Why the Mainstream Press Hasn’t been Telling You About What the Weekly Standard *did* Tell You

For those who wonder what all the bisiness about those Intel committe memos was about.. Tony Blankley puts it plainly:

1) Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee had drafted plans to use and misconstrue classified intelligence data to politically undercut

I found it interesting how the idiots in Trafalgar Square, protesting against our actions in Iraq kinda just melted away when the news of the attacks against British targets in Turkey came in.

Can it be even they now understand

Boortz asks a good question this morning:

Is it possible that Jackson got tired of paying blackmail money to some parents, and those parents retaliated by going to the police?  Some of the news reports say that Jackson lavished money,

A while back, I posted notes about Jackson and some legal problems he was having. My comments stand, with the addendum that’s been tacked on.

Michael Jackson is one strange bugger, isn’t he? He seems another in a long line

Wasn’t there a bit of a row over Strom Thurmond’s retirement, and comments from Trent Lott about him? If I recall rightly, folks got all bent out of shape because of Thurmand’s past, and charges of racism abounded.

But here

James Taranto passes on a note from the Guardian:

Frederick Forsyth (ellipsis in original):

You will find yourself assailed on every hand by some pretty pretentious characters collectively known as the British left. They traditionally believe they have a monopoly

Why was there no coverage of this speech in the press?

FOXNews.com – Politics – Raw Data: Bush’s Speech at Whitehall Palace

From the Independant, today, ..comes news that bakeries around the western world have fallen on harder than usual times.  It’s an interesting ground shift.

… and yet again, my points about Islam following civilians dying, raises questions about Islam being the reason these blodthirsty idiots are doing this.

Bootz raises an interesting point as well, today, asking, in part, what kind of world would

They’ve already had to drop “The Reagans”. Now, events have forced CBS to retreat again… this time, Michial Jackson’s special, which I think was due to air this week sometime. They’re still not doing badly in the sweeps, though, so

Check out this pic and tell me the only one unraveling here isn’t Krugman. Tell me this isn’t just a sheer, seething hatred causing Krugman to come utterly unglued…..

Tip of the hat to Sullivan, who apparently shops for his

Imagine waking up on November 3, 2004 and hearing these words: President-elect Wesley Clark. How would you feel?

Clark’s campaign casually announced the other day that it expected to take in $12 million this quarter. That’s more than any Democrat

So, lemme see if I’m getting this right….

Teddy “Hang a left off the bridge” Kennedy, after the Senate Debate on Bush’s judicial nominees last Friday, said, “What has not ended is resolution and determination of members of the U.S.

ABU QASH, West Bank — Raped by her brothers and impregnated, Rofayda Qaoud refused to commit suicide, her mother recalls, even after she bought the 17-year-old a razor with which to slit her wrists.

So Amira Abu Hanhan Qaoud says

Don Gibson, songwriter, and singer, has passed away at age 75.
Among his songs:
“I can’t stop loving you” that Ray Charles had a major hit with, but was actually recorded by over 700 artists…… he penned “oh, Lonesome me”