Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman had an interview with The Hill and discussed some of the problems facing this Congress, especially as it pertains to the war in Iraq.
Lieberman is a strong supporter of the war in Iraq and says we should also keep our eyes on Iran.
It seems Independence has set him free to vote [...]

Can tou beleive this guy? Self-preservation is a strong instinct.
Republican Sen. Ted Stevens, whose home back in Alaska was raided by federal investigators Monday in a wide-ranging corruption investigation, has threatened to place a hold on the Democratic-drafted ethics legislation just passed by the House and expected on the Senate floor by week’s end. [...]

Tell me this isn’t crazy. Sounds like they’re doing the American peoples work. Yeah Right!
Well, I guess you could say they learned from the best.
House Democratic leaders are intent on sidetracking bipartisan attempts to change course in Iraq at least until fall, officials said Tuesday, rather than allow nervous Republicans to vote [...]

I guess the Democrats aren’t wasting any time.
Former Sen. Fred Thompson, R-Tenn., appears to have flip flopped on his pledge to sign federal legislation replacing all federal taxes with a 23 percent sales tax, according to an unedited FairTax.org video reviewed by ABC News.
“He has not taken this pledge,” Thompson spokesperson Linda Rozett told [...]

Michael Yon has another of his fine dispatches up telling of what’s going on in Baqubah.
Right now Michael is in Singapore getting some much-needed rest.
In the first of two parts he tells of some of the things going on in Baqubah. The first quote is something from the Al Qaeda Islamic State. Propaganda. [...]

What is going on? Seems like even the Republicans are giving more money to Democrats.
July 31 (Bloomberg) — Lawyers at Kirkland & Ellis, the law firm that’s home to Whitewater prosecutor Kenneth Starr and Bush administration official Jay Lefkowitz, have given more to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign than to all of the top Republican [...]

In a land where human life has no meaning the Taliban has executed a second South Korean, who had gone into Afghanistan as part of a church group to help the people of Afghanistan. The Taliban has promised to kill more if their deadlines for concessions are not met.
GHAZNI, Afghanistan (AP) — Police discovered the [...]

Ahmed Belbacha, an inmate at Guantanamo from Algeria, would rather stay at Gitmo in solitary confinement than return to his native country where the authorities or Islamists will torture or kill him.
An inmate of Guantanamo Bay who spends 22 hours each day in an isolation cell is fighting for the right to stay in the [...]

It’s official now. The Iraqi Parliament has adjourned until Sept. 4 without passing legislation that would address the benchmarks Congress has set for us to keep our troops in their country.
I’ve been reading for several days they’ve been having a problem with even getting a quorum of 100 people present and yesterday the Speaker [...]

Thanks to the Washington Post, far from a Republican newspaper, there is a list. Go read.
Here’s a sample:
Party Voting Totals
92.7% Democratic (233 members)
84.2% Republican (202 members)
88.7% All Members (435 members)

100% - Charlie Norwood (R-GA) DEAD as of Feb. 07
100% - Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)
99.7% - Nita Lowey (D-NY)
99.4% - Juanita Millender-McDonald (D-CA)
99.1% [...]

It is becoming clear that we have very few honest politicians left in Washington. These power and money hungry individuals have themselves so entrenched in their part time jobs as legislators that it seems the only way to remove some of them is through investigations by the FBI, IRS and local authorities.
While [...]

The Anchoress has tagged me to tell you five things I love about Jesus.
1. Because He first loved me a nobody, who was a somebody to Him. Even the hairs on my head are numbered, and when He was on the Cross, I was on His mind.
2. Because He is God and there is [...]

A legendary coach in the world of football passed away today. Fox News Reports:
Bill Walsh, the groundbreaking football coach who won three Super Bowls and perfected the ingenious schemes that became known as the West Coast offense during a Hall of Fame career with the San Francisco 49ers, has died. He was 75.
Walsh died [...]

Tom Snyder who pioneered late-late night television has died of leukemia at the age of 71.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Tom Snyder, who pioneered the late-late network TV talk show with a personal yet abrasive style and his robust, trademark laugh, has died from complications associated with leukemia. He was 71.
Snyder died Sunday in San Francisco, [...]

