Tonight on the Simpson's, Homer is looking through the attic for something, but all he can find is a copy of Newsweek from 1986 with the cover story: "Why America Loves Saddam Hussein."

I was reading Jim Henley last night when I came across this— The Socialists have apparently won the Spanish elections. So! How many of those who were falling all over themselves with solidarity and compassion yesterday will suddenly discover, and unburden themselves...

Canadians overwhelmingly believe US President George W. Bush lied to justify the Iraq war and their own government was wise to stay out of the conflict, according to a new poll published Monday. The poll, conducted by Ipsos-Reid for the newspaper the Globe and Mail...

What ever happened to the fly-paper theory of invading Iraq? I was wondering about that before the Madrid bombing, but it seems an even more pertinent question now. "The surest way to avoid attacks on our own people is to engage the enemy where he lives and plans,"...

Alan at SoutherlyBuster has added up the gains and losses by each party: PSOE +39 PP -35 CiU (Catalan centre-right) 10 -5 ERC (Catalan leftists) 8 +7 EAJ-PNV (Basque moderates) 7 deputies, -0 IU (left-socialist) 5 deputies -4 CC (Canarian centrists, would have entered...

As I mentioned Thursday, the extradition of two Croatian generals to the Hague Inquisition has occasioned comments in the media about how Serbia now needs to arrest and extradite its own "indictees" in order to remain in the Empire's good graces. In the words of...

Stirling Newberry has a great post analysing the effect of the internet and cellphone on the Spanish election today. What happened was that evidence came to light that the PP had been told on Thursday, just after the bombings, that Morrrocan extremists, linked to Al...

With 85% of the vote in: El PSOE gana las elecciones, con el 85% de los votos escrutados (164 escaños) PP has 148

David Woods of the Patriot News asks, "Are there limits to American might? If so, are we reaching them?" Consider: The Iraq invasion caught the Pentagon so short of military cargo planes that it had to hire Russian aircraft to ferry tanks and other materiel. "We had...

40 aborted bombing runs: Australia's F/A-18 pilots defied the orders of American commanders and refused to drop their bombs on up to 40 missions during the invasion of Iraq, it can now be revealed. In a remarkable account of how our airmen applied Australian rules of...