Good political-strategic analysis (link via LGF) by SF/Fantasy writer Orson Scott Card of how the upcoming Iraqi war is affected by the current Israeli-Palestinian war. He thinks we've got to topple S

The Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of school vouchers today. Here are some juicy quotes from the losing side (Reuters):

[Souter:] "Public tax money will pay ... for teaching the covenan

That's a cliché. It's usually invoked to refer to generals who fight a war using tactics learned during the previous war, which by the time of the new war are outdated and inappropriate. History aboun

I've been thinking a lot about democracy lately, and how it fits into this whole war thing that we're in the very earliest stages of. (The current quiet we're experiencing right now is eerily like the

It was a good speech. Some aimless or wobbly aspects of Bush's policy with respect to the Palestinian situation were brought back into the fold of the War on Terrorism in a very appropriate way. I thi

No, that's not Mr. Spock's WWE alter ego. It's my take on where the US stands with regard to the WOT. I hope it stands up to that title. Ready?

First, Al Qaeda, if we don't fight them, will eventua

I took the hit counter off the site because braveheart.com's server seems to be down. A piece of JavaScript that's served from there runs the counter. The lack of this script apparently prevented my b

Under-appreciated blogger (and aren't we all) Alex Frantz has another good post on his site. This time re Demosthenes' criticism of Instapundit calling Palestinian culture a "psychotic death cult". De

Some Islamic-majority countries are run by dictators with American support.

Egypt
Saudi Arabia
Kuwait

We know the drill by now. The leaders of these countries are dictators or absolute monarch

Yasir Arafat is now ready for peace. This is the way the man has always done business: attack Israeli citizens and rally the troops until Israel starts to mount a serious response, declare peace, hagg

Jay Nordlinger ended the always entertaining Impromptus in NRO today with this:
Finally, you may know that Saudi Arabia’s King Fahd is in Geneva, to be medically cared for. There is a fine mosque the

Great and thoughtful post from Dr. Frank on the Bill of Rights and how to preserve it and the country at the same time (link via Matt Welch). The doctor quotes Nat Hentoff who wrote, "I'd appreciate h

The president has eschewed the possibility of judicial review in establishing the status of US citizens as enemy combatants. The Justice Department filed papers with the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals t

Dr. Frank's on FoxNews.com! Congratulations to him and his loved ones.

Alex Frantz continues a discussion that begin on his blog, and that I joined in the comments on the far left Demosthenes blog. It's a well written piece that nicely sums up the civilian trial or milit

Thanks to Steven, Joanne, Dr. Frank, Andrea, David, and everyone else who provided a link to this site in its very first week, bringing traffic in numbers unknown to mortal men.

Special thanks to C

In a Washington Post piece called Why a First Strike Will Surely Backfire, William A. Galston makes the case against US-led regime change in Iraq. The central argument here is that the US shouldn't me

Should General Mills put representatives of the NYPD, FDNY, and PAPD* on the Wheaties box? Of course! Here's a friendly petition to let the General Mills CEO know that you think so too. I signed it an

Bob Woodward writing in the Washington Post reports on what the CIA has been up to lately.
President Bush early this year signed an intelligence order directing the CIA to undertake a comprehensive,

Thanks to a detailed report from PJ in Maryland, I think I've solved The Case of the Crashing Browser. If you don't care about HTML and style sheets and geeky web talk, then you should never read this

So I noticed that a good 10% of you are still using Netscape 4.something. It didn't occur to me as I was amateurishly hacking this site's template together that I should see what it looks like in NN4.

That should not necessarily be pronounced like moron protest letter, by the way.

Steve Den Beste weighs in as does Richard Bennett.

Both of them mention the oddity of Gloria Steinem's signature

The Guardian has published this open letter from Prominent Americans. Reading it has moved me to respond, and I have done so point by point. Thanks to Dr. Frank for the link.

Let it not be said tha

WaPo again (link via Dr. Frank):

The government may be right that an American citizen working with al Qaeda can be held as an enemy combatant for the duration of the war on terrorism. As a legal ma

Much has been written on this of course. On the drive home from work this evening, I noticed another example. In a report on the end of the ABM Treaty (it officially ended today, 6 months after Bush g

Announcing a new feature on broc7: Dumbass Peacenik Watch, or, Morale Draining, Confidence Leeching Enemies Within Watch. The first title is zippier. First up is Mark Morford writing for SFGate (link

This blog had its very first reader late last night, a one Cybrludite, also a newbie to the blogosphere. I thank him for stopping by and leaving a comment on my first post. If this were a Brooklyn piz

The Washington Post zeros in on what I previously wrote was the crux of the problem regarding civil rights and enemy combatants (link by way of Dr. Frank):

The government's dilemma here is real. Pe

More on the handling of Abdullah al Muhajir from Victoria Toensing writing in NRO. This quote concerns how the Supreme Court ruled on the military tribunals of 8 German saboteurs, 2 of whom were US ci

Good David Tell article (by way of LGF) on the irresponsible behavior of the civil rights hysterics during this war:

Three thousand people are dead, the movement that killed them fully intends to d

Andrew Sullivan's taking a few days off. How dare he. My light is gone. I stumble forward in the darkness, hoping that the light up ahead isn't an oncoming train. Was that a whistle?

Foaming at the mouth quote from one Sulaiman Bu Ghaith, by way of LGF:
He said the United States had killed, directly or indirectly, thousands in Iraq, Palestinian territories, Afghanistan, Sudan, Ph

From Reuters:
Political bickering has delayed for five hours the start on Monday of Afghanistan's grand assembly of tribal elders, or Loya Jirga, which is to pick a government to rule the country unt

Funny line from James S. Robbins writing in NRO:
Government reorganization frequently arises from emergencies or dire need. The advent of the Cold War gave us the Defense Department, the energy crisi

This is my first post to this blog! Aren't you glad you're in on the ground floor of something this exciting?