Much has been written and said about the Michael Vick situation so I will not post on the well known details. I am pleased however, to see that the Commissioner of the NFL has done what I believe to be not only correct but admirable.
The NFL indefinitely suspended Michael Vick without pay Friday just [...]

Can you believe this? I wonder if she is wearing a diaper to court.
– Former astronaut Lisa Nowak, accused of attacking a romantic rival, asked a judge Friday to let her remove her electronic monitoring ankle bracelet, saying that it causes abrasions and gets in the way of her military boots laces.
She promised [...]

Speaks for itself.
The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is expected to advise President Bush to reduce the U.S. force in Iraq next year by almost half, potentially creating a rift with top White House officials and other military commanders over the course of the war.
Administration and military officials say Marine Gen. Peter [...]

Full story here.
The queen of vampire Goth lit — check.
Hollywood’s favorite she-pimp — right on.
The list of new celebrity endorsements continues to mount for the Democratic presidential run of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, who leads the pack in election polls, all the while picking up an ever-more interesting cadre of announced political admirers.
“I’m a big [...]

Dear Guss,
I’ve been thinking about this for some time now and I need to ask you a question.
Do I need to start my own blog so I can write? Please let me know.
Sincerely,
Your favorite cousin/sister ~J~

I hope that this doesn’t offend anyone.
To many, he was “Bush’s Brain,” the master tactician who would stop at nothing to advance the political agenda of George W. Bush.
But to a growing number of experts within the Beltway and beyond, a more sinister portrait is emerging of former White House political adviser Karl Rove: [...]

Here’s one for ya.
The government has issued a rare written apology in a case involving an Iraqi refugee who was improperly imprisoned and pushed toward deportation by federal agents in Montana, the American Civil Liberties Union branch in Seattle announced yesterday.
The A.C.L.U. said the case should make clear to the Customs and Border Protection [...]

Speaks for itself.
the United Nations Security Council slapped economic sanctions on Shahid Hemmat Industrial Group for its role in weapons proliferation as Iran’s maker of liquid-fueled ballistic missiles.
Known as SHIG, the Iranian firm produces the Shahab III rocket, which has a range of at least 800 miles, according to the U.S. Treasury Department. That [...]

I’m not going to pretend that I know anything about this so I’m going to let the story speak for itself.
Mariya Aman is looking forward to her sixth birthday party next week. Her face lights up when her father, Hamdi, promises her a clown and lots of balloons at the party, and she whizzes up [...]

I’ll take one.
Susan Burke’s left knee was humbling her. At 54, she wanted to hike and whitewater raft through the national parks or, at the very least, to stroll around the block with her husband at night, as she’d always done. Instead, she could barely walk from her desk to her office parking lot [...]

This is so outrageous that I can’t find the words to describe my anger.
father said he asked his son to give up dogfighting, or to at least put property used in the venture in the names of others to avoid being implicated, according to a report in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Also Thursday night, a report on [...]

I don’t understand it. Republicans had better be careful what they wish for.
Washington–From the K Street lobbyist corridor to the major gay and lesbian organizations to the city’s kingpin consultants and fundraisers to the big feminist groups, Hillary Clinton has acquired a near-lock on the Democratic establishment in the nation’s capital.
The level of support here [...]

Here we go, another investigation.
Department of Homeland Security administrators — fearing additional scrutiny — concealed from federal investigators information-sharing breakdowns that left the U.S. vulnerable to terrorists, internal DHS memos and e-mails show.
The documents obtained by The Washington Times lay out how officials at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) deliberated telling the Inspector [...]

Some good news I hope.
Growing Sunni opposition to al Qaeda and in some cases the perception that U.S. troops will leave the country are key factors behind recent and growing stability in Iraq, according to a major U.S. intelligence report based on findings from 16 agencies.
The updated National Intelligence Estimate (NIE), a consensus view of [...]

I wish that they would get some new campaign slogans instead of the constant regurgitation of the same old topics. They all do it.
“Islamic terrorists are at war with us,” Rudy Giuliani told about 300 people at a synagogue in Rockville, Md., one evening in July. He likes to say it that way — that [...]

It’s about time.
Venezuela’s regional neighbors should be ready to respond to a potential threat from President Hugo Chavez’s arms build-up, which could be used to intimidate rather than for self-defense, a senior U.S. defense official said on Thursday.
Chavez, a self-styled socialist staunchly opposed to Washington, has irked the White House by spending billions of dollars [...]

I think that they have declared war on the people of this country along time ago.
China has launched a four-month “war” on tainted food, drugs and exports, state media reported on Friday, as beleaguered officials embraced time-tested campaign tactics to clean up the country’s battered image.
Chinese Vice Premier Wu Yi told officials that the [...]

I was not in Haditha when these killings occurred and neither were most in the press who wrote stories about atrocities committed. Nor was a Congressman from my home state present in this town but he chose to label these Marines cold blooded killers before a full investigation had even begun.
An investigating officer recommended [...]

This is disgusting. These people are rewarded even when they break the law.
When he was last running for the United States Senate from New Jersey in 2002, Robert G. Torricelli collected donations from thousands of people who apparently wanted to see him re-elected. They might be surprised to see how he spent a portion of [...]

This guy was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
A CIA inquiry has accused the agency’s ex-chief George Tenet and his aides of failing to prepare for al-Qaeda threats before the 9/11 attacks on the US.
“The agency and its officers did not discharge their responsibilities in a satisfactory manner,” the CIA inspector general wrote in [...]

I didn’t know that there was a Civil Rights Division in this justice department.
The head of the Justice Department’s embattled Civil Rights Division is to resign at the end of August, officials said yesterday, making him the latest in a series of senior political appointees to leave the agency amid continued controversy over Attorney General [...]

Speaks for itself.
It all started, Michael Vick’s estranged father said, when the Atlanta Falcons quarterback was a child growing up in a rough area of Newport News, Va., and would join other neighborhood kids in setting loose a dog every so often to watch it chase a cat around a nearby lumberyard.
Vick’s “fascination with animals” [...]

In part one of a four part series, Michael Yon tell us of the “Ghosts of Anbar.”
Our Anbar-war can be said to have begun after the invasion in 2003, and for most of its duration, Fallujah has been the crucible Anbar city. In the beginning, in this city of mosques, the people of Fallujah had [...]

Now here is a man that shouldn’t be walking the streets free and CNN will now be taken off my channel list of news networks.
This afternoon on The Situation Room, CNN ran one of their “Keeping Them Honest” segments about Crandall Canyon mine owner Robert Murray , examining the safety record of Murray Energy’s 19 [...]

I’m probably one of very few that doesn’t care what happens to Iraq once we leave so I’ll let this article speak for itself.
A stark assessment released Thursday by the nation’s intelligence agencies depicts a paralyzed Iraqi government unable to take advantage of the security gains achieved by the thousands of extra American troops [...]

What the heck is going on in the peoples house?
Rep. Rick Renzi (R-Ariz.) will not be running for reelection next year, creating a highly contested open seat in a competitive eastern Arizona district.
“I will not be seeking reelection to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2008. I am honored and thankful to serve Arizona’s [...]