JunkYardBlog reminds us about those forged “yellowcake” documents, citing this story—itself over a year old—which names an Italian businessman in the employ of French intelligence as the source of the documents Joseph Wilson claimed (to WaPo’s Walter Pincus) to have known were fake eight months before the US government even received them. Up until now, I’ve simply assumed Wilson was lying when he made such an assertion, he being the

From SA: Malaysia’s government has endorsed a university’s ruling that requires non-Muslim women to wear headscarves on its campuses, a report said on Wednesday. The minister in charge of national unity, Maximus Ongkili, said the decision by the International Islamic University earlier this year was not a religious one, but merely part of university procedures. “As the rule was approved by the university senate, it is not religious in nature

So. What are you planning on watching this week? 

In the LA Times today, Joe Wilson once again tries to turn his shopworn lies into truths by sheer force of will and repetition—and with the help of legacy media editors who are so committed to the tolerance of alternate ”truths” that they can’t bring themselves to demand opinion pieces be grounded in facts that are objectively provable. Here’s Wilson: I knew that the statement in Bush’s speech — that