Archive for August, 2006

Monday, August 21st, 2006

A New Resolution To Disarm Hezbollah?

So reports the Jerusalem Post:
The United States is planning to introduce a new UN resolution on disarming Hizbullah in southern Lebanon but US Ambassador John Bolton said Monday this should not hold up the quick deployment of UN peacekeepers.
A new Security Council resolution could help break the impasse over getting an expanded UN force on […]

11 Comments » - Posted in Israel, Radical Islam / GWOT, UN/Oil-For-Food by Mark

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Monday, August 21st, 2006

Barone On The Stain Of Anti-Americanism

The always-intriguing Michael Barone is on a roll today in his discussion of what ‘progressive’ moral relativism has wrought:
In our war against Islamo-fascist terrorism, we face enemies both overt and covert. The overt enemies are, of course, the terrorists themselves. Their motives are clear: They hate our society because of its freedoms and liberties, and […]

23 Comments » - Posted in Radical Islam / GWOT, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots® by Mark

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Monday, August 21st, 2006

On Pessimism Versus False Optimism

I have received e-mails from more than one person lately (including one who said he was no longer going to read me) who say, in so many words, that I have become too pessimistic for them. There are several ways a person can go about blogging: one is to be a rah-rah cheerleader for […]

7 Comments » - Posted in Navel-Gazing, POTUS, Radical Islam / GWOT, Iraq by Mark

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Monday, August 21st, 2006

2008 vs. 1972: A Different Electorate

David Hogberg has an article in the American Spectator that argues that opposition to the War In Iraq is the Democratic meal ticket to the White House, and that (shades of my Rumsfeld piece this weekend) we have basically two years to get things right:
Imagine that presidential candidate John Kerry had somehow time-traveled back to […]

No Comments » - Posted in Donkeys, John Kerry, Radical Islam / GWOT, Iraq, Democratic Candidates, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots®, Election 2008 by Mark

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Sunday, August 20th, 2006

Are Pigs About To Fly?

FINALLY - some good news on the Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire:

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan is expected to recommend Monday that the rules of engagement of the enhanced UNIFIL force to be deployed in Lebanon include opening fire on Hizbullah where necessary, The Jerusalem Post has learned.
While UN Security Council Resolution 1701 mandated an enhanced UNIFIL force […]

No Comments » - Posted in Israel, Radical Islam / GWOT, Foreign Affairs, UN/Oil-For-Food by Mark

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Sunday, August 20th, 2006

John Kerry: The Biggest A**hole In Politics

In John Kerry’s world, there is no room for dissent on Iraq, thus making him the political equivalent of Kos and Jane Hamsher. Just listen to the arrogant lightweight, who famously chewed out an aide for not bringing his favorite brush during the 2004 campaign, disparage Joe Lieberman, a man who is still the […]

4 Comments » - Posted in Joe Lieberman, Election 2006, John Kerry, Donkeys, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots®, Iraq, Democratic Candidates by Mark

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Sunday, August 20th, 2006

12 Down, Six To Go!

Right now, that Nicklaus record of 18 majors is look VERY vulnerable.  Congrats to Tiger on his second major in a row, and his 12th overall…

No Comments » - Posted in Celebrities / Pop Culture / Sports by Mark

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Sunday, August 20th, 2006

Lieberman Is Right: It’s Time For Rumsfeld To Go

I’ve been hinting around about writing a piece about the need for a change near the top, but Joe Lieberman stole my thunder:
Sen. Joe Lieberman on Sunday called on Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to resign and backed an international conference to find a way out of the crisis in Iraq.
Lieberman, who is seeking a fourth […]

17 Comments » - Posted in Joe Lieberman, Iraq, Democratic Candidates by Mark

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Sunday, August 20th, 2006

Rarified Air

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest joined a very exclusive club this weekend: movies that have done $400 million in domestic box office. The movie is now in the #7 all-time spot in raw numbers, though only 11th worldwide, and 48th in inflation-adjusted numbers.  Still, it ain’t through yet…

No Comments » - Posted in Celebrities / Pop Culture / Sports by Mark

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Sunday, August 20th, 2006

Most Unsurprising Headline of the Weekend

Hillary Clinton, Ready To Run:
If you ask anyone around Hillary Clinton the question that everyone is asking, the […]

1 Comment » - Posted in Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots®, Hillary Clinton, Democratic Candidates, Election 2008 by Mark

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Saturday, August 19th, 2006

Eleanor Clift Casually Accuses President Bush Of Treason

What the hell is wrong with the world we live in? How can a woman make a damn good living writing for Newsweek and just say things like this out of sheer partisan hatred?
Democrats have a good chance of winning back one or both houses of Congress, and they’re wondering whether this election’s October surprise […]

