Check out these cars which were once owned by Saddam:
These are various cars found by the Coalition in downtown Baghdad. An accounting office from DoD was sent in to ‘inventory’ these and I was invited along as a resident gear head. They were reported to us by an ‘informant’ who detailed where they were. Several [...]

Country music performers never seem to mind returning to their “roots.”
Enjoy!

It seems at every turn we hear of another person (well known or family or friend) who has been stricken with, and in many cases, succumbed to cancer. The dreaded disease shows no preference to any race, religion or political [...]

Want a good laugh? Read this from Classical Values.
With a sentence structure such as this:
I call it righteous indignation because if he is elected president, he will probably did something wrong and he will need to be impeach.
you have to only imagine what you will find at the link.
I don’t know. Do they?
Michael Barone [...]

That old cliche “A picture speaks a thousand words..well let’s just say the two photos in this post speak many more.

Memorandum links to an article which must be read to be believed:
The National Children’s Bureau, which receives £12 million a year, mainly from Government funded organisations, has issued guidance to play leaders and [...]

Politics is a funny game. One day you’re up the next day you are down and out.
Wes Clark has decided to retreat redeploy over the event horizon after a week of criticism regarding his remarks about John McCain’s service. An aide says he wants to return to “pay[ing] the bills”, and he will [...]

Just imagine for a moment living under conditions such as these:
A baby boy had both legs broken by supporters of President Robert Mugabe to punish his father for being an opposition councillor in Zimbabwe.
Blessing Mabhena, aged 11 months, was seized from a bed and flung down with force as his mother, Agnes, hid from [...]

Yesterday there were many pieces written by bloggers addressing the situation the AP has created over copyright infringement.
While I appreciate the time and effort in each of the above links and many others, this has to be my favorite of the day.
Thanks to Mr. Simon we have discovered once again the [...]

Can’t say that I have ever watched MSNBC.
Probably best I don’t.
The NRCC recently released the following video:

While the format may be effective, it could use a bit more substance in the explanation department.
Most people will not take the time to research all the House bills which apply to taxation and by [...]

Who would you choose as your top ten American heroes?
The Stanford News Service posts results from a nationwide survey of two thousand high school students on that very question.
Who are America’s greatest heroes? When 2,000 high school students across the United States were asked this question—excluding presidents and presidents’ wives—Martin Luther King Jr., [...]

Imagine spending your time (all your time) no more than 15 feet apart from your significant other:
Did you hear about that Buddhist couple who’re never more than 15 feet apart? Well, we tried it.
HT: Instapundit
Simon says:
A real shame exports are growing at a rate of about 2.8% a year. It is a [...]

Soldiers Mom links to a new website with valuable information for the parents of those in the Armed Forces either in the process of being deployed or already in theatre.
Deployment is a stressful time not only for those in uniform but also for their families.
Parents Zone has not only many useful and meaningful [...]

Who knows the actual purpose of the meeting John McCain is conducting this weekend with several prominent members of the GOP and Senator Lieberman.
I don’t know if any of these individuals are on the short list for the Senator’s VP choice, but I do hope that Governor Jindal is not the selection. [...]

This is really cool!
Be sure to click on the link Ace provides to see further photos and read the story behind this piece of “art.”
Congratulations are in order to the Detroit Red Wings and the Pittsburgh Penguins.
The NHL has provided many exciting moments for its fans this past season and both of these [...]

Maybe I should have titled this Rambling Thoughts because that’s the way my brain works.
I was thinking about the post Sue made here in which she quotes one of my favorite blogging friends The Anchoress.
The Anchoress is spot on with her quote. How many sites have I seen that are dim-viewing this entire election? [...]

There is heroism and then there is heroism.
If the deeds of Irene Sendler do not qualify in the true sense of the word, then I do not know who or what would:
Irene Sendler, known to many as the “female Schindler”, rescued children and babies imprisoned in the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw, smuggling them out in [...]

