Before the most recent election, Speaker-ascendant Nancy Pelosi made some promises. She assured us that, if her party were given the reins of Congressional power, she’d make sure ten things happened in the first hundred hours. Here’s the first: We will start by cleaning up Congress, breaking the link between lobbyists and legislation and commit […]
They’re all about “stability”, remember? WASHINGTON, Nov. 30, 2006 — U.S. officials say they have found smoking-gun evidence of Iranian support for terrorists in Iraq: brand-new weapons fresh from Iranian factories. According to a senior defense official, coalition forces have recently seized Iranian-made weapons and munitions that bear manufacturing dates in 2006. This suggests, say […]
Did you know that the President of Iran wrote you a letter? Well, he did and here it is. I can’t even begin to comment in detail on it because the letter combines some of the most guffaw-inspiring lines side-by-side with something that could have easily been dashed off by the average high-profile Democratic US […]
The Washington Post had an editorial about the Minnesota deplaning incident yesterday that I find extremely fatuous. Let me quote the heart of the editorial. Many facts of the case are still the subject of debate, but we know this much: Last week, six imams heading home from a conference in Minnesota unrolled rugs before […]
Who is the real instigator behind Iraq? Is it Iran, as the vast proponderance of the evidence has demonstrated? Or is it al-Qaeda, as the President would have us believe? RIGA, Latvia, Nov. 28 — Dismissing suggestions that Iraq has deteriorated into a civil war, President Bush on Tuesday blamed Al Qaeda for the rising […]
Beware the corn! No, really. According to Miss C, PBS and NPR are warning parents of the eminent danger their children face from high fructose corn syrup. Says Miss C, According to the left, the government is always responsible for the behavior of individual citizens. If citizens make bad decisions, it can be corrected only […]
“There’s a reason Americans are generally skeptical of international institutions and their laws, rules, and regulations. They generally stink.” Jim Geraghty is absolutely right. When international institutions give the benefit of the doubt to scoundrels and killers, there’s no reason I can imagine that we should trust them at all. There’s an old aphorism that […]
Well no kidding… WASHINGTON, Nov. 27 — A senior American intelligence official said Monday that the Iranian-backed group Hezbollah had been training members of the Mahdi Army, the Iraqi Shiite militia led by Moktada al-Sadr. The official said that 1,000 to 2,000 fighters from the Mahdi Army and other Shiite militias had been trained by […]
Here’s a little commentary about our very own leftists, from a wise and observant man. “Realism”, then, means nothing other than trading off our enemies’ interests in one place for our own assumed advantage elsewhere. (e.g., stop the Iranian IED supply in southern Iraq and we will lay off UN sanctions; close the Syrian border […]
Have the MSM been using insurgent propaganda to prop up their “Civil War in Iraq” proclamations? Flopping Aces says there’s every reason to believe they have. He’s hot on the trail of a Captain Jamel Hussein of the Iraqi police who has been a go-to quote machine for the Associated Press and was the main […]
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