For years now I have been convinced that John S. McCain III, never the sharpest knife in the drawer by most accounts, confuses being a U.S. Senator with being a Duke in the House of Lords somewhere around the time of the Tudor dynasty.   This latest is just one more example of his... More

It is widely believed that the forgeries about Niger on which Joseph Wilson rode to fame, and then denied disclosing, were French. You may therefore be interested to know that Chirac and Villepin are at the middle of a major case of planted forgeries in in France. A relative of ... More

The birthrate in Spain is about 1.1 children per woman. Just about half the replacement rate of 2.1 which is just adequate to maintain a population. One would think that the Spanish would at least wait until the Muslims had re—conquered the Iberian peninsula and leave to them the obliteration... More

Rod Liddle at the London Times says the West may have to bomb Natanz, the place where even the Mullahs and the UN now admit that Iran is enriching uranium for nuclear bombs. "The Natanz facility is partially underground, a fact that provoked the IAEA inspectors to note, rather drily, that... More

Bookworm's essay Friday on idyllic portrayals of small town life in the movies of yore drew some interesting comments on the site Bookworm Room. Patrick O'Hannigan pointed toward a favorite movie of mine, Tremors, a monster movie in which townspeople (not really much of a town, actually) fight... More

Our contributor Edward Bernard Glick has published an essay in Israel Insider on his belief Israel will make certain that Iran does not get a nuclear bomb. He marshalls a strong argument.  More

Captain Ed picks up on John McCain's stunning contempt for the most precious of our rights. McCain: Trade The First Amendment For Clean Government Mark Tapscott has a clip of John McCain's appearance on the Don Imus Show that demonstrates the truly frightening prospect of having the Senator from... More

Rick Moran's review of United 93 is proudly run today on these pages. But what of the others? Rick provides a round—up of reviews on Rightwing Nuthouse, while the Wall Street Journal adds its own culling of critics to the list. Rick comments: While the film United 93 has opened to generally... More

The website Moonbattery has a nice analogy between our problems with oil and the problem of enduring enough to eat: If we really are sick of high oil prices, maybe it's time to stop indulging in moonbattery and do something rational about the problem. If food prices were getting high, what would we... More

I have contended for some time that the CIA referral letter, which instituted the proceedings in the Plame case, was based on false factual statements by the Agency. Lewis Libby has sought access to that letter and to date the Special Prosecutor has refused to produce it. Today , based on a... More

The Autonomist has a lengthy essay on the role of deception in the culture of Iraq, and more broadly of the Islamic world. It is all based on first hand experience of the writer, who deals with Iraqi companies. It is absolutely un—PC. It is also a classic case study of a culture clash. Hat... More

The UN gives a leadership post to Iran on the Disarmament Commission. The UN gives a major award to the spokeswoman for the original Iranian hostage—takers (nicknamed "Screaming Mary" by the hostages). And now the Iranian President tells the UN he doesn't give a damn about UN resolutions.... More

Not in their public rhetoric, but Youssef Ibrahim writes in the New York Sun: A stark reality is coursing through Arab consciousness: No one cares about Palestine. It has been the case for at least a decade. What's new is that even reasonable Palestinian Arabs now acknowledge the truth of their... More

A piece under this title by the indispensible Laurie Mylroie with her translator Ayan Rahim is on today's spectator.org. It does lead one to daydream what the CIA might accomplish if it ever decided to support the mission of the United States in Iraq.  But I guess it is hard to squeeze that in... More

AT News Editor, Ed Lasky, reveals  how a high ranking UN official is putting the squeeze on internal investigators as they look into still more corruption at the troubled organization.  Specifically, the report cites the inability of the UN to to monitor and provide fiscal discipline to... More

Despite the constant stream of favorable economic news, the  New York Times remains unrelenting in its efforts to downplay any favorable information, lest its readers give any credit to the Bush administration for the extraordinarily strong and prosperous economy the nation is enjoying. One of... More

Amil Imani pens calls on the United States government to turn over $ billions seized Iranian assets to anti—regime Iranian opposition groups in this essay. Certainly, better funding is order for groups that seek to overthrow the mullahs from within. There may be formidable complications, but... More

Abu Musab al—Zarqawi released an infomercial on the Web on Tuesday.  While tedious, as informercials tend to be, the significance of his message should not be missed.  The Jordanian terrorist wants the world to know that he represents al—Qaeda in Iraq and goes out of his way... More

James Kirchik, writing a brilliant farewell column in the Yale Daily News, takes note of prominent Yale graduate Chesa Boudin, the fourth generation of a prominent left wing family. Chesa was raised by left wingers while his parents were jailed, and  groomed for power at Yale and... More

The United Nations' second—ranking official has tried to persuade investigators to lay off, lest they overturn rocks which might expose influential critters hiding underneath. Benny Avni of the New York Sun reports: The second most powerful man at Turtle Bay, Deputy... More

Tomorrow night, Friday, our contributor Andrew G. Bostom, author of the Legacy of Jihad, will be delievering a public lecture at Harvard. Readers are invited to attend. Andy will be speaking in commemoration of the Armenian Genocide, with a speech entitled "Jihad in Europe: Past as Prologue?" It... More

The New York Times coverage of Karl Rove's voluntary appearance before a grand jury yesterday discloses something I have never before seen published. In the very final sentence of an article written by Anne Kornbluth. Here is the final paragraph with emphasis added.  No one has been charged... More

Three cheers forMilwaukee Circuit Court Judge Michael Brennan who threw out a plea agreement and imposed jail time on the saboteurs who slashed tiresа on vans set to bring GOP voters to the polls the night before the election. The prosecution had negotiated guilty pleas with a recommendation for... More

The MNF—Iraq website has more positive news about progress toward the formation of a national unity government. 'I believe that in the next 15 days we can have a new government and present it to parliament." This is the word from Iraqi Prime Minister—designate Jawad... More

Don Surber links to my article today and agrees that a new day is dawning in the White House. He makes the astute observation that Tony Snow's appeal to the conservative base ...allows Bush to move to the center, where a president belongs.Snow is a darling of the... More

Many Americans have the vague (and false) impression that a massive conversion to ethanol production eliminated Brazil's need to import oil. Brazil did indeed promote bio—fuel. But the real credit for ending oil imports goes to those evil oil drillers working in Brazil, unleashed on the... More

Paul De Grauwe, a leading European economist whose work was used as the basis for arguments for European monetary union in the 1990s the other day said this: Sometimes I wonder: do we still need the European Union? I start to have doubts about that. It is sufficient that countries open up... More

Fox News Channel is reporting that it is a done deal — that Tony Snow will be the new White House Press Spokesman, replacing Scott McClellan. Matt May notes that the opposition cannot help themselves: they are "attacking" Tony by dredging up everything negative he has ever said about... More

Ray Robison has a newly translated document from the Harmony Database at his site that proves the Iraqi Intelligence Service was importing and even building hidden facilities for prohibited equipment. This establishes an important point. Ray explains: Some would believe (or at least claim to... More

