A New York Times editorial refuses to "Name Names"  The imperium that runs the Grey Lady Times again shows its stripes (they are blue and yellow). A Times editorial, "Sneak Attack on Cape Wind" bemoans the fact that a group called 'the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound — which... More

Congratulations to former UN Ambassador and Atlanta mayor Andrew Young. He has agreed to chair the steering committee of Working Families for Wal—Mart, a group funded by the retailer. Evidently the former aide to Martin Luther King, Jr. understands and will promote the concept that... More

Chicago plans to name a street after a Black Panther leader who people to shout "off the pig!" Fran Spielman of the Chicago Sun—Times reports: Fred Hampton —— slain state chairman of the Black Panthers party that urged followers to "off the pigs" —— would join the... More

Dubai Ports World  is owned by the UAE government, via a holding company called the Ports, Customs and Free Zone Corporation (PCZC) of Dubai. PCZC also owns the Dubai Customs Department and the Jebel Ali Free Zone Area. The two corporate sisters of Dubai Ports World, actively enforce the Arab... More

UN ambassador John Bolton pushes for action on Darfur, while Nobel Prize (and Dubai) Prize—winner Kofi Annan avoids comment. Benny Avni of The New York Sun reports: American Ambassador John Bolton admitted yesterday that despite his best efforts, the U.N. Security Council was not likely to... More

How's this for a BBC headline? "Irving rejects Auschwitz claims" Is the BBC a Holocaust denier? Is the horror of Auschwitz in question? Jailed British historian David Irving has again (after recanting before his sentence was handed down) said he does not believe Hitler presided over a... More

My knee jerked faster than anyone's did When I first contemplated what dangers hid In the possibility that the UAE Would get a foothold in ports that we Must hold secure from a terrorist threat, But as I step back, I think I regret My thoughtless judgment, my hasty conclusion. I may have been under... More

The latest commentary and analysis from Iraq the Model offers further insight about the Golden Mosque bombing and its aftermath.  Here is a portion of the most recent post.  The shrine crisis...words that need to be said. Life is coming back to normal in Baghdad and marketplaces and... More

This account offers few details of the judge's order and makes one puzzling assertion——that Fitzgerald was seeking to subpoena reporters, too, when I see no evidence he was. Make no mistake, Libby has just won a major victory in his defense: the judge says he can supoena journalists and... More

You cannot rely on the antique media to give an appropriately detailed report of what is happening in the Libby case. Luckily Byron York, who does pay attention, attended Friday's hearing and notes that the Prosecutor is resisting turning over evidence as to whether Plame was classified... More

Ynet news picks up a Der Spiegel report that Switzerland and other unnamed European countries are planning to deny landing rights to Israeli airliners equipped with anti—missile defense systems. The technical ground on which the decision is allegedly being made is badly explained, so no... More

The once—respected Associated Press lets its bias show in an obituary by Gary Gentile: Otis Chandler, the former publisher of the Los Angeles Times who transformed his family's provincial, conservative newspaper into a respected national media voice, died early Monday. He was 78. [emphasis... More

Major Ben Connable writes from Iraq, via John B. Dwyer. He debunks many media myths and supplies essential perspective to the news coverage of the Sunni—Shia violence. I'm still in Iraq, safe and sound at Camp Fallujah.  I still feel very far removed from the war even though I am fully... More

The American Spectator reports that the investigation of the  overseas terrorist prisons and the NSA leak is proceeding rapidly and Senator Rockefeller, in the investigators' sights, is trying a ridiculously obvious and ineffective diversionary play:   The number of Senators... More

From "While Europe Slept" by Bruce Bawer (page 181). On Denmark's immigration policy and a study by Eyvind Vesselbo, a cultural sociologist: Vesselbo selected a cohort of 145 Turkish men who, emigrating to Denmark as guest workers in 1969 and 1970, settled in the town of Ishoj, which has since... More

At Bethesda Chevy—Chase High School in the suburbs of Washington .D.C. a group of students has taken a look at the Peace Studies course  taught by former Washington Post reporter Colman McCarthy and decided the course should be scrapped. Since its launch at the school in 1988, Peace... More

Our contributor Andrew Bostom's important book, The Legacy of Jihad, has just been favorably reviewed today by Julia Duin in the Washington Times. With numbing detail, Mr. Bostom shows how the idea of jihad as being an inner struggle as well as an outer one is a modern invention, good to pacify... More

For those interested in keeping an accurate body and mosque count as related to the recent sectarian violence in the Baghdad municipal civil war, Omar at Iraq the Model has updated stats that indicate a lower level of rabid behavior than that reported by the mainstream media (MSM): Curfew extended... More

Ed Lasky spotted a fine example of the phenomenon of Third World revolutionaries learning and regurgitating the rhetoric of their First World intellectual patrons. From Lydia PolGreen's account in the New York Times of an attack on a Nigerian oil refinery by the "Movement for the Emancipation... More

The New York Times' elitist management and editors make no secret of their disdain for ordinary Americans, as they open today's lead editorial with this comment: The illegal immigrants who trim our hedges, prepare our food and care for our children have been compared to an invading army. If so,... More

As predicted by Paul Jackson on these pages, Canada's new prime minister Stephen Harper is moving to make the confirmation process for Canada's supreme court justices more politically accountable to parliament. According to the Globe and Mail his first choice for a vacancy on Canada's top bench... More

Matt May has discovered, via a relative in law enforcement, that a new video game, "25 To Life" is due out in stores this month. The object of this game is to kill law enforcement officers.燭he National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund is putting together an on—line petition to boycott... More

Yesterday Scooter Libby's Counsel filed a motion to dismiss. There has been a lot of bad reporting on what the motion argues. The New York Sun, however, does a good job explaining what I think is a solid argument for dismissal: Yesterday, a federal court filing by Mr. Libby's team before Judge... More

The Financial Times takes a hard look ($) at China's drive for resources, markets and influence in Africa. China is a poised to grab an increasing share of all three. ...the continent is... benefiting from the rise in commodity prices driven by Chinese demand. No wonder that ...the African view... More

Elizabeth Peek of the New York Sun brings us informationаfrom a Manhattan Institute Panel discussion on the impact of tort lawyers on medical costs. The costs are massive and spread throughout the system like ripples in a pond. Most surprising to me is the evidence on the second and third order... More

Recently I wrote about a newly released study from the West Point Combating Terrorism Center. The CTC just released documents associated with a study on al—Qaeda. One of them was a letter described here. As I read the letter, I couldn't help but remember the comments bemoaning President Bush... More

Iraq the Model reported yesterday that the new Iraqi Department of Defense may recommend that the country seek to join NATO, once the contending political factions agree on a Parliamentary government. That would be an extremely important move. 1. It would put Iraq under the NATO nuclear umbrella,... More

