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Do you ever feel like your in an alternative reality? These days I do! Some things do not make sense! How can we be in the middle of a time where we are actively pursuing an enemy who has been a thorn in America’s side for nearly 30 years (since the overthrow of the Shah of Iran) and winning the fight to boot, and yet we are told that America has lost it’s stomach for a fight? If the war sucks so bad, where are the soldiers coming home with tales of horror and woe? Where are the cargo planes...

Too close for some people's comfort Those who think Canadians are manifestly distinct from the folks next door may be disappointed by a new study Terry O'Neill - February 27, 2006 The drumstick of Canadian nationalism beats with predictable regularity on the head of Uncle Sam. Ask many Canadians to define their country, and chances are they'll do so by contrasting it, superiorly, to the United States. As former prime minister Paul Martin put it during the election campaign, while his attack ads were busy painting Tory leader Stephen Harper as "[George] Bush's new best friend," Canadians see America as...

The liberal chattering class has literally gone off its collective rocker. Little negative has occurred since the election -- cabinet shakeups are routine and traditional, and our guys routed the bad guys in Fallujah -- but the way the Left is carrying on you'd think President Bush had issued a string of corrupt pardons, or something. I wouldn't think Democrat angst could get much worse. Democrats have acted like victims of robbery the last four years, but now they're acting like women scorned, rejected by a dueling banjo-wielding electorate. I guess I suspected they'd take their losses badly, but I...

KERRY KENNEDY REALITY CHECK:While John Kerry And Ted Kennedy Blindly Attack, President Bush Leads Global Non-Proliferation Effort_________________________________________________________WANT TO ELEVATE NONPROLIFERATION TO TOP OF GLOBAL AGENDA – PRESIDENT BUSH ALREADY DIDPresident Bush And His Fellow G-8 Leaders Had Already Declared That Spread Of WMD And International Terrorism Constitutes “The Pre-Eminent Threat To International Security.”  (“G-8 Nations Declare Support for WMD Nonproliferation Regime; North Korea, Iran specifically identified as problem countries,” State Department, 6/2/03)ü      G-8 Declaration On Nonproliferation.  “We recognise that the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and their means of delivery poses a growing danger to us all. Together...

<p>March 24, 2003 -- IN combat, the ideal leader is the man who remains calm and methodical under fire. Today's 24/7 broadcast news demands just the opposite: raised voices, an atmosphere of crisis and a rush to judgment. After declaring victory on Friday and Saturday, a number of media outlets all but announced our defeat yesterday, treating the routine events of warfare as if they were disasters.</p>

December 28, 2002 President Bartlet, Please Take Me BackBy FRANK LUNTZ cLEAN, Va. -- There is a small, humorless segment of conservative society that is now convinced more than ever that NBC's "The West Wing" is a plot, a weekly Hollywood conspiracy to overturn the electoral outcome of 2000. I should know. In 2001, I joined Marlin Fitzwater and Peggy Noonan as one of three consultants hired to provide a conservative perspective to the show's writers. Then, in the summer of this year, all three of us were dumped. To conservatives, it was proof that "The West Wing" hates...

The pregnant pause here is me imagining oldster moms he Virginian-Pilot © November 14, 2002 http://www.pilotonline.com/opinion/op1114dou.html Excuse me. Please. I'm trembling so violently I can barely type. I'm also hyperventilating, perspiring and on the verge of what feels like a bad case of the vapors. Blame it on the news. Once again, The Pilot's front page has scared the bejabbers out of me. And a lot of other women. No, I'm not referring to Wednesday's headline that raised the specter of Osama bin Laden still menacing America. Most of us already knew that. I'm talking about that happy little story...

A Full Report on Operation Anaconda -- America's First Battle of the 21st Century. A Complete After Action Interview with COL Weircinski by Austin Bay June 27, 2002 I spoke with COL Frank Wiercinski for nearly two hours. My Creators Syndicate column (week of June 24) could only hit the briefest highlights. My thanks to StrategyPage for giving us space for the complete interview. COL Frank Wiercinski BioNote that I had to prune some useful and colorful military terminology from my column. I didn’t do that here. Given limited editorial space, I also had to limit the granularity of COL Wiercinski’s descriptions....

 Weekday Commentary from Jim Puplava Home AMEX GOLD BUG INDEX (HUI)Analysts and BubbleheadsSTILL haven't noticed! The Week in Graphs  Monday's Market Scoreboard  March 25, 2002  Dow Industrials 146 10,281.67  Dow Utilities 1.08 303.76  Dow Transports 60.04 2817.23  S & P 500 16.83 1131.87  Nasdaq 38.9 1812.49  US Dollar to Yen   133.415  US Dollar to Euro   .8776  Gold 0.1 297.7  Silver .032 4.54  Oil .36 24.99  CRB Index .19 203.37  Natural Gas .105 3.326 All market indexes Storm Watch Geopolitical News in Focus Global Analysis with J. R. Nyquist Precious Metals Storm Watch Update   "Let The 2002 Goodwill...