was as tough-minded and clear-headed as any major speech I've heard the president give on the war since 9/11. Like all SOTU speeches,...

Progress in Iraq, January 17, 2007
Here's more evidence that patience and persistence will lead to victory in Iraq - just as long as the Surrender Brigades don't win the day in Congress....

Jamil Hussein Update, January 14, 2007
Powerline has a pretty good summary of the state of things in the questions that still swirl around the Associated Press's mysterious source in Baghdad, Jamil Hussein. Powerline:The AP has made no attempt to explain how Mr. Hussein (or whatever...

Army Strong? Army Cool!, January 12, 2007
I'm betting the U.S military wouldn't have trouble recruiting soldiers once it deploys technology like this.A nanotechnologist in Texas has come up with a way of producing a super-fabric with 100 times the strength of human muscle. The Pentagon now...

Rabid Dog Update, January 9, 2007
Yesterday I wrote a post criticizing an op-ed published by the New York Times urging the West pressure the legitimate government of Somalia share power with the Islamist al Qaeda radicals that it, with the help of the Ethiopian Army...

You Can't Befriend a Rabid Dog, January 8, 2007
A week after the legitimate transitional Somalia government's military and its ally the U.S.-trained and U.S.-equipped Ethiopian Army defeated al Qaeda's Islamofascist jihadis trying to take over the impoverished country on the horn of Africa, the surrender brigades at the...

The Stakes, January 7, 2007
Jules Crittenden explains what's at stake in Iraq, and why George W. Bush must do the right thing. The surrender brigade that just took over Congress can not be allowed to win the debate over Iraq, for if they do,...

Malkin Heads to Iraq, January 4, 2007
Blogger Michelle Malkin is headed to Iraq as an embedded reporter. Michael Fumento has details here. Related: Malkin has an intriguing update on the "Who is Jamil Hussein?" story that prompted her trip to the combat zone....

War Saves Iraqi Lives By the Thousands, January 3, 2007
War, what is it good for? Well, it's good for improving the chances of the average Iraqi to live longer and die peacefully, for one. Fewer Iraqis are dying violently each day during the current war than died daily at...

Who Is Jamil Hussein?, December 14, 2006
I've been following, but only lightly blogging about, the controversy surrounding an Associated Press report from Iraq that increasingly appears to have been a fabrication. But now it is getting interesting......

Radar Love: A Sao Tome Update, December 13, 2006
One of the ways the U.S. can win the war on terror is to become less dependent on oil from the terrorist breeding grounds of the Middle East and, while our military situation in Iraq gets most of the media's...

Shooting the Messenger, December 9, 2006
Michelle Malkin has been digging into the Associated Press's false stories coming out of Iraq and its use of "sources" that are connected with the insurgents and terrorists. The AP, rather than admit its journalistic failures and investigate itself, is...

What. He. Said., November 30, 2006
I ask, beg, urge, beseech, implore and even demand that you go read Darren Duvall's excellent response to the whole kerfluffle over a quote in yesterday's Tennessean attributed to Lipscomb University professor Dr. Lee Camp. Duvall, a self-styled "simple country...

December 16, 1944, November 28, 2006
There once was a time when America, when faced with tough going in war, did not run away - despite losses that make Iraq look like a Sunday picnic in the park....

NYT: Iraq Had Details Plans for Nukes, November 3, 2006
The New York Times today has a story confirming that Iraq under Saddam Hussein had "detailed" plans for making nuclear bombs. Meanwhile, Ed Morrissey reports on two other potentially explosive documents recovered from Saddam's regime:Just this past Monday, I posted...

Oops, November 3, 2006
The Tennessean apologizes for being misunderstood in its defense of John Kerry's remarks slamming the intelligence level of U.S. troops serving in Iraq - remarks that Kerry says were misinterpreted, but weren't. Roger Abramson summarizes the whole thing rather well....

Somebody Tell John Kerry, November 2, 2006
"Wartime U.S. mil­itary enlistees are better educated, wealthier, and more rural on aver­age than their civilian peers," says research Tim Kane. Not only that, but over the past three years of war in Iraq, the quality of recruits to the...

