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Iraq: Throwing good money after bad

Iraq: Throwing good money after bad

I received this message today from Don Erickson, a consultant writing from Iraq: Once I get home, I will be more happy to give you a firsthand account of what I have seen over here. For example, the US rebuilding effort had an Iraqi contractor who was hired to build…

Tweeting Terror

Tweeting Terror

The newest terrorist recruitment tool.

British Elections: Lib-Dem Leader in Trouble

British Elections: Lib-Dem Leader in Trouble

Surprising developments in Great Britain: although many expected the conservative Tories to win the upcoming elections for Parliament, the traditional third party of the country, the Liberal Democrats, are now leading in the polls. The party’s leader Nick Clegg did a wonderful job during the first ever nationally televised debate in England; it gave him [...]

Osama bin Laden’s Facebook page draws 1,000+ fans before it’s shut down

Osama bin Laden’s Facebook page draws 1,000+ fans before it’s shut down

Of course, Osama probably wasn’t operating it. But a clear jihad sympathizer was, and he attracted a large number of Islamic supremacist fans. “‘Osama Bin Laden’ Facebook Page Shut Down: Facebook Page in Terrorist’s Name Drew Hundreds of Fans,” by Lara Setrakian for ABC News, April 17 (thanks to all…

The Importance of Being Karl

The Importance of Being Karl

The first half of Rove’s memoir is something you’ve never seen before.

Exile and the New Russia

Exile and the New Russia

The latest Vanity Fair carries an amusing and appropriately graphic account of the life and death of Exile, a now-defunct, Moscow-based English language newspaper run by American expatriates that managed to piss off a lot of people – usually, but not always, for bad reasons – in its short and mostly obscure decade-long existence. As [...]

Collector Conservatism, Part Five: Divorce Debt – The Gift That Keeps On Giving

Collector Conservatism, Part Five: Divorce Debt – The Gift That Keeps On Giving

To read episodes 1-4 in the Collector Conservatism series, click here.
OK, OK, my buddy Steve’s ex-wife (the marriage was officially dissolved yesterday) isn’t nearly as goofy as the woman in the following YouTube video, who complains about eviction from a luxury apartment and the measly 750k settlement  her husband is offering to settle their, um, [...]

Al Franken

Al Franken

Al Franken is a U.S. Senator representing Minnesota. His 2008 Senate race against Republican Norm Coleman was hotly contested and extremely close. It was also marred by what journalist Matthew Vadum called ”appalling irregularities that characterized both the initial and subsequent vote-counting.” The morning after the election, Coleman led Franken by 725 votes. But Franken refused to concede, [...]

Howard Zinn’s History of Hate

Howard Zinn’s History of Hate

For the late Marxist historian, America was always the enemy.

Reporter roughed up outside Coakley fund-raiser – BostonHerald.com

Reporter roughed up outside Coakley fund-raiser – BostonHerald.com

A Weekly Standard reporter says he was roughed up last night outside a Washington, D.C. fund-raiser for Attorney General Martha Coakley by someone he believes is associated with her U.S. Senate campaign.John McCormack, the magazine’s deputy online editor, writes about the incident outside the Sonoma restaurant in an online dispatch entitled: “We Report, We Get [...]



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