The New York Post heaves deserved scorn at the Pulitzer Prizes for ignoring Claudia Rosett and giving a prize to leak—receiver Dana Priest instead. Long gone are the days when journalists paid respect to the notion of national security. Now, journalism's most prestigious awards seem to... More

Thirty—one inmates recently escaped from a compound in Sierra Leone and terrorized a group of local and American sightseers. One person was killed and another maimed. Logic requires they be tried for their crimes. They are chimps. The Associated Press reports: The U.S. Embassy warned... More

An article in yesterday's British Guardian reported with some alarm that obesity among Britain's pets has become so acute that three—quarters of vets now run fat clinics to combat the problem. So dire things have gotten that even the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to... More

Last year I made note of the great difference between the political cultures of New Orleans and Houston, to the latter's great advantage. I also hailed the open—hearted, creative spirit of Houston, the can—do city par excellance. Nicole Gelinas picks up both themes as she asks: " Can... More

One aspect of the blast receiving little notice is its timing: over the Eastern Orthodox Easter weekend, when the hotel was full of Copt guests. Steven Hurst of the AP reports: Hotels and guesthouses were filled with foreigners and with Egyptians celebrating the long Coptic Christian Easter... More

Ron Dellums, for years the ultra—left wing Congressman from Berkeley (Michael Medved once was one of his aides, 180 degrees ago), is back and running for mayor of Oakland, to succeed former governor Jerry Brown. He is selling the voters left wing snake oil, all posture, PC, and no specific... More

Norway, home of most of the Nobel Peace Prize grantors (who gave a Peace Prize to Jimmy Carter to embarass George Bush; who gave a prize to Kofi Annan  despite his passivity regarding genocide in Rwanda and the Balkans; who gave a Nobel Peace Prize to Mohammed El—Baredei and the IAEA... More

Dana Priest has a lot of credentials — which could just mean lots of friends in high places. Sweetness & Light highlghts her MacArthur Foundation award and the long line of awards she has "been given for her services to the cause." More

24 is one of my guilty pleasures. Thanks to Bill Keveney, of USA Today  I now understand why Edgar, the fat geek played by Louis Lombardi, had to die. His sparring with ubergeek Chloe, played by Mary Lynn Rajskub, was touching and entertaining, so like many viewers, I mourned his passing. But... More

The milestone that occurred Saturday April 22 in Iraq received only brief coverage, but President Bush knew what it meant and gave a speech acknowledging the parliamentary action that named the new prime minister, Jawad al—Maliki, and other top leaders for a national unity government. Like... More

Walid Phares gives an outstanding analysis of Bin Laden's latest. "This is not just another audiotape or videotape of a renegade in some cave. Regardless of who is the speaker and his whereabouts, the 30 minutes long read statement is a declaration, probably as important as the February 1998... More

I thought they were supposed to loath lobbyists? Apparently not when it comes to their own interests. Ed Lasky   4 23 06 More

I think a good litmus test for conspiracy theorists is the use of Richard Perle as the boogeyman. Perle was not in the government during the planning and execution of the war in Iraq. Yet he is often brought up as some sort of Svenagli who has masterminded the war. Why? Perhaps, because..he is... More

In her affidavit seeking a restraining order against Charlie Sheen, his estranged wife Denise Richards made a number of startling claims. Among other things, she alleged that the actor abuses hard and prescription drugs, procures prostitutes, and patronizes pornographic websites featuring minors of... More

Mary McCarthy is the fourth Clinton NSC member to assault the Bush White House. Ms. McCarthy, who was dismissed for leaking national security secrets to the press, is not the first Clintonite to undermine and assault the Bush White House. The biggest raging bulls attacking the White House... More

My hypothesis is that there is a core belief system that underlies these "—opias" that afflict so many Democrats. I call it "Strong is wrong."  Its credo: "The weak are good, and by definition have been victimized by the strong, who are therefore bad." Many Democrats I know, for... More

The London Times reports that Iran's fanatical leader, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, had a meeting in Damascus last month with the most successful terrorist in the world, Imad Mughniyeh, long—time head of "overseas operations" for Hizbullah. "Mugniyeh is said to have been responsible for the deaths... More

Zbig says: If Ameirca (or Israel) strikes Iran, it would merit the designation as international outlaw, drive impeachment, and cause other dire outcomes. He assures us that Iran is headed towards evolving into Turkey.. yeah..right. Ahmadinejah and Ataturk, a couple of ideological twins there. Zbig... More

Crocodile farms in Thailand are making life miserable for their neighbors in Thailand. And I thought traffic was a nuisance! The BBC reports. A hunt is under way in central Thailand for up to a dozen crocodiles believed to have escaped from a breeding farm. Inspectors are searching the waterways... More

The New York Times, hot on the heels of the scandal at Page Six, got scammed by a PR line, and so far has not corrected itself. Mickey Kaus catches the Times red—handed, buying into a presposterous story concocted to make Ron Burkle, premier donor to Bill Clinton and alleged victim of a Page... More

From Friday's BBC News — Dutch reconsider Islamic values The report is the fruit of three years' work by the Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR), a think—tank in The Hague which advises the government. It examines the evolution of thinking about democracy and human rights... More

Journalism majors admit to cheating at a higher rate than other students. Do the cheat more? Or do they speal the bens more readily than others?  Honesty endures as the best policy in life   The Feb. 6 issue of BusinessWeek magazine reported the following findings by the Center... More

Our contributor Eric Schwappach blogs on local matters in Harris County, Georgia, at his site Skeeter Street. Eric and his neighbors just endured hailstorm. Take a look at the unusually—shaped hailstones here, here, and here. More

More on William Goodfellow,Dana Priest's husband from Frontpage Magazine: "One of the most sophisticated of Fenton's anti—war projects is the co—mingling of Win Without War and the Center for International Policy (CIP). Before 9/11, CIP, a Fenton Communications client, mainly acted as... More

If you thought that Mike Hiltzik  guy was the only leftist egomaniac ever hired by the LA Times, here's another. An ex—LA Times writer who now calls herself 'La Queen Sucia' recently denounced the Miami Herald for not covering the launch of her latest "chick lit" novel. The Herald had... More

In America we call it the almighty dollar and The Almighty figures prominently in all our international transactions. In Russia they refer to their currency as the righteous ruble but in certain international transactions, the word righteous has absolutely no place. Particularly when it comes to,... More

An article in the UK's weekly The Business has some interesting figures on global economic outlook. In 2006 the world economy will grow at nearly 5% which will mark the first time since the early 1970s that the world economy has grown at more than 4% for four years in a row and the strongest... More

Mary O. McCarthy, of Bethesda, MD, an "analyst, U.S. Government" according to official records, is listed as doinating $2000 to the Kerry Campaign in 2004. That's a big contribution for someone on a government salary. Ed Lasky   4 22 06 Update: A reader at NRO finds some further... More

Here is an excerpt from yesterday's briefing by MNF—Iraq spokesman, Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch in which he discusses foreign fighters, suicide attacks, border security, defeating IEDs, weapons caches discovered & Iraqis providing the coalition solid intel.  For the rest of the briefing, go... More

