Monday, December 15, 2008 Shoegate Thrower Charged
Muntader Al-Zaidi, the journalist who threw his shoes at President Bush during a news conference is being charged for not throwing shoes at Bush but for throwing shoes in the presence of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki (which is Iraq is a no-no).
Wednesday, December 10, 2008 The Pragmatism of Ethnic Cleansing
Barack Obama's election victory has inspired a windfall of comment, most of it euphoric, with some grumbling from the political Right and the small quarters of the Left that remain unimpressed, so I am hesitant to contribute to the chatter. There is one element of Obama's victory, however, that has received less attention than it deserves, and that is his profound commitment to an extreme form of Zionism. I do not wish to spend this essay condemning Obama for that commitment; I have done so elsewhere, and others have offered eloquent condemnation already, though such a perspective hasn't yet managed to penetrate the liberal-Left.
Tuesday, December 9, 2008 Former ISI Chief: Mumbai And 9/11 Both Inside Jobs (16 comments)
General Hamid Gul, the former head of the Pakistani ISI, told CNN yesterday that both the Mumbai attacks and 9/11 were inside jobs, much to the chagrin of host and CFR luminary Fareed Zakaria, who told viewers that Guls opinions were absolutely wrong and thoroughly discredited.
