Cheney’s Home Run

Or was it Cheney's run home? The New York Times reported in this article last Wednesday that VP Dick Cheney was booed during the seventh inning of the Yankees-Red Socks baseball game at Yankee Stadium the night before. According to Tristero: Fair and Balanced blog...

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Iraq Pipeline Watch

Found an interesting website which keeps track of attacks on oil pipelines, installations and industry personnel in Iraq, starting in June of 2003 ... here Apparently this past month, June 2004, has been the worst, at least in terms of the number of incidents.

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Japan’s ‘Village People’ Navy Recruitment

As they move ahead toward abandoning their pacifist constitution, Japan's Navy is ahead of America's in trying to appeal to the MTV generation. Check this out! This page actually appears on the Japanese Navy website. Now read this hilarious article by Mike Rogers over...

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Taliban Still Killing

Reports continue to come in of Taliban terror attacks designed to disrupt the upcoming fall elections in Afghanistan – no one is spared: men, women, children, reporters. However, voters also continue to register although the original end-of-July deadline has passed....

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Tom Palmer’s Foreign Policy

My old associate Tom Palmer, who is now a Senior Fellow (formerly Vice-President) of the Cato Institute, explains his foreign policy: Our Enemies' Handiwork The radical Islamicists have shown us again what they really are. The world should see the photos they released...

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A Jog Through Cyberspace

*Jim Henley serves an ace on the libertotalitarians at Volokh *Arthur Silber's back, asking "How many liberations does it take to power a lightbulb?" *Gene Healy doesn't give a f**k what Cheney says – except when he's shredding the Constitution and lying us into...

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Propaganda and History

Monday was the 90th anniversary of the Sarajevo assassination, the event that sparked (but did not cause) World War One. Though most media were trying to deal with the early transfer of bogus sovereignty to the puppet regime in Iraq, wire services found time to note...

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The Kids Are All Wrong

On the verge of his departure from National Review, William F. Buckley sends a message to the snotty punks now running his magazine:Mr. Buckley said there was a growing debate on the right about how the war in Iraq squared with the traditional conservative conviction...

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Promises to keep-NATO

A bit of a reality check has crept into this article from Stars and Stripes on NATO's promise to train Iraqi security forces: The North Atlantic Council decided on Monday it was “possible” for NATO to train Iraqi security forces, though it wasn’t clear how or when, or...

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The Good, the Bad, and the Taliban

Taliban Targeting Women in Afghan Election Registration EffortsThose loathsome dudes, the Taliban, are doing their despicable best to squelch the women of Afghanistan, having killed two Saturday and an unknown number on Friday when 16 folks were gunned down for...

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