After trumpeting the purported CIA Gulag of secret prisons in Europe for terror suspects on the front pages of numerous editions, the New York Times buries the European antiterror chief's view that NO PROOF exists of such prisons. Ed Lasky   4 21 06 More

Jack Risko of Dinocrat.com notes: What do Erskine Bowles and Laura D'Andrea Tyson have in common? (1) they are well—known and respected Democrats who served in senior positions in the Clinton administration; (2) they are high—profile educators who have substantial experience in... More

Somebody tell Laurie David. Jennifer Harper reports in the Washington Times: Global warming may not be as dramatic as some scientists have predicted. Using temperature readings from the past 100 years, 1,000 computer simulations and the evidence left in ancient tree rings, Duke University... More

With local elections fast approaching, the hapless British conservatives are bent on courting the 'green' vote. As a part of that campaign, their newly—elected leader David Cameron traveled yesterday to the remote Norwegian island of Svalbard. There he pranced around in a dog sled which... More

A milestone was reached this year, as the 10 campus University of California system for the first time will see Asians become the dominant student ethnicity, outnumbering whites in the freshman class just admitted for the Fall. The San Francisco Chronicle reports: Asian Americans make up 36... More

While American conservatives are in the midst of our season of discontent, Canada's conservatives are enjoying themselves heartily. Last night, Ottawa saw a grand reunion of old and new conservative Prime Ministers, under sponsorship that would be all but inconceivable in the States. The Globe and... More

Ira Stoll of the New York Sun blogs about a new UC Berkeley study which purports to show that the introduction of Fox News Channel to a cable market increases the Republican share of the vote to a small but discernable degree. Two economists at U.C. Berkeley, Stefano DellaVigna and Ethan Kaplan,... More

In America it is easy to forget that religion is often inconvenient to the smooth machinations of a political regime.  The brave woman at this morning's White House ceremony is as inconvenient to the Chinese Communists today as was the fellow standing in front of the tank at Tiananmen Square... More

A new Palestinian Authority Cabinet minister aide is linked to a Gaza attack that killed three Americans. Does anyone think the State Department will finally wake up from their dream? These victims were part of an American DIPLOMATIC convoy. Ed Lasky   4 20 06 More

"Businesses owned by blacks see upswing...segment marks 45% increase" Last page of USA Today Business section..April 19, 2006 Joanne PieperBig Sky, MT More

The BBC brings us news of a woman in California who is building a house utilizing parts of an old 747 airplane permanently mothballed. Francie Rehwald wanted her house to look "feminine", have curves and be eco—friendly. Her architect's answer was: "Let's use a 747!" The wing of the Boeing... More

The recently released collection of saying by Hillary Clinton titled I've Always Been a Yankees Fan: Hillary Clinton in Her Own Words, quotes the New York Senator as addressing her Arkansas staff thus: Where is the goddamn f***ing flag?... I want the goddamn f***ing flag up every f***ing morning... More

Human Events bring us an interview with conservative comedian Brad Stine, who also happens to be a committed Christian. I have long held that humor is among the most potent political weapons, and that conservatives must come to dominate comedy as much as we dominate the serious discussion of... More

A mother weeps with tears that burn, From her son's death will she not learn? Will she then honor what she lost, Pay tribute to his personal cost? Or will she use his death to preach, Perched on his coffin will she screech, And damn the cause her dead son served, Her special spot in hell... More

According to the Times of London yesterday, "MUSLIM students training to be imams at a British college with strong Iranian links have complained that they are being taught fundamentalist doctrines which describe nonMuslims as 'filth'. The Times has obtained extracts from medieval texts taught to... More

Our contributor Ray Robison notes a startling early 2001 article from the U.K. Sunday Times, claiming Saddam had and tested a nuclear weapon. What makes this old, and apparently dismissed, claim more viable is a document in the Harmony Database (what we call here "The Saddam Files") recently... More

The two Iraqi brothers who operate Iraq the Model blogsite lost their brother—in—law, a young fellow doctor, to terrorist bullets the other day.  Only now is one of the brothers writing about that tragic, traumatic experience.  Here is an excerpt: The terrorists and criminals... More

The Seige of Western Civilization, the wonderful DVD by our contributor Herb Meyer, is being made available free for members of the United States Armed Services. I reviewed The Siege long before Herb became a contributor, and consider it a masterpiece. The DVD's distributor explains why the... More

A pair of perfect, though unfocused, clear brown eyes Shining through tears as a little one cries... Is he hungry? Lonely? Lost? Afraid? What is his sorrow?  What has made His lower lip quiver?  His shoulders shake? The sobs from his inner depths finally break The hearts of all... More

I am often asked why a conservative would choose to live in Berkeley, California. Aside from the sheer comedy of local politics there are many reasons. The climate is the best for me — cool to warm. Never really cold, and very rarely (and briefly) uncomfortably hot. The landscape and views.... More

Matt May has a suggestion for the next White House press spokesman: Tony Snow. Tony Snow... would be an inspired choice. He is a professional communicator and has regularly sparred with media figures. And he has a Detroit connection from his days at the News. Dan Senor is also a candidate.The best... More

Tom Friedman writes another of his columns ($link) attacking the Bush administration. (I guess a writer who travels on private jets, consorts with Saudi klpetocrats, who has never served in the military or for the government, feels he well qualified to take pot shots from his skyscraper office on... More

Late last night Time, Inc, the New York Times, and NBC, Judith Miller, Andrea Mitchell and Tim Russert responded to Libby's supoena requests. The pleadings were slow being posted on the Court's online site. The Washington Post has sumarized them, while Cboldt, a Just One Minute... More

The International Herald Tribune featured an interested article  occasioned by the publication of a book of quotations of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton titled I've Always Been a Yankees Fan: Hillary Clinton in Her Own Words. The piece says rather little about the book itself and instead... More

Liberal hypocrisy go together like well, Bill and Hill.  And as thisreview of the book Do as I Say (Not as I Do): Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisy (Doubleday) by Peter Schweitzer demonstrates, they go together quite well.  But they're not alone; many of their fellow and lady liberals live... More

The op—ed is written by Tony Judt, who has called for the destruction of Israel via the one—state (final) solution. So let's tote up supporters and opponents of the infamous Walt/Mearsheimer paper. Major academics have eviscerated it as being a product of shoddy and manipulated... More

Newswires were all aflutter with the news that the US head of Islamic Jihad, Sami al—Arian, just accepted a plea deal from the US government to be deported. Some commentators were crowing that this proved al—Arian's guilt, because in order to get the deal al—Arian had to admit to... More

The two—class shareholding system at the New York Times Company, which ensconces the Sulzberger clan in control of the board of directors despite owning less than 10% of the equity, is driving down the value of the company. Unable to evict the incompetent manager and hard left ideologue scion... More

