Zell Miller:
It’s like a spy thriller. Institutional rivalries and political loyalties have fostered an intelligence officer’s resentment against the government. Suddenly, an opportunity appears for the agent to undercut the national leadership. A vital question of intelligence forms the core justification for controversial military actions by the current leaders. If this agent can get in [...]
…you can’t tell the difference between society and government:
When a country seemingly on the verge of acquiring nuclear weapons calls for one of its neighbours to be “wiped off the map”, the world surely has every cause to worry. When the country making the threat is vast, volatile Iran, and the object of its hostility [...]
I’m posting this a little late, but - on the Arlington List, the “Co-Leader of MoveOnArlington”, wrote:
MoveOn.org is planning vigils all over the country when we top 2,000 Americans killed in Iraq. As of this morning, 1,992 American soldiers had tragically died.
On the date we learn about the 2,000th death, if we hear before 3:00 [...]
Instapundit writes:
MY ADVICE TO CHRISTIANS, JEWS, HINDUS, ETC: Start blowing things up and beheading people. This will gain you enormous solicitude from the powers-that-be:
A West Yorkshire head teacher has banned books containing stories about pigs from the classroom in case they offend Muslim children. The literature has been removed from classes for under-sevens at Park [...]
RCMP investigate an Edmonton Police Service attempt to frame a journalist critical of the coming panopticon:
Diotte cited statistics that showed speed cameras raised a lot of money for police butled to an increase, not a decrease, in accidents. “In 2001 alone, city police issued 194,500 speeding tickets,” Diotte wrote. “Photo radar and red-light cameras raise [...]
Couldn’t have said it better:
Meanwhile, back in the real world, the storm is exhausted, meteorologically and politically. Power has been restored to the whole of Mississippi (much quicker than in Euro-style big-government Quebec during the 1998 ice storm, incidentally), the Big Easy is being pumped free of water far ahead of anybody’s expectations, and, as [...]
More Euro-wanking:
Hamburgers and coke, yes you already knew
But do you also know the cause of the general decay?
Short-sighted thinking, loud talking
Sticking to one-liners forever
Down with America! Down with the jerks from America
Down with America! [...]
Down with American colonialism
Down with that ugly, biting English
All the Anglo-Saxon pretence, arrogance
Yes, a hot pick up their ass
And that is [...]
From the transcript at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Judge, look, I want to try to cut through some stuff here, if I can. I said yesterday this shouldn’t be a game of Gotcha, you know. We shouldn’t be playing a game. The folks have a right to know what you think. You’re there for life. They don’t [...]
Via Jane Galt, finally a list of good questions for Judge Roberts:
If you knew to an absolute moral certainty that you could capture and consume a live infant without being caught, how many do you suppose you could eat in a weekend?
Have you ever been spanked erotically by someone who was not your current legal [...]
Free-market-hating politicians (are there any other kind?) want to nationalize Russia’s young hotties (article quoted here in its entirety):
To mark International Beauty Day Nikolai Kurianovich, a State Duma deputy with the nationalist LDPR party, suggested introducing a ban on foreign travel for Russian girls under 21, Itar-Tass news agency reported.
In his opinion, young Russian girls [...]
Bill Whittle (via just about everyone):
It’s always such a pleasure to have Germans enlighten us on the best way to move large groups of sick, downtrodden people by rail.
Ha!
I don’t like linking to Instapundit carried stories, because, well, everybody already reads them. But I just needed to comment.
The two Vaclavs have to be my favorite politicians because of their open critisisms of soft socialism, “old” Europe and the nanny state. As someone who lived in Germany for 4 years, [...]
David Corn writes:
As I’ve written about (or, obsessed about) before, Clinton visited Rwanda in 1998 and issued something of an apology. Speaking of those terrible months in the spring of 1994, he said, “All over the world there were people like me sitting in offices who did not fully appreciate the depth and speed with [...]
A while back, Mark wrote:
Christianity is a Religion of Love
(refrain) Christianity is a Religion of Love
repeat until exhaustion.
OTOH,
Robertson urges U.S. to kill Chavez
…
Those wacky Christians. When dialouge doesn’t work, lets just murder our opponents.
I’d like to riff on something I read on Mark’s old permalinkless blog: Christianity is a religion of love - sure, why [...]
I’ve got it! Bush’s endorsement of teaching “intelligent” design in schools is really a clever, subtle plan to deeply entrench school vouchers by making the Left want vouchers as well. Or maybe it’s even more subtle — to eliminate the Left altogether by causing its adherents’ brains to explode due to simultaneously wanting [...]
My bags aredog is packed, I’m ready to go.
(btw there’s a great image here)
I despise Ed Markey from the bottom of my heart, but I have to give him credit for this one-liner about the big energy bill that’ll be passed tomorrow:
Right now Adam Smith is spinning in his grave so fast that he would qualify for a subsidy in this bill as an energy source…
Damn!
After 25 years of President Saleh’s rule, Yemen is among the most impoverished in the world, illiteracy is near 50%, and unemployment is very high, while the country’s elites have become richer and more powerful. They are so powerful, the ruling party this week closed down a lawful political oppositon party by taking over [...]
As much as I enjoy Charlie Stross’ books (and I both enjoy reading them immensely, and reading them early immensely), I keep stubbing my toes on all of the little nuggets of wrongness strewn throughout them. The earlier parts of his new Accelerando feature a number of different remarks about politics and economics that makes [...]
Roger Simon says:
Speaking of which, some of us are waiting for President Bush’s speech tonight, the one that is intended to put a weary public back on course in Iraq.
I suggest that it is not our presence in Iraq the public is weary of, but rather the relentless media “coverage” of it.