How do you reward someone whose efforts to gin up another war have been indefatiguable? Why, nominate them for a Nobel Peace Prize, of course.
Idiocy Times Two
The provocateur at the center of the Muhammed cartoon controversy, Flemming Rose, verifies my thesis that he is a complete idiot by declaring that his newspaper, Jyllands-Posten, is seeking to publish cartoons "satirizing" .... the Holocaust. Where will they get these...
The Triumph of Hamas: You Read It Here First
Condi Rice is baffled by the victory of Hamas in the recent Palestinian elections: "I've asked why nobody saw [Hamas' election victory] coming. It does say something about us not having a good enough pulse... I don't know anyone who wasn't caught off guard by Hamas'...
A Pathetic Anniversary: Ukraine’s Shriveled ‘Orange Revolution’
The first anniversary of Ukraine's U.S. government-backed -and-subsidized "Orange Revolution" provoked this bitter comment from Yevgen Zakharov, co-chair of the Kharkiv Human Rights Group, who last year was manning the barricades in Kiev against the supposedly evil...
Your Tax Dollars At Work
Via the HuffPuff: "The United States Agency for International Development is seeking applications for an Assistance Agreement from qualified sources to design and implement a social and economic stabilization program impacting ten Strategic Cities, identified by the...
Russia and the Boomerang Effect
Nikolas Gvosdev, editor of The National Interest, takes down Reason magazine's Cathy ""there are no true libertarians in times of terrorist attacks" Young: "How easily Americans play hard and fast with the truth. History is now being rewritten so that all...
Friday Link-o-Rama: It’s All Greek To Me
Check out Don't Bomb Us -- a blog by the staff of Al Jazeera. If only Yugoslavia's RTS had thought of that ... Boris Johnson, British MP and editor of the conservative Spectator -- which has the good taste to run a column by Taki Theodoracopulos -- has pledged to...
How They Lied Us Into War: Closing in on a ‘Funky’ Forgery
Via the Left Coaster blog, this snippet from a piece in the UK's Private Eye magazine illuminates the mystery of how the Niger uranium forgeries came to be incorporated in the U.S. intelligence stream: "When the US State Department finally gave international weapons...
Pelosi Bows to Pressure, Backs Murtha
House Democratic leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco), has bowed to pressure -- see here, here, and here -- and has announced she is now backing Rep. Jack Murtha's "out in 6 months" resolution on Iraq. Of course, Antiwar.com is not taking credit for this sudden...
Give Us A Break, Norm
The Huffington Post is headlining the latest congressional Democrat to find his cajones when it comes to the Iraq war, and they direct us to this Seattle Times story, which relates the "agonizing" of Rep. Norm Dicks (D-Washington) over the issue, and informs us of the...


