So Dubai Ports World has decided to save President Bush and themselves a lot of political angst by transferring the management duties for six U.S. ports to a U.S. company. If that company ends up being Halliburton, it will spawn conspiracy theories among the moonbat left for the rest of the century. Now if only […]
I've often been curious as to how The New York Times goes about selecting which letters to publish on its editorial page. Often the majority of the letters represent a decidedly (and at times extremely) left-wing worldview, but it's impossible to know if this is because the vast majority of the letters they receive are […]
Monday's New York Times has an interesting op-ed piece by MIT political science professor Barry Posen. Normally I would find Posen's analysis pretty astute and convincing, however I can't come to that conclusion in this case. As for aggression, the fear is that Iran could rely on a diffuse threat of nuclear escalation to deter […]
You often have to point out to Democrats that elections have consequences. There's a Republican president and a GOP-controlled Senate, therefore you're going to get conservative judges -- that's all there is to it. The Palestinians who voted the terrorist group Hamas into power also need to realize this basic fact, and they shouldn't be […]
Over the weekend, 15 people were killed in Nigeria and another 11 in Libya as the engineered violence in response to the rather tame Muhammed cartoons continued to claim lives. In a case of bad timing, my paper, the San Diego Union-Tribune, published an incredibly lame justification for not having published any of the Danish […]
The Jerusalem Post is reporting that the U.S. government has approached Georgia (the country, not the state) about using bases in that country should they be needed to prevent Iran from going nuclear. American officials have been quietly probing whether Georgia, situated just northwest of Iran, will be willing to allow Washington to use its […]
I'm hopeful that the Muslims will stop rioting over these rather tame cartoons so that I can stop chastising the media for its failure to print them. It's a rare day when I find myself in agreement with "Fox News Watch's" Neal Gabler, who on Saturday's show called the newspapers and broadcast outlets that refused […]
It's days like today that you've got to be thankful for the utter incompetence of Florida voters. Had more of them been able to actually cast the vote they meant to cast for Vice President Al Gore, we would've had this nutcase in charge of our response to terrorism. Al Gore told a mainly Saudi […]
John Hinderaker over at Powerline took a swing at Sunday's jumbo-sized New York Times editorial and smashed it to smithereens. A casual observer would be forgiven for wondering what the fuss is about. If the Times is happy with what the administration is doing, but just wants it to follow a procedure that will yield […]
There should be no doubt that the Palestinian Authority is a corrupt terrorist organization. It was when Yasser Arafat (condition stable after dying in a Paris hospital) was running things. It was when his Fatah party continued holding power after his death. And it will continue to be now that Hamas -- an organization that […]