A good article at the Washington Times about the PKK, the Iraqi government, Turkey, the war in Iraq and America. In short: it’s a complicated situation – the Kurds have already killed approximately 30,000 Turkish soldiers, diplomats and, yes, civilians.

More and more Turks are demanding action. How would Americans react if a Mexican terrorist organization crossed the border regularly and killed 30,000 Americans since 1990?

Exactly.

Obviously, a Turkish invasion of northern Iraq would create tremendous problems:| MORE ›

A little over two weeks ago, Joe Gandelman published a review of the documentary So Goes The Nation. It’s a great review, that convinced me that this was one documentary I had to watch.

Joe, being the generous guy he is, asked me whether I would like to get it from him. He sent it to me shortly afterwards and… I received it in the mail a couple of days ago and watched it yesterday evening. Joe’s review is so good that I haven’t got much to add (to it). In short: this is one great documentary.| MORE ›

The New York Times reports the following:

Rudolph W. Giuliani told a grand jury that his former chief investigator remembered having briefed him on some aspects of Bernard B. Kerik’s relationship with a company suspected of ties to organized crime before Mr. Kerik’s appointment as New York City police commissioner, according to court records.

Mr. Giuliani, testifying last year under oath before a Bronx grand jury investigating Mr.| MORE ›

Pete Abel asks: “Why do benevolent conservatives (and yes, they do exist) tolerate the prominent, malicious voices that have become the spokespeople and hence caricature of the movement?”

His answer: “So back to the question of why hateful voices are tolerated in the conservative movement. In part, they’re tolerated because they speak for a significant, election-making swath of hateful conservative voters.

Then again, that’s only half the answer.| MORE ›

Studies show that women are the angrier sex.

“Instead of using it as an opportunity for assertion, they tend not to deal with it directly, often becoming passively aggressive, talking behind people’s backs, or taking feelings out on other people.”

Now there’s a big surprise.

Is Rachel Marsden a conservababe and TV star in the making? Quite possibly yes. Salon’s Rebecca Traister gives some insight into Marsden’s “colorful past”.

I don’t necessarily dislike ‘colorful’, but too much colors are blinding.

Bradley Burston wrote a great column for the Haaretz about Muslims killing Muslims and the way Israelis / Jews deal with it. I’d like to broaden the debate and ask, why do we, Westerners, not speak out when Muslims are killing Muslims? Why do so many Westerners remain silent, or shrug their shoulders?

Quote: “This is what we should have been taught:| MORE ›

Dana Milbank wrote a good, interesting article for the Washington Post about Kyle Sampson’s testimony yesterday. Sampson seemed to be willing to take one for the team, but made matters worse for Gonzales nonetheless when he confessed that Gonzales’ testimony wasn’t accurate.

As Prairie Weather points out, “Speaking of falling on swords, what seems to be happening is mass hari kiri on the part of Republicans.”

An ‘accident’ happened as well:| MORE ›

Ed Morrissey has an interesting post over at his blog Captain’s Quarters about anti-Americanim in Germany, based on this article in Der Spiegel. In short, Germans consider the U.S. to be “a greater threat to world peace than Iran.”

Click here to read my entire post at The Moderate Voice.

Will California take on the Mullahs?

Ardeshir Arian reports for Pajamas Media:

Today California will become the first state to decide whether or not it will continue to do business with the Islamic Republic of Iran.

The State Assembly will hear proposed legislation (AB-221) by Republican Joel Anderson of El Cajon, and Democrat Jose Solorio of Anaheim that will require state pension funds to divest from companies that do business with the Islamic Republic of Iran.| MORE ›