I was reading today's CNN.com report on President Bush's visit to Great Britain when I came across the following paragraph: Bush also discussed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, saying Israel "should freeze settlement construction, dismantle unauthorized outposts, end the daily humiliation of the Palestinian people and not prejudice final negotiations with the placements of walls and fences." […]
The U.S. Army is prosecuting Lt. Col. Allen B. West for threatening to shoot an Iraqi policeman who was conspiring with insurgents to ambush U.S. troops. The smart thing for the Army to do in this case, is to put a letter in his file, let him ride a desk for a couple of weeks […]
Stephen Hayes defends his piece and wonders if the writer of the Defense Department's press release ever read his piece of the memo it is based upon. *UPDATE* Citizen Smash also thinks that the case is strong.
In response to The Weekly Standard's piece by Stephen F. Hayes regarding the connections between the Al Qaeda terrorist organization and Saddam Hussein's Iraq. Shortly after Hayes' piece was published on the Web, the Department of Defense came out with a press release which, to appropriate a statement from The Washington Post's Ben Bradlee, amounts […]
I'm reading Bernard Goldberg's new book, "Arrogance" and it's a good read. Goldberg spends the first few chapters outlining how the mainstream media responded to his first book "Bias" and to him personally. Goldberg refers to a piece attacking him in USA Today by the newspaper's founder Al Neuharth. Neuharth's short, 300 word column took […]
The Weekly Standard's Stephen F. Hayes has gotten his hands on an intelligence memo that details, point by point, Saddam Hussein's connections to al Qaeda and Usama bin Laden. According to the memo--which lays out the intelligence in 50 numbered points--Iraq-al Qaeda contacts began in 1990 and continued through mid-March 2003, days before the Iraq […]
It appears as though the characterization of Democrat senators on the Judiciary Committee acting as little more than agents for various liberal interest groups was chillingly accurate. April 17, 2002/To: SENATOR [Kennedy] "Elaine Jones of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund tried to call you today. . . . Elaine would like the Committee to hold […]
Citizen Smash links to this article [free registration required] in the Chicago Tribune about a woman whose son was killed in Iraq. In the eyes of his anti-war mother, Brian Slavenas was a man of peace who died while reluctantly serving in a conflict he disagreed with. To his father and brother, both veterans, the […]
Yep, it's the middle of the night here on the West Coast, and Sen. Rick Santorum is on the Senate floor and boy is he good. Santorum is warning the Democrats that the day will come where the tables will be turned and they aren't going to like it. We have let the Richard Paez's […]
Vanity Fair's Graydon Carter illustrates why most journalists shouldn't be allowed anywhere near numbers. We'll start with an absolute oh-my-God-what-was-I-thinking howler. Surely by now someone has told Carter of this utterly astounding error he (and his fact checker, if he even has one) has made here: not knowing the difference between a trillion and a […]