The Telegraph is reporting that the RAF Hercules which crashed January 30, 2005 - the day of the Iraqi elections - was downed by an AA weapon.An interim Ministry of Defence report has ruled out almost everything apart from enemy fire and it was suggested that a...
George Lucas conceived Star Wars in part as a criticism of Nixonian America and the Vietnam War (the Endor battle scenes in Return of the Jedi are intended partly as a Vietnam sequence). Now, at the premier of Revenge of the Sith, he says "When I wrote it, Iraq (the...
A radical shift in US war planning towards preemptive surprise attacks of a purely technological nature (bombing, space weapons) is the subject of a new article by William M. Arkin in the Washington Post. It seems that Washington is moving towards conflict resolution...
All right, what's the deal with this weird rally? Glenn Reynolds is flogging it, so there's a clue. The other vector appears to be Horowitz. Hussein Ibish, pointing out the absurd list of "sponsors" (Like Free Republic's RighTalk, a dress shop in Arizona and a couple...
Martial at De Spectaculis looks skeptically at the idea that the Newsweek article about Koran-flushing is the cause of the riots in Afghanistan, pointing out that similar stories have been in circulation since 2003.
Arthur Silber explains the importance of being ignorant – for believers in the global democratic revolution, that is.
Well, I guess since Rumsfeld's lecture didn't work, those recalcitrant Iraqis are in for a real scolding now. Team Bush is sending in the Big Nanny:ARBIL : US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made a surprise visit to Iraq to bolster the country's fledgling...
You heard the man. Look who's talking (scroll down to last item). You got that right. Duh! Oh-my-GOD! Karen Hughes -- call your office. Remember when.... Buttcheeks Bolton?
Is conservative right-wingnuttiness a degenerative disease? From deep within the echo chamber, Charen rolls out the stock conservative whining points on the Iraqi Oil-For-Food wannabe-scandal (to prove she's objective, it's titled "Friends of Saddam"):Good morning,...
What do Ancient Rome, Revolutionary France, The British Empire, The War Between the States, Nazi Germany, Vietnam, the "election" of Viktor Yushchenko and the war on terrorism have to do with Star Wars? All will be explained on the Weekend Interview Show, Sat. 4-6...
