Go visit D.C., and you’ll see all around you license plates that complain of taxation without representation, and today the WaPo weighs in on the subject: WASHINGTONIANS probably could live with Republicans’ sabotaging their latest chance at congressional representation; that’s nothing new. More galling are those Republicans too gutless to admit their true position. Well, all right.  But having spent considerable time in D.C., there are some things that I’d

According to a variety of sources (see the nice roundup at Hot Air), the Iranian abduction of 15 British seamen is tied not only to the recent bust that I pointed out in the extended entry, here, but to the prior American capture of a number of Iranian operatives at a site in Irbil that Iran claimed was a consulate (a claim that ought to have been easy for Western

Supreme court ban on liberal party wipes out opposition to Putin “The march’s leaders are being called in by police and intimidated. We are half a step away from a police state,” Denis Bilunov, a member of the march’s organising committee, told the Guardian. “There isn’t much point in talking about democracy in Russia any more.” Today’s protest follows an opposition rally earlier this month in St Petersburg in which

In the late eighties, I was living in Milwaukee when GG Allin came to town.  The notorious punk rocker was famous for his onstage acts of self-inflicted injury, defecation and coprophilia.  I didn’t go to the concert, but I was told that at some point in the performance the crowd began chanting, “Poop on stage!  Poop on stage!” at the laxative and heroin abuser musician.  My friend Bob and I,

When Democrats won control of Congress last November, Speaker-in-waiting Nancy Pelosi reiterated the party’s campaign rhetoric: “Nowhere did the American people make it more clear that we need a new direction than in the war in Iraq,” the Californian told supporters in Washington. In January, she co-authored a letter to President Bush opposing the new security plan for Baghdad: Rather than deploy additional forces to Iraq, we believe the way

—Well, I know what it’s supposed to mean, sure.  But it ain’t gonna happen today.  Truth is, the little guy spent yesterday “infiltrating” the student protest march on our Capitol building, and I haven’t seen him since. My guess?— the little scoomdogger parlayed his tiny black beret, “Buck Fush” Urban Outfitters tee, scrotum piercing, and Israeli-made kibbutz sandals into a wild threesome with some wannabe politically-“engaged” high school girls.  Which