Powerline has some solid information, via administration e—mail, on the port security issue, clarifying essential facts.  There is also solid info on this matter at the Heritage Foundation website. John B. Dwyer   2 23 06 More

Many journalists have an overweening pride regarding their intelligence and foresight. They consider themselves superior to not only us but the people we vote for in elections. They often quote a small cadre of so—called experts to project the future or dictate to us the only rationale course... More

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to review a 2005 decision of the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals declaring the federal Partial—Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 unconstitutional.  The Second and Ninth Circuits have also ruled the statute unconstitutional. (See here.) This case... More

Matt May likes and supports David Horowitz (as do I). But he is disturbed that David has taken on Professor Harry Targ as one of the 101 most dangerous academics in America, the subject matter and subtitle title of his most recent book.  Having taken a course from Professor Targ during... More

Little noticed in the kerfuffle over the takeover of major US ports by Dubai Ports is the key role being played by former Democratic Party leaders. Lobbying firms associated with ex—Democratic Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle and Madeleine Albright (Clinton's Secretary of State) have... More

Call it a form of cyberterror. Muslim hackers have launched an attack unprecedented in scope on Danish websites. It is more and more evident that they are nothing but bullies who see no limits on their tactics in getting their way. Sharia will define what Danes and everyone else in the world can... More

It would appear that some in Britain are greatly troubled by the possibility that the United States has used their airspace  for rendition flights of suspecting terrorists. This attitude should cast serious doubts on the sanity of these people. After all, such operation would be part of the... More

Proving once again the old adage, it's an ill wind that blows no good,  Michael Ledeen shares an email he received from a Libyan indicating the cartoon riots there, ginned up by the government, have turned into anti Qadhafi riots. On February 17th, 2006, the Qadhafi regime orchestrated a... More

As President Bush tours the country touting progress in our bid to discover alternative sources of energy, he is criticized by environmental groups for not going far enough. They urge the administration to consider greater fuel—efficiency standards for cars and increases in the car gas tax to... More

One very hopeful sign of change in the People's Republic of China is the opening of a new museum devoted to the shameful period known as the Great Proletarian Cultural Revoltuion. The UK Independent reports:  "There is Chinese proverb which says you should use history as a mirror," Peng Qian,... More

Vcrisis, a website with a good track record covering Hugo Chavez of Venezuela — the proof is in the numerous attacks made on it by Venezuelan authorities — today charges that the dictator and his cronies are stashing millions of petrodollars overseas in banking havens. Presumably, the... More

Dennis Prager has an excellent column today, concisely explaining the mentality of most contemporary Jews. If you have ever wondered why Jews seem to have an exaggerated fear of persecution, this one's for you.  More

Cal Thomas adds some new (to me) information about the United Arab Emirates, would—be operators of 6 American ports, in his column this morning. On Sunday, the Australian government issued the following alert to its citizens: "We advise you to exercise a high degree of caution in the... More

The New York Times runs an article today about the strong negative reaction to Kelo across the nation and how it has spurred lots of anti—Kelo legislation. The piece includes favorable reference to Justice Stevens who wrote the decision as sympathetic to displaced home owners. No news being... More

Some of you may be familiar with a recent German movie, Good Bye, Lenin, a hilarious comedy satirizing the former East German communism. In it, an idealistic East German socialist schoolteacher and mother has a stroke and goes into a coma just before the Berlin Wall falls and Germany is... More

Under the covers I long to be. It's under the covers where I'll be free To turn the dark nighttime into day And dream the cares of the world away.   All is sweet and lovely, everything is serene. All is fresh and kind and beautifully clean.   Nobody ever means me harm. All I have to do is... More

As Americans watch, mainly in shock, at the lethal rioting in the Muslim world over the publication of a few cartoons, spurring debate about free speech and free press, perhaps we could teach our Muslim brethren how the United States deals with such issues. In the rarified atmosphere of our elite... More

While Islamists contend  with warlords for control of Somalia, a man living in Minnesota was appointed mayor of Mogadishu, the capital of the anarchical state. Mahomud Hassan Ali, a Somali refugee who settled in the Twin Cities area in 2001, was given the job this month by  "The... More

Leftwing philanthropist Peter B. Lewis recently donated $101 million to Princeton University, where he graduated in 1955.  This was the largest single contribution in the university's history. Lewis has made several other multi—million dollar contributions to Princeton over the... More

I'm sure that you remember Osama bin Laden's latest audio release, his January 19 tape in which he offered us a truce. Incidentally, if he's going to releasing these tapes, why doesn't he just have a podcast that we can download from iTunes? Then we wouldn't have to wait to hear the complete... More

From the Japan Times: North Korea's top envoy for normalization talks with Japan said in bilateral discussions earlier this month his country would use a "strong physical response" to economic sanctions by Tokyo, sources said Sunday. Song Il Ho gave the warning to his Japanese counterpart, Koichi... More

I could not get through this photo slideshow of the commemoration of a fallen Lakota Marine warrior without blessing God for the men and women who lay it all on the line for the rest of us. These are great patriotic Americans. Michael Geer  2 20 06 More

Many liberal journalists are afflicted with a variation of Bush Derangemenet Syndrome: they look, and find, everywhere signs of America's decline on the world stage. The French have a term for these thinkers: declinologists. Of course, the French have reason to look about them and see decline.... More

In his Boston Globe column last Saturday, liberal pundit Robert Kuttner "honored" the "courage" and "patriotism" of Senator Russ Feingold (D—WI) for opposing the Patriot Act, both when it originally was passed after 9/11 and again now that it has come up for renewal this year.  Kuttner... More

Claudia Rosett find what Kofi costs these days in a Weekly Standard expose: "Cash—for—Kofi: The U.N. secretary—general wins a half—million dollar prize in Dubai." Apparently the Left's celebrated candidate for Ruler of the World comes at a high price. But Mr. Annan... More

Unbelieveable though it seems, according to the Times of Pakistan, Bill Clinton wants the Danish cartoonists thrown in jail. Former US president Bill Clinton on Friday condemned the publication of Prophet Muhammad's (PBUH) caricatures by European newspapers and urged countries concerned to... More

Roberto Calderoli is the minister in the cabinet of of Silvio Berlusconi who has just been forced out of office for taking his short off on Italian television, revealing a tee shirt with a Muhammad cartoon on it. He is from the Northern League (Lega Nord) which takes a fairly hard line on... More

Jack Risko of Dinocrat.com puts together a lot of pieces when he looks at some stunning patent data and asks the Big Question: "How does the modern world look when you have done nothing to help create it, and innovation is a threat to cherished beliefs?" We are all accustomed to American (and... More

