Eli at Left I has some devastating info on Shahristani, the name apparently being hyped by Washington for new Iraqi PM, much to Brahimi's irritation. First, the hype:When Lakhdar Brahimi, the United Nations envoy in Iraq, appeared on Iraqia, the US-run local...

Surely there can't be anything more idiotic out there: "...today, in Iraq as in Bosnia, Kosovo and Afghanistan, we've tied ourselves to Muslim people. We're helping them. In the long run, they'll understand that and appreciate that." - Rich Tucker, The Heritage...

Col. Thomas Pappas, in sworn testimony, said the idea of using dogs came from the Commandant of American Gulag Guantanamo, and approved by Commandant "I See Nothing" Sanchez, confirming the testimony from the number one Rumsfeld henchman Cambone at the Taguba hearing....

According to Belgrade daily Vecernje Novosti (Evening News), the most influential Albanian drganizer of the event was Richard Holbrooke, while many of his former cohorts from the Clinton days took part: Madeleine Albright, Wesley Clark and James Rubin, as well as...

James Taranto of the War Street Journal puts a little wiggle in his EEG! UPDATE: I do take issue, by the way, with Taranto's assertion that suicide bombing is a "particularly horrific" kind of murder--it may be particularly terrifying, since you never know when or...

Arthur Silber reveals the five-step plan that preceded the 12-step plan that preceded the five-step plan.

I find it interesting that the "newspaper of record," the New York Times has the story of the "likely" new Iraqi Prime Minister in the Washington section of the paper rather than in the International section.

Please take a moment to check out our outstanding new blogrollees: Lew Rockwell, Kevin Michael Grace, Skippy, and Blog Left. Now that's what I call "fair & balanced"!

Aron Trauring on "Israbluf" and why a two state solution for Israel and Palestine is likely impossible: In an earlier post I talked about how Sharon's unilateral withdrawel plan is an example of "Israbluf" - viz. the extraordinary capacity for Israeli governments to...

Jack Shafer says the New York Times is planning to "reassess its pre-Iraq War coverage, particularly its coverage of weapons of mass destruction." The Times might actually apologize for printing the drool Judith "Kneepads" Miller swilled from the likes of Mylroie and...