American Thinker contributor Herb Meyer does a superb job in getting to the heart of the matter  concerning the retired general officer critics of SecDef Rumsfeld. The key question is: what is it exactly that the SecDef has 'done, or not done that justifies his removal from the Pentagon... More

The New York Times campaigned against the nomination of John Bolton as the American Ambassador to the United Nations. Their columnist  Nicholas Kristoff was just awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his long campaign to stop the genocide being committed by  Sudanese Arabs against the black... More

Our contributor Paul Jackson lists some of the recent accomplishments of the new Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, in his latest column in the Calgary Sun. Every time I feel gloomy about the way the world is going, I remind myself of the blessing we have just north of the border, as a dynamic, smart,... More

Rather than face a re—trial, former professor Sami al—Arian has negotiated a plea. The New York Sun reports: Sami Al—Arian, has pleaded guilty to aiding Palestinian Islamic Jihad and agreed to serve more jail time before being deported from America, according to records made... More

Taliban Man at Yale may soon have congenial company. The New York Sun reports that the most important higher education institution in New Haven may soon hire Juan Cole, a supporter of the notorious Walt—Mearsheimer paper, and well—known for his anti—Israel, anti—American... More

Airbus, the heated rival of Boeing for dominance of the commercial airliner market, is facing a serious question. Un—named American Airlines pilots are complaining about the performance of one of its early models, raising issues about its airplane—building prowess. The New York... More

N. S. Rajaram sends us a disheartening dispatch from The Hindu, which he calls India's foremost newspaper, about the very serious situation in Pakistan, the only Islamic nation with nuclear weapons. The American press, obsessed with dissident generals, a stripper claiming rape, and (sigh) poor... More

As I begin to write at 5:08AM PDT, the 100th anniversary of the great San Francisco Earthquake is pending in a few minutes. Sticklers will note that as there was no Daylight Savings Time one hundred years ago, we should really be waiting until the sun has risen for the ceremony taking place in... More

Blame it on profiling.  Moussaoui, Atta and the entire terrorist gang responsible for September 11, the London terrorist bombings, the Madrid terrorist bombings, the other terrorist bombings were mainly Arab Muslims with dark skin and dark hair.  Aware that authorities were suspicious of... More

Probably the best strategic analysis of the Iranian threat available today is by Edward Luttwak, writing in Commentary. For those who are concerned about the apocalyptic regime in Iran, this is required reading. Luttwak does not believe the current "ultra—extremist" regime can be... More

It isn't enough that the worlds' thugs regularly get elected to the UN Human Rights Commission. Apparently that corrupt body feels it necessary to remind us yet again how corrupt and  counterproductive a force it is in establishing peace in the world: Under threat of United Nations Security... More

jveritas who has been doing a yeoman job translating the captured Saddam documents, seems to  have found evidence of Saddam moving chemical weapons on March 2003: Document ISGP—2003—0001498 ISGP—2003—0001498 contains a 9 pages TOP SECRET memo (pages 87—96 in the... More

Everywhere the headline in the MSM for a couple of Clinton speeches was "Bill Clinton Learns To Laugh At His Past." Thank God; we had all been losing sleep.  In this one given on April 12th, 2006, 6,000 mind—numbed and incoherent words.  And as always the speech was about him...our... More

Thomas Lipscomb writes a great column in the Chicago Sun—Times asking the key question about the disgruntled generals: why didn't they resign in protest when they had a chance? ... no one seems to have bothered to ask which, if any, of these generals had ever submitted his own resignation in... More

Amir Taheri reports a truly frightening incident in the recent activities of Iran's president. From the London Telegraph: Last Monday, just before he announced that Iran had gatecrashed "the nuclear club", President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad disappeared for several hours. He was having a khalvat... More

Today's AT article by James Lewis, "Don't Panic On Iran," makes a very sensible—sounding argument that the United States (and Israel) should not act rashly to deter Iran's growing nuclear threat.  Lewis counsels waiting for "the right moment" to take "the right actions."  If by this... More

Patrick Moore, one of the founders of Greenpeace, endorses nuclear power in a Washington Post op—ed. Not that he actually apologizes for the lost decades due to greenie scare—mongering, or accounts for the huge sums sent to the Middle East to pay for petroleum  — money that... More

Conservative bloggers' response to leftist blogger Maryscott O' Connor, who was featured in a prominent Washington Post front page article yesterday titled "The Left, Online and Outraged,"  has been not surprisingly, and perhaps deservingly so, brutal (see here, here, here, here, and... More

UPI reports on a worrisome development: A leader of the Palestinian Hamas organization has met with an al—Qaida fundraiser in Yemen, the Jerusalem Post reported Friday.A leader of the Palestinian Hamas organization has met with an al—Qaida fundraiser in Yemen, the Jerusalem Post... More

Once again, The New York Sun scoops the competition, obtaining a declassified State Depamtment memorandum that has been repeatedly mischaractized. Contrary to earlier accounts, the memorandum does not indicate Ms. Plame's role was secret, and it indicates that her husband Joseph Wilson's mission to... More

Saint Judas Gerard Van der Leun at the American Digest has a sparkling essay on the subject of the recent Judas craze which he brilliantly relates to the larger issue of treason in our time. His piece reads in part: It's a fact of our self—centered contemporary existence that betrayal... More

Jack Risko of Dinocrat has made a very telling comparison in a post entitled "Iran's Rhineland Moment." Iran's gaudy announcement of its uranium enrichment capabilities, in defiance of the international community, coupled with its threat of the elimination of Israel in 'one [presumably nuclear]... More

A relatively new website has come to my attention, one worth checking out. Just Hillary is devoted to information abot the Junior Senator from New York, in her various aspects. A site designed for fans and foes, which two groups encompass roughly 90% of the American populace. Very few neutrals on... More

A consensus seems to be emerging among intelligence and military experts that Iran's blustering president has, so to speak, gotten in front of his own headlights — that despite his threats to unleash nuclear Armageddon his country is at least 10 and perhaps 20 years away from having its first... More

Oh Donny boy, the snipes, the snipes are bawling, From spin to spin, some generals now decide, The war's all wrong and for your head they're calling, 'Tis you, 'tis you must go, they want your hide.   But guard your back from those now in the meadow, From starry pundits claim they told you so.... More

As I walked home from Easter vigil mass late last night near Beverly Hills, I noticed that the street—lighted sidewalks were oddly crowded. It wasn't just Catholics and other Christians walking home from their churches after candlelight procession ceremonies, it was Orthodox Jewish families... More

Press coverage of the Libby case is often so bad, that it's hard to single out the worst of it. But this week, MSNBC and The National Journal lead the pack. From Just One Minute: Put this in the expansive "How Worthless is Chris Matthews?" file. From tonight's Hardball: MATTHEWS: So the... More

Mediacrity catches the New York Times with its bias showing. The sarcasm is priceless, so an extended quotation is justified: Readers of the New York Times were treated today to what was (almost) a miracle! The Times ran on the front page an article on the victims of Palestinian terrorism. Imagine... More

