Campaign workers pasting up posters in Saigon for the September 1967 election, four months before the Tet Offensive. SUCCESS! United States officials were surprised and heartened today at the size of turnout in South Vietnam's presidential election despite a Vietcong...
I see Glenn "I'm a tax-supported professor with time on my hands" Reynolds -- does that guy ever teach any classes? -- is sliming Tom Woods' best-selling book, The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History, without -- of course -- having actually read it. Now, I...
Good grief! When I read the following blog entry by Andrew Sullivan, I practically fell off my chair: "THE NYT'S SILENCE: In the blogosphere, we are often called to account for previous statements; or asked to concede that we were wrong about something or other. It...
The official results aren't in yet, nor are any preliminary returns, but that isn't stopping the United Iraqi Alliance backed by fundamentalist Shi'ite cleric Ayatollah Sistani from claiming victory -- and an overwhelming one at that: "Officials in the United Iraqi...
As usual, the drugs-sex-&-rock&roll brigade over at Reason is head-over-heels in love with the latest deformed offspring of American "democracy"-promotion, in this case the Iraqi election, with editor Nick Gillespie fawning -- "some came on crutches" -- over the fake...
Stephen Schwartz, self-described "Trotsky-con," frenzed defender of Uzbekistan's brutal dictatorship, and always a barrel of laughs, must be off his medication again, 'cause here he is taking credit for the Iraqi election: "The group of non-Iraqis in America entitled...
There have been a lot of turnout estimates thrown around fast and loose -- hopefully we will have a better indication of the truth soon. But the International Organization for Migration (IOM) seems to have learned some propaganda techniques from the previous Iraqi...
There is much speculation floating around about the tragic crash of the British C-130 Hercules yesterday which occurred barely twenty miles northwest of Baghdad. While the BBC reports in Ten feared dead in Hercules crash that "...wreckage from the C-130 plane, which...
Andrew Gilligan, of the London Evening Standard, reporting from Iraq: "Groups of men sat outside their shops, showing each other the ink-marked index fingers they got when they voted. It was a Shia area. so no problems about turnout. No doubt about what voters wanted...
Getting beyond all the self-congratulatory hype in the American media, the London Independent offers this perspective from Iraq: "The Americans have repeatedly charged that Iran was interfering in the election and bankrolling Shia Islamist parties such as Dawa and the...
