Friday, April 03, 2009

Emphasis on the “force”

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John McCain twitters: “SenJohnMcCain: America has been and remains the greatest force for good in history.” We’re bigger than Jesus!
Wednesday, April 01, 2009

Barack Obama and the Chinese naval mooning episode

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This is not transparency we can believe in: on the White House website, the transcript of a “background readout to the travel pool by senior...

The Obamas meet the Windsors

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But what did they say? CAPTION CONTEST! (Update: I’m sure my British readers who saw this picture and thought, “Please don’t let Prince Phi...
Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Not an add-on or an afterthought

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Yesterday I said that I awaited Hillary Clinton’s condemnation of the new law relegating Afghan women to the condition of chattel. Well, at...
Monday, March 30, 2009

Evidence that Guantanamo is still part of the universe

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Miss Universe, Dayana Mendoza of Venezuela, visited Guantanamo Bay last week (along with Miss USA), and blogged it (not a perm. URL) (Updat...
Friday, March 27, 2009

Obama’s new strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan

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Today Obama spoke about his “new strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan,” which looks an awful lot like the old strategy, just with the war ...
Thursday, March 26, 2009

Barack Obama just likes nurses (but not marijuana)

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Today Obama held an “ internet town hall ” in the lovely old town hall building in Internet, Pennsylvania, whose residents are evidently ver...
Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Of death saints and insatiable demands

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Mexico is cracking down on the drug cartels by aggressively going after and destroying... some statues of a “death saint” (Santisima Muerte...
Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Obama press conference: I like to know what I’m talking about before I speak

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Transcript . One of Obama’s themes tonight was not to expect anything to get better very quickly. Oh good. “There are no quick fixes, and t...

Everything you need to know about the economy you can tell by the expression on Treasury Secretary Geithner’s Vulcan-like face

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So much for bipartisanship

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John McCain twitters : “Yesterday President Obama said GOP’ers have decided to just ‘be against whatever the other side is for.’ So much for...
Monday, March 23, 2009

The exit strategy

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Obama said in the 60 Minutes interview that we need an exit strategy from Afghanistan and “The Afghan Army and police are that exit strategy...
Saturday, March 21, 2009

Practice what?

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Headline of the Day ( Daily Telegraph ): “Doctor Who Strapped Ecstasy Pills to Scrotum Allowed to Resume Practice.” The Sci-Fi, excuse me, S...
Friday, March 20, 2009

Caption contest, papal version

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The pope is on his “no condoms for you” tour of Africa. Here he is in Cameroon or possibly Angola (the BBC website is a little confused). ...

Power corrupts, a jacket with a seal and your name on it corrupts absolutely

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JAY LENO: Let me ask you some personal things. Now, how cool is it to fly in Air Force One? OBAMA: Now, let me tell you, I personally think...
Thursday, March 19, 2009

You know, us dogs aren't really so much of the dogs that we think we are

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Name of the Day, from the obituary of actor Betsy Blair: her daughter Kerry, when she was married to Gene Kelly. Kerry Kelly. Betsy Blair ...
Tuesday, March 17, 2009

He deserves my silence

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Bush, giving a speech to the Calgary Chamber of Commerce, said “I’m not going to spend my time criticizing [Obama]. ... He deserves my sile...
Monday, March 16, 2009

How do they justify this outrage?

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Yes, the AIG bonuses are obnoxious – “retention payments” AIG prefers to call them, when the only appropriate means of retention for many AI...
Sunday, March 15, 2009

Not so Modern Times

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Hindu nationalists have stopped a plan to build a 67-foot statue of Charlie Chaplin in India, objecting that the Little Tramp was a Christia...
Saturday, March 14, 2009

Assets

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Iraq has sentenced shoe-throwing journalist Muntadar al-Zeidi to three years in prison, and Afghanistan’s supreme court has upheld (in a rul...