On April 18, the media and reporters who were subpoenaed by Lewis Libby to provide documents in connection with the special counsel's case against him must produce those documents or file motions to quash or modify those subpoenas.  While there had not earlier been a report that the Washington... More

Dear Sir, I am writing to you in response to your article "Will Rioters burn the French Social Model?" Nov. 7th 2005. One phrase in particular in this article caught my attention, "Actually, light to moderate discrimination is not much of a barrier to advancement." The author seems to be... More

Like so many CanCan dancers strutting their shapely legs before a lustful audience, the Clinton generals seem to be auditioning for the next Democrat administration. Joe Wilson and Richard Clarke are old Clintonistas, about as truthful as their boss Sandy Burglar (hat tip to Rush). When he was... More

Muslims believe, as most other religious people do, that theirs is the one true faith. Fair enough. But in today's world Muslims are the only group which demands via intimidation that their faith be treated as different and better than the others by non—believers. This phenomenon is properly... More

Bookworm pens an intensely personal essay on what she sees as an emerging permanent underclass composed of Hisapnic immigrants and their descendants, a theme closely related to Timothy Birdnow's article today on the plantation society he sees building in America. Bookworm offers a... More

This quotation from Winston Churchill, one of the great military leaders of modern times, seem to speak directly to the ongoing controversy surrounding Donald Rumsfeld: Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure... More

From the Smoking Gun: DEA Agent Who Shot Self In Foot Sues U.S. Seeks damages for distribution of humiliating gun accident video APRIL 11——A Drug Enforcement Administration agent who stars in a popular online video that shows him shooting himself in the foot during a weapons... More

YARGB suggests that most of  the anti—Administration Generals  rose through the ranks during Clinton's term in office when he politicized the military: First it was Wesley Clark. Then Eric Shinseki and Anthony Zinni. Now the New York Times reports on Paul Eaton, Gregory Newbold,... More

Mickey Kaus notes that the New York Post Stern's trouble with Ron Burkle are yielding an unanticipated bonanza. The New York Observer has released some stuff about Burkle's connections with Bubba which I'm sure he'd rather we not know: Meanwhile, the New York Observer uploads the Burkle File.... More

Bin Laden associate killed. Multi—National Forces—Iraq announced April 13 the killing of a wanted terrorist and known al—Qaida associate, Rafid Ibrahim Fattah aka Abu Umar al Kurdi. Abu Umar al Kurdi died in an early morning raid March 27 in the vicinity of Abu Ghraib, Baghdad .... More

Tomorrow is the 94th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, which went down on April 15, 1912, after striking an iceberg in the deadly frigid North Atlantic ocean.а One of the most remarkable facts about the Titanic disaster is that 74 percent of the female passengers survived, while 80... More

 Retired Maj. Gen. Charles H. Swannack, Jr. has joined the small group of like minded officers calling for Defense Secretary Rumsfeld's resignation.  MG Swannack commanded the 82d Airborne during its 2003—2004 Iraq tour of duty.  On May 26, 2005, SECDEF Rumsfeld delivered a... More

Judaism no longer counts at the UN, when it is time for religious sensitivity. Islam's delicate feelings about images of Muhammad, Ramadan, the word "crusade" and many other Shari'a—based matters must be respected with exquisite tact, but one of Judaism's holiest days counts for nothing.... More

The utter self—absorption of the feminist left is one of the most distatesful aspects of their movement. And that is saying quite a lot. Michelle Malkin notes the latest outrage perpetrated by an unhinged feminist professor, this time at Northern Kentucky... More

The distinction between Palestinian—ruled areas and a state of nature continues to blur. When terror and intimidation are embraced as legitimate tools, what else can one expect? The latest evidence comes from the BBC: Palestinian gunmen have stormed the Palestinian prime minister's office in... More

It is official. Segregation is back. Call it neo—Crow. The great state of Nebraska has enacted legislation that would split the Omaha schools into three districts. AP reports: ...the Legislature voted Thursday to divide the Omaha school system into three districts _ one mostly black, one... More

AJ Strata reports some interesting news from the Washington Post: "In a related development, The Post yesterday was subpoenaed by Libby's defense team to produce records related to the case that the newspaper had not turned over to Fitzgerald. Eric Lieberman, a counsel at The Post, said the... More

Former CENTCOM commander, retired Gen. Anthony Zinni, has been a vocal and ubiquitous critic of the Operation Iraqi Freedom war plan.  One of his criticisms is based on his belief that Saddam was being effectively kept in his "box" by UN sanctions and coalition no—fly zone... More

Now that retired Maj. Gen. John Batiste has joined the carping chorus calling for Defense Secretary Rumsfeld to resign, I thought it would be instructive to cite his words, and those of Rumsfeld, when the SECDEF visited the 1st ID, then commanded by MG Batiste, at Tikrit, Iraq on Dec. 24,... More

Parents in San Diego (and doubtless elsewhere) are fighting against dumbed—down curriculums adopted to raise the "performance" of low achieving students, partiularly minority and immigrant children. The Wall Street Journal reports ($link): When San Diego's school district began overhauling... More

The NYT, CNN, etc. were quick to imply in their articles that Libby's testimony about the President authorizing information disclosure somehow related to Plame—gate.  I haven't seen any headlines about this tidbit beyond this article anyway):  "Libby Says Bush, Cheney Didn't... More

Two American homosexuals were viciously beaten while visiting the Caribbean island St. Maarten's. All Headline News reports: St. Maarten's top tourism official says the assailants who attacked two gay Americans will be punished. He described the vicious tire iron beating as 'barbaric and... More

Profits in the first quarter of 2006 are down more than two thirds: from $111 million to $35 million. To be fair, last year's profits were inflated by a one—time gain on the sale of its headquarters office building. Without the gain, profits are still down one—sixth, however, from 30... More

That's the question raised by Bill Kristol in a Weekly Standard article: ...seventy years ago——Hitler's Germany occupied the Rhineland. The French prime minister, Léon Blum, denounced this as "unacceptable." And did nothing. As did the British. And the United States. In a talk last... More

What would we ever do without Harvard studies? Ed Lasky   4 13 06 More

Brian Garvey, President of the National Association of Schoolmasters and the Union of Women Teachers, has blamed Margaret Thatcher for the insubordination which is plaguing British public schools. According to Mr. Garvey, the former Prime Minister left a legacy of selfishness and indiscipline by... More

Universities are institutions with freedom of speech and inquiry; tolerant of all beliefs; encouraging diversity of opinions. Sez who?  Why university administrators, faculty and students who justify any outrageous statement, research inquiry or activity as long as it meets politically correct... More

Quote: Editors' Note A front—page article in some copies on Sunday reported that a top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney said he had been authorized to disclose to a reporter that one of the key judgments in a 2002 National Intelligence Estimate was that Iraq was "vigorously trying to... More

The award goes to James Lileks, writing in his Newhouse News Service column: "As much as it may pain the progressives who regard the United States as a suppurating carbuncle on Gaia's pained face, America is the most multicultural nation on this planet. Who better to return to the moon and plant... More