Following Paul Jackson's most recent article, "Canada's Foreign Policy Turning Pro—American," we have received considerable comment from north of border. One writer raised several points of factual contention, to which Mr. Jackson has responded. The correspondence is below: Regarding Paul... More

Today the Intelligence Summit released transcripts from the Saddam tapes on the intelligencesummit.org website. There are some interesting revelations in the MS PowerPoint presentation they have posted. The translation is indeed different than the one provided by ABC News. The matter of what... More

A.J. Strata has summarized the Able Danger open hearings.  And it appears that this program was working, that it was used to roll up Al Qaeda quickly after 9/11 , and that the reasons for discarding what it had uncovered do not pass a laugh test. Strata's conclusion: Able Danger was working... More

Media Channel taped the Able Danger hearings and documents how little coverage they got——a total of 25 minutes on all TV channels.  If only it were about birdshot and a hunting accident.  Clarice Feldman   2 18 06 More

Bookworm has posted the winners at Bookworm Room. Some of them are pretty good:  Bush spied, terrorists died.  Give peace a chance. Kill a terrorist.  It takes a conservative to feed a liberal. Check them all out. More

Get set for dhimmitude, all you Kufrs. A million dollar bounty has been placed on the heads, according to a Muslim cleric in Pakistan. That will teach you to avoid offending the exaggerated sensibilities of radical Muslims. And this is taking place in a country regarded as an ally in our war on... More

Davidsmedienkritik posts the latest cover of the mass circulation weekly magazine Der Spiegel, with its incendiary cover drawn from the latest batch of photos from Abu Ghraib, now years old. The cover caption reads:  "America's Disgrace: Torture in the Name of Freedom" David asks the right... More

Ray Robison, whose letter we published yesterday, writes again, regarding the Saddam tapes, John Loftus, and appearance of Bill Tierny last night on Hannity & Colmes. Here is the complete letter: Last night, Bill Tierney was on Hannity and Colmes talking about the Saddam Tapes. I was... More

Al Gore is far from unusual in taking money from the Saudis and echoing their propaganda. The San Francisco Chronicle reports: Back in August 2002, a congressional delegation was traveling around Saudi Arabia, home to 15 of the 19 al Qaeda hijackers who less than a year earlier had launched the... More

The UK Sun, reports that the BBC has caved in and is junking an already filmed episode of a hit series for fear of offending Muslims — because an al Qaeda terrorist is shot dead: a ｣1million episode of hit drama Spooks in which an al—Qaeda terrorist is shot dead — in case it... More

Clueless liberal intellectuals never fail to astound us with their ignorance. Frenchman Bernard—Henri Levy is famous enough as a philosopher and left wing activist to be known by his initials BHL in chic French intellectual circles, as well as among American Upper West Siders like Katrina... More

Rabbi Daniel Lapin has an interesting insight  into the journalists' braying  obsession with  the Dick Cheney shooting incident.  Yes, yes the mostly liberal media has an adversarial relationship with this administration and yes, yes they were peeved that no one told... More

Rick Moran has a moving article on Rightwing Nuthouse about the late Hubert Horatio Humphrey. Like me, Rick was first galvanized into his political fascination by the "Happy Warrior," a man whose purity of purpose and enormous personal charisma overhwelmed me the first time I encountered him... More

That phrase in the title hardly requires translation, does it?  Jesuits place the abbreviated form, AMDG, at the end of letters and other documents to indicate that what they've done has been done for the greater glory of God. Muslims do something analogous* when they invoke the name of the... More

Much though we want tomorrow's Intelligence Summit to yield a smoking gun proving the existence of WMD in Iraq, the more we learn the more discouraged we get. The estimable Debbie Schlussel has cancelled her scheduled appearance (a first for Debbie), and lays out her reasons. More

Understanding the vital importance of information operations, Multi—National Force—Iraq (MNF—I) just upgraded its website, now titled Operation Iraqi Freedom.  The site still contains stories of successes, achievements & heroism which won't be found anywhere else in the... More

Redstate is well—connected on Capitol Hill and reports the Democratic party is heading toward a civil war: Howard Dean has compiled a solid file on the corruption of Harry Reid. For years Reid has operated as the quintessential back room politician, trading favors and legislation for money... More

AT just received the following letter and we are passing it on. Absent assume the writer is who he claims he is, but have not had an opportunity to independently authenticate it. It does make sense. My name is Ray Robison and I am a former member of the Iraqi Survey Group. I served as a contractor... More

Our contributor Rick Moran supplies a valuable caution on the Saddam tapes and John Loftus' claim of a "smoking gun." He also references Byron York's excellent post on NRO's The Corner and Lorie Byrd of Polipundit. ...when John Loftus, the organizer of this weekend's 'Intelligence Summit' came... More

From Marketwatch: "Housing starts soar on warm weather — Jan. starts most since 1973; single—family homes set record" Ed Lasky  2 16 06 More

New York Sun reports that the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is considering raising obstacles to the takeover of their port, while members of Congress are also raising concerns. Frank Gaffney earlier pointed out in the Washington Times that the man in charge of the ... More

Jeff Jacoby wrote a powerful column yesterday in the Boston Globe, demonstrating the media's refusal to acknowledge even the possibility of anti—Christian hate crimes existing, despite strong evidence. Of course, the fact that so many major media themselves heap scorn on Christians and... More

The Able Danger hearings yesterday were of considerable interest to many.Here's some background explaining why. Among other things, it is likely that they will highlight serious intelligence problems during the Clinton Administration, shortcomings which helped make 9/11 possible. Many expected... More

Bruce Bawer, an American writer resident in Norway (and a former lefty reporter for KQED radio in San Francisco), has a stunning report on the dhimmitude embraced by the government and establishment of that Nordic oil—producer, in the wake of a small Norwegian magazine daring to reprint the... More

School athletic coaches have the potential to reach the youngsters placed in their charge as few other authority figures can. Embodying the quest for excellence, getting behind a student's aspirations for competition and improvement, a coach can sometimes turn around a life headed in the wrong... More

[quote] February 15, 2006: DNA analysis of the bodies recovered from the attack on an al Qaeda meeting in Pakistan last month, have confirmed that the main target, al Qaeda number two leader Ayman al Zawahiri, was not there. In the immediate aftermath of the attack, it was apparent that al Zawahiri... More

According to Drudge, ABC News is planning to air tapes of Saddam discussing hitting Washington, DC, and confirming his posession of WMDs. The upcoming Intelligence Summit Feb. 17—20 has scheduled a public airing of these tapes, which have been authenticated by a House subcommittee. This adds... More

