Kerry talking to a US Marine in a Wendy's in Scranton, PA (via Insta and LGF). From the NY Post:

The Marines — two in uniform and two of

It just hit me who Teresa Heinz Kerry reminds me of: Evita Peron. (Well, yeah, I gave it away in the title, didn't I?) Hey, she married into money and power. Power twice. How does one end up marrying

I can't bear that Nancy Pelosi. I suspect she might be an evil That Girl.

And Madeleine Albright, geez. At this point I can only picture her clapping and singing along with the minions in North Kor

Talk about your blind items. Here's a story on the BBC News website that talks about a report that finds that "Almost 60% of Arab Muslims living in the US fear for the future of their families...."

I had to bail on the convention last night. I wanted to see the Heinz speech, for the sheer horror of it I suppose, but I just couldn't stay. "Must... change... channel...."

I ended up watching a T

Maya Angelou is black!? Or is that just David Alan Grier doing an impression?

Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis were embarassing. Who's managing them?

Yes, it's the Democratic National Convention, part d

Man, that Bob Menendez is a dull speaker. I missed Gore's speech, but I hear that he didn't blow steam out of his ears like he did in a couple of earlier speeches of his. Too bad.

I looked around a

So there's the next Star Wars title, Revenge of the Sith. Eh. It's better than most.

I'm more interested in the two new evil characters thi

I think there's a good chance that today's train 'accident' in Turkey was an act of terrorism. Recalling this story from April:

A SPANISH high-speed train packed with Easter holidaymakers was halte

Viciously honest criticism of Technorati over at American Digest yesterday.

Signs that Technorati is consistently less than advertised already abound.:

The first is the downtime,
the second is

I was entertaining the possibility that Sandy Berger's removal of highly classified documents could be put down to sloppiness. It was all one big inadvertant mess, and the right side of the blogospher

It's quiz time here at Spartac.us. Former National Security Advisor Samuel "Sandy" Berger was seen stuffing something in his pants at the National Ar

Steven Den Beste has a post up explaining that failure to legally recognize gay marriage is a subjective inequality in the law but not an objective inequality in the law. This is in the sense that a l

The CIA, on his wife's suggestion, sent Joe Wilson to Niger to look into reports that Iraq was seeking uranium from Africa. He found no proof that Iraq attempted to acquire uranium from Niger, althoug

Germany is not serious about the war. (Via LGF.)

German prosecutors are preparing to drop all the most serious charges against the only man convicted for the 11 September attacks, because they fear

All of the Fox memos (see my first post on the subject) have now been published. I don't have the patience to read them all, but Media Matters has pulled out some highlights, which I'm going to assume

"Gunmen" in the Gaza strip have kidnapped four French aid workers. Arafat has banned UN Envoy Terje Roed-Larsen from the territories. The Israeli government is anticipating Arafat's death. There are r

Wow, I'm getting a lot of hits from people looking for the Judge Elena Lala story. Here's the AP version of the Romanian tale on Yahoo! News. It doesn't strike me as all that interesting. Must be a sl

To celebrate, read this from Charles Krauthammer. (Via ¡No Pasarán!.)

I am familiar with the works of Pablo Neruda.

Today is his 100th birthday. (Not that he's alive you understand.)

Oliver Willis quotes a New York Times Magazine article [rr] which is supposedly about "guerrilla" documentaries, but is written more in the style of gazing wondrously at the creators of left-wing agit

Orcinus points to a post by a friend of his that neatly sums up the dire situation that we find ourselves in:

We live in a time when liberal values are under sustained and merciless attack. Our opp

Michael Moore in Fahrenheit 9/11 asks, concerning the Bush 43 era, "Was it all just a dream? Did the last four years even happen?" It would be nice to wake up from all this and return to the carefree

Alright. This is silly.



Perfect for your freedom fries I guess. Buy it here.

I have to say though that Heinz ketchup is one of

There's a big and for the most part unstated assumption behind some of the opposition to the war in Iraq. To some degree, I think it's an unconsciously held axiom. You can hear the echoes of this assu

Washington "journalist" Wayne Madsen is pushing a story that Israeli agents were involved in interrogations of prisoners in Iraq. He was used by the BBC as a source on their Today show.

Biased BBC

Global warming is not only a danger to the planet, but it looks like it's affecting the sun too:

A new analysis shows that the Sun is more active now than it has been at anytime in the previous 1,0

So it is to be John Edwards then. I'll not be the only one saying that this ticket would be improved if it were flipped upside-down, but a lot of people might say the same about the Republican ticket.

Telegraph:

The new Iraqi government will publish damning evidence this week linking foreign powers, including Iran and Syria, to the Muslim extremists and loyalists of the former regime who launche

Forgive the obvious headline. I got it from a Public Enemy song, and they got it from somewhere else. I'm not actually advocating that anybody burn that industry or that city to the ground.

Forgive

Reuters:

The head of the Democratic National Committee urged Ralph Nader on Sunday to drop his independent bid for the U.S. presidency or at least disavow Republican efforts on his behalf.

"He

The unthinkable has happened! A study has been issued warning of the dire environmental consequences of yet another human activity. "The rise in demand for air travel is one of the most serious enviro

Reports are out that Michael Moore's Minutemen have beheaded another hostage, Cpl. Wassef Ali Hassoun, who was a US Marine, an American, an Arab, and a Muslim.

[Update (5 July): There are now repor

Saturday in the park, I think it was the Fourth of July
Saturday in the park, I think it was the Fourth of July
People dancin', people laughin'
A man selling ice cream, singing Italian songs
Eicay

AFP (via LGF):

Several members of the House of Representatives have requested the United Nations to send observers to monitor the November 2 US presidential election to avoid a contentious vote lik