Reprehensible, October 31, 2006
U.S. Sen. John Kerry is proof positive that marrying into money doesn't make you classy. Donald Sensing has the best response I've seen so far. Update: This is the video of Kerry's remarks: More reaction here. And don't miss William...

Fighting Media Misinformation, October 29, 2006
The U.S. Department of Defense is using the Internet to make public its requested media corrections and any refusals to correct, reports StrategyPage.com. The goal: pressure the news media to make corrections when it gets things wrong. Of course, it...

The Real War, October 25, 2006
Don't miss Michael Fumento's excellent National Review article on media coverage of the Iraq war, and how it is being skewed by a brigade of "reporters" trying to do the impossible: accurately report a war in a country the size...

Killing the Milblogs, October 22, 2006
Boston Herald City Editor Jules Crittenden says the military's new regulations on soldiers' blogging may kill off milblogs. I fear he's right....

The Stakes, October 20, 2006
The war to protect America against Islamofacist terror is too important to be left to those who don't understand the stakes....

Slam Dunk, October 11, 2006
David Zucker, producer of the Scary Movie spoof films, has made a hysterically funny political ad the Republican Party has decided not to use. Which only means you get to watch it on YouTube instead of the tube. Enjoy......

North Korea, October 9, 2006
Some are suggesting North Korea's nuclear bomb test was a dud or a fake, but I'm not sure it matters all that much. If this test was a dud, that just means North Korea and its tyrannical homicidal maniac ruler...

The Blog of War, October 5, 2006
The Philadelphia Inquirer has a review of the book The Blog of War: Front-Line Dispatches from Soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, a collection of postings from various military bloggers involved in the War on Terror, compiled by Matthew Currier Burden...

Never Forget, October 5, 2006
Progress for America and David Beamer, father of United Flight 93 passenger and September 11 hero Todd Beamer have launched a new website, United to Defeat Terrorism, to remind Americans how we got into the war on terror. As David...

The Blue Dress, October 2, 2006
Long before George W. Bush became president, Osama bin Laden was plotting the 9/11 attack. And the CIA had a plan to stop him. But someone in the Clinton administration nixed the plan. And the 9/11 attack happened. Don Surber...

Selling Lies, October 1, 2006
The Washington Post's Bob Woodward says things are getting worse in Iraq. He's lying. Why would he do that? Because he has a new book to sell....

Oops, September 27, 2006
The National Intelligence Estimate that the Left was all a'twitter about in recent days, thinking it supports their view that the U.S. ought to pull out of Iraq , has been declassified - and it says the opposite....

The G Stands for Gullible, September 19, 2006
ABC's Good Morning America carried a story Friday morning featuring three Tennessee women who claimed to be ex-Republicans who became Democrats, with one claiming she switched parties because of the war in Iraq. Either GMA's producers are gullible - or...

Associated (With The Terrorists) Press, September 18, 2006
After months of silence regarding one of its Iraq' photographers who was arrested by the U.S. military along with a couple of terrorists and some materials for bombs, the Associated Press today published a story defending the jailed photographer. Before...

Ahead of the Curve, September 16, 2006
Why, yes, that's right, I was way ahead. [Me, July 23, 2003: "So perhaps it is Corn who outed Plame?"]...

Exposing Keith Olbermann, September 13, 2006
Bob Cox, editor of the Olbermann Watch blog, emails:Keith Olbermann's 9/11 Screed from Ground Zero has generated tremendous support among the blue blogs which are besides themselves in praising Keith's "courageous" "Murrow moment". Too bad Keith's "hole in the ground"...

The War in Two Pictures, September 6, 2006
If you don't think you have time to read a 2,000 word point/counterpoint about the recent war in Lebanon between Israel and Hezbollah, then read this brief illustrated version. K-Co's retort in the first comment pretty much nails it....

