Author Archives: nick

I watched the bloggingheads.tv diavlog between Ann Althouse and Robert Wright last night. Ann is a law professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison and a registered Democrat who has voted for Democrats all her life, and still votes … Continue reading →

Apparently the plot to blow up nine or ten airplanes was foiled because of information obtained by the arrest of a couple of jihadists in Pakistan. I sure hope they weren’t mistreated during interrogation.

Looks like Iraq may be sliding into civil war. Hezbollah is making their bid to overthrow the legitimate government of Lebanon, under the pretense of defending Lebanon from the evil Jews. This is really a Lebanese civil war, with several … Continue reading →

Finally the Democratic Party has agreed upon a unified position on the war. The following statement was issued this morning by Howard Dean, spokesman for the Party: “Bush and the neocons could be wrong about everything. It could be that … Continue reading →

What is happening is that the radical Muslim world is making progress toward healing the splits between Sunni and Shia, and Arabs and Persians. Al Qaeda was hit hard after 9/11. Iran laid back while that was happening, waiting for … Continue reading →

The murderous rift between Sunni and Shia in the Muslim world is indicative of the psychology of our enemy. Sunni consider Shia to be worse than Jews, let alone pigs. Both sides consider the other to be an unforgivable heresy … Continue reading →

Watching the bomb-go-boom-many-people-die reporting from Iraq on network news, an interesting fact appears in the fog. The increased violence is primarily Shia militia and death squads killing Sunni. You don’t hear much about Al Qaeda anymore since the Baathists got … Continue reading →

Here is a conversation on this topic between my brother Jeff, me, and my cousin Andy: Jeff: So who’s your candidate that has a chance of winning the nomination and the presidency? The pro-choice, pro-gay, pro-gun control, adulterous New Yorker? … Continue reading →

If you are in charge of the Nation’s defense, you will always tend to overestimate an enemy threat, because the price of overestimating the threat is so much lower than the price of underestimating it. You have to err on … Continue reading →

A majority (70%) of Americans support the top secret Treasury Department program tracking financial transactions in search of terrorist funding, that was revealed, and thus sabotaged, by the New York Times. So, when CNN produced a “discussion” of this issue, … Continue reading →