What is virtue? It is what this blog is about. It is how we look at the world. It is what we expect from our leaders, our citizens and ourselves. It is an unreachable goal in many instances, but something one must always strive for....

First off... any spambots reading this should immediately go here, here, here, and here. Die spambots, die! And now... here are all the links submitted by members of the Watcher's Council for this week's vote. Council li...

IT ISN’T ABOUT THE RELIGIONFrom Allahpundit at Hot Air comes word of a crock of a Vanderbilt University poll ......

http://www.newsmax.com/timmerman/iran_nukes/2007/12/04/54359.html

Does one source with no direct contact -ring any bells. Timmerman says this might have happened.

Join one source with State Department partisans or just plain incompetance and what do you have - Lousy NIE.

according to the tenets of their religion, Muslim should not be frequenting museums that display the human form at all so who are we protecting from offense?...

Unfortunately, what I've read on the wires is Bush hyping the bomb threat, which apparently isn't as imminent as we thought. But is gloating and pointing fingers the right way the approach this issue, given the rest of the available data? ...

I'm a Christian, politically conservative and pro-life. For those who just didn't experience a fatal cranial expansion, there may be some wonderment at why I don't have Mike Huckabee as my first pick of Republican presidential candidates ......

I am going to list a number of issues that the National Intelligence Estimate leaves unanswered. (Scroll down to "Key Judgments"):...

You must have read a different part of the summary.

"We judge with high confidence that the halt lasted at least several years. (Because of intelligence gaps discussed elsewhere in this Estimate, however, DOE and the NIC assess with only moderate confidence that the halt to those activities represents a halt to Iran's entire nuclear weapons program.)

• We assess with moderate confidence Tehran had not restarted its nuclear weapons
program as of mid-2007, but we do not know whether it currently intends to develop
nuclear weapons."

Why would they say "lasted several years"

The do not know!