Do you think that Oliver Stone will put this dialogue in his movie about 9/11? Ed Lasky   4 12 06    More

Orianna Fallaci, the Italian journaist about to be tried in France for "Islamophobia" in her writing, is interviewed by the LA Weekly, and raises some interesting evidence that the massive Muslim emigration to Europe (and elsewhere) may be a conscious long term strategy to conquer via demographic... More

Thanks to Cynthia McKinney and the voices of racism in the Duke University lacrosse team story, I was thinking the other  night, 'Thank God that 911 operator wasn't white'  Hannity & Colmes reported the story of incompetence in the emergency dispatcher's office in Detroit.  A... More

The legion of liberals who get their news from the New York Times (and still consider it a reliable news source) remain untroubled by the shocking news that Patrick Fitzgerald has admitted misleading a federal judge in a filing that he has had to officially correct. The New York Sun has full... More

Richard Lindzen, Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Atmospheric Science at MIT, publishes an important essay today at Opinionjournal.com, describing the intimidation being used to suppress questioning of the orthodoxy of global warming theory. We have published our own questions about the supposed... More

Europe is once again indulging in wishful thinking about Islam. Reuters reports The European Union, tiptoeing through a minefield of religious and cultural sensitivities, is discreetly reviewing the language it uses to describe terrorists who claim to act in the name of Islam.  EU officials... More

Only recently Al Gore declared that global warming poses a far greater threat than global terrorism. Today, Catharine MacKinnon, celebrated feminist author whose new book 'Are Women Human?' has been just released by Harvard University Press, tells us that violence against women in America is... More

The treasure trove of captured documents from Saddam Hussein's regime collectively known as Harmony, which are now available for translation by anyone with access to the internet, continues to yield indications of WMD programs. As much of the press continues to pick around at intelligence... More

Powerline and Ray Robison are both arching metaphorical eyebrows at the odd position taken by the Washington Post in recent reporting on al Zarqawi, and the US emphasis on him. Ray writes: Powerline dissects a Washington Post story that bugged the heck out of me as well. The main problem for... More

A commercial airline flight from Venezuela lands in Mexico and is found to be carrying five and half tons of cocaine. I don't know what that's worth, but it is a lot of cocaine, which is usually sold by the gram. The AP reports: Mexican soldiers seized 5 1/2 tons of cocaine from a commercial plane... More

Byron York notes that a portion of the special prosecutor's filing which caused a firestorm on the left, was corrected by him in a letter to the Court: An embarrassing move this afternoon from CIA leak prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald. In his now—famous court filing in which he said that former... More

The Star—Tribune of Minneapolis (my original home town) is an embarrasingly bad newspaper. How bad? Well, many employees are unwilling to pay for discount (25 cent) copies, now that management has stopped handing them out for free at headquarters, according to Jim Romanesko, who has in hand a... More

During his current visit to Beijing, London's leftist mayor Ken Livingstone (the one known as Ken the Red) made a startling comparison when he likened the 1989 massacre in Tiananmen Square to London's poll tax riots of 1990. The mayor's is most far—fetched reasoning, indeed, given the facts.... More

The EU has come up with a brilliant plan to fight terror: Forbidding calling the enemy by its name: BERLIN— The European Union, tiptoeing through a minefield of religious and cultural sensitivities, is discreetly reviewing the language it uses to describe terrorists who claim to act in the... More

California's requirement that students pass a graduation examination to certify minimal command of English and math skills has proven controversial because some students have a difficult time passing it. What to do? Of course, some have suggested scrapping the exam. Including a few influential... More

Our friend LaShawn Barber has some very perceptive comments on the Duke rape case. As only LaShawn can, she lays into the racial hypocrisy underlying both media coverage and black "community" responses to the case. She makes some devastating points. Must—reading. Hat tip: Richard Baehr More

The New York Sun today runs a delightfully arch commentary on the coverage lavished by the New York Times on the developing scandal with a part time correspondent of the New York Post's Page Si accused of blackmailing super—rich Clinton crony Ron Burkle. The Grey Lady publicly pretends that... More

The incomparable Christopher Hitchens today conducts his own analysis  in Slate on the left's accepted truth that GW lied when he said that Saddam had sought to buy uranium in Africa.  The American Thinker covered much of the same ground last October and concluded that the President's... More

The Congressional seat formerly occuppied by Randy "Duke" Cunningham (now a guest of the Federal Bureau of Prisons) is up for grabs today. Democrats are salivating at the opportunity to pick—up what had been a reliably GOP seat in wealthy and conservative Northern San Diego County (Del Mar).... More

The entire world is concerned about the possible mutation of bird flu into a human contagion. Everyone must be vigilant in monitoring outbreaks, for the spread of epidemics accelerates with each day, once an outbreak begins. Yet China is finding old habits of secrecy difficult to break. The entire... More

Turkey often is taken as an example of Muslim country that has kept a democratic form of government for almost a hundred years. That is partly true, if you take into account the crucial role of the secular military in backing democratic governments with the threat of force. But now Islamic... More

At least some French can claim a victory in this battle. The government, well practiced in the art of surrender, is scrapping the law allowing two whole years in which young new employees can be terminated without cause. Gateway Pundit has an amusing round—up. More

The rape accusations against the lacrosse team at Duke university, brought by an exotic dancer, are beginning to resemble those of Tawana Brawley. According to AP: Time—stamped photographs will show an exotic dancer was already injured and "very impaired" when she arrived at a party where... More

Liberals love to contrast their tolerant, open minded approach to differing viewpoints, lifestyles, ethnicities for instance, as opposed to what they claim are the narrow minded rigidities of the conservatives. Doing your own thing.  Diversity, pluralism and multi culturalism is their... More

Neil Munro of the National Journal has an excellent essay on fake photos influencing public perceptions in the War on Terror. He begins with an analysis of the fake "missile" photograph published by the New York Times that we covered extensively. A long and worthwhile read. The problem isn't going... More

A Congressman is alleged to have committed  250 ethics violations. Big news? Only if he is a Republican. Have you seen the following in the New York Times? From CNS News:  U.S. Rep. Alan Mollohan (D—W.Va.) has committed over 250 violations of House ethics rules, according to a... More

In her preface  to 'The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci,' Irma A. Richter writes: To live close to great minds is a great education, and the happiest thing that can befall us. The reverse is also true: Dealing with small minds degrades our own. This degradation, however, is the price we must... More

"Good fences make good neighbors,"а the poet Robert Frost wrote, probably sarcastically.а A defined boundary clearly marks the separation of one's property from another; excluding those who don't belong.а Many of us have fences on our property; also doors which are locked for safety. Ah, but if... More

On Sunday's Meet The Press, John Kerry was given the first half—hour. ButTim Russert failed to follow—up on the promise that Kerry made on the same show some eighteen months ago, to wit: that he would within a matter of days or at most a few weeks sign the DOD form authorizing the... More

John F. Kerry told the AP his biggest mistake was taking federal money. But I thought so many liberals want government funding for campaigns to avoid the influence of "big money." I await his clarification.   Ed Lasky   4 10 06 More

