Good job, morons: In response to the US announcement that it will pay $5 million for the heads of two men, one a member of Hezbollah, the other a member of Islamic Jihad, the latter organization has threatened to strike US interests. The Hezbollah man was apparently...
The Manhattan (Kansas?) Project
President Bush yesterday asked Congress for an additional $6.4 billion to develop ways of defeating roadside bombs in Iraq -- nearly double what has been provided since 2003 -- in the hopes of reviving an effort once billed as the "Manhattan Project" of the war but...
Attack in Eilat: Monstrous, Desperate, Natural, Counterproductive
I was wondering when it would happen. Nine months after the last suicide bombing in Israel, another bomber struck -- this time in Eilat, a southern resort town on the Red Sea which has never experienced a suicide attack. Islamic Jihad and the Al-Aqsa Brigades both...
Big Corps Back Gitmo Defenders
"Two weeks after a senior Pentagon official suggested that corporations should pressure their law firms to stop assisting detainees at Guantanamo Bay, major companies have turned the tables on the Pentagon and issued statements supporting the law firms' work on behalf...
US-Kurdish Standoff in Irbil — and US Evac?
According to NPR correspondent Ivan Watson, Kurdish forces prevented three American humvees from crossing into another part of town. A Kurdish guard told him that after an hour and a half standoff, weapons cocked, four blackhawks came to evacuate some of the US...
Somali Govt to Last for Weeks
Well actually the headline is "Ethiopian army to stay in Somalia for weeks" -- but those of us who have paid attention to Somalia over the past few years know what that really means in relation to what the UN has been insisting is Somalia's government. This...
Saddam Hanging Video Leak
Long Live Live Leak. WARNING: GRAPHIC. This shows Saddam Hussein dropping through the hanging platform, and then a closeup of his face immediately after. You know you want to see it.
Israel: Western! Progressive! Or Not.
At first glance, I figured I'd be amused, but I was quickly sickened by what I read in Ha'aretz today. A female American tourist was riding a bus to pray at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, and when a gang of Haredi men ordered her to the back of the bus, she refused....
Another Reason for Texans to Be Embarrassed
Is this for real? I'm still incredulous of what I have just read. Rep. Silvestre Reyes (D-TX), has been appointed the new chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, on which he has served for the last six years. This is a person you'd expect to be more than...
Urban Sophistication, Suburban Idiocy
I really must object to Matt's post "Urban Idiocy," which I assume is a swipe at New Yorkers and their supposedly (but not actually) sophisticated world view. First of all, nobody reads the Post. Any time I have ever seen it being read was on the subway, and people...
