The Other McCain

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

The St. Pancake Flotilla: Commission Determines IHH Initiated Violence

An official commission investigated the May incident where Israeli commandos were attacked when they boarded a vessel defying the Gaza blockade, and has determined that activists with the Turkish “humanitarian” agency IHH provoked the incident: The commission concluded that on board the Mavi Marmara and the other flotilla vessels was a group of IHH and affiliated activists […]

Bin Laden Tells France to Surrender

As if they needed to be told: Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden called on France to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan in exchange for releasing French hostages being held by affiliates of the extremist group, according to a new audio message broadcast on an Arabic news channel Friday. “The exit of your hostages out of […]

The Spy Who Shtupped Me

From Merry Old England comes some interesting news — police spies leading the War on Extremist Nookie: A police spy married an activist he met while undercover in the environmental protest movement and then went on to have children with her, the Guardian can reveal. He is the fourth spy now to have been identified […]

Berlusconi: Italy’s Charlie Sheen

Except that Charlie Sheen isn’t 74 years old and is not — nor we hope, ever will be — head of state: A “significant” number of young women prostituted themselves with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, prosecutors investigating him said in a document made public on Monday. The prosecutors also believe that Berlusconi gave some […]

‘That Little Faggot With the Earring and the Makeup’? He’s Now Banned in Canada

Dire Straits ix now branded a homophobic hate group: It was No. 1 in 1985, but it’s unacceptable for Canadian eyes and ears today. The Dire Straits song “Money for Nothing” was ruled by the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council to be “extremely offensive” and thus inappropriate for airing because it uses an anti-gay slur. . . […]

The South Rises Again (in Sudan)

A referendum begins, and voters in South Sudan are expected to approve their independence from Khartoum: Joy marked the faces of South Sudanese citizens as they waited in long lines at polling stations throughout this dusty boomtown that, come July, is likely to be the world’s newest capital. In Juba, many residents rose before dawn to […]

‘Voluptuous Blonde Ukrainian Nurse’

That’s the kind of headline you don’t see often enough, and I guess we have Julian Assange to thank for it: In what appears to be the first diplomatic casualty from the latest WikiLeaks revelations, the U.S. ambassador to Libya has returned to Washington and is likely to leave his post, U.S. officials said Tuesday. Ambassador […]

Pakistani Official Who Opposed Sharia Law Killed by His Own Bodyguard

Not an encouraging development: The governor of Pakistan’s most populous province was gunned down Tuesday at an upscale marketplace in Islamabad by a member of an elite police security contingent, officials said. The brazen killing threw an already teetering U.S.-backed government into even greater turmoil. Salman Taseer, the governor of Punjab province and an avowed […]

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