So let me get this straight…Arafat’s now saying it was Israel who purchased the boatload of weapons it later intercepted? C’mon, Yasser. There’re conspiracy theories, and then there’s Oliver Stone… [update: More, from LGF…]

Victoria Toensing, a former deputy assistant attorney general who supervised terrorism cases, says there’s enough evidence to charge The Marin Mullah, Johnny Bin Walker, with treason.

Referring to the recent anti-American foment in the streets of Iran, Matthew Yglesias (of “The Matt Yglesias Experience”®) writes: […]obviously the Ayatollahs are manipulating public opinion here, but lets not forget that until recently the demonstrations we were seeing were either in support of the reformist President or else were in order to condemn him for being insufficiently radical. Turns out that people may not like having their nation, bad

Breaking news: FOXNews is reporting on a frightening situation at Fairfield University (Connecticut), where a former student claiming to have a bomb is holding hostage 15 students and the professor of a Religious Studies class. Developing…. I’ve always wanted to do that. I feel so…Drudgy…!

“Media mogul Ted Turner says the Sept. 11 attacks were an act of desperation, and the hijackers were ‘brave’ but probably ‘a little nuts,’ The Washington Post reports. “Turner, in a lecture at Brown University, also compared President Bush to Julius Caesar.” In a wide-ranging address Monday, the AOL Time Warner vice chairman said the attacks on the World Trade Center the Pentagon were an outgrowth of poverty. ‘The reason

Heretical Ideas’ Alex Knapp has come up with some “fun questions for anti-globalization activists.” He writes: Are you bored? Attending a global economic forum? Want to pass the time by mocking the ignorance of white, middle-class college activists? Then why not ask them one or more of these following questions. Their answers will astound and amaze you! 1. What is a corporation? 2. If you’re opposed to the oil companies,

Go read Glenn Kinen’s post on the economics of the effigy business, which starts with this great line: “There is nothing like a Persian in heat.” Man, if we didn’t already have protein wisdom as our blog title, “A Persian in Heat” would win hands down…

Brian Doherty reports on the globalization debate in the latest Reason (print edition): According to the anti-globalization movement, the integration of the global economy is nothing more than a chance for the rich to fleece the poor. A recent working paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research* finds that almost precisely the opposite is true: The best way to keep poor nations poor is to segregate them from