Rich Lowery over at National Review Online has a fantastic commentary piece on the Inspector General report about the failure of the CIA to accurately predict and deal with the threat of terrorism on US soil.

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Baltimore's FOX 45 is reporting on their website that the city is slowing down-- maybe even stopping their efforts to sell the large number of residential and commercial properties currently on city books.

If true, this represents a poor, pathetic vision on the part of City leadership and a continuation of the rampant stupidity that has plagued the City since the administration of Kurt Schmoke.

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Charles Krauthammer has joined the growing chorus of nay sayers against Iraqi PM Nouri al Maliki (like Senators Clinton, Reid, and Levin) in calling for his removal.

Just something we might want to keep in mind:  the last time the United States President ordered/authorized a coup de tat against an the sitting head of allied state, that President was dead two months later from an assassin's bullet.

President Kennedy authorized the coup de tat that resulted in the murder of Ngo Dinh Diem on November 2, 1963.

Now, before the Oliver Stones of the blogosphere start going nutso over this bit of trivia, I am not trying to establish a conspiratorial cause to the Kennedy assassination.

I am just pointing out that George W. Bush doesn't have much incentive to tease a repeat of history.

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Just so everyone knows, posting will be a little lite this week.  I have to travel to Florida on business to visit the company Mothership, so I will only be able to post late at night, if at all.

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From the blog CARPE DIEM, between 2002 and 2007 -- the greatest period of "globalizing economics" the world has ever seen, stock market capitalizations have increased $35 trillion dollars.  That is a doubling in value in just five years.

It took us almost 2000 years to reach the original $35 trillion dollars.

This success is the result of ever-increasing integration of the global economy, which fuels growth and prosperity for all people, given the chance.  But if the so-called Progressives in the Democrat party get their way, no one will be given the chance.

Question is:  when will we be able to get Africa into the game?

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Imagine my surprise this last Thursday evening when all of sudden, my little old farm house up here on York Road was lit up like a carnival ride from the lights of the Baltimore County Police department. 

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The President really lit a tinderbox in his speech to the VFW this week when he invoked the aftermath of the Vietnam War as a lesson for us in Iraq.

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Ralph Peters has a must-read article in the New York Post.

Leave it to the leadership of the NAACP to squander a century of moral authority on someone as fundamentally worthless as former NFL faux quarterback Michael Vick.

Is the NAACP so desperate for fundraising these days that they will stand up for any worthless little walking colostomy bag?

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Maryland Townie has uncovered a VERY interesting document that indicates that Runaround Sue may have perjured himself.

The document is the deed of transfer for the old Pittsville fire station (the one that became the Station 7 Restaurant).

In the document, Runaround Sue clearly identifies that he is a legal resident of MARYLAND.  However, as Runaround Sue has regularly stated for some time now, he is and has been a legal resident of DELAWARE.

Furthermore, we know that when Runaround Sue was charged with assault at the Zoo, he could not post a property bond because he does not live in MARYLAND, but DELAWARE.  In fact, his father-in-law had to post that property bond.

So if Runaround Sue committed perjury, does that not also force States Attorney Davis Ruark to pull the assault charges off the STET docket and make the case active again?

Or is this just another "paperwork mixup" like in the tax case awaiting to be resolved?  (Note:  that trial was rescheduled.  Isn't it pretty easy to dispense with a "paperwork mixup"?  And if it is only a "paperwork mixup", how come Runaround Sue's good friend Rick Pollitt hasn't stepped in to get this straightened out?)

Please visit Maryland Townie for the document. 

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