Aug

31

More Plame Hilarity

August 31, 2006 | Leave a Comment

Go read Hitchens in Slate.
What does emerge from Hubris is further confirmation of what we knew all along: the extraordinary venom of the interdepartmental rivalry that has characterized this administration. In particular, the bureaucracy at the State Department and the CIA appear to have used the indiscretion of Armitage to revenge themselves on the “neoconservatives” […]

Aug

30

Fish or Cut Bait

August 30, 2006 | Leave a Comment

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s proposal of an international televised debate with President Bush is one more box off the back of the Iranian nuclear truck designed to divert the chase.
But is the chase serious.
“I think the time has passed to speak of the Security Council and the tools they can use to force a […]

Aug

29

Call off the feeding frenzy

August 29, 2006 | Leave a Comment

KUSA - 9NEWS has confirmed from two sources that the DNA taken from John Mark Karr does not match the DNA samples taken from the crime scene in the JonBenet Ramsey murder case.9news.com
Stand down the legal commentators, hope there is a really big hurricane: what will they have on CNN?
What a despicable little man; but […]

Aug

26

Don’t like history….Get me rewrite!

August 26, 2006 | Leave a Comment

Editor & Publisher editor Greg Mitchell wasted any number of pixels avoiding the question of the the ethics of photojournalists faking and staging pictures. Now it seems he has no problem with the unacknowledged rewriting of his own stories.
Mitchell, of all people, whould know it is not the original story which will sink you….it’s the […]

Aug

23

Healthcare change

August 23, 2006 | Leave a Comment

Dr. Brian Day, the owner of a private surgical clinic in Vancouver, was named president-elect of the medical association following a secret vote by doctors attending the CMA’s annual meeting in Charlottetown.cbc
Dr. Day is an enormously accomplished orthopedic surgeon. He was frustrated and then motivated to start his own fee for service surgical clinic […]

Aug

22

Wither the Western Standard

August 22, 2006 | Leave a Comment

The Zerb reports all is not well at the Western Standard. She cites as evidence yet another goofy fee driven writing contest - “pay us to be a freelance” - and rumours the WS is going monthly and Kevin Libin is jumping ship. All or some of which may be true.
Rising from the ashes of […]

Aug

21

A Muslim Alternative

August 21, 2006 | Leave a Comment

When Lord Ahmed, the Muslim Labour peer, heard my comments — I said essentially that if Muslims wanted sharia they should go and live somewhere where they have it — he accused me of doing the BNP’s work. He is entitled to his opinion. However, a little honesty, like mine, in this whole debate might […]

Aug

21

There will always be and England?

August 21, 2006 | Leave a Comment

Britain’s loss of nerve is one of the main reasons it has become a global centre of Islamic extremism. For decades, successive British governments have regarded multiculturalism as an article of faith. The idea that Britain should become a joyous melting pot of different cultures and religions living side by side in mutual toleration and […]

Aug

19

Quelle Surprise

August 19, 2006 | Leave a Comment

The makeup and arrival timetable for a beefed-up United Nations force that is supposed to bolster the Lebanese army was also thrown into disarray when France, which was supposed to lead the mission, said it would only send 200 combat soldiers to south Lebanon, rather than the thousands it was expected to contribute.the globe and […]

Aug

16

Round heels in Israel

August 16, 2006 | Leave a Comment

Hezbollah has done what no Arab military has done since the creation of the Israeli state: fought the Israeli Defense Force to a virtual standstill. While the IDF has the capacity to defeat Hezbollah militarily, the Israeli government was unwilling to muster the political will to pay the price to forcefully engage Hezbollah in southern […]

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