Steve Gillard passed away this morning. Please keep his friends and family in your thoughts.

Seems like we get alot of these stories anymore: Three people were arrested and another was being sought Saturday for allegedly plotting to blow up a fuel line that feeds John F. Kennedy International Airport and runs through residential neighborhoods, authorities said. The plot never got past the planning stages. It posed no threat to […]

Well let’s check in on our monthly track of the surge and see how it is working out. First here is the updated comparison of Iraqi deaths. The Iraqi deaths are still well over the number they were last year and rose in May. But how about the U.S. soldier deaths? That picture is even […]

They really are jumping ship: Dan Bartlett, a key member of President George W. Bush’s inner circle and an aide for him going back more than 13 years, announced on Friday he is resigning as White House counselor effective July 4. In an interview, Bartlett, who turned 36 on Friday, said he had been pondering […]

Think about it. Every time the Democrats do something that makes the netroots happy Republicans quickly bash them as being taken over by the “fringe” elements. They quickly blast Move On and DailyKos as “taking over the party”. It always goes through me, like the sound of Coulter, when I hear this used. Are these […]

Last night al-Maliki told Lara Logan on CBS news that he fears a coup in his country: Al-Maliki said that some of the officer corps have been creating problems and even violating the security of military operations. He stated, “I’m not afraid, but I have to watch the army, because those still loyal to the […]

According to Politico, and the name should be of no shock: Fred Dalton Thompson is planning to enter the presidential race over the Fourth of July holiday, announcing that week that he has already raised several million dollars and is being backed by insiders from the past three Republican administrations, Thompson advisers told The Politico. […]

Another Wingnut myth busted: An unclassified summary of outed CIA officer Valerie Plame’s employment history at the spy agency, disclosed for the first time today in a court filing by Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald, indicates that Plame was “covert” when her name became public in July 2003. The summary is part of an attachment to […]

I left for the beach on May 18 and returned on May 28. During that period of a little over a week, we lost 59 soldiers in Iraq, including at least 8 on Memorial Day: At least eight U.S. soldiers were killed in restive Diyala province north of Baghdad on Memorial Day, two of the […]

I will be out of town until Memorial Day, taking a much needed vacation. I will be doing very limited posting during that time (from the beach).