Well, this is just great.  Robert Gates, the bumbling idiot in the White House’s choice to be the next Secretary of Defense, has just testified at his confirmation hearing that we’re losing the war in Iraq.  Good grief.  If you thought they were laughing at us in Teheran before, they must be doubled over now.  I’m sure our boys in the Sandbox will take heart and fight even harder now

As SI points out below, many on the transnationalist left (and in the US Congress, for that matter) are all atwitter these days:  the world, for them, is returning to normal—with the benching of John Bolton (not because he’s been ineffective, mind you, but rather because he radiates musk and kielbasa sandwiches rather than eau fraiche and anything pan-seared and drizzled with a cranberry chutney), the UN re-emerges unhindered as

OK, so you’ve been living with her for a while, and you went and knocked her up. She decides that you’re an idiot, and that she’d rather rip out her eyeballs and boil them in oil than raise a kid with you. Being the modern, liberated woman that she is, she decides that the logical choice is to kill that pesky little shit you planted in her before it has

Let’s talk about laundering information . . . The greedy truth about media consultants Think you know where your campaign dollars go? Think again, sucker. Political image-makers skim off percentages that would make Exxon execs envious—and the public never knows about it.

Suspect in PlayStation 3 robbery killed A teenager accused of robbing a student of two new Playstation 3s on the day the popular game consoles were introduced was shot to death by police sent to arrest him. Peyton Strickland, 18, was killed Friday at a house he shared with three roommates, New Hanover County Sheriff Sid Causey said. “If this boy would’ve come to the door, opened the door, we