Immigration Bill in Conference

 “The line between good and evil goes through every human heart.” –Solzhenitsyn
Now that the Immigration bill is in committee and the senate has left the house to take the heat it’s time to assess best and worst-case scenarios. It’s unlikely at all that the amnesty program or “path to citizenship” will survive through the conference, [...]

Jefferson Probe Update

I question Denny Hastert’s initial stance on this, as should you. Congresscritters are not above the law, and there aren’t protections and immunities in place here for them as in European governments and other parliamentary bodies. The US is a republic.

Sadaamists hiding in Sweden

One of Sadaam Hussein’s cousins is currently seeking asylum in Sweden, see the article here.
In other other interesting developments Raytheon and Bofors have created a new GPS guided artillery shell which is now deployed in Iraq.
The cost of the shells is secret, but according to American press reports, they cost about 200 000 kronor each, [...]

Germany visits the edge of the Non-Nuclear Power abyss

In Germany politicians earlier made committment to eliminate nuclear power from Germany by 2021 after unrelenting pressure over the last 20 years from the Greens. This even though Nuclear supplies 30% of Germany’s energy at present. After the trick Gazprom pulled with the Ukraine perhaps they ought to rethink that committment. See this article at Deutsch [...]

Libby Ruling

At American Thinker an article on the recent ruling to obtain reporter’s documents explains the potentials in detail. This ruling has far-reaching consequence, a future case against Karl Rove would springboard from Fitzgerald’s case against Libby, or that appears to be the now-waning hope. You could picture Libby like Claudius in the Masterpiece theatre production of “I Claudius” saying:
“Let all [...]