Cernig's Newshog

By Cernig The Homeland Security Department’s Office of Procurement Operations has barred IBM from receiving any new government contracts or...

By Cernig For Libby , who is depressed that the Unity Elephant in the room keeps getting ignored by the media.

By Cernig There are a couple of worth-a-reads on the situation in Iraq today. I particularly recommend James Joyner : The parallels between ...

By Libby Frank Rich looks at the Bosnia debacle and ruminates on how the Clinton campaign shot themselves in the foot by ignoring the reali...

By Libby Burnt Orange Report seems to have the most comprehensive coverage and is reporting that Obama is winning the second step conventio...

By Libby I don't want to get into a electability argument but by any reasonable metric I've seen, Obama is leading in this race, eve...

By Libby When the WaPo editorializes in favor of an extended Democratic primary, my first instinct is to be against it. After all they'...

By Cernig There's breaking news that Muqtada has issued a nine point statement, the most immediately important of which is the one order...

By Cernig This will do for a metaphor of all that's gone wrong with Bush's Iraqi project: The U.S. military raised its profile in B...

By Cernig As Maliki's offensively political offensive bogs down in Basra, the Associated press looks at the long tale of the Iraqi Army...

By Libby Dan at Pruning Shears has an interesting post this week. He wonders why the big Second Amendment proponents aren't more concer...

By Libby I suppose the law of averages would dictate that a tiny handful of the Gitmo detainees really are high value inmates, worthy of pro...

By Libby I'm fighting the effects of too much sleep this afternoon. I spent ten solid hours, catching up on lost REM time and dreaming h...

By Cernig Well, just recently people on the Right were asking why Iraq was off the front pages "now that there's only good news...

The Iraqi Army is unable to accomplish its objective, and given the swirl of rumors of Ayatollah Sistani getting ready to step in on the sid...

By Cernig As if US and Iraqi government forces didn't have enough troubles in Southern Iraq, there are signs that the Northern border ma...

By Cernig The Iraqi government's spokesman Ali al-Dabagh has promised that anyone taking up Muqtada al-Sadr's call for civili disobe...

Senator Bob Casey endorsed Barrack Obama for President this morning and I am very surprised on a couple of fronts as I would have thought t...

By Libby The attorney purge scandal largely dropped out of the media narrative once "Fredo" Gonzales finally resigned, and nobody ...

The motivation for a major offensive in Basra that was almost certain to force the Sadrists to have a de facto end to their mostly unilatera...

By Cernig Earlier today, Fester wondered why Maliki has gone charging into a city of 2.6 million after a numerous and entrenched Mahdi Army...

By Libby The old and new media outcry over the latest round of negative politics in the Democratic primary seems to have had some effect. Hi...

Reports suggest that the Iraqi Army in Basra is not advancing and is being stalemated by Mahdi Army fighters in their drive to take the city...

By Libby I have never been a big believer in polls and I think in this election with its polls every three hours, or so it seems, they have ...

What is the prize in Basra that is motivating the fight between units loyal to the Maliki government and SIIC/Badr and the Mahdi Army?  What...

By Cernig The Iraqi government has imposed a two-day curfew , with no unauthorised person allowed on the streets, over the weekend in Baghda...