This article Scares me

Because I could totally see it going down like this.

If there is a coup in Turkey, the world would encounter a phenomenon it has never seen before. Subsequent to a coup, Turkey would seek a partnership with Russia and Iran and would obtain its weapons, energy and funding from these two countries. The natural gas, [...]

Stuff like this is why I love Instapundit

I tell people a lot of the security we see on the War on Terror is supposed to make us feel safer, not be Safer. Instapundit gives me another line to that argument today

However, a recent report by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University discovered a “declining long-term trend” in the prosecution of [...]

The President’s major Push on Immigration reform

When the President said he was going to use his “political capital” on social security reform, something which I as some one who will be screwed over by the status quo am very interested he let the bill die on the line. He never pushed congress to bring it back from the dead. He never [...]

Tales from the Captain Obvious Files: Iran/Iraq edition

The people we pay to mismanage our foreign policy are at it again. This time the threat is the fact Iran is training and supplying (and covertly assisting inside Iraq) Inssurgents
Shut up. You mean the Iranian Theocratic-Socialist Republic is helping people attack “The Great Satan”
First at Bat Joe “Joementum” Lieberman
Sen. Joseph Lieberman, an independent [...]

What Instapundit Said

Instapundit had more from the truth is stranger then fiction department

Maybe they could build a fence, or something . . . . Really, you can’t make this stuff up.

Onto the meat of the article

CUERNAVACA, Mexico — Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Friday that Washington is taking steps to address Mexican concerns the U.S. is not [...]

Blood Chocolate

mmmmm tasty Civil war
Chocoholics may be funding war in Africa
By Claire Soares
Published: 08 June 2007British chocoholics may have unwittingly helped fund an African conflict, with an estimated $120m (£60m) from the cocoa trade being siphoned off into war chests in Ivory Coast, according to a report released today.
“There is a high chance that [...]

Fred Thompson Crush continues

Fred hits another one out of the park here

When Iran abducted 15 British citizens from Iraqi waters in March, the world knew about it. The regime used the hostages for their own underhanded propaganda purposes, but they were at least released. Last week, President Bush called for the release of Americans that almost no one [...]

Political Understatement from Johnny Mac’s Terrier

In today, what I hope to be the start of an Internet Sensation I wish to talk about the Brave Little Terrier of Johnny Mac (R-? Maverick) against the forces of The Obamination
It would undercut “everybody over here who’s walked the plank and told our base, ‘You’re wrong,’” Graham said. “So when you’re [...]

China Issues

What I like and something I have seen since getting deeper into my academic discipline is finding things I’ve known for some time are apparently things really smart folks buy into. China and a lot of Chinaphiles have tried to promote the analogy of the US and the UK as ascendant powers to compare the [...]

More Fred Thompson Crush Stuff

(H/t to hot air)

Icing on the cake…. Anne Coulter is contrary on him