Neall Alcott

Well, I’ve been really busy with work and life and I haven’t been blogging in a while. (Sorry) My buddy Bruce was asking what was up, so I figured I should set a little time aside tonight and write. I told him that since the mainstream media (MTM) has noticed the improvements in Iraq, I [...]

There was a comment on an earlier post of mine on my Daily Local blog that I found interesting: gypsy hammond said… The surge is working? That must explain why 2007 has seen the highest level of troop deaths since the war began. But then, defining success downwards has been a hallmark of this war [...]

Interesting stuff happening on Capitol Hill. Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) proposed an amendment to a major health spending bill that said no lawmakers’ pet projects (i.e., earmarks) would be funded until “all children in the U.S. under the age of 18 years are insured by a private or public health insurance plan.” Sen. Coburn has [...]

I’m not a big John McCain fan, but this is a GREAT debate line that only he could have delivered:

If you are a reader of the New York Times, you have probably seen this strange reference to “Al Qaeda in Iraq” as “Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia”. My assumption is/was that they refuse to acknowledge that Al Qaeda is in Iraq, so they use this historical reference to blur the line. Last Thursday night I [...]

I hope they find something on Republican Ted Stevens. He’s probably the worst offender of pork and earmarks in the US Senate. The sponsor of the infamous “Bridge to Nowhere“. It’s not a stretch of the imagination to think that he’s corrupted… It won’t effect the balance of the US Senate, since the Democrats already [...]

Radley Balko has a good article at http://reason.com/news/show/120125.html discussing the various politicians and their “I’m above the law” habit of speeding. My governor Corzine makes an appearance of course as the latest to get exposed, but Balko also discusses Rendell, Richardson, and several others. Seems like the common excuse is “I’m busy and my driver [...]