Keith Olbermann is burning up the airwaves with his scorching "Countdown" news program tonight. First, a little vignette about a "rumor" spread in Tikrit that food rations would be cut off to non-voters in Iraq's election. Then a bit about of the "missing" nine...
Badge of Honor: The Glenn Reynolds Seal of Disapproval
I see Glenn "I'm a tax-supported professor with time on my hands" Reynolds -- does that guy ever teach any classes? -- is sliming Tom Woods' best-selling book, The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History, without -- of course -- having actually read it. Now, I...
Look Who’s Talking!
Good grief! When I read the following blog entry by Andrew Sullivan, I practically fell off my chair: "THE NYT'S SILENCE: In the blogosphere, we are often called to account for previous statements; or asked to concede that we were wrong about something or other. It...
Iraq’s march of freedom: Shi’ite fundamentalists claim victory
The official results aren't in yet, nor are any preliminary returns, but that isn't stopping the United Iraqi Alliance backed by fundamentalist Shi'ite cleric Ayatollah Sistani from claiming victory -- and an overwhelming one at that: "Officials in the United Iraqi...
Somebody tell Nick Gillespie…
As usual, the drugs-sex-&-rock&roll brigade over at Reason is head-over-heels in love with the latest deformed offspring of American "democracy"-promotion, in this case the Iraqi election, with editor Nick Gillespie fawning -- "some came on crutches" -- over the fake...
Stephen Schwartz on Iraq Poll: “It’s all about ME!”
Stephen Schwartz, self-described "Trotsky-con," frenzed defender of Uzbekistan's brutal dictatorship, and always a barrel of laughs, must be off his medication again, 'cause here he is taking credit for the Iraqi election: "The group of non-Iraqis in America entitled...
You Got That Right
Andrew Gilligan, of the London Evening Standard, reporting from Iraq: "Groups of men sat outside their shops, showing each other the ink-marked index fingers they got when they voted. It was a Shia area. so no problems about turnout. No doubt about what voters wanted...
Beyond the Hype
Getting beyond all the self-congratulatory hype in the American media, the London Independent offers this perspective from Iraq: "The Americans have repeatedly charged that Iran was interfering in the election and bankrolling Shia Islamist parties such as Dawa and the...
Is Sistani Iraq’s Khomeini?
My Monday column calls the election "Sistani's Triumph," and suggests that the government that comes out of Sunday's poll will be closer to the Iranian model than the American system. Here's the conservative columnist Terry Jeffries, in a column published in May of...
Live-blogging Pat and Frum on “Hardball”
I'm live-blogging Pat Buchanan and David Frum squaring off on "Hardball" with Chris Matthew. There's Commissar Frum looking smarmy and green. Ewww... And there's Pat, looking his usual great self. Frum :This is part of a broader struggle. This shows the entire Middle...