LTC Anthony Schaffer, who was previously blocked from testifying publicly, will do so today at 2:30 Eastern Time this afternoon before the Strategic Forces Subcommittee.  C—SPAN will carry it live.  To refresh memories, Able Danger was established in 1999 at the request of... More

A New York Times editorial accuses the US and Israel of hypocrisy in allegedly planning to destabilize the Hamas government of the Palestinians because "two countries that have shouted the loudest about the need for Arab democracy." The terminology is insulting and the facts are wrong.  Natan... More

Slowly, very slowly, we are beginning to discover what happened to the WMDs of Saddam. The left and the antique media have made it an article of faith that there never were any WMDs, and that "Bush lied." So deep is their investment in a political position premised on this conclusion that... More

The authors of a UN report on "torture" at Guantanamo did not even visit the prison prison, according to the New York Sun. Authors of a report commissioned by the U.N. claiming that detainees in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, are being tortured by American military personnel failed to visit the prison,... More

Fresh from pandering to the Saudis and several days after a major snowstorm along the East Coast which included the largest recorded snowfall in New York, a film on purported global warming featuring Al Gore is set to be released.   Paramount unit to tell Gore's 'Truth' LOS ANGELES... More

Unruly press conferences at the White House reveal the press as very upset at not being informed earlier about Cheney's hunting accident.  And it may well be that providing information this was not handled as well as it could have been from a PR standpoint. The important point here is that... More

In an amazing encounter, a traveling Cuban—American blogger known as Conductor ran into the Che Guevara—admiring Carlos Santana on the street in Sausalito. Santana is famous for wearing a great big Che t—shirt at the Oscars a couple years ago, something that drew the opprobrium of... More

In this column, Maureen Dowd cooed over  the Saudi Ambassador to America. She characterized Prince Turki al—Faisal as the "charming new envoy from the royal family." The very same Saudi Ambassador, who founded the Saudi equivalent of the Gestapo, just spoke before the august Council of... More

The New York Times ran a front—page article today which  criticizes the Bush Administration for stinginess in extending aid to Katrina victims. The article is replete with instances of people being asked to leave hotels where they have been staying since the hurricane. Previously, FEMA... More

NYT wastes editorial page space today to slam Cheney for the "24 Hour gap" in reporting the accidental shooting while hunting. Let's see: we have an nuclearizing Iran, the cartoon  crisis, Hamas victory, worldwide spread of genocidal anti—Semitism, and the Times takes space to slam... More

"Iran's suicide bombers threaten to 'burn down' U.S. interests" A senior commander of Iran's elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) vowed that following the printing of insulting cartoons of Islam's prophet Muhammad in European dailies, the Islamic Republic's suicide volunteers abroad... More

Where is the famous liberal cartoonist Art Spiegelman, who wrote Maus and then illustrated a cover of The New Yorker with a Hassid kissing a black woman? The same man who wrote In the Shadow of No Towers, a liberal rant against Pres. Bush's administration? Where are Ted... More

Brazil has been sending mixed signals about their own 'right to nuclear power'... though they only recently voted to have Iran reported out to the board of governors of the IAEA to 'comply with the Nuclear Non— Proliferation Treaty.'    During his presidential campaign... More

In 2005 Judge Robert Sweet, a federal district Court judge, denied Patrick Fitzgerald's motion to obtain the telephone records of then—New York Times reporter Judith Miller to ascertain her sources after she tipped off an Islamic charity of a coming raid. In the prosecution's appeal of that... More

The anti—American and anti—Semitic movie Valley of the Woves—Iraq, described by Lee Kaplan here, is a hit with audiences in Turkey, at least according to the New York Times. ...scenes show ruthless marines killing Iraqis and soldiers mistreating inmates at Abu Ghraib prison. A... More

AJ Strata has been carefully watching the NSA "scandal" unravel and has some interesting news which confirms his long held belief that this is an important program and not unlawful. Most importantly, he disputes the often—heard argument that FISA was fine as it was because the government... More

Their gluteus maximus bears a sore, A festering furuncle named Al Gore. A six year old deep down infection, Contagion caused by close election. Party doctors can't decide just what, Will cure this boil upon their butt, Knowing only that it pains their tush, A fearsome bug, georgicoccus... More

The following comes from Col. Ren Hart. We know this is happening — we just don't hear it enough. John B. Dwyer As I'm sure you know, the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment has been serving in Iraq (its second deployment there) for the past year. As the regiment prepares to come... More

Robert Spencer covers an artistic outrage on exhibit in Milan for Front Page Magazine. An artist whose anti—American work is on exhibit features a painting of Italian author Oriana Fallaci beheaded. Fallaci faces trial in Italy for defaming Islam, but apparently the artist, whose work... More

Bishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa is seen by many as unassailable because of his years in prison and his refusal to engage in retribution for apartheid. While he deserves credit for this, the man is no saint. As his country spirals downward into violence, he has taken to disparaging the west.... More

The Iranian regime is angry about a cartoon that has no depiction of Muhammad. You can see it here. From the German Press Agency DPA: The new controversial cartoon shows the Iranian national team standing in a World Cup stadium with bombs strapped to their jerseys has caused anger in... More

Whose side is Al Gore on? Saudi Arabia, one of the chief sponsors of terrorism in the world, a kleptocracy that has reaped hundreds and hundreds of billions from the poor of the world by oligopolistic control of oil, a nation that has spread anti—Semitism and anti—Christianity ,... More

Demonstrating again why the antique, legacy MSM is so well...antique and rapidly ossifying, Deborah Howell, the Washington Post's ombudsman, sets forth a long and twisting explanation why her oh—so—important newspaper didn't publish those mild cartoons. To be fair other media are... More

Seeking stronger military ties with North African states, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld stated Saturday from Tunis, 'We are continuing to participate with these three countries one way or another on military—to—military relations and that is something we value and want to... More

Intoxicated by his own rhetoric, the president of Iran gets more specific about his demands. The man who has, or is about to have, nuclear weapons laid it on the line in a mass rally in Tehran, Saturday: 'We ask the West to remove what they created sixty years ago and if they do not listen to our... More

A solution to the FISA controversy is suggested in a Chicago Tribune op—ed by former Clinton Associate Attorney General who supports Bush, and is reinforced by a Tribune editorial explaining and endorsing the concept: John Schmidt, a prominent Chicago attorney and former associate... More

Venezuela's Marxist dictatorship is destroying property rights across the country. We've noted in the past how it's happened in the countryside, at sugar farms, on nature reserves, among the large and small corporations, and in apartment and office buildings. But these aren't the only places... More

Aren't they supposed to be the exemplars of human rights? After all, their leaders regularly condemn America for human rights abuses. The BBC reports: France's law enforcement and prison system have been sharply criticised by Europe's human rights watchdog. The Council of Europe found prisons... More

