Pamela points out WaPo's latest brush with the leftard's denihilistic ad hominism. How long do you think Howell will last after that one?

Farewell and rots of ruck to Eurabia. Kind of puts Chirac's sudden reach for the nukes into perspective, non? Of course, with his liberalesque amnesia, he forgot that one of the likely targets of a strong enough response for success is the Paris 'burbs. C'est la vie...

VDH has a "holocaust-free reality" update.

Oh, don't worry. He didn't grow up running live animals through with red-hot rods like Saddam. Well, maybe. He was only an assassin after all ... ummm, just like Saddam...

Yes, how about it?

Fisking back on double standards... (HT Glenn)

The circular circus.

Today's "fake but accurate" news update comes courtesy of the NYeT.

Red On Red

Glenn points to more red on red confirmation from Iraq The Model:

Meanwhile, there are some good news coming from Anbar.Al-Qaeda is apparently being chased down and confronted by Iraqis in Anbar and Samarra according to a report from al-Sabah. Mohammed al-Ubaidi is a citizen of Anbar who took part in a battle against al-Qaeda fighters said that people were enraged by the attacks that kill civilians in Anbar and other provinces and therefore have decided to form squads from the residents to rid Anbar from the foreign terrorists. The reports mentions that several tribes’ sheikhs had a meeting in the home of a sheikh of the Dulaim tribe where they pledged to fight al-Qaeda and throw them out of the province. There are also news that some 120 al-Qaeda members have already fled outside Iraq after a series of battles between their cells and the residents of Ramadi and other towns and suburbs of Anbar.According to the same report, similar measures are being taken by the residents in Samarra and have succeeded in forcing foreign terrorists out of their city.

And how could I have missed this?: "I have long believed that the US went into Iraq hoping to find the key to Iran. We'll find out when we try to turn the lock."

"OIF is a bomb that has detonated deep within the social structure of Iraq." ...

"Kos and MoveOn have conveniently convinced themselves that the war on terrorism is a mere subset of the struggle against the GOP. Whatever brings Democrats closer to power, ipso facto, makes the United States safer. That would be nice if it were true -- but it's clearly not, because, sometimes, Bush is right, and because, to some degree, our safety depends on his success." ...

"But insofar as the world was concerned his party was missing in action."

There goes Wretchard again...

But Hillary didn't bother to show up to hear about the actual realities of body armor of course...

The Pope gets more capital letter backing from my favorite neo-libertarians. Depressing though...

Can Al Gore put the mental back in environmental after this one?

"What do you think of Wahhabism?"

So

So, during the Clinton Administration, evidence existed (all of the information used in this article was available at the time) that:

-an invasive, extensive domestic eavesdropping program was aimed at every U.S. citizen;

-intelligence agencies were using allies to circumvent constitutional restrictions;

-and the administration was selling at least some secret intelligence for political donations.

These revelations were met by the New York Times and others in the mainstream media by the sound of one hand clapping. Now, reports that the Bush Administration approved electronic eavesdropping, strictly limited to international communications, of a relative handful of suspected terrorists have created a media frenzy in the Times and elsewhere.
The Times has historically been referred to as “the Grey Lady.” That grey is beginning to look just plain grimy, and many of us can no longer consider her a lady.

(Heh from Glenn)

Sowell has an educational update for us.

"Give me liberty or give me the right to have unprotected sex with men I don't want to have a child with" just isn't that attractive a principle in the light of day.

Can you spot the new key detail? I can...

"Here in Illinois, of course, we elect them to the U. S. Senate."

A Congress Of Your Peers. Surely someone can think of a problem with the idea...

EneMedia Watch: "Why yes, it did." Fewer EneMedia = less capability to damage Amerika, no? So blackout it is -- got to keep her alive at all costs!

Alaa also has a remedial update. (HT Glenn)

The latest from Hitch on Iraq. Mostly just a remedial update...

Psychonucleosis update. Are even our purported "friends" having second thoughts? What lies in between Afghanistan and Iraq again? Oh yeah, that's right!

UPDATE: "... this moron explained ..."

"Their desire was to cross the border and get to the heart of the problem."

MY PREDICTION: 0 stories on Saddam's terror training camps by the EneMedia. And if they finally break down and say anything it will be all about how Cheney planted the evidence.

The strategy behind the 'hoax'ocaust. Will we keep slip slidin' away?

Chester Inspires The Comment Of The Day

It's apparent that at least some of the responders are unaware of Iran's intentions.
When the leaders of Iran get to together, they end their meetings with "Death to Israel! Death to America!" It's not an empty threat.

