From the drooling ninnies at the NY Times: Let’s hope that this week will mark both the beginning and the end of the use of Osama bin Laden as a prop in political campaign commercials. The current TV ad starring the most infamous face in terrorism is part of a “stop Howard Dean” movement from …
Archives for December 2003
Steyn Online
Your daily dose of Steyn.
#2?
Let’s cross our fingers.
Turn In Your Membership Card, Card
Looks like Oliver has another Democrat to excommunicate. This time, Orson Scott Card has dared to wander off the plantation. Some excerpts: In one of Patrick O’Brian’s novels about the British navy during the Napoleonic wars, he dismisses a particularly foolish politician by saying that his political platform was “death to the Whigs.” Watching the …
Debt Relief
This is something I feel very strongly about (I remember going almost nuclear about this earlier his year), and it appears we are making progress: France and Germany agreed to work toward a “substantial reduction” of Iraq’s towering foreign debt next year, marking a significant step forward in the United States’ effort to rebuild the …
Afghan Reconstruction
This is positive: “We are standing
My New Personal Hero
The truth hurts: Iraq’s foreign minister, Hoshyar Zebari, accused the United Nations Security Council today of having failed to help rescue his country from Saddam Hussein, and he chided member states for bickering over his beleaguered country’s future. “Settling scores with the United States-led coalition should not be at the cost of helping to bring …