From Ann Coulter's latest:Press passes can't be that hard to come by if the White House allows that old Arab Helen Thomas to sit within yards of the president.Via James Wolcott.
Imprisoning Lawyers and Middle East Wars
Today on the Weekend Interview Show (4-6pm Eastern Time), I'll be talking with civil rights attorney and author Elaine Cassel about the case of Lynn Stewart. The lawyer for the bomber of the World Trade Center in 1993, Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, Stewart was convicted on...
Recruitment Goals
For the past couple of years, we have repeatedly heard spokesmen from the National Guard and the reserve aver that they were continuing to meet their basic recruitment goals within a few percentage points. It never ceased to amaze me that there were so many who would...
The Hits Keep Coming
How sincere is Walid Jumblatt's much-hyped conversion to the Bush Doctrine? Well, according to a FrontPageMag article just two months back, Jumblatt told a Saudi daily:We are all happy when U.S. soldiers are killed [in Iraq] week in and week out. The killing of U.S....
US bully losing influence over Canada
The Canadian government has rejected US orders that it comply with the incredibly dangerous and wrongheaded waste of resources euphemistically called the "missile defense shield"; Prime Minister Paul Martin said Thursday that Canada would not join the contentious U.S....
Piling on the Jumblatteers
Yet another crazed Jumblatt quoter pops up and is efficiently dispatched by lenin. One of the Harry's Place commenters appeals for mercy for the Jumblatteers, "Oh, leave HP alone! Can't you see they're hanging to reality by their finger-nails? :)"
FBI abandons secrecy claims against Edmonds
Sibel Edmonds is about to make life very unpleasant for the FBI; The Department of Justice has abandoned its claim that allegations made by a fired FBI translator are secret, paving the way for a court case that will air embarrassing allegations about incompetence,...
Let’s pick a fight with Russia
Putin humiliated next to Bush "It could be that he kept his cool Thursday because he couldn't quite believe what was happening to him." Robin Shepherd, Washington Times: "It all happened following the end of bilateral talks when a televised press conference turned...
Jumblattapalooza
Arthur Chrenkoff says that he and his neocon buddies don't consider Walid Jumblatt an authority on anything. Well, Michael Young sure does, as he has now highlighted Jumblatt's testimony in two essays (here's the first) affirming the efficacy of the Bush Doctrine in...
Neocons forcing arms race with China
Conn Hallinan, of Foreign Policy in Focus, reports that the militant neoconservative wing of the Bush administration is pushing an extremely aggressive policy toward China. Despite the fact that; ... while China is modernizing its military, it is 20 years behind the...