Iran has successfully tested its Shahab-3 missiles...firing them off of freighters and detonating them at high elevations.

According to President Reagan's chief scientific advisor, William E. Graham, the sole purpose of a test like that would be to detonate nukes at high elevations...creating EMP nukes (electro-magnetic pulse nukes.)

EMP nukes fired from the Atlantic and detonated over the east coast would shut down all the electricity as far as Chicago and St. Louis and cover the entire east coast.

There would be no refrigeration, tap water, working toilets, trucks, cars, etc.

It would result in chaos and pestilence for half the country.

The nexus of Muslim fanaticism and EMP nukes means we must act quickly and dramatically.

THAT is why the former Secretaries of Defense and State were brought to the White House. We are about to ebark on an extraordinary venture to protect our very existence.

If we don't..."Death to America!" will not be just a slogan...it will be a dream come true for the demented, twisted Islamists and their messianic 'million-man-Jonestown-kool-aid' fantasies.

Posted by: Kelley at January 6, 2006 07:18 PM

Golf, anyone?

The Neo-Syndicalists will now commence foaming...

"But I'm prepared to make an exception for Pat Robertson."

I have to admit amazement that the Catholics have selected such a clear-eyed Pope. He may even deserve that capitalization if he keeps this up...

"The best of us live in the hope of receiving judgment, not escaping it."

WALL WATCH: "The world is getting flatter but the great wall is getting thicker."

And now ... just in "time" ... the garden of the Finzi-Continis.

QandO Has Had It Today

And I'm nearly there myself:

The best defense is a good offense, offense, in this case, being to transmit the culture and values that have underpinned Western economic and political dominance to the Muslim world. That means promoting democracy, limited government, human rights, and free markets to a region of the world where they have been essentially nonexistent for the last millennium. And, even then, I'm not sure it's possible to do effectively. I just think it's the only policy that has any chance of succeeding.

Whether we'll actually even attempt to do so, and do so consistently, over the long term—is an open question. In the current political climate of America, I doubt it. And the only thing that will change the political climate is, I think, another—or perhaps more than one—terrorist attack. And a truly horrific one.

As I've related before, back in the early days after 9/11, Sci-Fi author John Ringo predicted that America would pull together for a while, but would soon fall back to squabbling, until there was another terrorist attack, at which point the cycle would start all over again. He predicted the cycle would repeat until the patience of the electorate snapped, and we went to full-scale war with the Muslim world.

Apparently, he was right. Maybe that's what it will take for the current generation of Americans to learn what our grandparents learned to their dismay in the 1930s: that liberty must be defended, and that our society, for all its faults, is far, far better than anything that is available to replace it.

So, you know what? To that end, I'm perfectly prepared to let the Left have its way.

I'll make a deal with the Left: You wanna impeach President Bush? Go ahead. Knock yourself out. In fact, let's just go to the polls and turn the whole government over to the Democrats. You wanna run the whole show? Fine. Elect Howard Dean President. End all surveillance against possible enemy combatants, unless you can get a warrant based on probable cause. Withdraw from Iraq and Afghanistan immediately. Permanently kill the PATRIOT Act. Do whatever you want to do. I'm perfectly willing, at this point, to do it your way.

I mean, really, what's the worst that can happen? An American city goes up in nuclear fire? Well, it'll probably be New York, Chicago, or LA. You know, a major city. I don't live there, nor do most Americans. So we'll be fine.

But here's the other half of the deal: If that happens, we get to march on Washington, drag you naked and screaming from your offices, and hang you from the ornate lampposts that line The Mall. Then, free from roadblocks thrown up by infantile political fools, maybe we'll get serious about defending the United States, her people, her freedoms, and her values, in an increasingly hostile world.

The only little problem here is that one of the hits we take turning our cheeks in the warm-ups may put us down so we can't get back up. And that would include my family that I love so dearly.

Frick.

RTWT. Period.

Today's miracle. And today's predictable pronouncement from the loony bin.

Think small (cap).

And down the MSMemory Hole with the net...

Gotcha!

"It is no wonder that genocide is so often preceded by efforts to disarm the people."

Someday there may be a Wretchard of the left. I'm not holding my breath though: What do you leave behind?

"The second rule is to give credit to people that they are sincere in their beliefs."

"[I]t is these Democrats, not George W. Bush or their Republican critics, who have raised the question of whether they are on America's side."

Pure motives? ... NYeT!
(HT Power Line)

WHOOPS!!!!! They're going to be working overtime to keep this little fact about rendition from climbing out of the MSMemory Hole methinks...