The leader of Iran's surviving Jewish community takes on Ahmadinejad. The BBC reports: The chairman of Iran's Jewish Council has strongly criticised the country's hardline president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for saying the Holocaust was a myth. In a letter to the president, Haroun Yashayaei said the... More

The Washington Times reports and alarming development: a United Arab Emirates firm is to take control of some ports in the US. A company in the United Arab Emirates is poised to take over significant operations at six American ports as part of a corporate sale, leaving a country with ties to the... More

Paul Jackson, whose analyses here of Canada's election and the cabinet picks of new Conservative PM Harper have proven prescient, writes a hard—hitting column today in the Calgary Sun, one that Americans ought to read with great interest. It seems that Canada may be in for a long term... More

Spengler, the provocative columnist for the Asia Times, has produced another must—read column on the subject of the cartoon crisis. And much more. More

Amir Taheri just wrote a column in Asharq Al Awrsat pointing out that Iran's rush to nukes will be shaped by its domestic politics — specifically, an ongoing battle between the most dangerous faction led by Ahmadinejad, and a more risk—averse group of Mullahs, including former President... More

The New York Times is reporting that the investigation of the NSA leaks is progressing rapidly, even as it implies it is only the right wing which is concerned about it and quotes a lawyer (Mr. Boutrous) to the effect that the paper itself may be protected by a common law reporters'... More

Did Yemen look the other way as terrorists escaped its jail as a protest against aid cutoff? How should prisoners be treated?  Certainly, this sort of gamesmanship is practiced throughout the region. American aid in return for help on the terror front. When aid was cut back, terrorists... More

Jack Shafer highlights two of the worst. More

It seems that the media are hasty in reporting bad news when it regards works of the Bush administration. From Reuters via MSNBC: PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf said on Saturday he was almost certain a U.S. airstrike which killed 18 Pakistani villagers near the... More

Our contributor Olivier Guitta writes an excellent anlysis in the Weekly Standard of the foundations underlying the cartoon crisis, with a focus on the role of the nefarious Muslim Brotherhood in the incident and in a longer term strategy which the manufactured crisis serves. He agrees with me... More

Bookworm Room is running the Great Conservative Slogan Contest, and you are eligible to vote. There are several amusing categories, and some of the slogans are very, very funny. Take a look, and as they used to say in Boston, vote early and often. More

John Fund, writing in the subscription—only Wall Street Journal Political Diary, catches labor unions practicing exactly what they denounce large corportations such as Wal—Mart for doing. McClatchy Newspapers reports that in Washington, Baltimore, Atlanta and other cities, homeless... More

The past 7 days may have been the week in which the over—hyped spirit of the 1960's has finally been put to rest. Who could have imagined the now prune—faced Rolling Stones as a half time nostalgia act at Super Bow XL?  Sunday's show was compelling only in its... More

Accuracy in Media reports that the pro—terrorist, anti—American behavior of the mainstream media is beginning to disgust even those within these organizations. And well it should: ...producer/correspondent for CNN, Reuters Television and CBN News says that she is disgusted by how the... More

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, quoth Freud. But for the lunatic left, one of my cherished memories of being read to as child is now revealed as species—ist, imperialist indoctrination. When I read these books to my kids (who also seemed to love them), I always thought that George was... More

Here's a question: If the U.S. is going to be giving out National Endowment for Democracy money, what happens when something goes horribly wrong and someone gets burned? That's what's happened to Maria Corina Machado, the democracy campaigner in Venezuela whose only crime was to enable citizens to... More

Jack Risko of Dinocrat.com notices that President Ahmedinejad of Iran and the Democratic Party may suffer from a similar problem: misinterpreting the biased antique media as somehow representative of the feelings of Americans. The MSM have succumbed to fear of the Islamists and will not show the... More

Oh those rebellious college kids.  Get them away from their parents' supervision and all of a sudden they think they know more than their wise elders.  While outgoing Chicago Tribune public editor Don Wycliff (who is leaving the Trib for a PR job) pompously pontificates about why... More

Walter Pincus leads off with yet another story from an Ex—CIA official whining about the Administration not taking the professionals' sage advice.  This time, the whiner is Paul R.Pillar: "The former CIA official who coordinated U.S. intelligence on the Middle East until last year has... More

After the Commerce Department today announces the country's trade deficit numbers, which some experts say will hit record levels, get ready for another round of 'China is a growing economic threat' warnings coming from protectionist advocates like Senators Schumer and Graham who have repeatedly... More

An unremarked upon aspect of the fracas over the NSA eavesdropping intelligence program is the implication that Democrats in Congress have no faith in their leadership.  In bygone days when there was bipartisanship on foreign policy and security matters — when politics stopped at the... More

The manufactured rage of the Muslim street over the 12 cartoons is now being factored in and discounted by countries facing their own issues in the Muslim world. Yesterday marked seven years since five Bulgarian nurses and one Palestinian doctor were arrested and made scapegoats for "scandalous... More

New York Times columnist Tom Friedman has spilled a lot of ink over the last few years bemoaning the sorry state of schools in America — particularly in light of competition our children will be facing with those of upwardly—mobile nations such as China and India. He might therefore... More

Talk about timing. Tony Kushner, co—screenwriter of Steven Spielberg's film Munich —— about Israel's efforts to track down the planners of the murders by Palestinian terrorists of eleven Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics —— defended himself in the Los Angeles Times... More

What kind of comment could possibly be needed about this? An Iranian court has sentenced a teenage rape victim to death by hanging after she weepingly confessed that she had unintentionally killed a man who had tried to rape both her and her niece.   The state—run daily Etemaad reported... More

Well, at last in black and white on paper and its online presence, a public editor of the Chicago Tribune shares his oh so seasoned, reasoned excuses for censoring those cartoons by  Thinking out loud ...The economic value of a newspaper lies in its editing——the application... More

Does this sounds like the language of a world leader? "You've messed with me. Now, you will have to deal with me. From now on, I'm watching you, anything you do or say!" This is the menacing language of Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez, speaking as a statesman to Prime Minister Tony Blair of the... More

First no Fitzmas, now no Cinco de Abramoff. It's a bad year for the party which has been counting on scandal to obviate the need for decent candidates and a popular platform: Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid wrote at least four letters helpful to Indian tribes represented by Jack Abramoff, and... More

John F. Kerry just can't help himself. It now turns out that he was opposed to Daily Kos before he was for it. The Washington Times reports: Sen. John Kerry blogs on his "diary" at the Daily Kos. [....] "John Kerry never approached these blogs during the 2004 campaign. He didn't need to. Now if he... More

