In addition to buying weapons (in defiance of UN sanction) from North Korea, Ethiopia has also decided that starving rebel regions is appropriate behavior:The Ethiopian government is blockading emergency food aid and choking off trade to large swaths of a remote region in the eastern...
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Steve nails it. For some reason, the Politics of Resentment wing of the Bush-dead-enders club seems to think that poking holes in the arguments of celebrities is some sort of.
Recently, I wondered about the reliability of Glenn Reynolds's claim--invoked yet again--that Talleyrand 1)said that "you can do anything with bayonets, except sit on them," and 2)that he actually meant.
Shorter Glenn Reynolds: Coming up with kooky schemes for illegal death squads and casually accusing political opponents of hating America for disagreeing with your idiotic foreign policy preferences represents a Serious Interest In Ideas as long as you don't swear. And for bonus serious ideas,...
For no especially good reason, I happened to be listening to Rush Limbaugh this morning and overheard one of the most remarkable rants ever. For starters, while on the subject.
Radley Balko (click through for a summary of all the evidence of how much violence has dropped because of the surge) on the Instapundit-approved evidence-free assertions of Patrick Ruffini:I wish.
Glenn Reynolds uses some somewhat prose-like stylings ("beclowned"?) to defend his crackpot assassination scheme. Alas, he doen't explicitly defend his farcical claim that the U.S and Iran have been at war since 1979, although his analogies and tu quoques implicitly depend on such an assumption....
Shorter Verbatim Glenn Reynolds: "He hurts his credibility up front by saying that Iran is not at war with us -- when, in fact, it has been since 1979."As Blue.