When Dixie Chicks lead singer Natalie Maines announced to a British audiance a couple years back that she was "ashamed" that President Bush was from Texas, the same state that produced her, country music stations stopped playing their songs and some even organized CD-destruction-fests reminiscent of those that accompanied the revelation that Milli Vanilli were […]
Last week I said that the media would be better off just ignoring Michael Berg, the father of Nicholas Berg who was decapitated by deceased terrrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Unfortunately, Berg is running for Congress from Delaware on the Green Party ticket, so the press is going to have to pay attention to him until […]
I caught the Fox News report on Tuesday's House Judiciary Committee hearing and I must confess that it tested my self control. You knew you weren't going to get any semblance of balance when the hearing is entitled "RECKLESS JUSTICE: Did the Saturday Night Raid of Congress Trample the Constitution?" Seriously, why even use a […]
Today's ruling by the European Court of Justice to bar airlines operating from Europe to the United States from disclosing their passenger lists to the Department of Homeland Security may mean that we'll have fewer snooty French tourists to deal with. Europe's highest court struck down an anti-terrorism agreement that allows the European Union and […]
Apparently some psychotic "psychic" predicted that a 200 meter high tsunami was going to strike the Atlantic coast yesterday. In an update, the nut has now said that it will strike in a 48-hour window. See what truthout.org has wrought.
You've seriously got to be kidding me. Some lawmakers are warning of a voter backlash against members of Congress "trying to protect their own" if party leaders keep escalating a constitutional dispute over the FBI's raid of a representative's office. Yet not long after House Speaker Dennis Hastert and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi demanded on […]
For those of you, like me, too young to remember the Winter Soldier hearings, let me summarize: More than 35 years ago, Vietnam Veterans Against the War held hearings in Detroit where veterans testified to all sorts of atrocities and war crimes being committed by American troops in Vietnam. The vast majority of the "testimony" […]
I had read this piece by Christopher Hitchens the other day but failed to link to it due to illness and overwork. (I've come down with a nasty cold and worked a minimum of 10.5 hours each of the last three days. At this point I was kinda hoping that I had contracted the Black […]
The Unctuous Juan Cole has apparently demanded a correction from The Wall Street Journal's John Fund over a quote in a column published last week. Frankly, I'm not so sure that the "clarification" is one to improve the perception of Cole among non-BDS/non-anti-Semite readers. Clarification Prof. Juan Cole says that the statement in last week's […]
It seems that both Democrats and Republicans used the same Washington, D.C. station the other day for a photo op railing against high gas prices. The gas station is one block from a Senate office building. I know they're generally a bunch of old farts, but one block?