Poor Glenn Reynolds, he's trying mightily to recreate the days when his opinion meant something, but that was long ago and far away and the old war-blogger doesn't have the good sense to fade away: he's still in there pitching pernicious memes: "MUBARAK has resigned....
Mubarak’s Downfall: One Down, One to Go….
To predict a dictator's downfall in the evening, and to wake up to his resignation is to live in a pundit's paradise, and that's precisely where I am today. As I said in this morning's column: "Mubarak, as I said a while back, is finished. His Norma Desmond moment...
Cheney Ambushed at CPAC
Youthful libertarians at the CPAC conference, now going on in Washington, ambush Dick Cheney -- who's getting a "Defender of the Constiution" award! -- calling him a "war criminal" as the neocons chant "USA USA!!" in their usual "four-legs-good-two-legs-bad" style....
Mubby Speaks! “I’m Not Going Anywhere Until September!”
Hosni Mubarak is scheduled to speak to the Egyptian people in the next ten minutes, and speculation is rife that he's going to be announcing his effective resignation. This promises to be a Nixonian moment -- remember "You won't have Dick Nixon to kick around...
Angela Keaton at Ground Zero Mosque
from CPAC today....
Thursday Iran Talking Points
from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for February 10th, 2011: The Washington Post: Former Israeli ambassador Sallai Meridor opines on “What Israel fears in Egypt.†He observes, “Within every revolution are some who hope to use democratic...
Saudi ‘Threat’ to Fund Mubarak
Via Matt Drudge, the Times of London reports: "Saudi Arabia has threatened to prop up President Mubarak if the White House tries to force a swift change of regime in Egypt. In a testy personal telephone call on January 29, King Abdullah told President Obama not to...
Wednesday Iran Talking Points
from LobeLog: News and Views Relevant to U.S.-Iran relations for February 9th, 2011: The Wall Street Journal: Kenneth M. Pollack, director of the Saban center at the Brookings Institution, opines, “Could al Qaeda Hijack Egypt’s Revolution?†and observes, “the...
The Moral Blindness of Glenn Reynolds
I see Glenn Reynolds, of Instapundit fame, is whining that he did not drop Zeyad, an Iraqi blogger whose cousin was murdered by US soldiers in Iraq -- as I wrote in today's column -- and that “Actually, I played a big role in drawing attention to what happened to...
Rachel Maddow in Shock: Tea Partiers Defeat PATRIOT Act
Rachel Maddow is using her "report" on the Republican tea caucus blocking the extension of the PATRIOT Act to replay her "interview" with Rand Paul, and rail about abortion. Rant all you want, Rachel, but people are noticing that you haven't even mentioned the Act...
