Kris Johansen defends imperialism before his fellow pinkos in the August edition of Adbusters: Every spring the bulls charge down the narrow alleys of the Spanish town of Pamplona, their thousand-pound bodies careering around corners, hooves clattering across paving...
This Ann Coulter parody in the Weekly Standard made me chuckle. Of course, the dragoness is more or less correct about one thing (McCarthy)--the only reason the neos have it in for her.
But at least he isn't a liar. Writing in Reason, Bailey describes one effect of intelligence-tampering: The American public and the rest of the world will be understandably skeptical when U.S. intelligence agencies next claim there is a looming crisis somewhere....
According to Ha'aretz, U.S. military honchos are visiting with the Israeli Defense Forces to learn about occupation techniques. Interestingly, these meetings began a full year before the war on Iraq. What country were they planning to occupy then? And for how long?
Would they please explain it to Americans? From the AP: Public support for Poland's role in Iraq appeared to be eroding, with a poll published Monday showing more than half of those surveyed disapproved of sending troops. A growing number of Poles also feared that...
And no one's laughing? A great article on a global delusion: The Day Irony Failed, by Gary LaMoshi. The US State Department weighed in on the Makati crisis by backing "the legitimate civilian government of the Philippines". The US cleverly avoided use of the word...
Ali Abbas, the Iraqi boy who lost both arms and his family during the war, will be transported to London for prostheses. That the artificial limbs and subsequent therapy alone will cost $675,000 brings to mind Henry Hazlitt's "blessings of destruction".
I feel safer already. We have let the Vatican terrormasters run amok for far too long.
About spreading freedom at gunpoint. Drug prohibition seems to be out the window in liberated Afghanistan-- which is why we'll soon be invading them again. From the Christian Science Monitor: Bumper year for Afghan poppies BATIKOT, AFGHANISTAN - Gul Hazrat Bacha has...
On one of the nightly news programs this evening, news of Uday's and Qusay's deaths was said to have been greeted by Iraqis with celebratory gunfire. The video showed sporadic green flares across the Baghdad sky to support this claim. Struck me as odd that Iraqis--who...
