Ukraine President Viktor Yushchenko has recognized what is at stake in the ongoing Russo-Georgian War (I say ongoing because there is no evidence that the Russians intend to stop killing anytime soon regardless of their protestations) even if our own government has had a great deal of difficulty in coming to grips that Russia has ceased being an ally, partner, or competitor and is now | Read More »
The editorial board of the Washington Post today takes the unusual step of fact checking a full page ad run by the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC) decrying additional drilling in response to oil prices as “100% Snake Oil.” After an obligatory nod to two standard enviro-weenie memes on the time lag from drilling to gas pump and the “pristine” nature of our mosquito infest | Read More »
We all know the story well because we flogged Wes Clark with it in 2004. June 12, 1999. Priština International Airport. Details of Russia’s surprise occupation of Pristina airport at the end of the Kosovo war are revealed in a new BBC documentary on the conflict. For the first time, the key players in the tense confrontation between Nato and Russian troops talk about the | Read More »
Governor Bill Richardson on the Conflict Between Russia and Georgia @ Yahoo! Video Transcript via The Hotline Richardson: “My view is that the United States — if we had a stronger relationship with Russia, we could exercise strong diplomacy to stop this effort against Georgia. We should immediately go to the United Nations Security Council, condemn Russia’s action, and then get the Security Council to | Read More »
The correct answer is: the French 4×100 Relay Team. The Americans’ relay victory was all the more sweet considering the way France declared itself the favorite prior to the Olympics. The Frenchmen weren’t shy about repeating it either. In a news conference prior to the start of the Games, Bernard, who boasts a tattoo of a shark on his abdomen [Ed. Note: WTF?], was asked | Read More »
As everyone knows, John Edwards admitted yesterday to carrying on an adulterous relationship with a “documentary film maker” while his wife was battling cancer. Yes, we know, as we’ve known since 1992, that EVERYONE commits adultery but the bar of decency and common sense while engaging in adultery has certainly been lowered in the past 24 hours. You can step right across it now. Part | Read More »
Ace of Spades has the story.
John Edwards, presumably to cadge a prime time speaking spot at the Democrat Convention, has confessed to 1) carrying on an affair with “documentary film maker” Rielle Hunter and 2) being caught with her in a Beverly Hills hotel last month by reporters from the National Enquirer. The made-for-Oprah confession will happen tonight on ABC. John Edwards repeatedly lied during his Presidential campaign about an | Read More »
What follows is the most succinct summation of the current situation in Iraq that I’ve come across. From The Washington Post Last month, in the city of Fallujah in Anbar province, once the nexus of the Sunni insurgency, the newest political player emerged. Leaders of al-Nassir Salah al-Din Army, a Sunni militant group, declared they would renounce violence and form a political party called the | Read More »
A few weeks ago I was one of the handful reckless enough to write about John Edwards, his mistress, and apparent out of wedlock offspring. I would use the nice old English word but I think I’ll run afoul of our bad word detector. Now the story has made its way into Edwards’s hometown newspaper, but in the context of what this scandal that everyone | Read More »
Sorry little boys with dirty minds, this is about the perils of cross cultural communications and why even terrorist asshats should run their acronyms through Google hat tip to our own Feddie by way of Southern Appeal
We’ve had a couple of front page posts on the particularly vile and nasty Democrat primary fight going on in TN-9 between incumbent Steve Cohen and challenger Nikki Tinker for what is essentially the general election, too. I don’t have much use for Cohen. And neither does Nikki Tinker. But for different reasons. You see, I don’t have any use for Cohen because he’s just | Read More »
A week or so ago Erick wrote a story entitled: Is it Okay to Vote Against a Candidate Because of His Race? and concluded that no, it is not okay to vote against a candidate based on his or her race. Yesterday Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne answered the converse to that question, Is it okay to vote for a candidate based on his race, | Read More »
From the AP Democratic candidate Barack Obama criticized Republican John McCain on Tuesday for taking a page out of “the Cheney playbook” on energy, overlooking his own support of oil-friendly policies that the unpopular vice president helped to craft. Vice President Dick Cheney, a former oilman, early in the Bush administration helped draft an energy policy that Obama asserted is biased in favor of tax | Read More »
The aptly named Larry Johnson has posted more revelations on Barack Obama’s birth certificate. I’ve got to tell you that I don’t know whether my head or sides were splitting after reading the “forensic analysis”. Here’s the simple summary–an authentic [certificate of live birth] COLB was used as a template to create the so-called “birth certificate” that was first posted at Daily Kos and the | Read More »
One of the critiques that has been relentlessly attached to President Bush is that he’s inflexible. If Barack Obama is elected president no one need have that worry. Barack Obama is the epitome of flexibility. Even his nuances are nuanced. He is so nuanced and flexible (or disingenuous, dishonest, and evasive depending upon your outlook) that he inspired me to steal my subhead, verbatim, from | Read More »
Barack Obama has come under some, in my view, very fair and timely criticism for releasing his inner Al Sharpton last week and engaging in a very juvenile effort at that old Democrat standby, racebaiting. If anyone thinks that Obama is truly a “black” candidate, by this I mean in the political philosophy sense that we equate with Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Cornel West, and others | Read More »
STRATFOR (subscription only) is reporting that Pakistan is rife with rumors that Ayman al-Zawahiri, former surgeon and current #2 in al-Qaeda, has been killed in a US airstrike. Bill Roggio of Long War Journal demurs and I am personally agnostic beyond appreciating the confusion this will sow in al Qaeda until the situation sorts itself out. If al-Zawahiri is dead I can fill you in | Read More »
UPDATED: Jonathan Chait barks at the dog whistle. It is becoming increasingly clear that the Obama campaign and the media, to the extent that they aren’t congruent sets, have come to the conclusion that Barack Obama can’t beat John McCain on the issues. Obama’s entire history on the war in Iraq has been proven to be wrong in every particular. His solutionto our part of | Read More »
UPDATE: And were’t not alone. Glenn Reynold’s wife has had her Blogspot blog locked. Some of you probably know that I live in Maryland. I’m the proprietor of the group blog RedMaryland which fights a daily rearguard action against the forces of corruption and socialism in the UnFree State. Imagine my surprise to get a notification from Google that I’m running a spam blog and | Read More »
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