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Tony Blair! Why didn’t you mention this in your tell-all sex memoir? Creeping Sharia, people: Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s sister-in-law has embraced Islam after visiting the holy shrine of Fatima al-Masoumeh (AS) in Iran’s holy city of Qom. “It was a Tuesday evening and I sat down and felt this shot of spiritual [...]
Who came in First Place, as far as “liberty” is concerned? Tony Blair, that’s who: Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair will receive the Liberty Medal on Monday for his global human rights work, even as his new autobiography has reignited debate over his political leadership. The medal is given annually by the Philadelphia-based National [...]
It was a drizzly, implacable November evening. Anthony Charles Lynton Blair was pacing his chambers at 221 Connaught Square, absentmindedly strumming “Dead End Street” on his guitar, pausing occasionally to glance out the window at the Georgian terraces across the way. A black dog loped down the sidewalk. Anthony sighed. “I am sick at heart,” [...]
It is easy to lampoon Maureen Dowd when she churns out her usual nutty brew of redonkulosity. But our work becomes ever so slightly more difficult when she types an “acceptable column.” And it is nearly impossible to make fun of her when she writes a genuinely good column, the kind that is actually about [...]
Remember Laura Bush, America’s onetime librarian sweetheart and wife to the nominal head of the most appalling administration in U.S. history? Turns out she’s written a massive memoir titled Spoken From the Heart (because that’s what these political memoirists do: write from the heart, by speaking from it). We figured that a Laura Bush memoir [...]
By the Comics CurmudgeonHey, kids, remember your civics class, where you learned that there are other parts of the government that aren’t currently controlled by Muslims? There’s the so-called “Supreme Court,” which everyone ignores most of the time right up until they legalize gayness; but then there’s this other thing, whaddya call it, Congress, and [...]
If you were hoping to buy or rent a bunch of abortions and charge them care of whatever new health care bill ends up passing, this will not be possible! [New York Times] China is very upset with the Dalai Lama for going to some Himalayan town that is not technically a part of China [...]
Your 2009 World Series will feature the New York Yankees and the Philadelphia Phillies, two popular Northeast athletics organizations. USA! [New York Times] Baghdad had another suicide bombing: 132 people died, which is the most all at once since 2007. [Washington Post] The new new new health care bill will be submitted to the CBO [...]
Bitter Mike Huckabee thinks that Palin was selected over him as McCain’s doomed vice president girlfriend because she “looks better in stilettos.” [New Yorker] Looks like the impossibly named Saxby Chambliss is only two points ahead of Jim Martin. [HuffPost] Sloppily conceived parody Ted Haggard is back! And it feels so good to be mounting [...]
