Investor's Business Daily wants the US to invade Syria:Regime change in Syria should be the ultimate goal of the civilized world.And they seem to have no illusions about it:A move against Syria would no doubt have given critics even more reason to make the Vietnam...
Bush: Election win rules out accountability
From the Department of Creating Your Own Reality: President Bush said the public's decision to reelect him was a ratification of his approach toward Iraq and that there was no reason to hold any administration officials accountable for mistakes or misjudgments in...
Kostunica in Kosovo
At the midnight liturgy on Christmas Eve in Belgrade, president Tadic appeared in the first row of worshippers, right next to Prince Alexander Karadjordjevic. Technically, the prince was all chummy with the man who usurped his birthright, since the republic was...
The Pentagon’s Gay Bomb
The Pentagon is full of it-I mean full of them; good ideas, that is. Turns out, in 1994, they had a thought. That's newsworthy itself, but the thought was this; what we'll do is, we'll deliver a bomb to a site where there are a bunch of enemy troops. It will contain,...
Let all the refugees vote
The jazzman has a great suggestion:according to an article in ha'aretz, all people who can prove they or their fathers were born in iraq will be eligible to vote in the upcoming elections. this will include hundreds of thousands of israelis. i applaud this broadening...
The “Iraqi Resistance” video
Reuters carried this article yesterday which discusses the Iraqi video which asks Bush, ""George W. Bush; you have asked us to 'bring it on'. And so have we, like never expected. Do you have another challenge?" Since it's in the news again, I thought I'd post this...
Andrew Sullivan can write again!
Jim's right, the pre-9/11 Andy may be back. If you read only one article on the events surrounding the US torture scandal, make it this one.
If they had standards, they’d be double
The jingosphere unleashed the snarling hounds of bloggy wrath on CBS and Dan Rather for presenting a set of dubious documents as fact and then huffed about in insulted outrage that the anxiously awaited report barely mentioned them and called them "conservative...
Those Wacky North Koreans
Every other day or so, a news story describes life in North Korea. It is invariably a story about the totally asinine pronouncements of the government there. It almost makes me want to have a section on the page entitled "Those Wacky North Koreans," under which we...
Cascading System Failure in Iraq
John Robb made this interesting point a few days ago:Over the last year, Iraq's global guerrillas have used attacks against gas and oil pipelines to disrupt electricity production. They have been very effective. Electricity production is substantially less than demand...
