Wow, I really have to congratulate The American Spectator for its amazing overhaul. What with the non-stop Jed Babbin, it really looks like ... well, National Review. Here, Mark Goldblatt does his best Rich Lowry impersonation: What if there were a moment at which the...
Sam's post on Turkmenistan made me think of this amusing article from the New York Times Magazine earlier this year. As Sam mentioned, we send this guy--who renamed the days of the week and months of the year after himself and his relatives-- millions for democracy...
US "Democracy" in Iraq: Within the past month, I have seen more and more stories that mention Iraqis being arrested for making anti-US or pro-Saddam statements. Most of these news items have been buried in other stories or appear as captions on news photos. Today's UK...
Regarding Jacob Hornberger's excellent "U.S. Senators Are the Real Cowards" on Antiwar.com's front page today, here are the Senate and House votes on the October 2002 war resolution, lest anyone forget President Bush's bipartisan enablers. Pay special attention to...
Turkmenistan’s president, Saparmurat Niyazov, former party chairman under the Soviets – the same party continues to dominate Turkmenistan’s politics today – has changed his name to Akbar Turkmenbashy, which means “Great Father of all Turkmen.” And his megalomania is...
Occupation Officials, angered and disappointed by their own hand-picked Iraqi Governing Council, let it be known that they are looking to dump the council. Within hours of the release of this story, it was announced that US guards shot and killed the leader of the...
Ralph Peters gulps the Ipecac of political correctness and vomits some lovely reflections on the perpetual collective guilt of Germans. For more on this phenomenon, read Paul Gottfried's "Hating the Krauts." A slightly more benign version of Peters' view holds that...
Antiwar.com's own Alan Bock had this to say in Sunday's OC Register: Dennis Kucinich, who drove Cleveland to bankruptcy before getting himself elected to Congress, is a buffoon who seems determined to use his campaign to discredit the anti-war movement. Ouch....
They're all in Iraq and Afganistan (and Korea, Kuwait, Qatar, Pakistan, Germany, Uzbekistan, Japan, Colombia, etc.
As of today, the official wounded count stands at 2230. As usual though, gov't numbers are untrustworthy. From the Stars and Stripes: “It is unmistakable that Iraq is still a war zone,” Miller [R- NC visiting Landstuhl in Gernmany] said. He said there is an average of...