Plame Over, September 1, 2006
The Washington Post admits what some of us suspected all along: The Plame Affair was much ado about nothing. The Post, Sept. 1, 2006:Nevertheless, it now appears that the person most responsible for the end of Ms. Plame's CIA career...

Rumsfeld is right., August 31, 2006
Rumsfeld is right....

The Next Israeli-Hezbollah War Will Be Much Worse, August 16, 2006
Donald Sensing analyzes the Israeli-Hezbollah ceasefire and says it's just a prelude to a more violent and dangerous war in the near future. I agree with him. While I have always supported Israel and its right to defend itself against...

Sleeping Soundly, August 15, 2006
Michael Totten writes about the peace and calm in the middle of a war zone. A must-read. And be sure to hit the PayPal button so at the end....

"The Nation May Be Tired, But History Doesn't Care", August 14, 2006
Don't miss Michael Gerson's piece in Newsweek looking at lessons learned in the five years since 9/11 - and why it doesn't matter if the American public is growing weary of the war on terror. Also, the same Newsweek has...

Stopping Israel, August 1, 2006
George Jones - the Canadian journalist, not the country singer - has discovered a sure-fire way to stop Israel from bombing and invading other countries. Check it out here. The Guardian newspaper, meanwhile, presents a look inside the brainwashed and...

Mideast Update, July 22, 2006
While the "world community" and much of the world media blather on about how Israel needs to stop attacking Hezbollah, and how the U.N. needs to step in and solve this latest crisis, David Kopel remembers a not-too-distant time when...

Rockets and Reality, July 19, 2006
I've been sitting here in a hospital waiting room since early this morning, and CNN is on, and the big story is, naturally, Israel's ongoing military attacks on the Hezbollah terrorist organization. I find myself feeling sorry for the vast...

Target Syria, July 17, 2006
The New Republic carries a persuasive article by Michael B. Oren urging Israel to go to war against Syria, in order to prevent a wider Middle East war, and says the Six hDay War of 1966 is the paradigm.Back in...

Israel War News Sources, July 15, 2006
Sharon Cobb emailed some links to the best online sources for news about the situation in Israel. She recommends www.jta.org Also, for live English-language radio reports from Israel, go to www.kolisrael.com. And, says Cobb, the best site for accuracy in...

Mumbai Train Bombing, July 11, 2006
Just a reminder that the war isn't over until the other side is defeated....

Russia Nails Islamist Terrorist Who Lead Beslan Massacre, July 10, 2006
It's party time! Russia's most-wanted terrorist - Shamil Basayev, who lead that raid on the elementary school in Beslan in 2004 in which 331 people, half of them children, were killed, is dead - killed by Russian special forces as...

Faith and Foreign Policy, July 4, 2006
Dallas Morning News columnist William McKenzie's latest commentary, on the link between faith and foreign policy, is a must-read....

So Much for the Loyal Opposition, July 3, 2006
David Frum asks, "Have we reached the point where the greatest threat to the lives and safety of civilian populations may be - not the increasingly clumsy operations of the terrorists - but sabotage by internal opponents of counter-terrorist operations?"...

Chilling, July 3, 2006
From the New York Times: A terror strike, laid out on a computer. It's a look inside the planning of last October's suicide bombing on a beach in Bali that killed 20 people....

Military to Study Blogs, July 1, 2006
This report says the Air Force Office of Scientific Research recently began funding a new research area that includes a study of blogs. And the researchers think bloggers may have fueled those riots in the Muslim world over the publication...

NYT Helping Terrorists Again, June 23, 2006
The New York Times has compromised national security - which means, they've compromised your security and put your life at increased risk of terrorist attack - again....

None So Blind As Those Who Will Not See, June 22, 2006
One of the downsides of being a thoughtful, intelligent blogger instead of a raving, ranting lunatic is you are subjected to a lot of email from raving, ranting lunatics from the other side of the political aisle. Case in point,...

Improving News, June 21, 2006
"The news from the Muslim world is not that anti-Americanism has grown - that's old hat. The real news is that America's image in Muslim lands is starting to get better." So says a pollster and a Council on Foreign...

