The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

No Surprise: Sharia Law in Libya

What “liberation” means in the Islamic world: Mustafa Abdul-Jalil, the chairman of the National Transitional Council and de fact president, had already declared that Libyan laws in future would have Sharia, the Islamic code, as its “basic source”. … Mr Abdul-Jalil went further, specifically lifting immediately, by decree, one law from Col. Gaddafi’s era that he […]

Moammar Qaddafi Is Dead

ABC News: Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi has been killed, Libyan Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril said today. The flamboyant tyrant who terrorized his country and much of the world during his 42 years of despotic rule was reportedly cornered by insurgents in the town of Sirte, where Gadhafi was born and which was a stronghold of […]

Foreign Policy and the Cult of Experts

Daniel Drezner at Foreign Policy  mocks Herman Cain: So I thought I’d go over to Cain’s campaign website and spend an equal amount of time to analyze his foreign policy thinking. I found…. a total of five paragraphs on “national security.” That’s it. No white papers, fact sheets, bullet points, or list of advisors. So […]

OK, It’s $1,179 One-Way to Auckland …

. . . if I book now for an early February departure from Dulles International, and the connection via Air New Zealand to Bauerfield International Airport in Porta Vila, Vanuatu, would be another $400, so that my basic cost to get there would be roughly $1,600. Expedia offers a low rate of $147 a night […]

From the Future Ambassador to Vanuatu

Feb. 17, 2010: When we first met by accident in an elevator at CPAC, Marco Rubio said to me, ‘Hey, your camera’s pink.’ After the events of this afternoon, I e-mailed my American Spectator story (about Marco Rubio denying my Thursday exclusive) to a fellow journalist. He replied, “My guess is that you were right […]

Silvio Plays The ‘I May Be Incompetent, But I Am All You Have Got’ Card

by Smitty We need a term for this argument. How about Argumentum ad Gasbagam? Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi appealed for his political survival Thursday, telling parliament that his government is the only credible alternative to help guide the country through the growing sovereign debt crisis. Berlusconi’s 3 1/2-year-old government faces a confidence vote Friday that […]

Memo From the National Affairs Desk to the Herman Cain Presidential Campaign

To: Mark J. Block, J.D. Gordon Re: U.S. Policy, South Pacific Region The island republic of Vanuatu will, I think, play a key role in the Cain administration’s foreign policy vis-a-vis the South Pacific. While the Republican Party Establishment has long ignored Vanuatu, my years of study of their culture, history, geography and economy have convinced […]

Pat Condell Offering Simple, Sad Truth

by Smitty A pitch-perfect delivery, via Da Tech Guy. UPDATE (RSM): The strongest sentence is when Condell says of the Palestinian leaders, “They don’t want peace, they want victory, and the won’t be happy until Israel is wiped from the map.” Palestinian nationalism is a toxic legacy of an era young people don’t remember and […]

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