D'OH: ' Maybe Harvard's policy on Saudi repression is "don't ask, don't tell." '

A Syllogism For Our Times

Premise #1:
"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function." -- F. Scott Fitzgerald

Premise #2:
Islamofascists -- and their Gramscian Neo-Syndicalist Fascifist allies -- are incapable of holding two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and retaining the ability to function.

Conclusion:
Islamofascists and their allies are not first-rate intelligences.

But what do I know...

The Wall, the NSA and the Memory Hole.

Can you say "turnabout"? Yee-haw!

Tammy Watch: "When your victimhood is your empowerment, recovery is the enemy."

UPDATE: Roger, neo-neocon and Bookworm have the latest on the mastervictims...

Ann strikes again. (HT Power Line)

Today's Suicide Pact Update

"Let's put the issue very simply. The president has the power as commander in chief under the Constitution to intercept and monitor the communications of America's enemies. Indeed, it would be a very weird interpretation of the Constitution to say that the commander in chief could order U.S. forces to kill America's enemies but not to wiretap -- or, more likely these days, electronically intercept -- their communications. Presidents have asserted and exercised this power repeatedly and consistently over the last quarter-century."

"Punditry is one of those strange activities where for the good of your character it is best not to be too successful."

"Our postmodern mind is tightly bound by the idea that a story must be false, and deceitful, simply because it claims to be good, beautiful, and true. The Christmas story breaks these bonds. It may be inaccessible to the cynical and world-weary. But it will always be spontaneously understood by children, and those who can become children, in the presence of Our Lord."

Something a little different for your Christmas reading list...

"Let us know how that works out in '06." (HT Glenn)

Merry Christmas!

Hell bans music just in time for Christmas. But don't worry, Mao was one of the good guys too. What's that you say, only just banal stuff like Ode to Joy?

As far as I can tell, this is what the ironically-named Democrats are wishing for this Christmas. The Christmas spirit is awfully hard to maintain in so many ways when we have to hang around people this contemptible...

"Either way, these are some incredibly clueless people."

"Have we gone insane?"

Holocaust-Shmolocaust.

"On the day when crime puts on the apparel of innocence, through a curious reversal peculiar to our age, it is innocence that is called on to justify itself."

QandO has the balanced assessment ... and a take on 9/10 redux.

UPDATE: 28 additional reasons he must might not be won't be impeached.

Just like Clinton's Kosovo adventure, this doesn't exist...

Key Posts From 2005

• Top 10 Reasons You Might Be A Liberal


• In A Ruined Region


• Venal Innumeracy Coalition Targets Bennett


• OK. Not IKEA. Sorry.


• On Connection Ugly Virgins And Innumeracy


• Touchstone


• No Love In Appeasing Apocalyptic Work Accidents


• Fault (-line) Of The Apocalyptic Cuckoo Clock


• Welcoming Schizophrenia At (C)BS


• Barging Out Of The MSMemory Hole


• All You Need To Know About The War's Progress Since 911


• Katrina Takes On The Tinfoil Apocalypse


• Keep Those Hoods On Boyz!


• NOLA Machine No Go


• Projections From The MSMemory Hole


• Tear Down That Levee -- Another Reason


• Intent On Drowning The Leader


• Tinfoil Update


• More On Democrats Projecting Democracy's Failure


• My Take On Powerline's Take On Hugh's Take On Bennet's Take On ... The Apocalypse


• What Manchurian Candidate?


• Projection 104: Murder Is Normal


• Projection 103: It's Not Cool To Be Smart


• Great Jumping "Reality-Based" Butterballs!


• The Tinfoil Apocalypse Prelude: And Who Do You Think You Are? Einstein?


• W For President -- Of The Miners


• The Canary In The Coal Mine: Stolen Erieness For Our Stolen Election


• Meeting "With The Entire Security Council" Is "Seared -- Seared -- In Me"


• The Greatest Intelligence Failure In History


• I Approve This Message Without The Darned Change Tracking


• Projection 101: Bad Faith Stickers Out


• An "F" No Matter How You Grade It


• Shockingly Updated: NYeT, NYeT, NYeT!


• THE PAOMNNEHAL PWEOR OF THE HMUAN MNID


• BUT I Didn't Mean That!


• NOTICE TO NEW READERS


• Top Ten Reasons You Might Have Liberal Debating Points


• Columbine Cover-Update: Time To Rehabilitate Preemption


• At Last: Puzzle Answer Is...


