Global Agenda

Daniel W. Drezner asks,  “Should celebrities set the global agenda?”

Rosie O’Donnell, winner of Barbra Streisand IQ Award for Celebrity Vacuity, via New York Post,

“I just want to say something: 655,000 Iraqi civilians are dead. Who

From Jawa:

As the Surge continues to work as planned desperate lunatic fringe lefties get more and more idiotic.

From CNN:

A group in Brattleboro is petitioning to put an item on a town meeting agenda in March that

Scott Ott is formidable when he decides to get serious in his writing, as he does here.

The assassination of Benazir Bhutto has put on notice the leaders of every European nation.

Your secularism, your democracy will not stand. The

Chuck Simmins over at the North Shore Journal advises us tha a new milestone has been reached… The 20,000th anti-Iraq terrorist has been killed.

Funny how we’re not hearing much about it, huh?

Addendum: I see Memeorandum has it up

Mrs. Clinton touts her experience, and the fact she thinks herself ready to lead our nation in a time of war.  Yet Mrs. Clinton said this, from AFP:

Hillary Clinton Friday called for an independent, international probe into Benazir

One person,  Benazir Bhutto, one death, two Posts, Washington and New York  and two completely different takes.  

David Ignatius, Washington Post, came to laud the late Benazir Bhutto, via RCP:

Try to imagine a young Pakistani woman bounding

Ah, yes, Ron Paul. Never have so many braincells been inactive for so long.

James at OTB:

The top story on Memeorandum this morning is a piece from Little Green Footballs entitled “Ron Paul Blames US Policy for Bhutto Killing.”

Promoted, from comments.

We live in dangerous times and we need a leader who can make rational and sober assessments of the real world.   Sadly for us, we a have gaggle of candidates in both parties who either are

COALITION FORCES DISRUPT AL KUT CRIMINAL ELEMENT NETWORKS, 11 TERRORISTS KILLED

Posted: 27 Dec 2007 04:23 AM CST

COALITION FORCES DISRUPT AL KUT CRIMINAL ELEMENT NETWORKS, 11 TERRORISTS KILLED

IRAQI POLICE UNCOVER MAJOR WEAPONS CACHE

Posted: 26 Dec 2007 07:43

A crazy day, yesterday. For yours truly, lots of irons in the fire, some web development, my day gig some home duities, but of course, as with all of us, yesterday, before I even started the day came the news

OK, I gotta hand this one to Captain Ed. Ed wins our “Snark of the Day” award.

Simply put, Ayman and Osama need some publicity. They need to get more recruits for their murderous enterprises, volunteers stupid enough to

Noted over at LGF:

Here’s one of those emails that’s so insane I suspected it was a hoax; but the IP address traces to the Arabian peninsula state of Oman, so it’s probably the real deal. Our admirer found us

So the Democrats are pissed that they couldn’t get their pound of flesh at the show hearing, today:

Fox is running a report on it, which contains much more, but I’ll cull these four paras for discussion:

According to

It interests me that so many people who are annoyed in the extreme at George W Bush for his policy of wiretapping terrorists, and thus saving American lives, are so willing to plop down cash to defend Jim McDermott and

1. War is not an intellectual exercise.
2. There are no rules in war, other than the rules dictated by the winner, afterward.
3. The Geneva Convention which purports to be civilized warfare, is in fact nothing of the sort, and is not