“minor heart attack” he suffered or from any other injuries he sustained as a result of being accidentally shot, can Cheney Boy be charged with negligent homicide? If so, will he be? And if that were possible, would it be too much to ask Cheney Boy’s victim to give his life for the good of […]

Before the record blizzard of ’06 disappears into the murk of history, I want to let everyone know that I’m alive and well. One friend out West, hearing about “da big blow,” messaged me: “I hope you’re comfortably dug in for the duration. Thass lotsa white stuff. Coraggio!”

Ron Lauder is liable to be bent out of shape by a story in The Forward today. It nails the billionaire business mogul-cum-philanthropist’s deceptive, contradictory, and hypocritical stance on the restitution of Nazi-looted art as 1) a prominent collector who may or may not own some of it, 2) a former treasurer of the World […]

Here’s what a friend calls hems and haws, what Sam Harris calls threats to press freedom on both coasts, what David Ehrenstein calls fait divers à la Cronenberg, continuation, what Filmstrip International calls The Battle for America (also a video). Postscript: Uh, dint mean to forget popcult maven Ryan McGee’s PPS: Regarding the first link […]

So Cheney Boy’s ventriloquist dummy (the Alberto Gonzales). That’s been clear from the time Gonzales was appointed attorney general. But it was never clearer, right down to the crooked grin, than it was in And as long as I’m posting today — when the regime has just released a The cost of the Iraq war […]

Muslim rioters offended by the 12 cartoons of Mohammed first published in Denmark — I’m quoting that from a friend’s e-mail message, though I don’t know where the information originated. But I think it’s reliable or I wouldn’t be posting it. The message came with an attached image, left, which shows a miniature of Mohammed […]

He hates the Jews. That’s what makes him tick. Everything he does is motivated by one thing — anti-Semitism.* Ditto for his inner circle. So said Peter Bergen, author of Council on Foreign Relations in New York earlier this week. This may not be surprising to you, but Bergen’s insistence on this point — it […]

We’ve posted 1033 items since this There’s too much at stake to flat-out quit. Not that we kid ourselves about the megamighty impact we’ve made. But until we get through a few offline projects, which will take the rest of the winter, blogging will have less urgency for us. In other words, it won’t be […]

It was all off the record. So I can’t tell you what The truth is — and I hate to say this — nothing she said broke any news, nothing you wouldn’t already know from reading the press, so there’s nothing to tell even if her remarks had been on the record, except that it […]

interviewed Bernard-Henri Lévy, right, about his new book, Given the fact that Lévy is Jewish, and mindful of the historically anti-Semitic caricature of hook-nosed Jews, we’d say Varadarajan’s insinuating description — the only actual physical detail offered about the author, by the way, amid a ton of color on his French accent, inherited money and […]

While a new translation of Eli Wiesel’s Holocaust memoir, being played out in a federal court in San Francisco, where a former U.S. Army intelligence officer has testified that the man who became Pope Paul VI “helped hide and launder property that had been stolen” from Nazi victims in Yugoslavia during World War II. Ustashe […]

Did the producers of NBC’s cop show headline-making decision about assisted suicide? We don’t think so. But tonight’s episode, Yeah, yeah, we know. The court’s 6-to-3 ruling was focused on physician-assisted, not girlfriend-assisted, suicide. Just the same, before the ruling, we told our NAJP* colleague Carter Harris, left, who wrote the episode, that we’d promote […]

Martin Luther King Jr.’s you can listen to excerpts here, you realize again not just how much America lost when he was assassinated, but how much it needs him now. Substitute the word “Iraq” for “Vietnam”: “Globalizing King’s Legacy,” ought to be required reading for the pipsqueak leaders of our time, when “spitballs pass for […]

according to the New York Post. The suit claims “he was slandered for his report on a Nazi-looted painting once displayed at the museum,” the Post’s David Hafetz writes. Last July more than a dozen items posted since last March. — Tireless Staff of Thousands Postscript: Better headline: “D’Arcy Sorta Drops The Other Shoe?” He […]

We’re running out of ways to say it ourselves. So we quote (again) from the editorial page of an institution that represents the established order but hasn’t let that get in the way of expressing the truth about the “The Imperial Presidency at Work.” Which reminds us of our post of more than a year […]