Via DEBKAfile: Tehran plans a nuclear weapons test before March 20, 2006 – the Iranian New Year, moves Shahab-3 missiles within striking range of Israel […] Reporting this, the dissident Foundation for Democracy in Iran, a US-based watch group, cites sources in the US and Iran. The FDI adds from Iran: on June 16, the high command of the Revolutionary Guards Air Force ordered Shahab-3 missile units to move mobile

Our friend DarkSyde, writing at Daily Kos, pulls out his airbrush and his engorged sense of self and paints one of the most delusional and dishonest pieces of aggrandizing twaddle ever to tag the blogosphere—no easy feat in a medium known for posts that pimp themselves in the same way an aging Norma Desmond once moved showily toward the harsh Klieg light of her own ultimate self parody.  From “Turning

From The Washington Times: The head of the United Nations’ nuclear monitor has rejected an EU request to condemn Iran’s nuclear program. Mohamed ElBaradei, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, was urged to issue a condemnation of the Iranian situation before his agency meets in special session next month. But, ElBaradei, though frustrated by Iran’s resumption of nuclear research and a slowdown in Iranian cooperation with his inspectors,

Karl Rove, speaking to the RNC on Friday: “Republicans have a post-9/11 view of the world. And Democrats have a pre-9/11 view of the world,” Rove told Republican activists. “That doesn’t make them unpatriotic, not at all. But it does make them wrong — deeply and profoundly and consistently wrong.” Democratic Party chairman Howard Dean denounced Rove’s remarks and renewed his call for the deputy White House chief of staff

Massachusetts Senator and failed Democratic Presidential candidate John Kerry, writing on Daily Kos: There’s something that doesn’t sit right with me when, on the day Osama Bin Laden resurfaced in a disturbing audio tape, cable television ends up in a game of name calling as a war protester is compared to Osama Bin Laden. That’s reason to be outraged – but even more outrageous is the fact that in a

To everything (turn, turn, turn) There is a season (turn, turn, turn) And a time for every purpose, under heaven —Except when the “purpose” convinces you that stuffing a pound of diced uncooked shrimp, two tablespoons wasabe, 1/4 ml purified blowfish extract, and a half dozen 40 oz Kirins into a beer bong and mainlining the whole thing during a blackmarket Samurai Champloo marathon you’ve had specially intercut with adult

—I realize that.  But for those of you who haven’t been watching The Weather Channel, Denver is right now buried beneath a half-foot of snow, which makes getting around difficult without a 4WD vehicle and some off-roading skills.  And so the little bastard and I have reached an impasse.  Because he refuses to dance without his acrylic-heeled glitter shoes (which he’s having re-soled to reinforce the toe grip); and there’s

From Dr Rusty’s two-year anniversary post: Two years ago today I started blogging by warning in my very first post, If you think this is offensive, just wait til I really get going! What a way to celebrate my blogoversary!!! The long awaited moment has arrived that I can reveal some of the details of The Jawa Report’s involvement in the capture of a would-be terrorist. Some of you already

Me: “You know, it so bothered me when critics lampooned you for that scene in Poseidon Adventure where you swim through an underwater maze to help rescue the other survivors.  But—well, to be honest with you, for me –” Shelley Winters’ Ghost: “I know, I know.  You found it kinda sexy—in the same way an old Schooner hand feels a stir in the crotch of his flairlegs whenever he spies