Michael Yon appeared recently on Fox and Friends and in his usual style plays no politics with his assessment of the situation in Iraq or that of Afghanistan.
He has been my most trusted source for information primarily in Iraq for several years and will remain so when he soon returns to his embed [...]

It was encouraging to read that Tony Snow was released today from the hospital after a brief stay:
Sacred Heart Medical Center spokeswoman Pat Servine said Snow was released Thursday morning but added that patient privacy rules prevented her from giving details about his illness. Earlier in the morning, a hospital spokesperson at Sacred Heart Medical [...]

An abbreviated version..one story deserving of a read and one timeless piece of music by two giants in the recording industry.
Tomorrow could not be soon enough to see every one of our troops return to American soil and removed from harms way. Nothing would make me happier than to not see another family grieve [...]

It could not be easier to donate to a very worthy cause:
The band, Five for Fighting, is generously donating $0.49 to Autism Speaks each time this video is viewed. The funding goes toward research studies to help find a cure. When you have a moment, please visit the link below to watch the video and [...]

Not half bad advice in this election season:
You can blame it on Bush, on “read my lips,” or Mary Matalin - bottom line is, Bill Clinton won. I try to remember that when I start getting smug with any prediction.
Please, please, Senator Specter give me reason to take pride in one of my home state [...]

It looks as though the Marines in Berkeley recently received some well deserved support:
On March 22, 2008, a coalition of patriotic and veterans’ groups held a large rally in front of Berkeley’s “U.S. Marine Corps Officer Selection Office” (better known as the Marines recruiting office) in support of American troops and their missions.
This rally [...]

When giving instructions to a child, be specific, very specific!

Roger Simon is on to something here:
The RogerLSimon.com tip of the day - skip to end! The whole point of the piece is in the last three paragraphs or so - neatly buttoned up in New York Times speak in the last sentence…..
Somehow I don’t think [...]

Reading this aticle about Ed McMahon brought back to mind the laughs that he and Johnny Carson provided to television viewers over their many years together.
They say some things can never be duplicated, I think the team of Carson and McMahon fit that description.

The title of this post would no doubt be deemed accurate by [...]

New Idea magazine has done the right thing and apologized for their story which disclosed the deployment of Prince Harry:
“We did not knowingly breach any embargo and were not party to any agreement for a media blackout on the story,” New Idea says.
“However, and more importantly, we do acknowledge that our actions in publishing [...]

Here’s one way to combat those Rush Limbaugh cross over voters:
Anyway, I’d like to offset Hillary’s Rush Limbaugh forces here in Pennsylvania, and that brings me back to Tom Maguire’s question of whether this election can get any wackier.
For me, it is just about to get wackier in one respect. Maybe surreal is a [...]

The woman pictured below was featured in this article at American Thinker.

I had never heard of Jeannette Rankin, but after reading both the above linked piece and following it up with additional research here, it became apparent that I would have enjoyed watching her in action:
How many feminists know that Montana’s groundbreaker, born in 1880, [...]

At least the press will have something to talk about the next few days:
Pelosi wants U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeffrey Taylor to work “with appropriate dispatch” to put the case before a grand jury. She said the misdemeanor contempt charges against Miers would be for refusing to testify to Congress about [...]

Thomas Sowell offers his take on the media (more specifically the NYT):
The front page of the New York Times has increasingly become the home of editorials disguised as “news” stories. Too often it has become the home of hoaxes.
Going back some years, it was the Tawana Brawley hoax that she had been gang-raped by [...]

Very interesting information pertaining to the malfunctioning spy satellite which the US will attempt to destroy before it reaches earth:
Giant golf ball deployed. CNN says that “a floating X-band radar has to be modified to track the satellite’s trajectory.” That would be the massive — and massively controversial — Sea-Based X-Band Radar. [...]

The Anchoress linked to an article in one of her round-ups which offers thoughts on motherhood from a perspective unlike the typical associations.
For example, the mother who stays home with small children experiences a very real withdrawal from the world. Her existence is definitely monastic. Her tasks and preoccupations remove her from the centres of [...]