AP:
As 55 people died in Iraq on Saturday, the holiest day on the Shiite Muslim religious calendar, Sen. Hillary Clinton said that much of Iraq was “functioning quite well” and that the rash of suicide attacks was a sign that the insurgency was failing.
Clinton, a New York Democrat, said insurgents intent on destabilizing the […]
ABC News:
Hunter S. Thompson, the hard-living writer who inserted himself into his accounts of America’s underbelly and popularized a first-person form of journalism in books such as “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,” has committed suicide.
Thompson was found dead Sunday in his Aspen-area home of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, sheriff’s officials said. He […]
You Are 25 Years Old
25
Under 12: You are a kid at heart. You still have an optimistic life view - and you look at the world with awe.
13-19: You are a teenager at heart. You question authority and are still trying to find your place in this world.
20-29: You […]
This is great.
WuzzaDem: O’Reilly Factor: Yoda
I don’t know if I have mentioned it here before or not, but I am no fan of Bill O’Reilly. I have seen him do one or two good interviews, but mostly he just spits out his own, usually uninformed, opinions and doesn’t let his guests speak. Even […]
TigerHawk has an interesting post up about connections with the killer of Theo Van Gogh and Al-Qaida.
Interesting and disturbing.
(via InstaPundit)
Robert Kagan points out in The Washington Post that not all Shiites are the same, and being Shiite doesn’t mean one favors an Iranian style government:
Compare liberal and journalistic open-mindedness during the Cold War, when the subject was communism, with the remarkable rigidity from these same quarters today when it comes to a very different […]
Mike Rosen attempts to remind the democrats that WMD were never the sole reason for going into Iraq:
But how about WMD as the sole justification? Sen. Barbara Boxer trotted out that canard in her shrill interrogation of Rice during the confirmation hearings for secretary of state. ‘Well,’ she huffed, ‘you should read what we voted […]
This Weekly Standard article about Bush’s upcoming meeting with Putin is well worth reading:
Words are especially meaningful when they are hard to say. The first big test of Bush’s commitment to his liberty doctrine will come when he meets Russian president Vladimir Putin in Bratislava, Slovakia, on February 24. Calling for freedom’s advance on Inauguration […]
Riding Sun has some good news, with links, about ordinary Iraqis fighting back against the insurgents.
Belmont Club has a great post up examining the testimony of intelligence, finance, defense and military officials before Congress on the status of the War on Terror.
Well worth reading.