Howard Dean. To Republicans. Newsbusters reports: You're the host of a morning news show, and the head of the country's major opposition party has just invoked the danger of America under its current president becoming a police state akin to Iran. Would you ask a follow—up question... More

Jack Risko of Dinocrat.com notices an odd regularity to events involving conflict between the Islamic world and the West. We don't know what the next excuse will be for large orchestrated Islamist riots, only that there will be one, and not too far in the future. Our best guess is May, since major... More

Scandinavia offers lessons for those seeking to continue the supply of foreign aid to Hamas. The Reuters, via the Washington Post notes that the very Scandinavian nations which have been most generous in supplying aid to Muslim nations are now the objects of their wrath. For years,... More

An article yesterday on The American Spectator website, "The Politics of Religious Mockery" by Patrick Hynes, is a typical example of the "Christians peaceful —— Muslims violent" genre that has exploded since the start of the Cartoon Jihad. The thesis is a favorite one of conservative... More

Lord Carey, the former archbishop of Canterbury, has said that he is "ashamed to be an Anglican" following a vote of the Church of England to disinvest in companies like Caterpillar, whose products are used by Israeli forces in the West Bank. The February 6 divestment vote, which was backed by... More

"How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture,... More

The late writer Richard Grenier (d. 2002) made these trenchant observations in his novel The Marrakesh One—Two [1983, pp. 3—4] which depicted the fictional travails of Burt Nelson. Attempting to film a version of the life of the Muslim prophet Muhammad, Nelson comments, "It's going to... More

The latest in tolerance: Vandals painted anti—Christian messages on five churches and two other places with Christian ties in Santa Cruz over the weekend, police said Tuesday. The vandals equated Christianity with Nazism by stenciling a cross, an equal sign and a swastika on the sides and... More

It's the late 1930s and an old man paces The corridors of Parliament, as his country races To self destruction with the practiced eye Of those who deny and deny and deny.   He waits and listens, shakes his head in defeat As he hears his Prime Minister blather and bleat About 'peace in our... More

The New York Times editorial page cannot bring itself to use the word "Bush" when reporting positive developments. Instead of using the "B word" it praises "Washington." The New York Times editorial page lambastes Bush by name at every opportunity when reporting bad news. Bush did this, Bush... More

A correspondent in Sweden draws our attention to a Swedish news dispatch from the large newspaper Dagens Nyheter which says (so I am told — I don't read Swedish) that the book Religion, published by a Swedish company, was returned to active status for selling again this Tuesday, thus... More

Judith Apter Klinghoffer raises an important question: WILL AL GORE TOO BETRAY OUR DANISH ALLIES?On Saturday the annual Jeddah Economic Forum 2006 will open and Denmark will not be invited. I suspect a more precise wording would be that Denmark has been disinvited as punishment for refusing to... More

Reuters reports that Mounir El Motassadeq, a Moroccan man convicted in August of membership in a terrorist organisation and sentenced to seven years in prison, will be released early, an official in the Hamburg Justice Ministry said on Tuesday. "I can confirm ... that he will be released," the... More

Somebody owes President Bush an apology.  While honoring the life of Coretta Scott King at a memorial service in an Atlanta church, the President took political shots from Joseph Lowry, the co—founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and then from former President Jimmy... More

Our contributor Brian Schwarz highlights in his blog China Challenges the deep denial of Chinese authorities about the escalating domestic unrest they face. Last month, Beijing reported that the number of disturbances to public order rose 6.6 per cent last year to 87,000.  According to the... More

Our frequent contributor Matt May casts a gimlet eye on the worst former president in history, Jimmy Carter, and his disgraceful behavior at the funeral yesterday of Coretta Scott King. Read it at his blog Matt May. An excerpt: How low has James Earl Carter sunk? It took Bill Clinton —... More

Barcepundit supplies a helpful reminder of the way in which Americans responded to a deliberate and hateful insult to the largest religion in our country — when Sinead O'Connor sang a song harshly critical of the Catholic Church and finished by tearing up a picture of John Paul the Great,... More

For those who have not yet purchased Bat Ye'or's important book Eurabia, here are some some more Bat Ye'or links. These are articles I've saved and all the links are still good. The first two are pre— 9/11 and, in retrospect, eye—opening Dr. Bostom's AT article on Eurabia... More

The potential seeds of a Moslem victory in Europe have been sown; a Swedish publishing company has withdrawn a decade old textbook because of two pictures of yep...Mohammed. And just who drew these pictures?  Danish cartoonists?  Crusader descendants?  Jews? The pictures were... More

Well, you can't please everyone I guess.  Even the funeral of Coretta Scott King is causing some grumbling because The church where Coretta Scott King's funeral will be held is not the historic inner—city church where her husband preached but a suburban mega—church headed by a... More

Brokeback Mountain again expanded in release on last Friday, from 1522 theaters to 2,089.  And for the second weekend in a row, its box office gross receipts fell, this time by 8.2% to $6.003 million. Last week Hollywood analysts found Brokeback Mountain's drop inexplicable. This week they had... More

In re—reading Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald's affidavit (now online thanks to the blog YARGB), I notice that he recites the events of the Mission to Africa from Wilson's storyline and describes Wilson as a "whistleblower" long after the Senate Select Commission on Intelligence... More

Reader Steven Peck has given us permission to publish as an open letter his message sent to the editors of the Chicago Tribune, which they have so far declined to publish in their own pages. It follows below: The Chicago Tribune needs to fire Don Wycliff immediately and publicly apologize to its... More

In yet another mockery of democracy, Venezuela's Hugo Chavez has kicked off his presidential re—election campaign ... illegally early and using misappropriated government funds, for it is not with bankrupt ideas that he leads his masses — but with buyoffs and handouts. Veneuzela's... More

The New York Times runs an editorial today objecting to newspapers publishing the cartoons that caricatured Mohammed. The Times feels that the cartoons were needlessly insensitive and pats itself on the back for refraining from running them. Given the self—righteous moral preening of today's... More

There are emerging some indispensable 'manuals' for the Global War on Terror (GWOT).  One of those is Eurabia by Bat Ye'or, referenced recently elsewhere on AT.  Another is Tony Blankley's book The West's Last Chance.  Consider this imagined 'Nightmare Scenario' with which the book... More

Every time I hear some liberal Democrat ranting about our not providing enough armor to protect the troops I just shake my head and tell myself, that idiot's obviously never humped a ruck in combat. Hell, most combat infantrymen in my day didn't want to wear a steel helmet even though they knew it... More

The liberal mainstream press has come up with a new way to stem its falling revenues. An "open forum" op—ed article in the San Francisco Chronicle calls for the federal government to ban all TELEVISION AND RADIO commercials for new cars.  "I propose creating a similar ban on all... More

