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Slate's one-trick pony, Jacob Weisberg, author of their "Bushisms" feature has stuck his foot in it again. "I'm honored to shake the hand of a brave Iraqi citizen who had his hand cut off by Saddam Hussein."—Washington, D.C., May 25, 2004 As Eugene Volokh notes, and anyone who had been following the story would know, […]

Human rights organizations, and others, often make the argument that we should follow the Geneva Conventions because if we do not, then our opponents in future wars would use that as an excuse to mistreat American soldiers that they capture. This argument is often applied (bizarrely) by human rights organizations to terrorists who do not […]

I've often said that the problem with zero-tolerance policies is that they are a poor substitute for common sense. But there's always the exception that proves the rule -- where administrators demonstrate they are so bereft of common sense that a zero-tolerance policy is needed to make up for this moral flaw. This is a […]

And a dollar short. Blog from the Core is 2-years-old yesterday.

As we go through Saddam's extensive files and continue to try to bring order to Iraq, Bush's "lies" are starting to fall apart come true. There are no WMDs in Iraq. Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with 9/11. These don't get appropriate play in the old media -- and it's a big reason why […]

For a couple of decades now, the ACLU and various local athiests have been on a (pardon the pun) crusade to remove crosses from public land. One of the first cases was of the cross atop Mt. Helix in La Mesa. The city of La Mesa managed to wrangle out of the ACLU's hold by […]

I've often written that the United Nations is a mostly-useless organization. Some of the world's worst abusers of human rights are regularly placed on its Human Rights committee; the Middle East's lone democracy is regularly attacked by racist Arab and Muslim nations; it regularly ignores massacres and genocide around the world; and the list goes […]

When I saw this story come over the wires, I just had to laugh. An Egyptian court has dismissed a lawsuit claiming that President Hosni Mubarak has violated the Egyptian constitution because he has failed to appoint a vice president. Wait, it gets worse better. Mubarak has previously defended the absence of a vice president […]

It's not quite as good as the first one, but it's still well worth the premium nighttime admission price. All of the voice acting is superbly done, and the animation is just as good as the first one.

P.J. O'Rourke also pops up on today's Wall Street Journal op-ed page. [link for subscribers only] Go check it out. Hopefully they'll put it up on the free OpinionJournal.com site this weekend. In the piece, O'Rourke humorously advocates the U.S. "recusing" itself from the rest of the world. To tide you over and pique your […]