Karl Rove and the Time Traveling Aliens, June 20, 2006
Tom Maguire looks at TruthNot's ongoing insistence - in the face of all evidence to the contrary - that presidential advisor Karl Rove was indicted....

Our Friends, the Saudis, May 21, 2006
The House of Saud is the home of our enemy....

The Night of Broken Glass, May 19, 2006
This is scary stuff. Anyone who thinks Iran isn't taking the world to a very dark and dangerous place isn't paying attention. How do you say "Kristallnacht" in Iran?...

Old News, May 11, 2006
The USA Today story about the NSA mining phone records for phone call patterns that might indicate Al Qaeda activity has the Bush-bashing mainstream media all in a tizzy about today. Turns out, however, that it is old news. And...

Is Osama Dead?, January 9, 2006
The invaluable Michael Ledeen writes:According to Iranians I trust, Osama bin Laden finally departed this world in mid-December. The al Qaeda leader died of kidney failure and was buried in Iran, where he had spent most of his time since...

Blowing It, January 8, 2006
Glenn Reynolds has an interesting post, with multiple links, on how the military is blowing it with bloggers. Also, here's a related development....

Ahmadinejad and Robertson, January 5, 2006
By Nathan Moore Pat Robertson and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran are both finding justifiction in Sharon's stroke, and seemingly see no reason not to uncork the champagne if he dies. Ahmadinejad first TEHRAN, Iran - Iran's president said Thursday...

President Signed Secret Order for Fake "News" Site, December 30, 2005
I'm shocked - shocked! - that the Department of Defense has been paying freelance journalists to write news stories for informational websites set up to help our side win the war. The Los Angeles Times reports on the secret presidential...

Former Clinton Associate A.G.: NSA Spying Legal, December 21, 2005
John Schmidt, who served under President Clinton from 1994 to 1997 as the associate attorney general of the United States - in other words, not a right-wing neocon from the bowls of Halliburton and the Bushitler regime - had an...

Casey Deserved Better, December 21, 2005
Cindy Sheehan's book isn't selling very well. Huh. You might have been thinking otherwise judging from the long lines at her book signing....

Quotable, December 21, 2005
"The Department of Justice believes, and the case law supports, that the president has inherent authority to conduct warrantless physical searches for foreign intelligence purposes, and that the President may, as has been done, delegate this authority to the Attorney...

How the Dodo Became Extinct, December 20, 2005
Cartoon by LA Times editorial cartoonist Mike Ramirez, via The Discerning Texan...

Score One for the Home Team, December 15, 2005
Iraqi voters turned out in force countrywide Thursday to elect a permanent government, and Sunni Iraqis voted in large numbers, chosing ballots over bombs and bullets for the first time in Iraq's history. President Bush responds....

Is Good News News?, December 15, 2005
A reporter realizes what too few reporters ever do: that news doesn't have to be bad to be "news." Reporting and blogging for the Fairbanks, Alaska, Daily News-Miner from Iraq, where she's embedded with the 172nd Stryker Brigade near Mosul,...

It Moved Me, December 3, 2005
David All, communications Director U.S. Rep. Jack Kingston, R-Georgia, Vice-Chairman of the House Republican Conference, reports that MoveOn.org's anti-war ads in the Congressman's district have proved a flop. All writes:So I wanted to follow-up with you to give you the...

War on Error Bias, December 1, 2005
This post has been linked by Instapundit, Hugh Hewitt, the National Journal's Blogometer, Reason.com, Protein Wisdom, the Knoxville News Sentinel's Michael Silence, the New England Republican, and several other blogs since yesterday. So... if you haven't read it, well, why...

LA Times Ignores Key Points of Bush's Iraq Speech, November 30, 2005
The Los Angeles Times story on President Bush's very fine speech today to graduates midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy, outlining the administration's strategy in Iraq, is filled with omissions and spin. Here are just two examples: Regarding the training...

Red Friday?, November 29, 2005
I just received an interesting email forwarded to me through a series of people. I'm wondering if this is a real effort. Just in case it is, I'll be wearing red on Fridays from now on.RED FRIDAYS -- Very soon,...

