Politics

ROBERT BORK EXPLAINS WHY THE UNITED STATES SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO DO ANY DAMN THING IT PLEASES….In the Wall Street Journal today, Robert Bork explains why unilateralism is a good thing: We know from experience that international tribunals and forums will not be friendly to the U.S. When the U.S. aided the Nicaraguan insurgency, the […]

HOW MANY DIFFERENT KINDS OF CHEESE DO THEY HAVE?….VodkaPundit, returning from a long hiatus, has a lot to get off his chest. But the most important thing, beating out trivia like Iraq, North Korea, and the University of Michigan, is a long screed about the French. You know the drill by now: we saved their […]

THIS DOESN’T SOUND LIKE THE DENMARK I REMEMBER….Via Rachel Lucas, this story from Denmark about games children play: Parents of more than 100 Danish scouts were outraged over a game of tag at a scout camp in which children acted as Jews wearing yellow Stars of David and tried to escape from adults pretending to […]

GIVE IT A REST, MATT….Last night Serena Williams won the Australian Open, her fourth grand slam tennis title in a row, and this is the caption that Matt Drudge put on her picture. What a jerk. And for any of you who may have heard that she now “joins Martina Navratilova and Steffi Graf as […]

A GOOD QUESTION….Lincoln Plawg asks: The question for the US is, of course, what position could the Europeans take up, short of supine submission to each and every US proposal, that the Administration would approve? I’ve been wondering that myself. Are Europeans even allowed to disagree with U.S. policy anymore?

CONFUSION….I think I’ll join Jeanne d’Arc as a fellow Los Angeles Times reader who really doesn’t know what to think anymore: France and Germany are vile appeasers for not supporting war with Iraq right this second. But the next day Bush and Blair agree that maybe we should give the inspectors a few more weeks. […]

ARE GOOGLE’S PAGE RANKS FAIR?….This is interesting. Via Ampersand comes a link to LawMeme, which reports on a suit between Google and a company named SearchKing. Here are the basic facts of the case: Google ranks all websites with a PageRank, which ranges from 1 to 10. SearchKing owns a subsidiary called PRAN that is […]

YEP, IT’S ALL ABOUT OIL….Trent Telenko at Winds of Change wonders if the French will really veto a U.S. use of force resolution in the United Nations. Are they secretly (and deviously) working with us? Will they wimp out and support us in the end? Or is there a third choice? 3) The French aren’t […]

NIXON HAD A SECRET PLAN TOO….This just doesn’t make any sense: In Tokyo, U.S. Undersecretary of State John Bolton, Washington’s top arms control diplomat, said Iraq had maintained an extensive program for producing weapons of mass destruction, including long-range ballistic missiles banned since the 1991 Gulf War. “That is information that we have, and I […]

JUDICIAL NOMINEES….From the Associated Press: Senate Judiciary Chairman Orrin Hatch says he will make it harder for Democratic senators to block home state nominees for federal judgeships. At issue is the so-called “blue slip” tradition, referring to blue-colored approval papers that senators are asked to submit on nominees to fill vacant federal judgeships in their […]