Nightly Ramble: Snow, Ice, Wind And Oh, Yeah… Other Stuff, Too.

• Nice to see Billy made it home. By the way, Billy, I caught the Blue Man Group in HD the last few days, and the show had a fairly close clip of the light control desk. Wild… I’ve seen audio

• Look at it this way, Dale; The Berkeley City Council serves Humanity as a bad example, if nothing else. And FWIW, I’m with you on cutting off their funding by the same token that they’re acting, here. Thing is

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,

Defense Dept. announces Marine units for Afghanistan deployment

Posted: 15 Jan 2008 10:30 AM CST

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Jan. 15, 2008) â?? The Secretary of Defense has recommended and the President has approved the deployment of additional units to Afghanistan in

Ya know, it’s early in the morning yet, but there’s something very wrong with that title. Else, there’s something very right with it, I can’t figure which.

Anyway, check this:

 Hillary’s willingness to tolerate Bill’s compulsive philandering is a function

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

Christopher Hayes, in Nation, writes of “Return of the Swift Boater:”

More than three years after John Kerry’s bitter defeat, at the dawn of what looks like a far more promising campaign cycle for the Democrats, the

A crazy day, yesterday. For yours truly, lots of irons in the fire, some web development, my day gig some home duities, but of course, as with all of us, yesterday, before I even started the day came the news

I note Beldar is with Fred.

On every issue I care deeply about, Fred Thompson is a genuine, thoughtful conservative — without any major exceptions or doubtful areas that I have to forgive or ignore. And in the simplest possible

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

Fellow Swamp Stomper Sister Toldjah, guesting over at Right Wing News:

One of their favorite retired Generals, Major General John Batiste, who appeared in an ad for the anti-war Vote Vets website, and who had an op/ed published on

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

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

The New York Times is reporting:

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 —New York Times- A new assessment by American intelligence agencies concludes that Iran halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003 and that the program remains frozen, contradicting judgment two years ago

James Taranto, the other day(Via mail) speaks about Murtha admitting there’s serious progress in Iraq, and that the surge IS working….

Murtha does make the obligatory complaint about lack of political progress in Iraq, and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that