Decision '08

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Hey, welcome back to my old home - looks kind of lonesome, doesn't it? Here are the pics, as promised:

Earlier today I linked to a small sampling of 9/11 audio clips released by the Fire Department of New York City; here, courtesy of the New Y...

...as Donald Rumsfeld might say. Our man AJStrata (see his latest here ) gets some great pub from Jim Geraghty's TKS blog at National R...

Few things in all bloggerdom are more fun than reading Mickey Kaus when he's on a roll - and he's on a big one now...reading his tho...

I've commented before, and recently, on the pleasant surprises that can await a visitor to the Washington Post 's editorial pages th...

...is not the latest crappy reality show from Fox, but rather a reality horrow show taking place at Erick-Woods Erickson's Confessions o...

By now, you've probably heard that the NYC Fire Department has just released a ton of new 9/11 recordings and documents. You can listen...

A research scientist has just left $105 million to the NYU School of Medicine . $105 million dollars - a research scientist. Have I mentio...

Blair's government is keeping up the heat on radical Islamists by intituting a ban on the return of the hateful cleric Sheik Omar Bakri...

After 15 days of complete silence, the New York Times has finally noticed the Air America scandal. Leon H, who suffered no such lapse, has...

Barring some totally unforeseen eventuality, this site will officially close this weekend, to be replaced by the new one, maybe tomorrow, ma...

It's starting to feel like a blogswarm...thanks to utron, AJStrata (read his latest Able Danger news here) and Greg Bullock (whose late...

Our good friend and disastrous one-term president Jimmy Carter is telling a fib, and George Will ain't gonna stand still for it . Read ...

This Walter Pincus Washington Post story is linked from the front page. This is the conclusion: Two other sources appear to support the v...

I think Mick Jagger is one of the great rock and roll stars of all time, but I'm gonna call 'em as I see 'em, and his current at...

Leon H has the latest on the developing Air America scandal , and notes that it's finally penetrating some traditional media outlets two...

Bob Woodward is predicting that Dick Cheney will be the 2008 Republican presidential nominee : If Bob Woodward is right, it will be The Old ...

AJStrata joins the MinuteMan and others in broaching the subject of Congressional Hearings into the Mohammed Atta / Able Danger breaking s...

On the heals of a New York Times story revealing that the 9/11 commission knew of, but ignored, the Able Danger/Atta angle, the always-exc...

The quest to unearth something that might derail the Supreme Court nomination of John Roberts is becoming increasingly desperate. Today, the...

Scott Elliott looks at the latest Pledge of Allegiance court case and wonders if removing God from public life doesn't just enshrine th...

Longtime reader Fred sends a link to this story worth quoting in its entirety: NEW YORK Apparently it's never to early to speculate ...

Yesterday was the 10th anniversary of a loss that hit me hard on a personal level; it was the day Jerry Garcia finally paid the price for hi...

Yeah, I know, that headline makes no sense whatsoever; see here for the details (hat tip to BSR, who, I have on good authority, is NOT the ...

It IS how we got Atta's name that's the problem ( see below ), says Mickey Kaus , who writes about something that's been botheri...

I must confess that the Able Danger/Mohammed Atta story has, like the Plamegate scandal, so many threads to follow that I find it difficult ...

What is with these jurors that are intimidated into not voting their conscience? What power do they think the other jurors have over them? ...

...and as strident as ever . W. can't get no satisfaction on Iraq. There's an angry mother of a dead soldier camping outsid...

My, oh, my, apparently $147,000 isn't what it used to be. The latest big media outlet to downplay the six figure embezzlement of the hea...

The assertion by Representative Curt Weldon that the Able Danger team identified Mohammed Atta as an al Qaeda operative in 2000 will be inv...

...to start your day. Christopher Hitchens wonders how the Left can view the Iraq War through the lense of neutrality or hostility: How can...

...and a heads up that it may be that way for a day or two (light posting, that is...I will be posting some ), but I have a very good excuse...

Reason #493 not to pay any attention to the political views of most celebrities: this, from the Rolling Stones ' upcoming album A Bigger...

...about the Air America scandal , that is, but still no word from the 'paper of record'. Hmmm...

AcademicElephant brings us the latest PC diversity outreach effort , this time at Columbia University, an institution that we've recentl...

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez promised a group of students that the U.S. will 'bite the dust' if we implement the long-rumored V...

It's often useful, when presented with an argument that sounds facile or counterintuitive, to look at the messenger with a close focus o...

Yes, that's right, it's the ninth edition of the Carnival of the Clueless , so climb aboard and get ready for some good reading...

I absolutely love this story. Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott has a message for Sheikh Omar Bakri Mohammed : "Enjoy your holiday.....

Shuttles Touches Down To Sighs of Relief ...indeed...

Brendan Miniter, writing in the Wall Street Journal , gamely tries to keep Jeb Bush's 2008 prospects alive by offering an endorsement of...

AJStrata has the scoop on yet another story that illustrates how close we had been to preventing 9/11 if red tape could have been replaced ...

How does fanaticism develop? What are the circumstances that allow the mentality of the suicide bomber to take root? One could (and many hav...

I've had very little to say on the Air America scandal to date, because other bloggers have had the situation well-covered. The continu...

The third Interim Report of the Volcker commission is out, and again we see a disconnect between the way it is reported, and the serious of ...

A: So liberal that she has a column about how the Democratic Party and the Kossacks are in bed together ...and she thinks that's a good ...

The excellent Michael Barone crosses a line few would have dared to approach in the quite recent past, and strikes a solid blow against mor...

...and it's in no danger of being beaten, is this piece of tripe that's as bad as its headline: [The United States] is [a] nation t...

That's right, it's the latest edition of RINO Sightings , so don't delay...plenty of excellent stuff this week, folks...have a g...

Well, we had heard the rumors, but it's now confirmed . Peter Jennings is dead at 67. Very, very sad...deepest sympathy and best wishes ...

George Galloway had better watch his butt...the words 'treason' and 'hanging' are beginning to be attached to his name on a ...

In anticipation of tomorrow's Third Interim Report by the Volcker Comission, former Oil-For-Food chief Benon Sevan has resigned . It ha...

Fascinating piece in the Washington Post on the increasingly large role the Internet plays in providing training and communications to an a...

Claudia Rosett dicussess the latest Oil-For-Food machinations, specificially the manner in which Benon Sevan is hoist upon his own petard o...

It's a 'goodby to all that' moment for Nick Cohen in the London Observer (hat tip to Gregory Bullock ). Cohen surveys his sins ...

Last night, I subscribed to a hosted environment, and I already have the domain name decision08.net registered (right now it just points you...

This story makes me unusually sad ...I hope Mr. Jennings has many years left, and it turns out not to be the case...yet, we know lung cancer...

Mike Huckabee gets the 20 questions treatment from the New York Times and acquits himself admirably... Michael Shear, Richmond corresponde...