The fall of Hosni Mubarak isn't just an occasion to cheer the demise of a dictatorship, it's also a golden opportunity to celebrate the downfall of all-too-many "experts" whose complacency, deference to power, and complete ignorance of the situation on the ground led...
Poor Glenn Reynolds, he's trying mightily to recreate the days when his opinion meant something, but that was long ago and far away and the old war-blogger doesn't have the good sense to fade away: he's still in there pitching pernicious memes: "MUBARAK has resigned....
To predict a dictator's downfall in the evening, and to wake up to his resignation is to live in a pundit's paradise, and that's precisely where I am today. As I said in this morning's column: "Mubarak, as I said a while back, is finished. His Norma Desmond moment...
Youthful libertarians at the CPAC conference, now going on in Washington, ambush Dick Cheney -- who's getting a "Defender of the Constiution" award! -- calling him a "war criminal" as the neocons chant "USA USA!!" in their usual "four-legs-good-two-legs-bad" style....
Hosni Mubarak is scheduled to speak to the Egyptian people in the next ten minutes, and speculation is rife that he's going to be announcing his effective resignation. This promises to be a Nixonian moment -- remember "You won't have Dick Nixon to kick around...
Via Matt Drudge, the Times of London reports: "Saudi Arabia has threatened to prop up President Mubarak if the White House tries to force a swift change of regime in Egypt. In a testy personal telephone call on January 29, King Abdullah told President Obama not to...
I see Glenn Reynolds, of Instapundit fame, is whining that he did not drop Zeyad, an Iraqi blogger whose cousin was murdered by US soldiers in Iraq -- as I wrote in today's column -- and that “Actually, I played a big role in drawing attention to what happened to...
Rachel Maddow is using her "report" on the Republican tea caucus blocking the extension of the PATRIOT Act to replay her "interview" with Rand Paul, and rail about abortion. Rant all you want, Rachel, but people are noticing that you haven't even mentioned the Act...
As the "Day of Departure" dawns in Cairo, many thousands are gathering in Tahrir Square, and the crowd swells by the minute. Rumors of secret negotiations behind the scenes, with various factions of the opposition trying to make a deal with Mubarak regime, amid news...
With the Obama administration trying to impose Mubarak-ism with Mubarak, easing the old lizard-headed dictator out and ushering in Omar Suleiman -- recently appointed Vice President and formerly Egypt's top intelligence official and torturer-in-chief --  there may...