Professors Walt and Mearsheimer had better start sharpening their pencils, for a new threat has arisen: The India Lobby. The two professors who co—authored the notorious "Israel Lobby" paper thought that the existence of a lobby for the US—Israel alliance indicated it the bilateral... More

Olivier Guitta of the Counterterrorism blog notes that Google has agreed to filter out Chinese websites that Beijing doesn't like — like religious sites. But Google think's it's hunky—dory to carry Al Manar TV ***in its news section,*** brought to you by your friends at Hizbullah, even... More

Boy are we in trouble now! The BBC earnestly reports that reducing pollution is aggravating global warming. I fear that we face an awful mess cleaning up the litter from all those greenies when their heads explode. Hat tip: Byron Hood Thomas Lifson   4 9 06 More

A good portion of the left wing commentariat is going nuclear over Sy Hersh's prognostication of war with Iran, the Bush "leak" (actually, it is properly called "declassification"), and other grist for the mill. Fortunately, our contributor Rick Moran has some very sane things to contribute to... More

North Korea Says It's Prepared for Pre—Emptive Strike Against U.S. Bloomberg reports: North Korea said it's prepared to strike first against the U.S., rather that wait for an attack, even as representatives of the two nations were making overtures in Tokyo for a resumption of nuclear talks.... More

The hyperbolic treatment of the portion of Patrick Fitzgerald's response to Libby's motion to compel in which a Presidential declassification of the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) to explain the truth to reporters has morphed into a Presidential leak against a "whistleblower" has been... More

Given that this item comes from the very unreliable, Seymour Hersh, it should be greeted with some skepticism.   Ed Lasky   4 8 06   Reader Mike McGill comments: With regard to the Seymore Hersh article and all skepticism aside, I'd be very disappointed in our military and... More

The Gulf News has a whole new take on Hamas: The terrorist party is entitled to all the EU money givesto the Palestinians regardless of its failure to adhere to the Oslo agreements. In an editorial titled "Forcing Hamas into a corner," the editorial geniuses of Gulf tell the world that: With the... More

The New York Times is reveling in the embarrassment the New York Post is suffering as one of its Page Six part—timers is caught on tape in an apparent extortion racket. It so sweet to see its competitor, which now greatly outsells the Times on its home turf, squirm. But the Times is also... More

Kris Kobach, a professor of law at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, writes in the New York Post about some legislative tricks that are an insult to the ideal of transperancy — a core principle of democracy. Some highlights: How do you slip legislative poison past... More

We are grateful for a reader sending us the following letter: Great article on the College Rejection Bonanza!  One point that often gets left out of college selectivity discussions, however, is that the U.S. service academies (Naval Academy, West Point, Air Force Academy, Coast Guard Academy)... More

Gavin Newsom, the mayor of San Francisco, has taken into his pretty little head the notion that he gets to pick and choose which laws to enforce. He flouted state law when he performed bogus "marraiges" of homosexual couples, and now he has announced that he will flout any federal legislation that... More

When the French get thoroughly scared they can be a lot tougher on  a few points than America, at least where actual combat is not involved. The new government—supported immigration bill going through the parliament in Paris has provisions that US conservatives can only dream of:... More

"Unemployment rate falls to 4.7% as 211,000 jobs added last month" Market Watch Ed Lasky   4 7 06 More

BAE, the British aerospace company, is in talks to sell its 20% holding in Airbus while the company is still propserous. Airliner wars may sap its performance, as Boeing bounces back. The Wall Street Journal ($link) reports: While a buyout of BAE's Airbus stake won't alter the competitive or... More

The Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, The New Republic, US News & World Report, Alan Dershowitz and many others in academia and public policy have criticized the notorious paper on the "Israel Lobby" academic grounds. But the New York Times has remained completely silent on the... More

Michelle Malkin has done an enormous public service through exposng the NBC Dateline unsuccessful attempt to gin—up and film harrassment of "Muslim—looking" men at NASCAR races. It is a rare double—stereotyping exercise, revealing the contmept of newsroom elites for middle... More

Take a look at the picture the AP chose to represent Republican Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist in an article about pending immigration proposals. The photo was taken March 11, 2006 but it fit the Left's idea of portraying the Right telling immigrants to "Get out of America"! So who cares if it... More

Human history is a story of migration. If physical anthropologists are to be believed, all humanity began in Africa, and the rest of the world was populated through a process of migration. Individuals, families, tribes, and nations continued to wander, driven by hunger, opportunity, war, disease... More

From whose political manifesto do you think the following are excerpted: We believe in the role of government as a force for good. We will put economic stability and fiscal responsibility first. They must come before tax cuts. The right test for our policies is how they help the most disadvantaged... More

Some very disturbing news and a reminder of how dreadful the vetting of key government employees and INS record keeping apparently is: An Iraqi—born U.S. citizen suspected of being a foreign intelligence agent was employed by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to rule on asylum... More

Our contributor Jonathan Strong, rebuts Ricahrd Cohen of the Washington Post, who does not want Zacharias Moussaoui to receive the death penalty, on his website, The Strong Conservative. ...the same arguments were made against putting Timothy McVeigh to death. Despite warnings from the left,... More

Now it can be told! Omygosh! Hamas has discovered the deep, dark secret of American Jews.  After taking control of the media, entertainment and the banks United States churches are secretly run by Jews who converted to Christianity with the intention of controlling religious... More

John Lewis, member of the Congressional Black Caucus, genuine civil rights hero (who carries a metal plate in his head from a beating), and a moral man, and other members of Congressional Black Caucus are moving away from Cynthia McKinney. According to The Hill: Rep. John Lewis (D—Ga.),... More

John McCain has made a deal on 527 groups which could benefit his own presidential campaign. The Hill reports: House Republican leaders have struck a deal with Sen. John McCain (R—Ariz.) to eliminate restrictions on coordination between national parties and federal candidates, a change in... More

We were among the first to warn of the dangers of Venezuela's acquisition of Smartmatic, a manufacturer of voting machines. Now, the Chicago City Council is taking up the matter, according to our friends at Vcrisis. Officials from the City of Chicago Council's Committee on Finance will be holding... More

Abu Ayman, leader of the Secret Islamic Army in Iraq and a prime suspect in the kidnapping and killing of several hostages, plus some of the most lethal IED attacks on coalition forces, has been captured.  Here is the full story from the MNF—Iraq site. Don't hold your breath waiting... More

Ray Robison links to a citizen—translation of one of the "Harmony" documents released to the public from captured archives in Iraq. Ray comments: Page 6 from document  BIAP 2003—000654 is a Top Secret letter dated March/11/2001 six months prior to 9/11/2001, proves that not only... More

The City University of New York is showing a lot more class than aristocratic Yale. It is offering ($link) a scholarship to an Iraqi blogger to attend its Graduate Journalism school. City University has a glorious history of providing the opportunty for striving immigarnts and... More

