In mid-November, one Bosnian TV station broadcast the 169th installment of a program called "TV Tribunal" - a weekly newscast dedicated to "informing" the public about the Hague Inquisition. What made it special was a segment in which Head Inquisitor, Carla DelPonte,...
Radio Free Europe, a US-operated propaganda setup in Prague, often runs ludicrous reports about Kosovo and Bosnia, but this one takes the cake. Apparently, thousands of Muslim Albanians are going to Catholic Christmas celebrations this year, and this has the RFE types...
Reuters' presstitute Paul Gallagher writes yesterday about the trial of Yugoslav general Pavle Strugar for the alleged destruction of the medieval port of Dubrovnik. Quite honestly, I didn't think even the Hague Inquisition would dare to propagate positions that are...
In today’s article on Wesley Clark’s appearance at the Hague Inquisition, Elaine Sciolino of the New York Times reveals some important information. Apparently, I’m not the only one wondering why Clark’s testimony came at this stage of the show trial, when the Kosovo...
If you had any doubt about which altar boobus americanus kneels before, doubt no longer. The Oh, Really? Factor renders unto Caesar, and renders, and renders some more. Bill O'Reilly on Cardinal Martino: [Y]ou can afford to feel compassion for Saddam, Cardinal,...
I do hope John Derbyshire did not contribute to The National Review Treasury of Classic Children’s Literature. Here, a bedtime story from Derb: Actually, my favorite story of victor's justice is the treatment given to the defeated Sultan Bayezid "the Thunderbolt" by...
Thanks to Matt for bringing the Select Smart 2004 Presidential Candidate Selector to our attention. It's true that looking down the preference hierarchy list creates absurdities, like my own Sharptonite Libertarianism. But in defense of the candidate selector I have...
Pro-Saddam demonstrations are on the rise and being put down by US troops. Meanwhile, the initial spurt of anti-Saddam demonstrations seems to have dissapated, with "Only small groups of Communist Party supporters were seen celebrating in the capital." Iraq's...
Apparently, winning the peace will take a while:Also Tuesday, Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, visited Iraq and said U.S. troops might stay in Iraq for one or two years. 'About as far as we are looking is through the next couple of years,'...
Via Franklin Harris, the Select Smart 2004 Presidential Candidate Selector. My results certainly look odd, which suggests a BCS-like inscrutability in the formula, as well as a lack of exhaustive choices on some questions. Here's what I got: 1. Your ideal theoretical...
