From the Jerusalem Post: According to a Thursday report on Al-Jazeera, the Hamas government will recognize Israel if Israel withdraws to the 1967 borders. Hamas officials close to Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh expect Haniyeh to announce the change in the organization’s platform in the next few days, Army Radio reported. The international community has pressured Hamas since the group assumed power to acknowledge Israel’s right to exist. The

From the WSJ (subscription only): If Republicans lose control of Congress in November, they might want to look back at last Thursday as the day it was lost. That’s when the big spenders among House Republicans blew up a deal between the leadership and rank-in-file to impose some modest spending discipline. Unlike the collapse of the immigration bill, this fiasco can’t be blamed on Senate Democrats. This one is all

The moral sense has been bred out of certain sections of the population, like the wings have been bred off certain chickens to produce more white meat.  This is a generation of wingless chickens, which is what I suppose Nietzsche meant when he said God is dead.”—Flannery O’Connor

More spawn of EVIL below the fold…

Poll here, courtesy Davids Medienkritik, which notes: 28 % think that Iran is a greater threat. For 16 %, the U.S. and Iran pose identical threats. The results don’t surprise me at all. I mean, Iran is economically extremly promising for Germany. And Iran has made it clear what it expects in return for economic favours: “The international deputy of Iran’s Chamber of Commerce, Dr. Fereidoun Entezari, believes that business

In the comments to my post yesterday about the spin used by an ideologically-driven press to forge a particular narrative about a war with which they disagree, commenter rls pointed out this Washington Post story on a Pentagon team’s assessment of Saddam’s supposed biolabs.  The tenor of the story—and this is one of the points I made yesterday—is clearly designed to suggest that the President knew full well that those

From the NYT (by way of The Corner): Alan Moldawer’s adopted twins, Matt and Andrew, had always thought of themselves as white. But when it came time for them to apply to college last year, Mr. Moldawer thought it might be worth investigating the origins of their slightly tan-tinted skin, with a new DNA kit that he had heard could determine an individual’s genetic ancestry. The results, designating the boys

Please tune in today to “Hoist the Black Flag” on Rightalk. The show begins at 4:05 pm EST, 1:05 pacific. Today’s guest is the controversial and piquant Debbie Schlussel. Oh.  And sadly, I STILL don’t have the broadcast equipment, so I’ll be doing the show from a telephone again.  Which explains my tinny, nasally voice.  And of course my Bush Kultism. Anyway please call in with any questions:  866-884-TALK (8255).

Yesterday’s WaPo lede story, “Al-Qaeda Arranges Most Suicide Blasts In Iraq, U.S. Says” (originally titled ““Military Plays Up Role of Zarqawi”), is, as the Corner’s Cliff May notes a ludicrous attempt to create a scandal out of the U.S. military trying to drive some fairly obvious messages to the media – media that are routinely manipulated by the terrorists (who are almost never called terrorists of course, no matter what

Given that it’s been referenced so often by the anti-Bush crowd, this mini-rant by NRO’s George Conway is worth spending a few moments on.  Writes Conway: John Fund, after discussing how disgruntled the GOP base may be, has it exactly right: “Republicans have appeared to the world to be as unprincipled and rudderless as the politicians they campaigned against back in 1994. Unless they change course dramatically in the seven