7 Comments » - Posted in POTUS, Radical Islam / GWOT, NY Times/Media Watch by Mark

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Saturday, August 19th, 2006

No More Barnyard Lipstick, Please

There are still far too many people trying to put some kind of positive spin on the completely disastrous decision by the U.S. to support a U.N.-brokered ceasefire (overseen by the moral coward Kofi Annan) between Israel and Hezbollah. Let me explain how it works to the terminally optimistic.
(1) Lebanon and the U.N. refuse […]

6 Comments » - Posted in Israel, Iran, Radical Islam / GWOT, UN/Oil-For-Food by Mark

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Saturday, August 19th, 2006

Andrew Young: If Mom And Pop Aren’t Black, They Can Step Back!

Here’s what civil-rights ‘leader’ Andrew Young had to say in his capacity as a spokesman for Working Families For Wal-Mart (a position he has wisely resigned):

In an interview, Young was asked whether he was concerned that Wal-Mart causes smaller, mom-and-pop stores to close.
“Well, I think they should; they ran the ‘mom and pop’ stores out […]

No Comments » - Posted in Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots® by Mark

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Saturday, August 19th, 2006

Looking For A Scapegoat?

Start at the top:

Ehud Olmert’s improbable premiership is fast approaching its sad, premature and abrupt end. Though he will not go down without a fight, and while he can be counted on to attack his critics with all the verbal darts he so impressively hurled at Hizbullah, Olmert is likely to learn that just as […]

1 Comment » - Posted in Israel, POTUS, Radical Islam / GWOT, Iraq by Mark

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Saturday, August 19th, 2006

Not Even The New York Times Can Pretend The NSA Decision Was A Good One

And that’s saying something, for sure! (I’m speaking of the news division, particularly Adam Liptak - God knows Gail Collins is A-OK with anything anti-Bush):
Even legal experts who agreed with a federal judge’s conclusion on Thursday that a National Security Agency surveillance program is unlawful were distancing themselves from the decision’s reasoning and rhetoric yesterday.
They […]

3 Comments » - Posted in Domestic Affairs, POTUS, NY Times/Media Watch by Mark

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Saturday, August 19th, 2006

Buy This Book!

I usually have to wait until AFTER I’ve read a book to know it’s worth your while, but I picked up a copy of Debunking 9/11 Myths at Barnes & Noble yesterday, and I’m only into John McCain’s forward, yet I still know this is a keeper. How? Because I read the Popular Mechanics article […]

No Comments » - Posted in Radical Islam / GWOT, In Praise Of by Mark

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Friday, August 18th, 2006

Bush Speaks Out On NSA Ruling

There’s really nothing new or surprising here, but he is the POTUS:
President Bush today strongly denounced a federal judge’s ruling that a warrantless surveillance program he authorized is unconstitutional, saying the program is a necessary tool in counterterrorism efforts and expressing confidence that the decision would be overturned on appeal.
Speaking to reporters at the Camp […]

16 Comments » - Posted in Domestic Affairs, POTUS, Radical Islam / GWOT, NY Times/Media Watch by Mark

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Friday, August 18th, 2006

Look For Something To Do This Weekend?

Here’s a timewaster that promises to be fascinating, frustrating, thought-provoking, and absurd. I’m talking about New York Magazine’s feature, What if 9/11 Never Happened?, a question that is answered by various luminaries (and a few bottom-dwellers).
Frank Rich is predictably nonsensical:
Without 9/11 to fill the vacuum of his slacker’s presidency, we’d likely have seen a […]

5 Comments » - Posted in Radical Islam / GWOT by Mark

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Friday, August 18th, 2006

Krauthammer: Seizing Opportunity From The Jaws of Defeat

Charles Krauthammer is a little more sanguine than I about the end of hostilities between Israel and Lebanon, but he recognizes that it was a defeat for Israel:
…[I]t is true that had Israel succeeded militarily in its strategic objectives, there would have been no need for any resolution. Israel would unilaterally have cleaned out south […]

3 Comments » - Posted in Israel, Radical Islam / GWOT, UN/Oil-For-Food by Mark

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Friday, August 18th, 2006

Two Ways Of Looking At Yesterday’s NSA Ruling

You can look at it as a necessary step on the way to the Supreme Court ruling on this very important program, as the Washington Post did:
THE NATION would benefit from a serious, scholarly and hard-hitting judicial examination of the National Security Agency’s program of warrantless surveillance. The program exists on ever-more uncertain legal ground; […]

16 Comments » - Posted in Russ Feingold, Domestic Affairs, SCOTUS, POTUS, Iraq, Radical Islam / GWOT, Democratic Candidates by Mark

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