A little perspective on Iraq, November 23, 2005
By U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn Y'all -- As you all know, we held a debate on a resolution last week that would have called for an immediate withdrawal of troops from Iraq. Thankfully the rhetoric gave way to reason and...

Letter from Mosul, November 21, 2005
J.W. Purcell, 1Sgt, Ret., writes from Mosul, Iraq, about the idiocy of some in Congress calling for a "timetable" for the withdrawal of American forces from Iraq:Sir, I have 22 years of military service. I have many Iraqi friends. I...

Words Fail, November 21, 2005
If you haven't read Kay Brooks' wonderful farewell to her nephew, Spc. Benjamin A. Smith, you should go do so now....

No Courage to Be Cowards, November 19, 2005
The U.S. House of Representatives voted 403-3 to continue to the war against terrorists and tyranny in Iraq. The cut-and-run Democrats lacked the courage to even vote their conviction that America must be cowardly in the face of an armed...

A Game of Catch, November 18, 2005
By Donna Locke Tennesseans for Immigration Control and Reform A story in today's Washington Times reports that "the House Homeland Security Committee yesterday passed a border security bill that would expand expedited removal of illegal aliens across all U.S. land...

Torturing the VP, November 18, 2005
By Nathan Moore The all-out assault on Dick Cheney regarding American interrogation tactics is astounding to me. "Torture" has become a fuzzy word (almost as fuzzy as "is"), which does little to help real information gathering by those sworn to...

On a Clear Day, You Can See . . ., November 16, 2005
By Donna Locke Tennesseans for Immigration Control and Reform Yep, the four of us are still "guest-blogging," and Bill is still tied up in a car trunk out back. Michelle Malkin continues to tell it like it is. And our...

Back From Iraq, Lance Seeks 278th Stories, Photos, November 10, 2005
Lance Frizzell is back from Iraq and changing the focus of his blog. Lance writes:Now that most of the 278th RCT is back from Iraq, I plan to alter this blog into a growing archive of our deployment and back...

Outing Joe Wilson, November 1, 2005
Joe Hoft at Gateway Pundit reminds us of Joe Wilson's incendiary speech at a leftwing anti-war group in June 2003, a speech that raises questions as to why his wife, Valerie Plame, convinced the CIA to send him to Niger...

Milestones, October 26, 2005
Bob Krumm is appalled by the Left's joy over the death of the 2,000th American soldier in Iraq:I'm still hopeful that citizen journalism will eventually elevate public discourse for the masses. However, for now, it looks like too many bloggers...

Scare Tactic, October 26, 2005
Headline in today's Detroit Free Press: Draft Ratified; 2,000th Killed. No, the story isn't about some secret plan to institute a military draft. That's just what the clever headline writer at the Detroit Free Press wants you to think....

Le hasard favorise l'esprit prepare*, October 17, 2005
I saw Last Best Chance, a one-hour mini-movie staring Fred Thompson as the President of the United States facing the threat nuclear-armed Islamic terrorists, on HBO last night. The movie was produced by the Nuclear Threat Initiative to illustrate the...

Progress in Iraq, October 13, 2005
The Bangkok Post tells the truth that the New York Times and the rest of the American elite media refuse to acknowledge: There has been "extraordinarily good news" in Iraq. Read the whole thing....

The Good War (Speech), October 6, 2005
Donald Sensing liked the President's speech today on the war, and has a solid analysis of its strengths and weaknesses here. I didn't see it. The day I can get TV on a small screen in the corner of my...

Why is the MSM Ignoring Oklahoma Muslim Suicide Bomber?, October 5, 2005
Was there a Muslim suicide bombing in Oklahoma over the weekend? I watched a lot of news in recent days, and have seen nothing on it. But it happened outside the University of Oklahoma football stadium where the Sooners were...

The Thanks of Grateful Nations, September 2, 2005
Old meme: The world hates us because Bush invaded Iraq. New meme: Apparently the world still likes us.Australia announced a donation of $8 million to the American Red Cross. ?The United States is so often at the forefront of international...

