From the AP / YNet: Hard-line Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who said Nazis’ attempt to eradicate Jews in Holocaust was a ‘myth,’ now charges that European countries sought to complete genocide by establishing Israel, a Jewish state in the midst of Muslim countries Hard-line Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who said the Nazi attempt to eradicate Jews in the Holocaust was a “Myth,” has now charged that European countries sought to

Patterico’s Los Angeles Times Year in Review for 2005 represents one rather comprehensive instance of a conservative battling a prominent left-liberal media organ over control of key political narratives.  Well worth a look—and a testament to the kind of rigorous analysis and careful fact-checking that shows the blogosphere at its finest.

So I wake up this morning with a vicious headache, my tongue fuzzed over like Lolita’s love patch, and all I can think about is having myself a nice heaping bowl of Frosted Mini Wheats. Only we’ve run out of Frosted Mini Wheats.  Which means it’s either Cheerios or oatmeal.  And not instant oatmeal, either—I’d have to slow cook the stuff and wait for it to thicken up.  Man, does

Could be it’s just the Freixenet talking, but I’m almost positive Ryan Seacrest has been hitting on me all night with his eyes… Ooh, walnuts—!

[update – response to Tbogg, et al, here] A bit of perspective, from the Weekly Standard‘s “Scrapbook,” Jan 2, 2006: As The Scrapbook enjoyed an afternoon walk down Washington’s M Street last week, it passed an array of newspaper vending machines, for the New York Times, the Washington Post, and USA Today, among others. A scan of the headlines found the words “Domestic Spying” on all the front-page headlines. This

Nora Younis provides an eyewitness account of the Sudanese refugee sit-in in Egypt that erupted in violence when police stormed the protest center, which had been set up in an upscale Cairo neighborhood in front of the UN refugee office. The three-month sit in came to an end when police used water canons and beat refugees as an audience of Egyptians stood by and cheered. As one Sudanese refugee told

From Ynet News: The U.S. government has called on NATO members to prepare for a possible attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities, the German daily Der Spiegel reported Saturday. NATO officials said the United States is seriously weighing the possibility of military action against Iran. Seems unlikely on it’s face, but at the same time, President Bush has been adamant that he will not allow Iran nuclear weapons, and it seems

—Feh.  Bad timing, I’m afraid.  Fact is, I’ve already got the little guy secured with a couple bungee cords and electrical tape into a beautifully compact geodesic sphere, which I’ve jerry-rigged with white Christmas lights and adorned with fifty-one 1/2” candied glass panels designed to mimic the Waterford Crystal triangular plates used in the Times Square New Year’s Eve ball.  Tomorrow night, at precisely 11:59:58, I drop the bastard from

From AFP: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad threatened former Lebanese premier Rafiq Hariri just months before he was assassinated, Syria’s ex-vice president Abdel Halim Khaddam said “I will destroy anyone who tries to hinder our decisions,” Assad told Hariri during a meeting in Damascus, Khaddam told Dubai-based television Al-Arabiya in an interview from Paris. Khaddam said the meeting took place a few months before the February 14 assassination of Hariri in