The always hilarious Jon Swift has a great post up about Fred Thompson vs. Mahatma Ghandi: what America needs is a bit more violence. A little less conversation, a little more action.

Way to go Fred.

A well written, and intense column at the Washington Post by Ayub Nuri, Iraqi, journalist, student. When the war against Iraq was about to start, Ayub was afraid. Not for the war – no, he feared that “George W. Bush might change his mind about overthrowing the Iraqi regime.”

Now, four years later, looking back, Ayub Nuri concludes that it has been a bitter disappointment. Life has, according to Nuri, not improved. Life might even have been better four years ago.| MORE ›

My, my, who would have thought: a Palestinian minister who says that the Palestinians should stop begging, well, beg less that is, and, instead, should become self-sufficient. Meanwhile, he wants the West to help the PA out now, which is struggling financially.

I have said in the past that the West should not sponsor the PA until it recognizes Israel, but I am afraid that I have changed my mind. I’ve got a new proposal.| MORE ›

Pajamas Media published the fourth letter on Islam, written by Salim Mansur in response to a non-Muslim writer. As with the other letters, a great, interesting read for all those interested in (the nature of) Islam and for those who are following and participating in the debate about Islam, etc.

It’s all part of the debate about Islam (that’s raging in the West right now) and, as such, must read material.

The Jerusalem Post has an highly, highly interesting article up. It seems that Jacques Chirac urged Israel to attack Syria last summer, and not Lebanon. If Israel would do so, it would have the full support of France.

According to Chirac, not Iran but Syria “is the main one responsible for Hizbullah’s armament in Lebanon”.

Ed Morrissey has a great post up about this. His main point: Israel attacked the wrong country last year. Chirac was right:| MORE ›

Because I sure do.

“A poorly-disguised act of political retribution” or was it not meant to be disguised at all – was the Bush administration trying to send a message?

A while ago, “Captain” Ed Morrissey interviewed Republican presidential contender Mike Huckabee. Ed published the interview at his Blog Talk Radio site. Click on the broadcast from March 1 to listen to its interview.

It’s a great interview: Huckabee positions himself as the humble, but confident conservative. Although I don’t agree with Huckabee on everything, he says some good things.| MORE ›

The Sunday Times has a interesting article up about one Jim Riches.

Who is Jim Riches? He’s a fire battalion chief in New York City and he “has vowed to torpedo Giuliani’s prospects of winning the White House by attacking his greatest source of strength, his reputation as a hero”.

The source of Riches’ anger? His son, Jim Riches Jr., was a firefighter as well. He died, 29 years old, on 9/11/01. Riches wanted to find the body of his son, but Giuliani ordered the firemen to stop searching for bodies.| MORE ›

It has been storming here, in the north of the Netherlands, all day long. It doesn’t rain, nor is it extremely cold, it’s just… storming. Despite this, what we humans call, ‘bad’ weather, I had to take the dog, a chubby black labrador retriever, out for a walk.

During the walk – the dog nervous, at times almost flying – I saw a sea gull trying to fly over the road. It wanted to go from one pasture to another. The problem: it had to fly head first into the wind.| MORE ›

The Washington Post uses today, one day before the 4th anniversary of the start of the Iraq war, to look back, determine what went wrong and what lessons should be learned. It’s an interesting editorial for a couple of reasons, one of them is that the WaPo also looks at the role the media played in the run-up to the war in Iraq.| MORE ›