I’m beginning to find headlines like this (from the Hindustan Times, but it may as well have come from the New York Times) just plain humorous: “Palestinian official rejects Powell’s ‘provisional state’“: Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat dismissed on Thursday remarks by US Secretary of State Colin Powell in support of a ‘provisional’ Palestinian state. Powell ‘should concentrate on the real thing: ending the Israeli occupation,’ Erekat said. Powell advanced

Kloognome’s Robert Crawford’s saw the same FOXNews report I did, and asks the same questions I asked (well, shouted at the teevee and threw a handful of pastachios at Brit Hume, in my case). Anyway, here’s the gist: Some in the State Government of New York, according to the FOX report, are calling for searches of all Yemenis anywhere — this after a “recent raid on an apartment where a

Writing in The Weekly Standard, David Tell, drawing on information made available by MEMRI, introduces us to “The Baby Face of Hate.” Read the piece for yourself and then tell me: are we at war with some amorphous thing called “terror,” or are we at war against the kind of radical Islamist theocracy that pervades the Arab-Muslim world? Yesterday morning at the National Press Club here in Washington, MEMRI held

Yessir. Nothing says flavor like a McDonalds’ Spam-n-Poi McMuffin…

Yessir. Nothing says flavor like a McDonalds’ Spam-n-Poi McMuffin…

Sometimes The Onion and Satirewire just can’t compete with the actual goings on in Arab world. For instance, check out this story (via the Arizona Republic): A few months into the first series of ‘Al Halka Al Ad’af,’ the Arabic version of the hit global quiz show ‘The Weakest Link,’ the petite Lebanese presenter [Rita Khoury] is a television starlet, but almost no one likes her. With her school mistress

Sometimes The Onion and Satirewire just can’t compete with the actual goings on in Arab world. For instance, check out this story (via the Arizona Republic): A few months into the first series of ‘Al Halka Al Ad’af,’ the Arabic version of the hit global quiz show ‘The Weakest Link,’ the petite Lebanese presenter [Rita Khoury] is a television starlet, but almost no one likes her. With her school mistress

“The man accused of plotting with al-Qaida to detonate a ‘dirty bomb’ inside the United States was a protege of a top lieutenant of Osama bin Laden, traveling at his mentor’s request to meet with other terrorists and using the Internet to research how to build a radioactive weapon, U.S. officials said Tuesday.” The AP is reporting that Jose Padilla, 31, also known as Abdullah al Muhajir, traveled to Pakistan

“The man accused of plotting with al-Qaida to detonate a ‘dirty bomb’ inside the United States was a protege of a top lieutenant of Osama bin Laden, traveling at his mentor’s request to meet with other terrorists and using the Internet to research how to build a radioactive weapon, U.S. officials said Tuesday.” The AP is reporting that Jose Padilla, 31, also known as Abdullah al Muhajir, traveled to Pakistan

More reviews of upcoming teevee pilots from the indefatiguable Marc Weisblott — who joins the annoited few who’ve come to recognize the genius of Jami Gertz. Yes, Muffy Tepperman is back (starring with Mark Addy in the CBS sitcom, “Still Standing“), and she’s back strong, according to Marc — amazingly, within a year of Lost Boys co-star Kiefer Sutherland’s unexpected return to showbiz stardom. Which can only mean one thing: