Thank you to Stand With Us’ Once in a Lifetime contest for making this trip possible!
Jet lag is the Devil. I slept all day, so now I am up all night. Tomorrow may result in hospitalization from having too many energy shots.
As I was blogging last time, I was on my way to the International [...]

Sunday on CNN’s State of the Union, Senator Lindsey Graham worried that Democrats and some Republicans could form an “unholy alliance” in order to de-fund the War in Afghanistan if there doesn’t not appear to be any significant achievement by next year:
That there are some Republicans who are not going to take a, you know, [...]

Jurors encountered “a spectacular number of lies.” An update on this story. “Four guilty of bungled ‘honour killings,’” by Kim Pilling for the Press Association, August 2 (thanks to Block Ness): Four men were convicted today of murdering a couple in a bungled honour killing arson attack. Abdullah Mohammed, 41,…

We take our freedoms for granted in America and assume that everyone is either like us or wants to be. We find it hard to believe that this is not so.
Of course, I am not talking about thee and me but about all those American journalists, academics, and politicians who actually believe that the Cordoba [...]

Whenever I have pointed out that Islam generally views music negatively and that some schools of Islamic law even ban it outright, I get called an “Islamophobe” — so I guess Khameni is an “Islamophobe” as well. There Is No Fun In Islam* Update from the Islamic Republic: “Music fails…

Contrary to popular conservative belief, not all leftist films are garbage. As long as you are able to put politics aside for a brief moment in time, there are some that are certainly worth watching despite their left-leaning sympathies. Many are good for their insight into a perspective we might not agree with. This is [...]

Another darling among liberal Democrats faces troubling ethics charges. 

How Big Labor’s appetite for money and power threatens to do far more damage yet.

Why central planning always fails.

At the height of oil spill frenzy, no one was more hysterical than Chris Matthews, wailing and gnashing his teeth on a nightly basis with the most dire prophecies.
“We are destroying this North American continent that God gave us!”
Matthews showed maps of the oil spill eventually polluting the entire eastern seaboard of the United States. [...]