The always—insightful Jack Risko of Dinocrat.com — a site we highly recommend — sees a complex game underway in the cartoon crisis. Read the whole thing. The escalation and counter—escalation of rhetoric and action seem to us to indicate a number of things, but notable... More

"What do women want?" psychiatry's founding father Sigmund Freud famously asked.  Well apparently even some women don't know even though they think they do. Or maybe the question is just inherently unanswerable.  Yeah, that's it. Thinking women absolutely needed a new breast after a... More

This remarkably prescient interview Bat Ye'or gave in 1993, which was published in early 1994 in Midstream, and is available at this link, from her dhimmitude.org website. NONE of the talking heads, academic "pundits" etc. around today have even caught up to her insights from 1993/94, let alone her... More

The State Department has in effect sided with Islamists  in the cartoon controversy. This stance of appeasement certainly will not win the U.S. Moslems' good graces. Nothing will. We have to look no further than France to see that any such hope is in vain. France has done more than any other... More

An anomaly in the British structure of Government is that members of the Cabinet can also hold seats in the Parliament. We know that most politicians are eager to hold onto their positions of power. Jack Straw, the Foreign Minister of England, recently rationalized (and in a sense justified)... More

America — the West's only hope This past weekend Moslems marched straight through the heart of London carrying placards and chanting slogans calling for Europe's annihilation. And the British authorities just stood by. There were no arrests and no effort was made to clamp down on the... More

The trumped—up Danish cartoon crisis in which three vicious and pornographic cartoons were secretly spread around the Islamic world, claiming that they were published by the Danish newspaper Jyllands—Posten, throws a harsh light on the moral cowardice of our mainstream media. We have... More

I found this remark as fascinating as the Charles Moore did in his Telegraph article "If you get rid of the Danes, you'll have to keep paying the Danegeld" On the Today programme yesterday, Stewart Lee, author of Jerry Springer: The Opera — in which Jesus appears wearing nappies — let... More

A pair of pictures has emerged from the cartoon controversy that shows just what is wrong with the West's let's—get—along crowd. One photograph depicts a group of angry Muslim students in Pakistan burning an effigy of the Danish Prime Minister. The other shows a group of young smiling... More

The new Saudi Ambassador to the United States, Prince Turki al—Faisal, was responsible for the growth and the overwhelming power of the Saudi Secret Police. He has worked with terror—supporting groups and sponsored the growth of anti—Semitism around the world. But Maureen Dowd,... More

When journalists around the world are defending European media's right to publish cartoons that are caricatures of Mohammed (and that in some cases are forgeries, apparently  by Muslim agitators), one syndicated American columnist, Ray Hanania, scripts a column that celebrates Arab power to... More

Dutch Islamists post cartoons of Anne Frank and Adolf Hitler in bed. Just as it seeks to enforce a global norm that one respect the religious prohibition against images of Muhammad, Muslims go out of their way to be offensive to infidels. The Religion of Peace strikes again... I don't... More

The Washington Post today publishes on op—ed by Abdallah Alsami, identified as a Gaza resident and employee of a Palestinian NGO, which goes straight into propaganda territory. Israel is responsible for the Hamas win. Palestinians were voting not for the destruction of Israel but for... More

Our frequent contributor Rick Moran writes on his site Rightwing Nuthouse of the importance of empathy and his reservations about publication of the Muhammad cartoons. Muslims don't just find these cartoons offensive. They consider them so far beyond the pale that the fact they exist in the first... More

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is one of those places where you can find plutonium, uranium, and every other dangerous substance coveted by the world's terrorists and terror—sponsoring states. It's also got live nuclear bombs. There aren't many places in the world where you could... More

In an article about the leadership of Hamas, the NYT starts with a charming anecdote about a doctor who obviously does not believe in the Hippocratic oath. In an interview a few years ago, Mahmoud Zahar, a surgeon and senior leader of the radical Islamic movement Hamas, was asked his medical... More

Mother Sheehan joins a previous honoree this past week, Khaled Meshaal, who spun Hamas as a force for good; compared its principles to the Constitution and Declaration of Independence,—but could not refrain from declaring his promise that Israel will be destroyed. Ed Lasky   2 04 06 More

William Grimes writes in the New York Times: WE came crawling back, of course. Is anyone out there skipping over the Burgundies on the wine list and, just to twist the knife a littler harder, opting for a tangy Finger Lakes Riesling instead? Does a trip to historic Valley Forge still seem like a... More

This past week, there were vocal protests in London over the Danish cartoons that have sparked a violent reaction throughout the Islamic world. Hundreds of Muslim protesters, dressed in terrorist and Taliban garb, waved placards  with slogans such as 'freedom go to hell,' 'be prepared for the... More

You are kind enough to accept refugees into your home. Yougive them aid and comfort and the fruits of an advanced social welfare system. They reject your rights of free speech and democratic values. They protest over cartoons, boycott your products, harm your economy and cause your citizens to... More

David Schwammenthal, a member of the Wall Street Journal editorial board, writes today on the paper's subscriber—only website that Denmark has in effect capitulated in the cartoon crisis, and that this bodes ill for the future of Europe. It is clear that Schwammenthal and I see the same big... More

Pierre—Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais wrote the famous play The Marriage of Figaro in 1778, while the American Revoltuion raged. It was first performed in 1784, the delay owing to censorship. Ibn Warraq, via Dr. Andrew Bostom, commends our attention to this famous monologue from Act V, Scene... More

Bookworm draws an interesting comparison: Denmark today and Constantinople in 1453. The parallels are not exact, but one thing that matches is that disunity among western countries strengthens Jihad. You know the story: a lone, mostly Western country is surrounded by hostile Islamic nations. One... More

The signer's name is withheld, as per request: In these times of war and oppression, it is very heartening to read the news that a "Buy Danish"—campaign is rising in USA. I don't know if you, living in an enormous country like USA, can imagine how it is to live in a small country like Denmark... More

Hamas is launching violent attacks against Israel. Four family members, including a toddler, were injured when a Qassam rocket fired from the Gaza Strip hit their home in Kibbutz Karmiya, in the western Negev, on Friday afternoon. and Hezbollah forces attacked an Israel Defense Forces post on... More

Gateway Pundit displays the phony pictures used to incite a wave of anti—Danish hatred and intimidation among Muslims, especially Arab Sunnis, in the ongoing Cartoon Crisis. There are also many excellent links, developing the story. Especially hateful cartoons (Muhammad with the features of a... More

Today's Washington Times reports that John Negroponte has finally realized that Iran has been supporting "insurgents" and projecting its influence in Iraq. Director of National Intelligence John D. Negroponte confirmed publicly for the first time yesterday what had been reported unofficially... More