More good news from Afghanistan via The Jawa Report.
A senior Taliban leader, Qari Faiz Mohammad, was killed by Afghan National Security Forces and ISAF security operation July 23 in southern Afghanistan.
“The Taliban leadership has suffered another severe setback,” said Lt. Col. Claudia Foss, ISAF spokesperson. “Each successful operation ensures insurgent disruption that gives way [...]

Michael E. O’Hanlon is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, while Kenneth M. Pollack is the director of research at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings. Brookings is a center-left leaning think tank.
These two men have been critical of the war as they state in their op-ed in the New [...]

The other day I wrote about some groups such as Moveon.org and Daily Kos organizing a boycott of Fox News Advertisers.
Today, I get the news that it goes deeper than at first thought.
Here’s a little bit of the story to show you some of the organizations in charge of this boycott:
Yesterday, I wrote about [...]

I try my best not to be a Bush basher but things like this make it hard. Why on Gods great earth would this report not be released? Does this administration have a conscience?
A surgeon general’s report in 2006 that called on Americans to help tackle global health problems has been kept from the public [...]

That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
Republicans increasingly are backing a new approach in the Iraq war that could become the party’s mantra come September. It would mean narrowly limited missions for U.S. troops in Iraq but let President Bush decide when troops should leave.
So far, the idea has not attracted the attention [...]

No matter the outcome of the talks between President Bush and the new Prime Minister of England, Gordon Brown, this statement from Englands relatively new leader is encouraging.
“And we should acknowledge the debt the world owes to the United States for its leadership in this fight against international terrorism,” he added.
Mr. Brown appears to [...]

Remember not too many years ago when Uday Hussein would kill members of national Iraqi teams who didn’t win? He was in charge of the Olympics but I’m sure he was in charge of other things too.
Well, today the Iraqi soccer team defeated the Saudi team to win the Asian Cup for soccer, and [...]

From Friday’s Omega Letter:
I was reading the comments posted by readers of the Huffington Post in response to a column posted by Max Blumenthal about the “Christians United For Israel Tour” Washington summit meeting, hosted by San Antonio pastor John Hagee.
The column was entitled, “Rapture Ready: The Unauthorized Christians United For Israel Tour.”
Blumenthal’s [...]

Some things just never go away.
BOISE, Idaho — News of racist threats dogging a college football star and his fiancée may surprise most residents of one of the nation’s whitest states.
But Idaho blacks have seen trouble coming ever since Boise State tailback Ian Johnson, who is black, got down on one knee Jan. 1 to [...]

This Omega Letter report I got yesterday seems to tie in well with the headline I read this morning:
Hezbollah: We Are Ready to Strike Israel Again
First, the first four paragraphs from the AP story today:
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Hezbollah’s leader said Saturday that the militant Islamic group’s war last summer with Israel has left the [...]

OH NO!
Mayor Michael Bloomberg speaks his mind and that is a big part of his cachet in anything-goes New York. But a sexual harassment lawsuit he settled in 2000 and other racy comments over the years show how his blunt style could prove a liability if he runs for president as an independent.
Before his election [...]

Will someone please explain this one to me? Do we now Consider an embryo a child? Aren’t we getting just a little carried away on this one?
With the active encouragement of the Bush administration, U.S. scientists in the past year have developed several methods for creating embryonic stem cells without having to destroy human [...]

One of the things I admire most about Fred Thompson is that he is a clear and precise speaker/writer.
This article entitled “On Federalism” is yet another example of those attributes.
The Framers drew their design for our Constitution from a basic understanding of human nature. From the wisdom of the ages and from fresh experience, they [...]

It’s time to show Moveon.org and DailyKos they are not the only players in politics.
I’ll be contacting advertisers and encouraging them to stay with Fox News.
This is censorship pure and simple. They are taking us down the road of Hugo Chavez, trying to shut down the media they don’t like.
As the guy in the [...]

Who said these words? Answer at the bottom of the post.
Captain Ed was in on a blogger’s conference call with the White House yesterday, and gives a review of the questions and answers pertaining to the claim of executive privilege.
Most importantly, compelling compliance with a congressional subpoena in this context would be difficult. The [...]