Author: Dave

Michael Totten reports from Georgia On Monday, I visited one of the schools transformed into refugee housing in the center of Tbilisi and spoke to four women–Lia, Nana, Diana, and Maya–who had fled with their children from a cluster of small villages just outside the city of Gori. “We left the cattle,” Lia said. “We…

The RNC has a page up covering Obama-Rezko Shady Deals. H/T Pal2Pal

The only people who actually need to “define rich” are the folks who are trying to establish a threshhold for redistributing your money. Commenter JM hanes at Just One Minute

The deal brokered in Lebanon to end Muslim on Muslim violence is off. Maybe way off. Several Sunni factions in Lebanon announced Tuesday night that they are freezing a truce they had signed with Hizbullah a day earlier. The agreement, intended to defuse sectarian tension, prohibited any Muslim group from attacking fellow Muslims. “The agreement…

The US military has been training the Georgian Army since 2002. Us troops were scheduled to leave Georgia in March of 2009. It appears the schedule has been changed. During the Soviet era, Krtsanisi military base outside Tbilisi was home to the Red Army. Now it is US soldiers who are in charge and, according…

Update: Commenter Thomas says: Now I truly understand how liberals think. I could not understand why my opinion of an issue was always the opposite of every liberal politician. Now I know. This video is well worth 45 minutes of your time. Yes it is.

It appears that Obama is losing the housing war. You gotta go and read the whole thing esp. if you are into military history. It is fookin hilarious. The second comment is most excellent as well. Don’t miss it. H/T Instapundit Cross Posted at Power and Control

This is an advertisement for a movie coming out just in time for the election season. If you follow the link there is a movie trailer that tells more about the movie. If you would like some words about the movie from the makers, here are some of them: HYPE: The Obama Effect examines the…

It seems that China can’t keep the Free Tibet folks down. Despite the consequences to them that could be easily anticipated. On Monday, “…five pro-Tibet activists unfurled a banner spelling out “Free Tibet” in English and Chinese in blue LED “throwie” lights in Beijing’s Olympic Park tonight. The five were detained by security personnel after…

In The Ties That Bind I discuss Russian proposals for selling nuclear capable missiles to Syria. And then I learn today that an Obama adviser was recently in Syria at an oil company sponsored conference to discuss what? Dried fruit exports? Maybe. Oil exports? Much more likely. Barack Obama’s Middle East Policy Adviser recently discussed…

You have to wonder what the Russians are thinking. Syria’s official news agency SANA announced Mr. Assad would begin a “working visit” to Moscow on Wednesday at the invitation of Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev. Ahead of the visit, Mr. Assad told Russia’s Kommersant daily on Wednesday that his country’s defence ties with Moscow, in the…

In response to my post Let the Games End, commenter Karl notifies me that a petition to revoke the Winter Olympic Games in Russia in 2014 has been started. If you want a badge for your site this is the place to go. It is the least we can do. Cross Posted at Power and…

Harry Reid says coal and oil are making us sick. He has that right. High oil prices are funding jihadis and the new Russian Military machine. The high price of oil is killing Iraqis and killing Georgians. It is also severely squeezing the poor in America. And here you probably thought the Democrats were the…

There is talk of denying the Russians the Winter Olympic games in 2014. Pennsylvania’s Democratic Rep. Allyson Y. Schwartz and Republican Bill Shuster , the co-chairs of the House Georgia Caucus, announced they intend to introduce a resolution when Congress returns calling on the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to find a new venue for the…

For about five years America is going to depend on the Russians for access to the Space Station. Suppose because of happenings in Georgia the Russians decline to do their part? “The new challenge we have is that for approximately five years, the plan — which is a very bad plan but is the only…

Read the article at the Wall Street Journal. My friend Tom Ligon is featured as well as Richard Hull. Read the back story on how the article came about at Talk Polywell. You can follow developments in this line of research and McCain’s interest at: Fusion Report 13 June 008. You can also read more…

Commenter Schwimmer at my post Democrats Strike Out had this to say: And so it begins. The party which has controlled the White House for the past 8 years and which has controlled Congress for the past 12 of 14 years is now the party of new ideas. The Democrats are rightfully trying to pursue…

I was commenting at Althouse about Obama’s performance on the stump: Without a script Obama is a doofus. Another commenter popped up with this gem: Really? A doofus? You’ve been watching to many “Leave it to Beaver” reruns. So I responded (I can’t resist a set up). And Obama is still a doofus when he…

Commenter RAH at the Belmont Club (5:26 pm) speculates on how the Green Movement and CO2 hysteria have played into the hands of the Russians. Russian President Medeyev was Gazprom President. In his new position he is buying contracts from other countries. Venezuela sells oil to Russia; Libya just signed a contract with Medeyev and…