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NEWS FROM IRAQ, THE MIDDLE EAST’S MOST VIBRANT NEW DEMOCRACY: “The party that won the most seats in Iraq’s March election has suspended talks on forming a coalition, five months after the inconclusive vote. [Former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi's] al-Iraqiya bloc was negotiating with the second-placed Shia-led bloc of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. But it [...]
Matt Yglesias illustrates the ironic nature of our permanent occupation of Iraq with a special Alanis Morissette song! [Matt Yglesias] Remember Dan Maes, the Colorado Tea Party man who exposed the U.N. conspiracy that would have forced the entire city of Denver to ride around on an enormous Tandem bicycle? Dan Maes’ comments were taken [...]
If, like confused old ass-clown Richard Cohen at the Washington Post, you’ve never heard of the “WikiLeaks” or the “Internet,” this year’s biggest news story maybe didn’t really hit home. And if there’s a natural constituency of confused old ass-clowns outside the Washington Post‘s op-ed page, it’s the U.S. Capitol. That’s why the House decided [...]
Hey, you know who knows a lot about oil, and evil, and death? Russian President Dmitry Medvedev! He mused to the WSJ about the future of BP, and said that, what with all the money they’ll be spending, “Whether the company can digest those expenditures, whether they will lead to the annihilation of the company [...]
REMEMBER THE ‘IRAQ WAR’? “During planning for the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the CIA’s Iraq Operations Group kicked around a number of ideas for discrediting Saddam Hussein in the eyes of his people. One was to create a video purporting to show the Iraqi dictator having sex with a teenage boy, according to two former [...]
The Justice Department just indicted five evil southern scum-lords who used to run Blackwater, the private murder company hired by Dick Cheney to kill everyone in Iraq. The charges? Weapons violations, something about illegal machine guns, lies to the Feds, general criminality. No murder charges, because it’s always the little shit that brings down these [...]
What happens when you’re too crooked to even be a lobbyist? Go see Michael Steele, and he’ll hire you to raise strip-club money for the Republican National Committee! Former baseball-industry lobbyist Neil S. Alpert was fined $4,000 and forced to reimburse $38,000 he spent on unauthorized stuff in 2007, the Washington Post reports. That’s Micheal [...]
When we last visited New York Times Catholic Crusader furry Ross Douthat, he was discussing history’s greatest riddle: “Why is there no Jewish Narnia?” His answer was something along the lines of “Not enough hobbits” — a reference to the Holocaust, maybe. Since we now know why there is no Jewish Narnia, Douthat has moved [...]
In his State of the Union Wednesday, Obama will announce a spending freeze for many of America’s domestic programs. As these programs do not include Lost, no one will care. [New York Times] The US is holding a conference at the UN in March in which ten countries will try to figure out how to [...]
Watch Sarah Palin go on and on about Iraq in response to the question of what the US should do about Ahmadinejad and a nuclear Iran. She says “Iraq” twice, which, according to reality, is different from Iran, the country the Iranian President is the president of. Andrew Sullivan this fact’s already been checked! [the [...]
Last night the Yankees baseball team won the competition that determines the best baseball team of all the other baseball teams! [New York Times] 600 UN staffers in Afghanistan will leave the country for a few weeks while the UN works to find them housing that will be harder to blow up. [Washington Post] Hurricane [...]
