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... would you find Country Joe McDonald serving as chairman over the Veteran's Day ceremonies. And fighting over whether or not one of the co-founders of Gold Star Families should be the "keynote" speaker, no less....

'The Great Game' Returns

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice completed her visit to Central Asia and Afghanistan last week. This is a tough neighborhood, which plays a key role in the forthcoming global game between the West and the rest.

The U.S. has growing geopolitical competition in the region from Russia, China and the global Islamist movement. Ms. Rice is now playing the 21st Century version of the "Great Game" in which, 100 years ago, the British Empire and Czarist Russia competed over the heartland of Eurasia.

What a phrase can evoke - "The Great Game" - recalling the not always glorious days of Kipling and Victoria:

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, And the women come out to cut up what remains, Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains An' go to your Gawd like a soldier. Go, go, go like a soldier?So-oldier of the Queen!

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Ann Coulter Continues Criticism of Choice

Ann Coulter is no stranger to well delivered (and well deserved) invective, and she continues her barrage of criticism of the Harriet Miers appointment to SCOTUS in her inimitable style.

She goes beyond this, to note a more serious problem than the appointment itself:

The sickness of what liberals have done to America is that so many citizens ? even conservative citizens ? seem to believe the job of a Supreme Court justice entails nothing more than "voting" on public policy issues. The White House considers it relevant to tell us Miers' religious beliefs, her hobbies, her hopes and dreams. She's a good bowler! A stickler for detail! Great dancer! Makes her own clothes! That's nice for her, but what we're really in the market for is a constitutional scholar who can forcefully say, "No ? that's not my job." (Emphasis Added)

We've been waiting 30 years to end the lunacy of nine demigods on the Supreme Court deciding every burning social issue of the day for us, loyal subjects in a judicial theocracy. We don't want someone who will decide those issues for us ? but decide them "our" way. If we did, a White House bureaucrat with good horse sense might be just the ticket.

The super-hot button issue with both the left and the conservative side is Roe v. Wade. After commenting specifically on what is realistically describes as "the abortion holocaust" she reaches what the Chief considers as the most profound observation of all:

We've gone from a representative democracy to a (judicial) monarchy, and the most appalling thing is ? even conservatives just hope like the dickens the next king is a good one.

Indeed. We would be better served by remembering the old American Revolutionary slogan: "No King but King Jesus!"

I'm sitting here watching the Avs-Blackhawks game, and the OT finished 2-2. I finally get to see my first hockey shoot out of the season. Hopefully Peter Budaj is good enough to keep one or two of them out. Three...

Times: Miller May Have Misled Editors

It's one thing when the MSM lies/misleads/fails to report on stories that fall outside of their definition of, as the NYT states it, "...news that's fit to print". (Which is more realistically ..."news that fits, we print"). I mean, that's waht they are, and that's what they do.

The twist here is for "ace reporter" Judith Miller apparently lying to her own editors about what she's been doing on their time and dime.

It's almost...as if once they start playing loose with the truth in one area, they get into the habit of doing so, and continue it, even "in house".

Ultimately one can expect liars in one area to lie in others. THIS is what is meant by the (much maligned by the MSM) concept that "character counts", eh?

This piece from the intrepid Sam Leith at the London Telegraph alerts us to a threat to public safety.The latest menace in my corner of south London, I read this week, is the emergence of a community of crack-addicted...

Political scientists, like myself and my esteemed colleague Dr. Schaff, tend to chuckle sometimes when we read that the Sunnis oppose the constitution while the Kurds faver it. Groups as large as the Sunni and Kurdish populations of Iraq are...

Taking Back North Dakota, via PoliPundit, has noted some of the things that are getting done in the new Senate:If you pay attention to anything the Pravda (mainstream media) says, you probably wouldn't know that the Republican-controlled Congress is getting...

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