Down the Memory Hole, January 27, 2004
Remember Amb. Joseph C. Wilson IV - the guy whose wife, Valerie Plame, had her idendity as a CIA covert op revealed in the press? Remember how Wilson claimed to have no partisan motive in pushing that story because he...

Hollywood Wouldn't Have Written This Script, November 3, 2003
This post from Sofia Sideshow via Instapundit will remind you again why you should be proud to be an American - and very proud of our troops over in Iraq....

The 'Apolitical' Ambassador at the Heart of the Plame Affair, September 30, 2003
Below are some excerpts from a speech given June 14 by retired Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV at a forum sponsored by the left-wing anti-war Education for Peace in Iraq Center. I transcribed them from the audio, which you can...

"I really am apolitical in all of this.", September 30, 2003
So says Joseph Wilson, the former ambassador who blames the White House for leaking information about his wife, supposedly a CIA covert operative of some sort. Apolitical?...

Domestic Terrorism Update, August 5, 2003
Glenn Reynolds is asking good questions about domestic terrorist groups. And, yes, that's what the Earth Liberation Front and other environmental extremists who resort to violence are. Here's a link to a group that's trying to stop the eco-terrorists. Among...

Lance Armstrong and Iraq, July 29, 2003
Five-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong is a Texan, a friend of George W. Bush - and he opposed the Iraq war. As Washington Post sports writer Sally Jenkins - who co-authored Lance's autobiography - put it recently:"They are...

Unholy, Indeed, July 7, 2003
Unholy, Indeed I rarely watch The Agency, a CBS drama set inside a fictionalized Central Intelligence Agency, but this week's episode, a rerun called "Unholy Alliances" caught my attention. In it, the head of the CIA is paid a visit...

"An Enduring Desire... to Be Informed", June 24, 2003
Here's an interesting job listing for "Journalism trainers, Baghdad, Iraq." It's from the London-based Institute for War & Peace Reporting.IWPR is seeking journalism trainers for work in Iraq to assist in our project to strengthen the capacity of Iraqi media...

Department of Homeland Insanity, June 5, 2003
Oregon is using eBay to sell "surplus" items the government wants to get rid of, including government property and items confiscated from the bad guys. Oh, and "thousands of Swiss army knives, nail filers and tweezers, all confiscated at Portland...

Too Bad We Can't Bomb al-Jazeera, March 26, 2003
The allies bombed Iraq's state-run television network's satellite service yesterday, knocking it off the air. The enemy's state-run TV is a legitimate target in a war. Somebody hacked Al-Jazeera's English-language website yesterday, knocking it offline, at least in the U.S....

At War With Journalists, March 20, 2003
Somebody shoot me, please, before I have to listen to more reporters unencumbered by actual brains ask stupid questions and issue inane speculation - and before I have to hear Dan Rather state the plainly obvious as if it were...

He Needs Killin', February 24, 2003
Who cares if Osama bin Laden is still alive, says Greg Buete. The top dangerous man in al Qaeda is Khalid Shaikh Mohammed:In addition to Sept. 11, Mohammed helped plan the 1996 bombing of a U.S. military facility in Saudi...

This Story Is More Important Than You Might Think, January 2, 2003
A tiny nation you never heard of (unless you read this last October) has lost its one-boat navy. Nigeria appears to have swiped it. Why is that important? Because the tiny two-island nation of Sao Tome and Principe, off the...

It's Getting Late, December 30, 2002
Michael Ledeen says we need to moving faster to affect regime change in .... Iran. I agree. It's time the U.S. let the people of Iran unequivocally that if they rise up against their Islamofascist rulers, we'll support them with...

Europe's Left Does U-Turn on War, December 17, 2001
The onset of the war on terrorism had the European Left - and its supporters in the America-hating Left in the U.S. - predicting a new Vietnam and decrying heavy civilian casualties. Weeks later, civilian casualties in Afghanistan have been...