Publius pundit has several posts and links; Yahoo has ongoing photo updates here. From Publius: In just a couple of hours, we will see if democratic opposition candidate Alexander Milinkevich’s call to the people for street protests against an obviously fraudulent election will pan out. People are to meet at October Square in the middle of Minsk at 6:30 p.m. wearing smiles first and foremost. They will call for a

brave progressive:  “Yes, but how can you prove it’s Monday?  And don’t go citing western calendars, either—because those are “evidence” of nothing more than how widespread the western hegemonic meme of dividing the week into 7 days has become.  And besides, calendars don’t prove that, from the very first, some proto-fascist didn’t put ‘Monday’ on, say, Wednesday, just to cement his authority and control over the PEOPLE!”

Christopher Hitchens wastes no ammo going after the feckless, cufflink and Kir Royale UN / anti-war crowd—the transantional progressivists’ last great hope for a world ruled by tailored bureaucrats who, on their way to cocktail parties, pause to initial documents everyone knows, deep down, will be ignored or finessed or massaged or excused by the really bad actors of the world—but that can be used to henpeck and worry and

“Bin Laden Sought ‘Joint Operations’ With Saddam”.  Yes, it’s Newsmax.  But hell, if Jane Hamsher or Arianna Huffington can quote, say, the Nation or Alec Baldwin with a straight face, I reserve the right to cite Newsmax on occasion.  And besides, Newsmax is referencing the Weekly Standard, whose credibility is not in dispute (except among those who dismiss anything “conservative” as ipso facto unreliable).  Just, y’know, trust but verify: An

From “Spreading Genocide to Chad”: “Is this really what we have come to? The United Nations has described the carnage in Darfur as the world’s biggest humanitarian crisis but continues to prove itself completely useless at doing anything to stop it. In the Security Council, China protects Sudan. Europe, for its part, has been inert.” Of course, as Allah pointedly notes in an email, “One could say exactly the same