Selected Cuts from Other Gigs
He'll Just Have To Settle for Being the Most Powerful Man in Iraq. Strange NYT article doesn't really capture what's going on with the Mahdi Army. Journalist Bartle Bull does.
Dat Wascally Muqtada! Premature political obituaries for Muqtada al-Sadr are to "analysts" of Right Blogistan what power ballads were to hair metal bands. For some reason, everybody seemed to think they needed to write one at some time. And they were all wrong, wrong, and dreadfully wrong. Except for Sweet Child O' Mine.
Waterboarding is Torture. If you support it, you support torture. There's nothing more to it.
Of Pins and Pinheads. The fact that so many people on the right were scandalized by Barack Obama's not wearing an American flag lapel pin tells you pretty much all you need to know about people on the right.
Die, Paradigm, Die! Countering one of the more pernicious myths in recent history.
Friends Don't Let Friends Disappear as Part of Their Eschatology. You know, to me, nothing quite says "Zman simchateinu!" like a large styrofoam cowboy hat.
The Pasdaran's Favorite Pundit. Michael Ledeen would be a national treasure, if our nation treasured stark-raving moonbats who masqueraded as experts on subjects about which they clearly know very little.
The Neocon Merge Template Revealed. Thank you for playing, David Frum.
Today's Very Serious, Thoughtful Argument. Jonah Goldberg is the reason Cliff's Notes were invented.
Who's a Tough Guy? Come On, Who's a Tough Guy? Limning the dementia of the neocons.
Blatantly Foolish. George W. Bush spends thousands of American lives and billions of taxpayer dollars to establish Iran as the Middle East's new regional hegemon.
The Brave Ones. A couple of Saudi women break off a hot steaming chunk of whup ass on some bullying religious police.
Divine Intervention. As if the Bush administration would actually use the Department of the Treasury as a weapon against political opponents... that's what the Justice Department is for!
Still a Problem. Walt and Mearsheimer tarred as bigots! Meanwhile, Marty Peretz roams free...
Everybody Can Relax, We Got the Toyman. For many on the right, the War on Terror is like an episode of the Super-Friends.
Steady as a Rock. This post almost has the same title as an Ashford and Simpson song.
The Dream Palace of the Neocons. Fouad Ajami helps the neocons build ice cream castles in the sky.
Obama's Teaching Moment. Alan Dershowitz continues his struggle to divest the term "anti-Semite" of any meaning whatsoever.
Where Did I Come From? Where Am I Going? Why Doesn't Short Round Call? In which I express resentment against Steven Spielberg.
Osama's Stealing My Riffs! I'm not saying that David Frum and Richard Perle are Islamofascist Manchurian Candidates, but...
464 Pages of Old Men Pleasuring Themselves. I really wish that title were less apt.
Friends Like These. How Israel's "strategic value" to the U.S. is a function of Israel's insecurity.
Fool's Errand. Fred Kagan defends his illiterate, pants-wetting son, the Surge.
"Hoard Weapons, Grow Gills, and Learn to Communicate with Serpents." Jonah Goldberg blames the media for his own deeply offensive remarks about the Hurricane Katrina tragedy.
Leave the Gun, Take the Hadgi Badah. Muqtada and the roots of mafia.
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Special Scrutiny. On the Debbie Almontaser controversy.
Guilt By Assertion. Michael Totten transmits received wisdom about Muqtada.
The Villification of Language. On the use of the term "intifada."
Standing Athwart the Center Wicket, Yelling Stop! Croquet should never be profaned through the exertion of physical effort to play it.
Reimagine This. In which I associate Knight Rider with Don Juanism.
Helping the Enemy. How Bush is doing al-Qaeda's PR.
Heads, He Wins; Tails, We Lose. Muqtada's inside-out strategy.
Misunderestimated, Again. Muqtada's defiance of the preferred neoconservative narrative.
Barghouti. It's long past time he was released.
Carrying the Torch for Constantine XI. Stark-raving wingnut laments the fall of Constantinople.
Memoirs of a Palestinian Patriot. Review of Sari Nusseibeh's Once Upon a Country.
Al Nakba Day. Reflections on historical memory and national myths.
Nothing To See Here, Move Along. Attempts to change the ethnic character of Jerusalem.
New Name, New Attitude. SCIRI now SIIC.
Top Ten Rock Albums. Because lists are fun.
Turning the Corner. Again. One of Fred Kagan's first attempts to declare the surge "working," at a time when he will later claim it hadn't really begun.
New Frontiers in Dumb. Glenn Beck is for people who find Bill O'Reilly too "cerebral."
Orientalism: The Movie. How "300" demonstrates what Edward Said was talking about.
Right of Return. The Palestinians are willing to give up their right of return in exchange for recognition from Israel that they didn't all leave voluntarily.
Does Quoting Israeli Human Rights Organizations Constitute "Legitimate" Criticism? Anne Bayefsky doesn't think so.
Guitar Blogging: Greatest Guitar Solo Ever Edition. Spoiler: It's Hendrix's "Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)".
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What is the War? (Betamax version)
Sapping Our Precious Bodily Fluids. Dennis Prager on the internal Muslim menace.
The Unbearable Lightness of Hanson.
Taqiya. Michael Rubin seriously misrepresents a principle of Islamic jurisprudence.
On Peretz. If Marty Peretz were one tenth of the bigoted jerk that he is, he'd still be one of the most bigoted jerks on the web.
Show Me Your War Face. Teaching kids to hate.
America's Shame. On Maher Arar.
Dull Instrument. Joel Mowbray attempts to dirty up Keith Ellison through vague associations with people whose views Joel Mowbray doesn't like.
Warmongering Mikey. Michael Ledeen on how unpopular Islam is in Iran.
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