Well, this is just great.  Robert Gates, the bumbling idiot in the White House’s choice to be the next Secretary of Defense, has just testified at his confirmation hearing that we’re losing the war in Iraq.  Good grief.  If you thought they were laughing at us in Teheran before, they must be doubled over now.  I’m sure our boys in the Sandbox will take heart and fight even harder now

As SI points out below, many on the transnationalist left (and in the US Congress, for that matter) are all atwitter these days:  the world, for them, is returning to normal—with the benching of John Bolton (not because he’s been ineffective, mind you, but rather because he radiates musk and kielbasa sandwiches rather than eau fraiche and anything pan-seared and drizzled with a cranberry chutney), the UN re-emerges unhindered as

OK, so you’ve been living with her for a while, and you went and knocked her up. She decides that you’re an idiot, and that she’d rather rip out her eyeballs and boil them in oil than raise a kid with you. Being the modern, liberated woman that she is, she decides that the logical choice is to kill that pesky little shit you planted in her before it has

Let’s talk about laundering information . . . The greedy truth about media consultants Think you know where your campaign dollars go? Think again, sucker. Political image-makers skim off percentages that would make Exxon execs envious—and the public never knows about it.

Suspect in PlayStation 3 robbery killed A teenager accused of robbing a student of two new Playstation 3s on the day the popular game consoles were introduced was shot to death by police sent to arrest him. Peyton Strickland, 18, was killed Friday at a house he shared with three roommates, New Hanover County Sheriff Sid Causey said. “If this boy would’ve come to the door, opened the door, we

Our new global climate change religion must not be undermined by climo-caust deniers, according to Senators Jay Rockefeller and Olympia Snowe: Mr. Rex W. Tillerson Chairman and Chief Executive Officer ExxonMobil Corporation 5959 Las Colinas Boulevard Irving, TX 75039 Dear Mr. Tillerson: Allow us to take this opportunity to congratulate you on your first year as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the ExxonMobil Corporation. You will become the public

Koffi Inane, pulling his best Jimmah expression, cast into words his sorrow with the situation in Iraq in a BBC interview: Iraq’s national security adviser says he is shocked by UN head Kofi Annan’s suggestion that the average Iraqi is worse off than under Saddam Hussein. Mouwaffaq al-Rubaie also accused the UN of shying away from its responsibility towards the Iraqi people. The UN secretary general, who leaves office after

Kristin Chenoweth made a huge impression as the ditzy girlfriend, Lily St. Regis, in the Disney version of Annie. She was absolutely fantastic. I can still hear her screeching, “But I ain’t the motherin’ type!” Who knew that she’s a Christian, that bird so rare in New York City that it must be profiled in the Times? Well, she is and she’s peeved gays and Christians alike. She dares to

Immigration is on many people’s minds today, especially the illegal variety.  In fact, I think that any time you mention immigration, the “illegal” part is automatically connected in many minds (including my own) unless some other words are thrown in to qualify it. Like many people here, I think illegal immigration is a serious problem that requires serious people to fix it.  Our president and congress are apparently not those

Ex-spy’s poisoning reads like a thriller It’s a murder mystery filled with intrigue reminiscent of the Cold War — there’s a retired Russian spy poisoned by a radioactive substance, a secret dossier, a slain investigative journalist and a shadowy fugitive billionaire. But the story of the agonizing death of Alexander Litvinenko is an up-to-the-minute tale of politics, power and betrayal. And the final chapter of this spy thriller has not