There's a report out today that some Republicans in Congress are talking about cutting our donation to the U.N. in response to their continued corruption and refusal to reform. Its a nice idea but the proposed cuts are really laughable:
At least $17 million has been sliced this week from the Bush administration's appropriations request […]

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The word has been rumbling around for a few years that soon technology would be able to grow teeth. Generally it was assumed or discussed as coming from biotechnology, and that's on the way too at some point. But there is something coming out sooner than that, in fact a device that can […]

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Yesterday the AP put out such a stunningly biased article in an attempt to sway the public on such a critical subject that the U.S. Senate Committee with jurisdiction over the matter was moved to correct the AP. The AP implied yesterday that U.S. experts in climatology unanimously agreed that Al Gore's movie […]

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Heh.  Couldn't help myself with that title.  For a bit of fun you might try watching today's Vent from Hot Air about Global Warming.

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So the news is out, again, that the elected Iraqi government is offering insurgents amnesty for killing American and Iraqi troops. The deal offered is supposedly this, from The Times in London:
The 28-point package for national reconciliation will offer Iraqi resistance groups inclusion in the political process and an amnesty for their prisoners if […]

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You'll see and hear a lot about this in the news over the next few days I would expect, but at a minimum this announcement means one clear thing:  Saddam Hussein was in violation of U.N. mandates and the treaty signed at the end of the first Gulf War that ended hostilities.  It is really […]

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Click on the image to see the original in its full high resolution glory.  About the picture, from Pacific Command (PACOM):
PACIFIC OCEAN (June 18, 2006) — USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72), USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63) and USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) carrier strike groups steam in formation during a joint photo exercise (PHOTOEX) […]

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CNN has a poll out today that has a number of interesting numbers, of course the most reported being about Sen. Hillary Clinton.  Here are the numbers from CNN (emphasis added):
Regarding potential Democratic candidates, 47 percent of respondents said they would "definitely not vote for" both Clinton, the junior senator from New York who […]

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North Korea is acting up again, having fueled a new missile with dramatically longer range for a test.  The reports of the range of this new missile are conflicting and range from "possibly reaching Alaska" to "possibly reaching any place in the continental US".  Most reports agree it will be able to hit some targets […]

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There is the longstanding and ongoing debate between those who primarily favor "stability" in the world, and those who favor change.  It used to be that it was Conservatives that made the case for Realpolitik and continued "stability" while the Leftward side of the political spectrum argued constantly for "progressive change" if not outright sweeping […]

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I know it isn’t exactly the hot sport in the U.S., but back when we hosted the Fifa World Cup I have to admit I picked up a liking for the event.  Any sport taken to its highest level is exciting and this highest level of international soccer, or football as the rest of the […]

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Hugh Hewitt interviewed columnist to the world Mark Stein today on his radio program, where Stein had this observation to share about the Democrats’ collapse of support for national security:

HH: And even as that unfolds, however, like […]

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The fact that Al Gore is the guy promoting a movie intended to have political impact really ought to tell you something about the nature of the cause.  Like, that it is political in nature.  Not scientific.  Nothing has changed really, only this time he’s trying to use the "global warming" boogyman to force his […]

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Many people have this lingering perception that everything is going wrong in the U.S., and especially in Iraq, and that consequently our military MUST be having problems recruiting.  There was a spate of stories a bit over a year ago making that case when the military was missing quotas for a few months, but of […]

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Hot Air has a video compilation celebrating the killing of Zarqawi and covering some of the negative reactions to it.  Head on over and watch the video.  For my part I agree with the folks at Hot Air… woohoo!  Keep it up.

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More on yesterday’s absurd attack by the U.N.’s Deputy Secretary General on the United States and its people.  Our U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., Ambassador John Bolton, replied strongly today to the offending speech.  Here is the Press Release from Amb. Bolton’s office (HT to Powerline for the link):

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The third most important Al Quaeda target in the world was killed in Iraq yesterday at long last.  This is mostly a collection of overviews and link collections, plus a bit of commentary by me of course, so please click on the links if you haven’t seen these sites yet.  Zarqawi’s killing is being covered […]

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I’m almost sympathetic for the guy really.  It has to be pretty hard to be used to such a monolithically socialist/leftist media environment like that in Europe and then come to the U.S. and suddenly be presented with unsettlingly different ideas.  After all, how dare anyone criticize the U.N.?!  Why, EVERYONE knows the U.N. is […]

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The Washington Times has an article today that usefully illustrates why the House is being so strong in opposition to the President and the Senate’s proposed amnesty plan.  The polling has been twisted around in every way possible to try to support pre-determined political choices, but when it comes down to brass tacks it turns […]

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The California Primary elections are done and the stage is now set for the final contest in the November Election.  Other than likely seeing some action on the Reiner investigations because of the failure of Prop 82, we can look forward to a relentlessly bitter conflict from the two major candidates for Governor.  How is […]

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Poll results broadcast at the time of this post put the vote on Proposition 82 at about 40% for and 60% against. The universal preschool funded by taxing the rich Proposition was widely popular at initial polling but has declined at an increasing rate ever since as people learned about the details and decided […]

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We are down to the wire now with the election being held tomorrow and the final pre-election polls are coming in. Looks like Rob Reiner’s Proposition 82, a measure advertised as taxing the "rich" to pay for "universal pre-school" for all children, is going to be defeated tomorrow. This idea with socialist European […]

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Two months ago here on Deep Keel I examined the issues facing movie studios and their efforts to move forward with downloadable movies.  It was pretty clear then that the first offerings weren’t going to go much of anywhere, and that this was by design of the movie industry which was not yet ready to […]

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I thought I’d share a few of these photos that got sent to me from Iraq.  All of them were taken from a helicopter over Iraq.
The first shows a different side to Iraq, not the sandy waste we see so often on the TV but fertile green parts that were the ancient cradle of civilization […]

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