The Last Ephor

Sgt. Stryker's Daily Briefing A grand fisking. Stryker style.

where is raed The bombing has begun. We've heard about the bombs that have been targeting fiber optic networks but it's good to hear a first hand account.

sfbg.com Peace talks How to convince your conservative relatives to oppose the invasion. By Lynn Rapoport THE HOLIDAYS ARE upon us, and for the broad spectrum of people in the Bay Area who, for a broad spectrum of reasons, don't support a war in Iraq, the traditional familial Reasons include knee-jerk contrarianism, unthinking idiocy, oil conspiracy theories, anti-semitism, intellectual dishonesty, shocking levels of naievity, and inability to support anything a Republican president does, not matter how good, right or sensible it is. huddle around the turkey platter could be pretty grim. A few of you were raised by folks Turkey!? You animal oppressing speciesist! You should be eating To-furkey. Please report for re-education. who came to San Francisco wearing flowers in their hair, but many more are going home to attend a summit with relatives whose viewpoints on matters geopolitical haven't synched up with yours since you stopped building snow fort...

Suspected 'Peter Pan' police killer captured, no one injured Via Instapundit. Where's Tom Daschle on this one? He should be denouncing Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn and Gore Vidal

Face of U.S. espionage changing This is a good one. Talks about spying in America and how the demographic profile is changing. To me it was a bit unclear if they were talking about people spying for America or on America. C'mon Bill where's your editor?

The Ugly American In France You MUST read this.

My Heart on the Line (washingtonpost.com) Found this one via Instapundit An excellent read and well worth your time.

Killer Trees "Oak trees in Missouri's Ozark forests might be contributing to inexplicably high levels of a cancer-causing air pollutant in St. Louis," the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. "Officials with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency suspect that naturally occurring emissions from the trees could help explain why St. Louis has among the highest levels nationwide of formaldehyde, a toxic gas believed to cause cancer." Of course, this isn't news to some of us. Ronald Reagan pointed out two decades ago that trees cause pollution. He was right about taxes, right about communism--and right about our fearsome flora.

Bush Plans New Agency to Dole Out Billions in Aid I'm of two minds on this one. One one hand the ever expansive federal government is a horrid horrid thing. However, I do understand what he's trying to do and that is a good thing. Giving out foreign aid to nations that have been our friends in the past is not a good way of doing business. Egypt recieves a TON of foreign aid by virtue of their peace treaty with Israel from the 1970's. Carter rightly used both carrot and stick to lure them into a treaty. (That's as close as I'll come to praising Jimmy Carter's presidency.) However, they have since, denegrated into the fever-swamp of Islamofascism and anti-Semitism. (I realize that is redundant) The latter is proven by their airing of a multipart mini-series on government television about the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and how it is factual and affects the world today. This festering piece of crap has been around for a LONG long time and has been ...

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Michael Ledeen on Iran on National Review Online Excellent article about the Mullahs. Why is there so much silence around this one? Anyone?

A Small Victory: reasons to be thankful, part 1 Good one. funny.

Daimnation! Dispatch from the Tin Foil Hat crowd.

Forbes.com: Bowl-o-Drama Fact checking Michael Moore in Forbes. Fish in a barrel.

Boston Globe Online / Nation | World / The globalist cookbook Of spicy food, globalism and the world

TalkLeft: Clinton's Record on Civil Liberties Leftists w/ a clue.

NOLA.com: Candidate debate has unfriendly end Now if Landrieu was a republican....

Guardian Unlimited Observer |Greed and torture at the House of Saud Here's a shocker.

t a c i t u s: Casualty

Statesmanship, Saudi Style (washingtonpost.com)

FBI Probes Donations From Saudi (washingtonpost.com)

9-11 Hijackers: A Saudi Money Trail?

NATIONAL POST

OpinionJournal - Taste Pilgrims. seems seasonal enough..

OpinionJournal - Peggy Noonan More on this later

Killer Trees http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/news/EEAB604567453A6186256C770083AEB3 "Oak trees in Missouri's Ozark forests might be contributing to inexplicably high levels of a cancer-causing air pollutant in St. Louis," the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. "Officials with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency suspect that naturally occurring emissions from the trees could help explain why St. Louis has among the highest levels nationwide of formaldehyde, a toxic gas believed to cause cancer." Of course, this isn't news to some of us. Ronald Reagan pointed out two decades ago that trees cause pollution. He was right about taxes, right about communism--and right about our fearsome flora.