I just finished Christopher Paolini's "Eragon" today. I started it yesterday. It's 528 pages. Is it good? Yep. Is it fun? Yep. Should you buy it? Yep. First off, let's get one thing out of the way. I bought the book because it was cheap for a hardback and I'd read a wire story about […]
Reporter Andrew Gilligan should have been the first one sacked at the BBC over his faulty reporting, instead he is the third. Take solace, Andrew, Al Jazeera has openings.
Two must reads on the Democrats Judiciary Committee memos "scandal." First check out the Wall Street Journal. Once you're done there, take a gander at Byron York's report over at NRO.
Do you remember when U.N. chief weapons inspector Hans Blix reported to the U.N. that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction and that he had complied with U.N. resolution 1441? No. Well New York Times columnist Paul Krugman does. Surely even supporters of the Iraq war must be dismayed by the administration's reaction […]
Today's New York Times has a letter from a former State Department official during the Reagan administration. The writer makes an excellent point: To the Editor: Something has skewed what should be the obvious public take on the American intelligence about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction (front page, Jan. 29). It is a fact that […]
I mentioned a couple of days ago that I was looking forward to reading what Union-Tribune columnist James Goldsborough would have to say regarding the results of the Hutton Inquiry and its indictment of the BBC's "journalism." Well, you can find his Thursday column here. The column actually takes a dual path, condemning Bush on […]
Weapons inspector David Kay testified before Congress yesterday and said little more than what he had told various media organizations over the past several days. Some thoughts on the issue and things to remember: Democrats and other associated leftists have argued that the failure of the U.S. to find WMDs in Iraq proves that Hussein […]
Fox News just had a short report on the Jewish community in Baghdad -- all 38 of them. They had video of some working to restore a small Jewish cemetery -- something that had been forbidden under Saddam Hussein's rule. Anytime Palestinian apologists gripe about their "right of return" to Israel, remember that there used […]
I commented earlier this week on Democrat presidential hopeful Howard Dean's incredibly stupid statement that Iraqis standard of living was lower now than it was under Saddam. Now an Iraqi blogger has some words for Dean. I’m not going to comment about the rightness of the statement with more than saying that only a (blind) […]
The results of the Hutton Inquiry into the death of British weapons inspector David Kelly, whether the British government "sexed-up" its intelligence or the BBC "sexed-up" its reporting, are in -- and it's bad news for the BBC. The 740 page report focused its ire on the British Broadcasting Corp. and its failure to verify […]