We Should Never Have Left Afghanistan?

This morning on CNN Late Edition Wolf Blitzer asked American Enterprise Institute spokeswoman Danielle Pletka about the comparison between Iraq and Vietnam. Pletka said: "Senator McCain speaking at the American Enterprise Institute on Friday said This isn't Vietnam....

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Did al-Sadr Hang Saddam?

There are rumors – as yet unconfirmed – that the reason those black-masked thugs who hanged former U.S. puppet-dictator Saddam Hussein on December 30th were chanting "Moqtada! Moqtada!" was not just because they were members of his Mahdi Army, but because they...

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The Pelosi Cop-out

Confirming in spades the central theme of today's "Behind the Headlines" column, newly-installed Speaker of the House Nancy "It's All About Me" Pelosi's speech at the swearing-in reiterated her ongoing cop-out: The election of 2006 was a call to change - not merely to...

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Troops getting all their info from the liberal media

According to those pinkos at the Washington Times, passing on rumors from the anti-American fifth-columnists at the Military Times, "Barely one-third of service members approve of the way the president is handling the war." "In a previous Military Times poll two years...

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Forget the War — It’s All About Nancy

I'm glad somebody's holding them accountable: While discussing the Democratic ethics legislation, Rep. Rahm Emanuel, Democratic Caucus chairman, was interrupted by anti-war protestors lead by Cindy Sheehan, a well-known activist whose son was killed in Iraq. "We're...

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Somali Govt to Last for Weeks

Well actually the headline is "Ethiopian army to stay in Somalia for weeks" -- but those of us who have paid attention to Somalia over the past few years know what that really means in relation to what the UN has been insisting is Somalia's government. This...

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What if Nixon had been Hanged?

Seeing the rave reviews on how Iraqis will benefit from the hanging of Saddam Hussein, and hearing the late Gerald Ford lauded today to the heavens, I can’t help wondering how American history might have changed if Richard Nixon had been hanged. Of course, I’m not...

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3,000th GI Killed In Iraq

According to the web site Icasualties.org, the number of U.S. servicemember casualties in Iraq has reached the 3,000 mark. The web site, which tracks American deaths in both Iraq and Afghanistan, reported the latest casualty this afternoon. He was Spc. Dustin R....

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Saddam Hanging Video Leak

Long Live Live Leak. WARNING: GRAPHIC. This shows Saddam Hussein dropping through the hanging platform, and then a closeup of his face immediately after. You know you want to see it.

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Triumph

HBO: Rome: About the Show Founded on principles of shared power and fierce personal competition, the Republic was created to prevent any one man from seizing absolute control. It is a society where soldiers can rise up from provincial commoners to become national...

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