One story, four headlines. The story: in 2002-2003 some Guantanamo detainees told FBI investigators that guards had flushed a Koran down the toilet, and desecrated the Koran in other ways. Now, the headlines: Yahoo news: FBI memo reports Guantanamo guards … Continue reading →
Well, it turns out you can blame it on Watergate. The recent prominence of anonymous sources in the Newsweek Koran-flushing story tweaked my curiosity about the history of the practice. To the best of my recollection, the newspapers of my … Continue reading →
The pachyderm visitation turned out to be good for business, after all.
Continue reading →I fear I’m getting boring here, carping on the MSM again ( getting boring? ask my critics. You’ve been boring for a long time now.) But here it is again. Via Michael Totten, I read this recent fisking of a … Continue reading →
It is cold, dark, dank, and rainy. Much of this spring has been like that, and now they say it will continue for the rest of the week for northern coastal New England, with temperatures in the balmy (“balmy” as … Continue reading →
Our old friend Jennifer Loven reports on what was essentially a cooperative meeting between ally Karzai and President Bush, and tries her best to spin it into a quarrel. I know that reporters generally don’t write their own headlines, so … Continue reading →
This is beautiful music to my neocon ears–one of the central reasons I am proud to say I voted for President Bush. Read the whole thing.
Continue reading →Good news–I think. Apparently, according to the Boston Globe, there is a middle-of-the-road coalition being formed in the Senate, and it has some chance of tempering the polarization there. Could this be the start of something big? An excerpt from … Continue reading →
As I said, it couldn’t happen to a nicer guy. Via Instapundit, I havelearned that the results of the election in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia have come in, and they look very bad for our friend Herr Schroder. Despite … Continue reading →
Many people have suggested I really need to read David Horowitz’s book Radical Son, so many that I decided to take them up on it. I just got the book out of the library and have only read a bit … Continue reading →
Yesterday, NY Times columnist David Brooks wrote a column defending Newsweek against the bloggers. Brooks writes that, instead of criticizing the media, we need to focus on “the extremists, the real enemy,” the ones who bear the true responsibility for … Continue reading →
I was suprised at the depth of feeling evidenced in the recent Crisco cookie wars (if you are unaware of what I’m referring to, see here). I hope we have reached the point where we can now call a truce … Continue reading →