Writing in National Review, Peter Robinson, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and host of Uncommon Knowledge, seems puzzled by Bush's inaugural address: "The speech was in almost no way that of a conservative. To the contrary. It amounted to a thoroughgoing...
Iraqi Election Update: Allawi wows ’em
A campaign rally for "President" Iyad Allawi draws a diverse crowd.
The Betrayal of the “IraqTheModel” Bloggers
Yesterday the warblogs and Cult-of-Bush blogs exploded in veritable unison with trumped-up outrage and hysteria which ricocheted throughout their echo chamber in a matter of hours over the story in the NY Times Arts Section on the Iraqi bloggers of Iraq the Model and...
We Want the Airwaves
I'll be appearing on the "Liberated Space" radio program out of Austin, TX, with Angela Keaton from 6:30-7:00 Central this evening. You can listen online here.
Comic Relief
If you're not watching C-Span2 right now, please start. It's the International ANSWER counter-inaugural demonstration, and it's a laff riot. Karl Rove paid these imbeciles to show up, right? And what is it with leftists and chants? "No blood for oil/US off Iraqi...
Inaugural Preview: A Trotskyite in the White House
Matt Drudge has this excerpt from the Inaugural speech: "We are led, by events and common sense, to one conclusion: The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion...
Vote or Die
Falah Hassan al-Naqib, Iraq's Interior Minister, told the Associated Press on Tuesday that anyone who fails to vote in the upcoming elections is guilty of a criminal act: "'If any group does not participate in the elections, it will constitute treason,' al-Naqib said,...
Condi on ice
The Senate Democrats are holding up the confirmation of Condoleezza Rice: no, nix that -- Senator Robert Byrd is holding up the confirmation vote until Thursday on the magnificently combative grounds, as explained by the Senator's spokesman, that "Senator Byrd and...
So much for racial profiling
The news that the FBI has initiated "a massive manhunt" for six suspected terrorists, four of whom are reportedly Chinese, is bad news for the racial profilers. It should also raise more than a few questions about the President's proposed immigration "reform", which...
Irrational Exuberance?
If even Christopher Ruddy and Ed Koch are heading for the exits, right behind Brent Scowcroft and Zbigniew Brzezinski, can the troops be far behind?


