Yep, The American Spectator is still rooting for Hillary to usurp Lucifer's throne. Emmett Tyrrell is still cracking himself up. All is as it ever was, except for David Brock. Oh, but wait-- someone's been purged. What happened to James Bovard's article archives?...
EU Seeks to Anull Loretta Lynn’s Marriage
Follow-up to the Romanian Gypsy child bride brouhaha: The Romanian child protection agency has forced Ana-Maria to separate from her 15-year-old husband and has required both children to live at home with their parents in the Transylvanian town of Sibiu. The Romanians...
One Hell of an Investigation
From Reuters: The White House on Tuesday ruled out three top aides as the source of a news leak identifying an undercover CIA officer whose husband was critical of Bush administration Iraq policy. White House spokesman Scott McClellan said he had talked to each of the...
The Unraveling GOP
If you're a Bush-supporter, that steady sucking sound you hear might be defecting libertarians. This article from The American Prospect should give Bushies the fear. It's gonna be hard to win the next election with an even smaller second-place showing than they...
Rattled by the Rush?
Or just bored by the self-amused oxyconservative? Check out a real alternative to the establishment media: the Philip Dru show. It's on-air in Austin, but the website features audio interviews with the likes of Ivan Eland, Greg Palast, Alan Bock, and Jesse Walker--...
Patriotism for Non-Scoundrels
Lest anyone think that my take on patriotism in today's article is meant to dismiss the concept altogether, please read this great essay by Joseph Sobran. Relevant to folks right and left.
“Scooter” Libby and Marc Rich
In case you need a little refresher on D.C. power-slut Lewis "Scooter" Libby, so prominently featured in the Valerie Plame scandal, here's a tasty treat from National Review, March 2001. Byron York reported the following: Libby, who said his law firms collected as...
Worst Pun of the Year
I think there's a real contender in today's "Collateral Damage." See if you can spot it. Its very badness may make you laugh.
Yom Kippur/Sabra and Shatila
First, condolences to the families, Jewish and Arab, of those hurt or killed in yesterday's bombing. I'll include one sentence from an Agence France-Presse report that I didn't hear on the nightly news: The radical Palestinian movement Islamic Jihad claimed...
Who’s Being Intolerant?
Romania is in big trouble for the way it treats its Gypsy population. Y'know, leaving them alone, letting them maintain their customs, instead of assimilating them at gunpoint. Now, a Gypsy wedding between a 12-year-old girl and a 15-year-old boy may threaten...