• The Bush Doctrine in Plain English


• Cambodian Case Closed Conclusively
  
• You Might Be A Liberal If


• FBI's Atta Ass Ablutions Spotted in Prague


• Good Reporting Corroborated, Irony Abounds


• Careening Back to Stupid: A KristoFisk


• That Stupid Bush...


• WaPo Boffo


• The Bodyguard of Lies


• Point, Counter-Point on Iraq Reconstruction


• A Key Point Regarding Hitchens' "Against Rationalization" Thesis
  
• No Evidence?

Dems bring back the WALL. You really don't want to know what I think of them right now...

MICHAEL STRIKES AGAIN: "This probably looks Stalinist to you."

UPDATE: Good grief. Forgot that I didn't point you to this yet. What are you waiting for?

Nailing the NYeT once more. You just can't make this stuff up...

"Why so many secrets? Why so many lies?"

What's that? Ah, yes ... you need to see PALLYWOOD now don't you now?

The Tinfoil Apocalypse Comes Into Focus

"This kind of man would have, to put it gently, less inhibition about starting Armageddon than a normal person."

"Freezing rain blasts across Southeast"

'This raises again the age old-question, why are our mainstream reporters so terrible? Is it malice, or stupidity? As usual, the answer seems to be "both." '

"The only people who don't get it now are Zarqawi, and the spokespersons for the Democratic Party."

GO IRAQ!

MORE TAMMY: "Unfriendly. Like Hitler was, I suppose, cranky?"

GO TAMMY: "Not only will we not go see films which insult us, we refuse to support an existential worldview. We happen to think life does matters, that decency is a good thing, and that people are inherently good, not bad. We also have stopped believing the lie that Americans are bad people. We looked away for 4 decades as that lie was spread, but that time is over. "

A soldier on the inconvenient truth about Iraq.

10-1 that Bubba and H win again.

Wretchard On A WaPo Wonder

"It's about breaking the power of the assassins. ... People like the Tuenis who refuse to be intimidated should inspire the rest of us. So should the millions of Iraqis who will vote tomorrow. They are trying to break the culture of intimidation and death. Americans should feel proud to be on their side."

Truly a miracle for the WaPo. And it looks like Lebanon has done it to them. Well, and the fact that even France isn't on Syria's side.

And there's almost zero chance that any of this would have happened without NastyMcShrubby's little Iraq adventure.

No wonder the Gramscian Neo-Syndicalists have become more and more unhinged...

NYeT. Like shooting ducks in a barrel.

"Shambolism" in Afghanistan. Let's do let NATO defend us...

TODAY'S MSMemoryHole UPDATE: Contains a rhetorical question.

Yes, How Did That Happen Again?

"Somehow, Europeans have managed to transform the atrocities which they committed and which occurred in their countries from a badge of shame (which, arguably, it need not be any longer) into some sort of badge of moral superiority and entitlement to sit in judgment."

UPDATE: What superiority again???

Being overlawyered is the real torture. And what of boot camp? I predict Amnesty's next glorious cause...

Sowell On Utter Ignorance

"Utter ignorance of history enables any war with any casualties to be depicted in the media as an unmitigated disaster.

Even after Nazi Germany surrendered at the end of World War II, die-hard Nazi guerrilla units terrorized and assassinated both German officials and German civilians who cooperated with Allied occupation authorities.

But nobody suggested that we abandon the country. Nobody was foolish enough to think that you could say in advance when you would pull out or that you should encourage your enemies by announcing a timetable.

There has never been the slightest doubt that we would begin pulling troops out of Iraq when it was feasible. Only time and circumstances can tell when that will be. And only irresponsible politicians and the media think otherwise."

And for once I can say that Sowell -- while still doing a wonderful job -- has missed the most amazing piece of ignorance of all. Doubling the peacetime military death rate. Yup. That's just got to be unsustainable all right. Gramsci is giggling and Orwell is spinning.

"Meet the new appropriator, same as the old appropriator."

READ THE PROSECUTOR'S REBUTTAL: "If we somehow manage to catch the "three-striker" and place him on trial, it will be in his best interest to sabatoge his own trial by killling witnesses, jurors, prosecutors or judges."

Iraqi voter has navigation advice for (our anti) Dems...

WHAT ARE THEY THINKING?

AFTER THE TERRORISM.

Harvesting Hillary.

Conjuring Neville's ghost...

PLAME? WHAT PLAME?: "For some, the risks are worth the temporary gain." (HT Glenn)

"It is not at all clear that [the CIA's] survival is in the national interest."

Are the men disappearing? Or the women reporting for duty? (HT Glenn)

Eurabian fools.

60X!