Via PJ Media, whose Iraq Files Project is gaining a good deal of attention worldwide, comes yet another translation of a captured Iraqi document, this time appearing on Ray Robison’s site (with analysis).* This particular document, if the translation is correct, is of a memo that “contains a detailed list of instructions on how Iraqi intelligence personnel should conduct themselves while ‘visiting’ Afghanistan’”. The memo itself is not too lengthy,

Canada’s Western Standard Magazine / blog (which publishes Mark Steyn and Kate McMillan, among others) is being sued for publishing the Danish Mohammed cartoons.  I hate to keep beating this drum, but the Orwellian concept of “tolerance” driven by the implied authority within identity politics for a particular identity group to determine the parameters of acceptable speech relating to that group, is completely anathema to western classical liberalism—and in fact

American journalist Jill Carroll has been released.  This is a good thing.  The Jawa Report and Stop the ACLU have more. **** update:  Apparently Ms Carroll was treated like a princess by her noble and gentlemenly kidnappers, who snatched her up three months ago simply to protest the occupation of their country by the forces who liberated 25 million Iraqis from under the boot heel of Saddam Hussein.  Such a

“Regis”:  “—And this time, honey, I want the ‘happy ending’ in carnauba wax, which is easily brushed out—not the hot ginger oil.  Last time when you, y’know, finished me off…it took a week of soaping the duster with Lever 2000 twice a day before I could enjoy a nice single malt Scotch.  In the meantime, the Macallan would just bead up on me like little brown single malt boils.”

me: “For some reason, I have a Bellamy Brothers song playing in a continuous loop in my head.  ‘Let Your Love Flow.’ You wouldn’t know anything about that, would you?” Klonopin:  “You mean, like, a clinical, pharmaceudically-related answer?  No, not really.  But from a psychological perspective, I’ve noticed that you’re prone to nostalgia.  And of course, that you’re crazy as a syphillitic bat.” Klonopin:  “If that helps.”

Cathy Young answers Jane Galt’s argument that “the current law [on reproductive rights] strikes me as a reasonable compromise between the needs of the women and the needs of the child”: It’s interesting that the woman and the child are the only two parties Jane seems to consider. As for the argument that other biological disparities in reproduction favor men, it is something that I have considered myself. But here’s

From the AP: Eyeing House and Senate elections this fall, Democrats are stepping up their effort to cut into the public perception that Republicans are stronger on national security. Congressional Democrats vow to provide U.S. agents with the resources to hunt down Osama bin Laden and ensure a “responsible redeployment of U.S. forces” from Iraq in 2006 in a national security policy statement House and Senate Democratic leaders were announcing

From AFP: Saudi Arabia is working secretly on a nuclear programme, with help from Pakistani experts, a German magazine reports in its latest edition, citing Western security sources. The German magazine Cicero says that during the Hajj pilgrimages to Mecca in 2003 through 2005, Pakistani scientists posed as pilgrims to come to Saudi Arabia in aircraft laid on by the oil-rich kingdom. Between October 2004 and January 2005, some of

Today I will be joining Ace as co-host of his “Hoist the Black Flag” radio show on Rightalk. Tune in at 4:05 pm EST, 1:05 pacific. Today’s guest is Clint W. Taylor, who runs the Nail Yale blog at Townhall.com. Sadly, I don’t yet have the broadcast equipment, so I’ll be doing the show from a telephone.  Havoc is certain to break loose, naturally. Please do call in with any

Take one Kelo decision.  Add a local politician.  Mix with a dash of arrogance and strained interpretation.  Yield:  the goverment essentially owns all private property.  It just allows you to lease it.  From the WSJ, here’s NY attorney Ed Herlihy: There’s been a lot of controversy lately about eminent domain–the government’s power to confiscate private property and put it to public use. The furor erupted last year when the Supreme