Two clear-headed takes on the Gitmo hunger strike, one simple message: Stop capitulating. Now. Andrew Stuttaford, on NRO’s “The Corner,” writes: While we are on the subject of dealing with Islamic extremism, Detainees who die because they refuse food, do so by choice. True, human rights groups and squishy allies in Europe will complain. Who cares? They’re complaining now–as the detainees sit comfortably on prayer mats, reading their Korans and

Proving once again that the Common Dreams folks really do have a voice in the world, “Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tarik Aziz promised ‘another Vietnam‘ for the United States should Washington decide to attack his country. “In an interview to be published Monday by the French daily Le Figaro, Aziz said ‘against the United States, each town will become another Vietnamese jungle,’” Agencia Efe reports. ‘Our government has a very

‘T seems some protein wisdom readers (judging by the glut of outraged emails) aren’t at all taken with my vision of a world in which baked goods are, uh, multi-tasked — though in my defense, I took great pains to avoid any and all yeast references. Nevertheless, the Blogwars continue on — as sadly they must…* [link to Blogwars cartoon 3 — “Shiloh Bucher…Y’mean, Superman’s arch enemy?”] unmentionables get stoned,

‘T seems some protein wisdom readers (judging by the glut of outraged emails) aren’t at all taken with my vision of a world in which baked goods are, uh, multi-tasked — though in my defense, I took great pains to avoid any and all yeast references. Nevertheless, the Blogwars continue on — as sadly they must…* [link to Blogwars cartoon 3 — “Shiloh Bucher…Y’mean, Superman’s arch enemy?”] unmentionables get stoned,

…Any blogger who takes on the Samizdata folk and quotes

…Any blogger who takes on the Samizdata folk and quotes

Open note to Instapundit readers: Here I am, practically on my deathbed, and Prof. Reynolds has the nerve — yes, Nerve! — to suggest that I’m (cough, cough — have I mentioned how ill I’ve been?) a

Open note to Instapundit readers: Here I am, practically on my deathbed, and Prof. Reynolds has the nerve — yes, Nerve! — to suggest that I’m (cough, cough — have I mentioned how ill I’ve been?) a

Just popping in from the “Cup-o-Soup meets The Giant Bottle of Pepto” (sounds almost like a 50s flick — Now in Amazing Vom-o-Rama!) sidelines to point out that John Podhoretz has a 40 Days and 40 Nights in NRO. A bit: Certainly, there are things in 40 Days and 40 Nights that I detested (there’s only so much clinical sex humor I can stand). But there’s still something winning about

Still feeling under the weather, so blogging (like eating) will be light today. I’m thinking about bringing in a ProxyBlogga® to do some posting for me (jes’ like that li’l