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I just wanted to call attention to this gem from The New York Times in a article about Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert rejecting the Iraq Study Group's lamebrained contention that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is somehow linked to Iraq. In a speech last week, the prime minister said that if the Palestinians could form a […]

Unimpressive. That's the best that I can say about the Iraq Study Group report [PDF document] thus far. I've only read the executive summary and some various commentaries on the document, I hope to get to the remainder in the coming days Committees formed in Washington, D.C., typically don't solve problems -- they're an excuse […]

I haven't written much about New York Times columnist Paul Krugman in quite awhile because his voice largely dropped out of the public debate when that paper sealed his writings behind their pay wall. But I want to give you a couple of quick Krugmania links. First, Jon Henke notes that Paul Krugman is predicting […]

Honestly, I want to be done with the Worst. President. Ever. But the guys over at Powerline posted this letter from the until-very-recently Middle East Fellow of the Carter Center of Emory University. This note is to inform you that yesterday, I sent letters to President Jimmy Carter, Emory University President Jim Wagner, and Dr. […]

A couple weeks back a half-dozen Muslim clerics from the Phoenix area were flying home from a conference in Minnesota. They ended up being pulled off the plane because they forgot the rules of flight club. On a similar note, check out this op-ed piece by Debra Burlingame. These Imams were begging to be kicked […]

Jeff Jarvis thinks even less of Byron Calame's latest column than I did. That's what I call an accomplishment.

U.S. ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton has tendered his resignation. First Sen. George "crybaby" Voinovich and then Sen. Lincoln "backstabber" Chafee and their perfidy is to blame for Bolton's exit after the Democrats won control of the Senate last month. Voinovich blocked Bolton's nomination when it first came up because he thought Bolton would […]

Jimmy Carter -- Worst. President. Ever. -- was on C-SPAN2 Sunday morning pitching his garbage book. One caller managed to get through who told it like it is. Israel isn't the problem. The problem is the Muslim death cult that pervades much of the Middle East and holds power in the Palestinian territories.The kind of […]

Sunday's Washington Post opinion section, Outlook, features short articles by five historians on where President George W. Bush will rank in history. Four of the historians are so blinkered by their own politics that it's highly likely that they've never met someone who voted for Bush in person and the only Republicans they know are […]

Here are a couple more articles from the St. Petersberg Times on the congressional race in Sarasota, Fla., where GOP candidate Vern Buchanan has narrowly beaten Democrat Christine Jennings in every count and recount in the race. First is this Associated Press piece which reveals that the voting machines didn't have any problems. I love […]