There is a quotation of unidentifiable origin, usually attributed to George Orwell, one version of which goes:
We sleep safely in our beds at night because rough men stand ready to visit unspeakable violence on those who wish to do us harm.
Rough men …

Isn’t this just dandy? The Associated Press is trying to spin the rescue of the Christian peace activists:

British Hostage Released in Iraq Heading Home, Group SaysThat’s the headline. These people were not “released”, they were rescued by a joint Br

Ok, you’re in a CHRISTIAN group that opposes the war. Turn the cheek and all that good stuff. Great. You decide that it’s so important to you that you’ll go to a war zone to protest. Fine. You ignore the warnings of the soldiers and military beca…

Harmeet Singh Sooden, Jim Loney and Norman Kember were rescued today by U.S., British and Canadian forces. A rescue made possible by the interrogation of a captured insurgent. One wonders if he was ‘tortured’ before divulging the information that led

Just wonderful!

Two Canadian hostages held in Iraq for nearly four months were freed Thursday morning in a carefully planned British-led military operation involving Canadian, American and Iraqi forces.

Unfortunately, the hostages are dumping on the

Three Christian Peace Activist held hostage in Iraq were freed by the very people they call “occupiers.” The three rescued activits were Canadians James Loney, 41, Harmeet Singh Sooden, 32, and Briton Norman Kember, 74. These three members of the Chica…

I guess it would have been too optimistic to expect ‘Pacifist Thanks SAS Rescuers Shock’ headlines, or for Sooden and friends to renounce their pacifism as a result of his rescue by UK Special Forces — who put their own lives at risk because of Sood…

I have a conspiracy theory of my own.
I think many of these alleged kidnappings in Iraq have been staged as a way to undermine our efforts there.
The latest group of Christian Peace Workers was just rescued by US and British forces. But did th ….

As I predicted shortly after their kidnapping, here, it was Our Troops that rescued the remaining Christian Peace Activitists.
It goes without saying that this wasn’t a hard call for me to make.
So now they have been freed by the very forces they…

Think of the history he lived through! Kolkata tortoise, Clive’s pet, dies at 250 y…

The surviving Christian Peacemaker hostages have been freed; Two Canadian hostages held in Iraq for nearly four months have been freed in a carefully planned military operation involving Canadian, British, American and Iraqi forces. Canadians James Lon…

I think Laura Ingraham really did start something when she went after James Carville and David Gregory the other day about the scandalously one-sided negative reporting coming out of Iraq.
Today, Newsbusters highlights the very positive coverage …..

The freeing of the three Western peace activists … in Iraq for four months is touching off … as we’ve come to expect … fighting between the left and the right.

Tom Fox, the fourth member of the team, was big loser in this unfortunate confrontation between God and Darwin — and without a doubt, Darwin has been cheated of three souls that were rightfully his to claim. The “freedom fighters” who held Fox capti…