Well, looks like the “Opinion Journal” hasn’t given up on the idea of a Bush Mideast

From Reason’s “Brickbats“: Delegates to a British Commonwealth conference on democracy and the media voted down a resolution to condemn Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe’s crackdown on independent media. The move was backed by Britain, India, and Australia. But African members of the Commonwealth lined up against it. ‘We should stick to our own theme of promoting relations between parliamentarians and the media and enhancing the free press and democracy,’ South

In his advance copy of “Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch” (for the May 6 Standard), Bill Kristol asks, “What did Prince Abdullah’s trip to Texas accomplish?” An excerpt: […]Why is it that our government must refrain from making demands on our longtime petroleum partner? If we can make demands on Israel, why not on Saudi Arabia? What possible grievances can Riyadh have with us? On September 11, our cities, not

“At least nine national cable networks have turned down a potentially lucrative — though controversial — ad schedule from the Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia. No national cable networks are known to have accepted the ads,” Electronic Media Online reports. …Which didn’t prevent the aggressively “neutral” ABC pinheads from running the Saudi spots during this morning’s GMA. ABC News is also running a “Nightline” advertising campaign trumpeting Ted Koppel as

“At least nine national cable networks have turned down a potentially lucrative — though controversial — ad schedule from the Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia. No national cable networks are known to have accepted the ads,” Electronic Media Online reports. …Which didn’t prevent the aggressively “neutral” ABC pinheads from running the Saudi spots during this morning’s GMA. ABC News is also running a “Nightline” advertising campaign trumpeting Ted Koppel as

If you haven’t yet done so, go read the excellent piece from Christopher Caldwell in The Weekly Standard, “Liberte, Egalite, Judeophobie”. Part 1 introduces us to the softer side of that famed French McMalcontent, Jose Bove. It seems genetically altered foods aren’t the only things this randy old le Cock mistrusts: France has laws against Holocaust denial. The current climate shows them to be bad laws, not just because they

Reviewing Arundhati Roy’s Power Politics and The Algebra of Infinite Justice for The New Republic, Ian Buruma offers several sharp arrogant, presumptious, and remarkably condescending claptrap, and sure enough, it did change my way of thinking forever. Because no longer (I swore) would I countenance the kind of shoddy logic I find so endemic to the “thinking” of Roy and her ilk — regardless of how such iconoclasty might damage

Reviewing Arundhati Roy’s Power Politics and The Algebra of Infinite Justice for The New Republic, Ian Buruma offers several sharp arrogant, presumptious, and remarkably condescending claptrap, and sure enough, it did change my way of thinking forever. Because no longer (I swore) would I countenance the kind of shoddy logic I find so endemic to the “thinking” of Roy and her ilk — regardless of how such iconoclasty might damage

Writing in The Weekly Standard, David Brooks gives us an instructive

Writing in The Weekly Standard, David Brooks gives us an instructive