An article in the British publiscation Business titled 'Is France Ungovernable' has some fascinating figures. We learn, for instance, that only 36% among the French believe that a free—market economy 'is the best system on which to base the future of the world.' In a glaring contrast 74% of... More

Is it some sort of perverse French laissez faire doctrine of non—intervention? or is it just that taking four or five years to investigate a major scandal where fat cats get fatter and poor people starve to death is the French's idea of "rapid response"?  The AP reports: Paris... More

The senior senator from Massachusetts has a new book in which he equates the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor to what America did in Iraq to liberate millions and stop a genocidal maniac and serial war—mongerer. He writes that President Bush should have been more like his brother John, whom he... More

The Washington Post today publishes an important op—ed by Eliot* Cohen on the now—notorious "Israel Lobby" paper co—authored by formerly—reputable scholars from the University and Chicago and Harvard. The New York Times has remained silent on the growing scandal, for... More

The other day I found in my mailbox a surprise freebie from our very liberal local Council: A cotton bag to be used in the supermarket in lieu of plastic bags. The seemingly innocent cotton bag initiative is a part of a larger campaign to turn us into environmentally responsible Londoners. Another... More

The decision of President Truman to employ nuclear weapons to end World War II is once again undergoing a new wave of revisionist history. Call it neo—revisionism, perhaps. Oliver Kamm writes in the London Times: ... the American Society of Historians for Foreign Relations will honour the... More

Since I have posted several items here about CBS's The Unit and its "inspiration," the career of retired Command Sgt. Maj. Eric Haney, I feel duty bound to post the following.  On March 26, Haney gave an interview with the Los Angeles Daily News in which he said:  (the war in... More

Fatwas, fatwas everywhere — cartoons, quiz shows and now the pharaos of Egypt. Fatwahs against Salman Rushdie, yes. Fatwahs declaring it the duty of all devout Muslims to kill the 12 Danish cartoonists, yes. But fatwas against watching solar eclipses? Against King Tut and Queen Nefertiti?... More

Powerline notes that the Washington Times uncovered the financiers of the pro—illegal immigrant demonstration in Los Angeles: A.N.S.W.E.R., the far left group that has opposed the war, among other things, and details how hard it is to find the big money backers of the group. This morning's... More

Is there no depth low enough for the ex—Submariner? The Weekly Standard reports ($link) On March 23, the leftist blog/nuthouse known as the Daily Kos upped its prestige factor to unprecedented levels, when former President Jimmy Carter wrote a "diary" for the site. That's... More

The other day I watched an extraordinary DVD presentation called The Siege of Western Civilization . A one of the kind documentary which has already become an international bestseller, it was made and narrated by Herb Meyer. Serving as Special Assistant to the Director of Central Intelligence and... More

As another hurricane season inevitably approaches along with another election season, get set for high gas prices to be blamed on President Bush. So much of our refining capacity is concentrated on the Gulf, which is also a major production area and the destination for much Venezuelan and Mexican... More

Another mystery illness has appeared in China. The AP reports: Some 400 students at a university in central China have come down with a mystery fever and the cause was under investigation, state media said Monday. The first cases was reported March 26, when 22 students at the Henan University of... More

There is a simple but moving tribute to our troops here. We truly can never thank them enough.   Hat tip: Marcia Tarasovic   Vasko Kohlmayer   4 4 06 More

Barack Obama, the handsome, well—spoken first term Senator, who seems to be the Democratic Party's Great Black Hope, is offering policy prescriptions, and they seem to be uninpressive warmed—over discredited leftist boilerplate. Subsidies for corporations to induce them to do what the... More

Kudos to Ronald Aronson who authored this article in The Nation: "The Left Needs More Socialism." Finally, the truth comes out. Aronson admonishes Democrats to ..break a taboo and place the word 'socialism' across the top of the page in a major American progressive magazine ["The Nation"]. Time... More

Greg Richards sends this excerpt, attributed to Teddy Roosevelt, and found at this website: The foreign—born population of this country must be an Americanized population — no other kind can fight the battles of America either in war or peace. It must talk the language of its... More

The way things are taking shape in Europe could soon result in a situation which would leave the US with no major supporter. We have repeatedly warned about the likely shift in Britain's foreign policy once Tony Blair steps down and is replaced by his heir apparent and a well—known leftist... More

Hamas, Abbas and Arafat persistently, very publicly and very proudly emphasized they don't want a two state solution with Israelis and Arabs living peacefully side by side but one state, eliminating Israel.  And they violently back their words with action supporting terrorism against the... More

Multiple emails on this one: On Wednesday of next week: at two minutes and three seconds after 1:00 in the morning, the time and date will be 01:02:03 04/05/06. More

Of all the causes to send a country into chaos, it is hard to imagine one sillier than the "outrage" at permitting employers to fire a young worker during a 2 year probationary period. Many commentators from Thomas Sowell on down (that's the rest of humanity, in my opinion) have noted that the... More

Ray Robison continues to go through documents from the Saddam Files, and discovers evidence of an effort to work out a relationship with the Taliban, via an Iraqi cleric. More

Which one of these two photos would you assume the BBC chose to put a face to the name Ehud Olmert? The article that accompanies the 'Evil Incarnate' photo has 823 words. So if a picture's worth a thousand words, I guess the editorial intent of the image they chose to represent Mr. Olmert was... More

Former president Bill Clinton, seemingly desperate to spin his legacy as one of accomplishment, facts be damned, in total denial, obviously inhaled something quite strong in England. Asked if he would shake hands with Hamas in the name of negotiation as he did with Arafat in 1993, Clinton... More

Val Prieto at the Cuban—American Babalu blog takes a dim view of the ongoing illegal alien debacle, with its Mexican flag—waving mass protests. In what's some of the best blogging on the Web, Val describes why he abhors terms like "Latino" and "Hispanic" and points out the difference... More

You had to see this coming. Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez has weighed in on the U.S. immigration debate, roundly condemning the U.S. for trying to enforce its immigration laws. Knowing a populist movement when he sees one, he came down on the side of the Mexican—flag—waving illegal... More

Yesterday, Maj. Gen. James Thurman, commander, 4th ID and Multi—National Division, Baghdad, which includes troops from Macedonia, Republic of Georgia & Estonia, gave a press briefing.  Here are his opening remarks: As you may know, we're approaching our first 90 days in theater as... More

Like the United States, Great Britain is also in the midst of a contentious debate on illegal immigration. Yesterday's front page of the leftwing Independent featured a piece  titled 'Amnesty on illegal immigrants is worth ｣6bn to UK,' a blatant call to grant immediate amnesty to all of the... More

Keith Kelly of the New York Post reports on the latest critic to join AT in noting that the New York Times' top management continues to grant itself lavish compensation, while business results are poor and tockholders have lost almost half their investment in the past couple of years: The whopping... More

Today I read in the Washington Times: In one case several years ago, a Chinese officer asked a U.S. Navy officer during a visit to identify the key weakness of a U.S. aircraft carrier, a major Chinese target in any U.S.—Chinese conflict over Taiwan. The officer was naively told that the... More