Democrats are lying on timeline for Iraq war funding

streiff at Redstate has the must-read details of the latest Democrat lie regarding funding for our troops. The President has warned Democrats that if they don’t get him a ‘clean’ supplemental bill to sign by April 15th, that Congress will in effect be shortchanging the military and not giving them what they need to [...]

Remembering Jason Ray and a friend: Tomorrow, the sky really will be Carolina blue – and the flowers will all be Terrapin red

There’s an old saying here in North Carolina, especially amongst Tarheel fans, that God’s favorite college basketball team must be Carolina because He painted the sky “Carolina blue.” As a Duke Blue Devil fan – Carolina’s biggest rivals – I, and other Duke fans, usually laugh it off everytime I hear it.
But not this [...]

Karl Rove: The next American Idol?

Watch, and you be the judge:

Hey, if Sanjaya Malakar – who is widely known as the guy who no one thought would make it past the first round – can make it into the top 10, I think Rove would have a shot at it, too! Simon Cowell, of course, would be brutal on [...]

Time for yet another round of “Caption This” …

My caption would be:
Bush: (Sighs and thinks) Not again.
Pelosi: (Thinking) I may be third in line for the presidency, but that won’t stop me from acting like I AM the president.

Actual caption: U.S. President George W. Bush (R) reacts as
he listens to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) during the annual
Radio and Television Correspondents [...]

Representative John Murtha renews call for a military draft

I’m wondering, along with John Hawkins: Is anyone in Washington, DC listening? If so, where are the responses?

Prior:

Murtha plans to “fence the funding” for the Iraq war
VIDEO: Murtha’s bumbling ABSCAM explanation (FLASHBACK: MURTHA’S TROOP REDUCTION PREDICTION FROM LAST YEAR)
WaPo: Murtha is the wrong choice for House Majority leader
Dems want to identify pork sponsors
Pelosi backs [...]

Captain Ed liveblogged his wife’s kidney transplant

Sweet! I swear, Ed can do anything. Next thing you know, he’ll be liveblogging his own surgeries, if he ever has to have surgery, that is
Best wishes to “The First Mate” for a speedy recovery. So far, so good.

Why is Nancy Pelosi going to Syria?

Yes, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, she who represents the military-hating, Bush-loathing, cut and run crowd in San Francisco, is going to Syria as part of a “Congressional delegation” – even though the US has broken off ties with high-level contacts in the Syrian government:
The visit will make Pelosi the most senior U.S. official ever to [...]

Friday open thread

Having another busy day … been one of those weeks. Be back later this afternoon or evening.
TGIF!

“Innocent” Aussie David Hicks agrees to seven year plea deal (PLUS: OUTRAGEOUS – HICKS TO SERVE ONLY NINE MONTHS

Via AP:
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba – The prison sentence of an Australian detainee who pleaded guilty to a terrorism-related charge would be limited to seven years under terms of a plea bargain, a military judge at Guantanamo Bay said Friday.
The judge, Marine Corps. Col. Ralph Kohlmann, revealed the terms of the agreement at a [...]

‘bats make it clear: Senator Mitch McConnell’s Senate seat will be targeted

I read a few days ago at The Politico that Democrats had set their sights on Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell as he faces re-election next year, and thought to myself that it figures they would, because he’s been a hell of an effective leader against a lot of the moonbattiness that goes on in [...]