Back to Basics… a Refresher Course in War

1. War is not an intellectual exercise.
2. There are no rules in war, other than the rules dictated by the winner, afterward.
3. The Geneva Convention which purports to be civilized warfare, is in fact nothing of the sort, and is not

AL-QAEDA NETWORKS DISRUPTED; THREE TERRORISTS KILLED, 19 DETAINED

Posted: 06 Dec 2007 01:28 PM CST

AL-QAEDA NETWORKS DISRUPTED; THREE TERRORISTS KILLED, 19 DETAINED

RECONCILIATION TAKES CENTER STAGE ACROSS MULTI-NATIONAL DIVISION – CENTER

Posted: 06 Dec 2007 01:24 PM CST

RECONCILIATION

John Hawkins over at  Right Wing News  has an interview posted with Fred Thompson’s campaign manager Bill Lacy.  An error on my part had this on my ticker for next year. My bad. Sorry, John.

It’s clear by what Lacy

Interesting. The New York Times is now reporting that CIA officials were advised not to destroy videotapes of terrorist interrogations:

WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 — White House and Justice Department officials, along with senior members of Congress, advised the Central Intelligence

Andrew DeMillo, Associcated Press,  ironically  notes Mike Huckabee march to the rear with respect to AIDS

In 1992, Huckabee was right that the federal goverment was treating AID not as disease bit as some sort of civil right:

“It is

Me at Q&O where Dale Franks is properly agonizing over ‘torture’:

Do we really want the government to do “unpleasant, unsavory and sometimes awful things” in the defense of our freedom?

I am amazed that a veteran of our military

I find myself curious as to why suddenly the listings of BitsBlog on Memeorandum have dwindled to nonexistence.  A week ago, it was unusual for us not to have something showing on their home page.  As it stands now, it’s

The fallout continues from Bernie Ward’s arrest on child porn charges.  San Jose Mercury News:

Ward’s lawyer told KGO the alleged pornography involves research Ward did more than four years ago for a book.

“He was doing research,” said

The Politico:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) says a swipe that Vice President Cheney took at Democratic House leaders is “beneath the dignity of his office.”

Capitol Hill was abuzz Thursday with discussion of the vice president’s assertion in an

CNN”s, Clinton News Network,  Maria Bartiromo interviewed Mrs. Clinton on the mortage lending problem, video.

Somehow the Smartest Woman in the World comes across as clueless.    Mrs. Clinton proposes spending five billion dollars of the taxpayers money.  Yet she

Reynolds:

I HEARD NEAL BOORTZ holding forth on the Omaha mall shooting this morning on the way to work, and I realized I haven’t posted on it. I don’t really have anything to say that I haven’t said before. But

The Sister has yet another story about global warming lies.  

The IPCC falsified data showing a sea level rise from 1992-2002 according to Dr. Nils-Axel Morner, former head of the Paleogeophysics and Geodynamics department at Stockholm University in Sweden. 

Don Surber:

WaPo reports 2 pages were dismissed for “public oral sex” and 2 for shoplifting.

Republican Mark Foley’s weird fascination with a congressional page cost Foley his seat in Congress and helped a Democratic takeover of the House.

Drain

If there is a more annoying person in the world of punditry than Arianna Huffington, I certainly don’t know of it.

The way that Mike Huckabee has handled the furor caused by the Huffington Post’s coverage of his role

(12-06) 15:29 PST San Francisco – –SFGATE.COM-Bernie Ward, a popular liberal San Francisco radio talk show host and former Catholic priest, has been indicted on federal child pornography charges, authorities said today.

Ward, 56, surrendered to federal authorities