That is Leon Wieseltier's scornful label for Steven Spielberg. Wieseltier administers as savage verbal thrashing to Spielberg, for his self—pitying response to criticism of his mega—flop Munich. In order to read the article you must register with The New Republic,... More

A recent survey has found that four out of five Frenchmen fear a repeat of the riots that broke out in the country late last year. That things are not well is not surprising given the large un—assimilated Islamic community and the unwillingness of the French government to address the problem... More

Compare and contrast this from the Jihadis and this from the Joint Chiefs. Any questions? Thomas Lifson   2 03 06 More

That is Diana West's apt term for the response of too many of the world's leaders to the Palestinians' vote to make Hamas their governing faction. It is the polar opposite of "realpolitik." There comes a point, sometimes, when logic is denied, reason is abandoned, and that vital connection to... More

Hillary Clinton donates money to anti—abortion candidate Bob Casey in the Pennsylvania Senate election. I wonder how EMILY's List people feel about this revelation? Ed Lasky  2 03 06 Richard Baehr adds: Casey's candidacy may collapse. This may turn out to be a shocker to Democrats... More

The latest euphemism is "rioter." Terrorists already are "activists"; Hamas is a "social welfare" agency; now thugs in the country of France illegally are "rioters"—in quotes. France deports African 'rioter' France says it has carried out the first deportation of a foreigner convicted... More

The Danish Cartoon Crisis has reached new heights as the BBC became the first British news outlet to lift the veil from cartoons showing Mohammed. While Muslims sound ready to riot in Gaza, the Palestinian territories, the Gulf States, Saudi Arabia and Iran, the European media are holding fairly... More

I liked this look at the lack of objective standards when determining which movie is to get a Best Movie Oscar and am looking forward to her promised attempt to arrive at some standards.  My own criteria is whether I will watch the film again on cable several years... More

Has the violently negative reaction of Muslims regarding the Mohammed cartoon controversy in Europe traveled to the United States, self—censoring criticism of Islam here?  There are some chilling indications. Reporting on the events in Europe for NBC Nightly News and MSNBC News,... More

Here is a sample of the sort of self—serving hooey the Special Prosecutor dished at his press conference following the indictment: FITZGERALD: The fact that she was a CIA officer was not well— known, for her protection or for the benefit of all us. It's important that a CIA officer's... More

It is very possible that if Democrat Rep. Benjamin L. Cardin wins the primary, Republican Lt. Governor Michael Steele will win as much as a third of the black vote (embittered by Kweisi Mfume's primary defeat), which would doom Cardin.  Maryland has the nation's third highest... More

David Horowitz cuts to the quick in his Front Page Magazine blog: The Palestinian Nazi Party has won the elections. This is a party, Hamas, that calls for the obliteration of the Jewish state (in so many words) and the killing of Jews because they are Jews (in so many words), and cites the Koranic... More

Jyllands Posten has published a cartoon graphic depicting the mastheads of the European newspapers which have published the Muhammad cartoons. The Counter—terrorism blog reports One issue that puzzles many Danes is the timing of this outburst. The cartoons were published in September:... More

Dear "The American Thinker" I have just read your article about the crisis we as a little nation of 5 million Danish people are going through at the moment. We have lived in a democratic society for a couple of hundred years and I think all this "time" has made us unaware of how important freedom... More

Here is an example of the way the New York Times uses photos to send a propaganda message. For coverage of the swearing in of Justice Alito, it ran a picture of Watergater Chuck Colson. Of all the dignitaries in attendance at Justice Alito's swearing—in, The Times focuses in on the only... More

This is what passes for sophistication among oligarchical theocratic dictatorships: When questioned about an intelligence report that clearly shows close ties between the military and the nuclear technological development in Ira, Iran's chief negotiator retorts:  His most animated... More

Mike from Kennesaw, GA asks: Doesn't Iran's foreign minister sound like Iraqi PR guy Baghdad Bob during the 17 days of the Baghdad battle? "Iran does not think that the Zionist regime [i.e., the U.S. and Israel] is in a condition to engage in such a dangerous venture and they know how severe the... More

A growing number of newspapers are standing in solidarity against the attempt of the Islamic world to impose Sharia law restrictions on the western press. A number of Muslim countries, clergy, community organizations and demonstrators are creating a situation in which no pictures of the Prophet... More

While I strongly agree with President Bush's emphasis in his State of the Union speech on increasing America's energy independence, I think his use of the phrase 'America is addicted to oil' was quite unfortunate.а Not only does it smack of Green Party rhetoric —— with all its... More

The conservative French daily newspaper France Soir has published the cartoons which engendered a Muslim boycott and other pressure on Denmark. The BBC reports: France Soir said it had published the cartoons to show that "religious dogma" had no place in a secular society. Their publication in... More

The foreign policy guru at the New York Times has two major mistakes to his credit in the last week: At Davos, Friedman moderated a session on the Muslim world. Friedman argued that no nations in the region should be allowed to develop nuclear weapons. Well, four feet away sat Pakistan... More

The NAACP is a Bush ally in a Connecticut school case, according to the NYT. Republican thinkers have begun to appreciate that there are areas where many blacks agree with Republican policies — notably social issues but increasingly educational issues, as well. NAACP, an organization that has... More

Christiane Amanpour unleashed her volley against the Iraq war when Bob Woodruff was injured; Maureen Dowd also picked up on the issue of a journalist being hurt as a symbol ($link) of the failure of Bush's Iraq policy; the media was outraged when "US attacks kill (ed) three journalists" who were... More

An interesting wrinkle: Hamas actually lost seats in a town that has already experienced their rule. The honeymoon was over for those with direct experience of their rule. Joshua Mitnick reported in the Washington Times: One of the few bright spots for Fatah in last week's Palestinian elections... More

Alessandra Stanley uses her space in today's New York Times to analyze facial expressions during the State of the Union address. Here is a sample of what her editrors regarded as insightful commentary: Solemn, his brow furrowed, President Bush smiled seldom and only winked once during yesterday's... More

What a sight to behold were the Democrats at yesterday's State of the Union speech. They sat demurely when the President spoke of the need to monitor terrorists placing phone calls to the United States. Likewise they were stone—faced when he urged Congress to make his tax cuts permanent. They... More

If this op—ed is the best that the spin—meisters from Hamas can produce... they have a lot to learn. Such crudeness is surprising since the op—ed boasts in its first sentence that the Palestinians are among the most educated people in the world. IT IS WIDELY recognized that the... More

Once again the Associated Press, formerly a thoroughly admirable even—handed news—gathering organization, is revealed as staffed by partisans more interested in pushing a viewpoint than in reporting facts in a disinterested manner. Look at the language Terrence Hunt chose to... More