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MEK IN ACTION….Speaking of terrorism, on Thursday Agonista Nick Hoover went the DAR in Washington to see the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK or MKO) give a conference on “regime change” in Iran. Here’s the first part of Nick’s report: The Agonist – Reps. Bob Filner, D-Calif., Tom Tancredo, R-Col., Ted Poe, R-Texas, Dennis Moore, R-Kan., and […]

GIVE US THE FACTS….Jonathan Landay says that the State Department has decided to stop publishing its “Patterns of Global Terrorism” reports: WASHINGTON – The State Department decided to stop publishing an annual report on international terrorism after the government’s top terrorism center concluded that there were more terrorist attacks in 2004 than in any year […]

GOOD NEWS….The heroic Rosa Parks and OutKast (and companies associated with OutKast), the most creative hip-hop group of our generation, have finally reached a settlement. I don’t think the song was in any way defamatory–and the courts didn’t either–but she seems to be suffering so perhaps the settlement money can help.

TOM DELAY VS MARBURY VS MADISON….I blogged about this at ChezNadezhda but I want to highlight it again because it’s so important. The other day, Tom DeLay said the following: I blame Congress over the last 50 to 100 years for not standing up and taking its responsibility given to it by the Constitution. The […]

CHALABI WATCH….Ahmed Chalabi has an interview with Mohamed Al-Anwar in Egypt’s Al Ahram. This part caught my eye: You said you met Saddam in jail. I didn’t say so. Only the day he was detained I saw him and didn’t talk to him. I just looked. I was half a metre away from him and […]

FRIDAY QAT BLOGGING….If it’s Friday, it’s qat-blogging. Alas, the world’s only qat-blogger, Stacey Yadav, has now left Yemen for Beirut to finish her research. Who will take up this noble work?

ALL HAIL THE MEDIUM LOBSTER….for, verily he speaketh the Truth: The Medium Lobster is gladdened to see the House move towards permanently repealing the estate tax. The estate tax isn’t just a wanton infliction of state violence upon Paris Hilton’s God-given right to a tax-free mountain of money; it does not merely desecrate the solemnity […]

HOUSE OF DELAY….One of my pet peeves about the liberal commentariat is that we (I include myself here) tend to think of brilliant ideas and then immediately leap to ask: why isn’t the Democratic Party doing this? I want to see it now! Oftentimes, um, the Democratic Party or one of its various organizational manisfestations […]

THE DEFINITION OF INSANITY….I believe it was Benjamin Franklin who once said that “the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.” So what are we doing in Azerbaijan (more background here from Mother Jones)? We’ve been told, over and over again, that America’s unwillingness to challenge the […]

NATIONALISM ON THE RISE?….I’ve been chewing this over for some time, but this past week’s uproar in China over a controversial Japanese textbook that glosses the Rape of Nanking has forced me to try to put my thoughts in order. It’s hard for me to prove this, but I have a weak gut feeling that […]