Pinochet Dies

SANTIAGO, Chile -AP- Gen. Augusto Pinochet, who overthrew Chile’s democratically elected Marxist president in a bloody coup and ruled this Andean nation for 17 years, died today, dashing hopes of victims of his regime’s abuses that he would be brought

The poltically sensitive preach that it somehow wrong to be judgemental.  To which  Is say – bull!  A civilizied man must be judgemental, openly and proudly.

The politically sensitive preach that all cultures are somehow equal.  That we should accept

Steyn is in rare form this morning:

So there you have it: an Iraq “Support Group” that brings together the Arab League, the European Union, Iran, Russia, China and the U.N. And with support like that who needs lack of

NOLA.COM- Confounding political pundits and a slew of rivals who had become confident of his defeat, U.S. Rep. William Jefferson, D-New Orleans, neatly sidestepped a roiling federal corruption probe to win re-election on Saturday to his ninth term in Congress. 

So I sit down with a little coffee, and begin to look at the world around me this chilly December night:

So now, Congress is going from a three day workweek to a five day workweek.  I’m quite sure the

The House Ethics Committee Report includes new information that top Democrats were also aware in 2005 of Mark Foley’s inappropriate e-mails to congressional pages at about the same time as outgoing Speaker Dennis Hastert’s office was informed.While the report is

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Lo and behold, it seems like that Mrs. Pelosi hand picked chairman for the House Intelligence Committee needs a crash course in intelligence.  Bill Faith, of Bill’s Bites reports on “Intelligence? Un pocito:”

Ah, yes… you’d have to figure the NY Times would cough up this story.

Still… I object to Romney because of this story, because of reasons the Times cannot possibly understand, and if they did would certainly not admit to:

Michelle Malkin, this morning, passes along some information regarding that supposedly “lone wolf” would-be bomber in Chicago:

I just got back from a trip to the mall to see the headlines about the alleged Chicago terrorist mall plot:

ABC

Christmas, that is.

Yes, I know, you knew that already.  But, in many ways, I didn’t. Not really. I just couldn’t get myself into it, ths year, for reasons I can’t begin to understand much less explain.

But this evening,

Gateway Pundit nabs Jimmy Carter plagiarizing:

Greg Tinti reports that Jimmy Carter lifted material from a Dennis Ross book and inserted into his new Jew-hating book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid

Somebody, I forget just who, commented that is now apparent

Amanda Bronstad has an interesting story about, ” More JudgesPacking Pistols in Courtrooms:”

Despite increased security at courthouses following shootings in Chicago and Atlanta about one year ago, many judges are bringing their own guns into their courtrooms for

I’m learning a bit more about this WordPress thing. And I’m starting to get more impressed with it. There are certain areas that aren’t exactly, shall we say, intuitive. But, I’m starting to get over that problem. It’s like

Ace has some thoughts on the recent noise over Iraq… Specifically, as regards the Iraq surrender group:

It’s artificial.

By this I mean there was no seismic change in the circumstance in Iraq. Incrementally most say it has gotten worse,

An interesting note from Jason Papas, over at Liberty and Culture:

The great Roman orator, statesman, and philosopher, Marcus Tullius Cicero is a father of the theory of “just war;” but Cicero’s version differs substantially from Augustine, Aquinas, and