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Time magazine names "The American Soldier" its Person of the Year. It's an honor well-deserved.

If you haven't read the latest from Victor Davis Hanson over at National Review Online, then you should remedy the situation promptly. Europeans: But don't simply scoff; for us the idea that you would spend $87 billion on fighting in Iraq while your own people don't have health care is preposterous. Dumb American: But was […]

Libya has agreed to allow international inspectors to verify and dismantle that country's WMDs. President Bush and British PM Tony Blair had been negotiating with Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi for about nine months. If you take a look at the calendar, you'll find that the trilateral talks (note that Gadhafi approached the U.S. and U.K. […]

The BBC, its moral vacuum rivaling a moderate-sized black hole, has banned its reporters from referring to Saddam Hussein as a tyrant or dictator, in favor of "the deposed former President." One anonymous BBC staffer has some sense: “This is our daftest order ever.” Well, maybe not ever, but it definitely makes the Top 10.

France is considering a law that would ban Muslim girls from wearing (the required) headscarves at public schools. In the interest of fair treatment, also banned would be "ostentatious" or "large" crosses, crucifixes, yarmukles and the Star of David. Of course, what is "large" or "ostentatious" is always open to interpretation. While a headscarf or […]

The New York Post is reporting that Michael Jackson, facing child molestation charges, has joined the Nation of Islam. My question: Don't you have to be black to join?

Christopher Johnson has been doing an excellent job over at the Midwest Conservative Journal covering the fallout from the Episcopal Church's decision that all that stuff in the Bible about homosexuality is just outdated moralizing that God wasn't really serious about. The latest: The Anglican Church in Uganda (the Episcopal Church is the American branch […]

The Media Research Center has announced its annual awards for the worst media reporting. I'd seen many of them, but to read all of them collected in just one place...and some think the media leans right.

OK, maybe there have been some dumb ones, but the one showing on Hannity & Colmes on Fox News reads: CAPTURE OF SADDAM HUSSEIN Saddam reportedly said "My name is Saddam Hussein" And this is suppose to inform me how? It'd be more interesting if it had read: Only true statement Saddam has told interrogators […]

What's going on with the copy desk over at The New York Times? An article on Friday about the views of L. Paul Bremer III, the American administrator in Iraq, about the country's future misstated the weight of the bombs that United States forces have dropped recently on sites believed to harbor urban guerrillas. They […]