The Brussels Journal:We have therefore in our asylum inmates on the upper financial floor, hanging beyond the parapet with all of us in tow, unspooling toilet paper that they swear is worth 7.5 times the total value of all the goods and services produced on Planet Earth. And all of the West’s gove...

Talk about cajones, this is unbelievable!Preying on the grieving is about as despicable as it gets....

Charges of hypocrisy have been leveled at Republican lawmakers for criticizing the stimulus bill while grabbing the money. But, now, I hear criticism of Republican governors who may refuse to accept part of the money set aside for the states.Isn't politics fun?That said, at least one stimulus refuse...

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So says Victor Davis Hanson:We are quite literally after two weeks teetering on an Obama implosion—and with no Dick Morris to bail him out—brought on by messianic delusions of grandeur, hubris, and a strange naivete that soaring rhetoric and a multiracial profile can add requisite cover to good ...

Reported by France 24:Holocaust-denying bishop Richard Williamson must “unequivocally� distance himself from his statements before he can be admitted to episcopal office in the Roman Catholic Church, the Vatican said on Wednesday. It also said that Williamson’s remarks denying that the Nazis u...

David Duke:I am glad these traitorous leaders of the Republican Party appointed this Black racist, affirmative action advocate to the head of the Republican party because this will lead to a huge revolt among the Republican base. As a former Republican official, I can tell you that millions of rank-...

Stephen Walt gives us a provocative thought experiment: Imagine that Egypt, Jordan, and Syria had won the Six Day War, leading to a massive exodus of Jews from the territory of Israel. Imagine that the victorious Arab states had eventually decided to permit the Palestinians to establish a state of t...

A sure bet: Does anyone want to buy-in on a tanker of oil with me? An economic puzzle (via Mark Thomma)Lotus (open thread) is wondering about senate primaries in Illinois now that Roland I'm-the-junior-senator from-Illinois has secured the seat. Good question. The knife sharpeners are out, but I thi...

From The Times:“Reasonable people and reasonable companies don’t want to have anything to do with Governor Blagojevich,� said Lisa Madigan, the attorney general who, like Mr. Blagojevich and most other leaders here, is a Democrat. “Do you even want to call? What are you going to do? Ask for ...