Jack Kelly over at Irish Pennants talks about the poll of Iraqis taken earlier this month on behalf of the U of MD International Policy Attitudes program. It truly is a good news/bad news situation, much as you’d expect it be. It would almost go without saying that our media reported diligently on the bad [...]
Many people out there have had to deal with the impact of cancer at some point in their lives. For me it was the loss of a loved one, my father. Time flows along and people in the medical field continue their battles against the disease. I’ve written recently about a giant step forward announced [...]
Michael Yon developed quite a reputation as a war correspondent (a term he’d likely argue but one I find fits nicely) during his tour as an embedded journalist with the “Deuce-Four” in Iraq. His viewpoints and photos from his travels there brought more insight into the conflict than did the disconnected ramblings of the MSM’s [...]
I reported a bit ago about 2 women who are suing Bacardi over burns they received in a bar. Bacardi is now coming back at them with some interesting observations. They say that the alcohol used to light the fire was rubbing alcohol, not their 151 rum. Bacardi denies 151 rum caused burns Four years [...]
As a non-smoker I will be the first to tell you that I don’t shed a tear over smoking bans. The habit is ugly in just about every sense of the word and the presence of someone smoking in the immediate vicinity degrades or ruins just about any experience I can imagine. That is doubly [...]
The new Prime Minister of Japan is Shinzo Abe, now the youngest PM for Japan since World War II. He is a member of the Liberal Democratic Party in Japan, is a staunch supporter of the alliance with the United States and of a more assertive military in Japan. Congratulations, Prime Minister Abe. We look [...]
Our local news radio station, WTOP News, has a great little write-up this morning detailing the various exploratory missions ongoing in our solar system. There are missions currently in place at Venus and Mars (a lot more activity there than I realized), 1 enroute to Mercury, and 1 at Saturn. And those are just the [...]
Power Line has some additional material from the latest leak of a classified document, the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) I referenced earlier today. John Hinderaker makes a very valid point: the leaker of such information is obviously not leaking everything he or she knows, only what will support their political agenda. That the Washington Post [...]
The first officer aboard the Comair crash in Lexington, KY is still in serious condition in the hospital and does not recall the crash that sent him there. This is hardly surprising considering what the man’s been through. His family announced, however, that doctors have had to amputate his leg. Still no NTSB report but [...]
When a report comes in from the Intel community, is it too much to expect that it be written intelligently? The report, if you believe the MSM, states that the war in Iraq has increased the terrorist threat, being the primary reason people are turning terrorist in the Islamic world. Whether that’s what the report [...]
