Those Bloody Unilateralists, Blair and Bush, are at it again: Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has admitted trying to develop weapons of mass destruction but now plans to dismantle all such programs, President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Friday. Bush said Libya’s decision — which would open the country to international weapons inspectors …
Archives for December 2003
Literacy Programs for Democrats
I am going to start a general literacy program for Democrats, since the schools seem to be failing them and they simply can not comprehend even the smallest of sentence. Today’s example is from Pandagon: John Cole gets very angry that Democrats are critcizing Bush for having failed to attend even a single funeral for …
Those Lovely Democrat Candidates
Reader Jeremey Winer emailed me this lovely tidbit from a Wesley Clark interview: “We’ve got a president who will go halfway around the world for a photo opportunity but won’t go halfway across town for a funeral for an American serviceman. “I’ve been to those funerals. I’ve comforted families. … I don’t think you can …
LOTR Quiz
Legolas Greenleaf If I were a character in The Lord of the Rings, I would be Legolas, Elf, a son of the King of Mirkwood. In the movie, I am played by Orlando Bloom. Who would you be?Zovakware Lord of the Rings Test with Perseus Web Survey Software (via Rosemary)
O’Reilly Math
More idiocy from O’Reilly: FOXNEWS’s top-rated host Bill O’Reilly recently claimed that he is “running against Hillary for most copies of nonfiction books sold this year!” But numbers obtained by the DRUDGE REPORT show a dramatically different sales scene for 2003 than O’Reilly’s TODAY show comments. NIELSEN’s BOOKSCAN placed O’Reilly at #6 for the year …
This Is Appalling
MArk Kleiman details the latest outrage in the War on Your Neighbor.
Good Point
I’ll just quote this entire Matt Yglesias post and then comment, as it is a short post: Dominique de Villepin quote lurking in an article about debt relief: De Villepin also promised to send constitutional law experts to help Iraqis draft their new constitution. Hakim in turn thanked de Villepin, saying France was “the first …