THE TENSION: The Decline and Fall of Western Civ for 29 Jan.

After reading: wash, rinse and repeat.

KHON reports whatever was in the sky over Hawaii Friday evening around 6:20 p.m. drew a crowd along Kewalo Basin and Ala Moana Beach Park. Honolulu resident Peter Hollingworth described as two lights circling in the sky, about 45 degrees above the horizon.
“These two little fireballs with a stream behind it,” said Hollingworth. “Looked kind of like a shooting start but it just kept going. They changed directions a few times, at first it was coming in then it turned, then it went out then it came back in again"

The National Football League has boosted the law enforcement budget and heightened the security threat level for Super Bowl 41 because of terrorism fears reports AP.
"We consider the Super Bowl so high profile that we see it as attractive to terrorists," said Milt Ahlerich, NFL vice-president of security.

AP reports President Bush said Monday the United States "will respond firmly" if Iran escalates military action in Iraq and endangers American forces. But Bush emphasized he has no intention of invading Iran.

If you are having second thoughts about voting for Hillary because of the possibility of Bush, Clinton, Bush, Clinton dynastic presidencies, you may want to read Michal Barone's piece, Battle Royal, in The Wall Street Journal.

In yesterday's DFWC I noted that some anti-war protesters who were in town over the weekend spray painted the steps of the Capitol building. I am happy to report that, according to AP, nine anti-war protesters were arrested Monday when they gathered in a House office building to read off the names of American and Iraqi war dead.

The New York Times reports, while protesters said they supported the troops while being against the war, some anti-war folks took the opportunity to engage in a spitting match with Joshua Sparling, 25, who was on crutches and who said he was a corporal with the 82nd Airborne Division and lost his right leg below the knee in Ramadi, Iraq. Mr. Sparling spoke at a smaller rally held earlier in the day at the United States Navy Memorial, and voiced his support for the administration’s policies in Iraq.

As if it is a war in its own right, once again the ideology of peaceful tolerance comes in direct conflict with the typically intolerant behavior of ideologues on the left.

Reuters reports 13 percent of Americans have never heard of global warming even though the mainstream media and crisis mongers have tried to make climate change theory into fact for the last 30 years. Heck, and all this time I thought the world ended at Y2K.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) ruled on Monday there was enough evidence against a Congolese militiaman to launch the new court's first trial, according to Reuters.