It's late and I'm just catching the rerun of CNN's Capitol Gang. Commentator Mark Shields, in reiterating his opposition to the death penalty in the wake of the beltway sniper case, suggested that if you wanted to try Malvo and Muhammed for the murder in Alabama that those heartless Republicans would stop at no lengths […]
Kudos to Andrew Sullivan for digging up this blast from Paul Krugman's past. From "How to be a Hack:" While hired guns do not flourish at Harvard or the University of Chicago, however, in Washington they roam in packs. Portrait of a hired gun: He or she is usually a mediocre economist -- someone whose […]
We've heard the United States' ultimatum towards Iraq is all about oil argument, but thanks to the Council on American-Islamic Relations and Antiwar.com the next likely argument is that the war is a cover for imminent Israeli genocide. That's right, Israel wants to wipe out all Palestinians, and Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction are […]
I've had requests for a periodic update on the closely-contested U.S. Senate races, but I've too often had too little time to do all of the research. Fortunately, there's a good summary up at National Review Online. Check it out here.
I'd planned on writing a little dissection of this piece in Monday's San Diego Union-Tribune by columnist James Goldsborough. The piece is a lame attempt to equate Iraq's quest for nuclear weapons with North Korea's acquisition of them. The Bush administration's reaction to North Korea's revelation of a nuclear weapons program last week was to […]
Authorities have been searching for sniper-related clues in Western Washington. I don't get it. If the sniper is killing people from 3,000 miles away -- then he's a pretty good shot. Maybe the Pentagon should hire him, send him to eastern Turkey and let him kill Saddam. It'd be a lot cheaper.
In a letter in this week's Time magazine, we are graced with the following from Jorma Kajaste of Espoo, Finland. The conclusion of your excellent review of the historical Abraham and the three great religions seemed to be that belief in Abraham might help bring Muslims, Jews and Christians closer to one another [Religion, Sept. […]
OpinionJournal.com's James Taranto reports today that DemocraticUnderground.com may have convinced him that Jimmy Carter did deserve a Nobel Peace Prize because: "Okay, so the late seventies were dreary. Is that any reason to begrudge a man his Nobel? People were tired; the previous fifteen years had been feverish. And Jimmy Carter was, to the public, […]
If you're assigning a reporter to cover the story of the discovery of an ossuary purportedly holding the bones of James, brother of Jesus, then maybe the person should have some familiarity with the Christmas story. The find is a 20-inch-long limestone ossuary, a container for bones, which some assert might have been used for […]
It seems that there's a protest in Iraq with people wondering where their missing relatives are.