Rifle Platoons?

McQ makes an excellent point about the Democrat debate the other night, and a line that Obama offered up:

In last night’s debate, Barack Obama, apparently wanting to get in the swing of sounding like the Commander-in-Chief, threw this little

HAVANA -(AP)- An ailing Fidel Castro resigned as Cuba’s president Tuesday after nearly a half-century in power, saying he will not accept a new term when the new parliament meets Sunday.”I will not aspire to nor accept – I repeat,

And so why would Soros be trying to move us toward Democrats here in the US?

Jawa has the answer:

During an interview with the BBC at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, billionaire leftist George Soros weighed in

Mark Steyn:(PDF)

 As we know from 9/11, the Wahabbis in Saudi Arabia use their oil wealth to spread their destructive ideology to every corner of the world. And so do the Canadians. Consider that in the last 40 years,

Tim Blair, probably the only sane person from Austraila on the web I know, has major abdominal surgery next week.  Its cancer.  He plans to have his remaining non-cancerous body parts home by early-to-mid February.

Head on over and

McQ, over at Q&O, notes progress in Iraq… progress tha very few in the MSM will ever notice:

Another real indication of progress in Iraq:

Iraq’s western province of Anbar, hotbed of the Sunni Arab insurgency for the first four

The Jawa Report:

The US military released footage from a UAV showing al-Qaeda in Iraq taking a man from a trunk and murdering him. The CNN reporters call the footage, “shocking” and “spectacular” After mentioning the discovery of five severed

The media lost Fallujah, and had it not been for the determination of the Bush administration, they would have lost the entirety of Iraq to al-Qaeda terrorists as well. 

Ed Morrissey, Captain’s Quarters.

Word from the Jerusalem Post just now :

Palestinian Authority officials on Monday expressed deep disappointment after learning that US President George W. Bush, who is expected to visit Ramallah soon, does not intend to lay a wreath at Yasser

Found this by way of The Jawa Report

Yes, I can imagine they do love Jews… In a white wine sauce with shallots, mushrooms, and garlic. 

But are they Halal?

Oh, OK  I’ll get serious.

Does anyone take Iran seriously

1. Did Marc Ambinder, Atlantic, really mean to write “If Huckabee only had a brain?”

INDIANOLA, IOWA — A string of foreign policy gaffes has made it clear to the national political press corps that Mike Huckabee is manifestly unqualified

Chuck Simmins over at the North Shore Journal advises us tha a new milestone has been reached… The 20,000th anti-Iraq terrorist has been killed.

Funny how we’re not hearing much about it, huh?

Addendum: I see Memeorandum has it up

Buried deep within the bowls of the  National Defense Authorization Act for 2008, was a provision to allow trial lawyers to loot funds intended to reconstruction of Iraq.    Don Surber calls this “Sue the victims.”    I just call

I have directly observed how more and more Iraqis have grown to hate al Qaeda as much as Americans do. Al Qaeda has lost all credibility there, both from a religious standpoint as well as strategically

Michael Yon.

WASHINGTON -AP- The Democratic-controlled House is expected to give President Bush an end-of-session victory in his yearlong battle with anti-war lawmakers over Iraq by approving $70 billion for U.S. military operations there and in Afghanistan.The vote Wednesday also would represent