The Associated Press is reporting that Scotland Yard informed the Israeli Embassy in London moments before Terror Thursday dawned that attacks were imminent, according to a "senior Israeli official." Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was scheduled to...
As I write this, the casualty rate in the London terrorist attacks -- 40 dead, over 300 wounded -- is rising. This synchronized strike, several blasts at once, is being claimed by a group that calls itself "Secret Organization — al-Qaeda in Europe." The attacks,...
Seems Jacques Chirac can't catch a break. A few weeks ago French voters demonstrated their incredible esteem for him by rejecting the Chirac-supported centralizing EU"constitution" and the even more unaccountable bureaucracy it would have ushered in. Then earlier this...
Reuters reported Tuesday that Bosnian Serb police had found a bomb near the Potocari Memorial in Srebrenica. It wasn’t long before the viceroy’s office (OHR) issued a statement insinuating that the RS police staged the whole thing to disrupt the commemoration. (!)...
When John Tierney was named a columnist at the New York Times back in March, I yawned. First, it's the paper that gave Nytol its name. More conducive to my indifference, though, were the hosannas Tierney's appointment drew from the likes of Virginia Postrel, Reason,...
Leading the pack of Christian warmongers that I mentioned in my last post who practically elevate military service to the level of the Christian ministry is President Bush himself. But Bush does them one better. He insists that there is no higher calling than military...
It was two years ago, on July 2, 2003, that George Bush bragged, "There are some who, uh, feel like that, you know, the conditions are such that they can attack us there. My answer is: Bring 'em on. We got the force necessary to deal with the security situation. “ -...
Saturday on the Weekend Interview Show: First up will be Mike (in Tokyo) Rogers on his new book Schizophrenic in Japan : An American Ex-Pat's Guide to Japanese and American Society/Politics & Humor. In the second hour, I'll be discussing a possible renewal of the...
James Wolcott reads National Review -- so you don't have to. Speaking of National Review, they recently ran an editorial accusing Senator Dick Durbin of perpetrating an "anti-American slander" most foul when he compared Guantanamo to the Soviet gulag, averring that...
