Steve Cohen A nice obituary for Steve Cohen (to add to the ones I linked to here) from Ionnek at Indymedia London (currently the lead item on the front page, which is gratifying), which includes a bibliography of some of his writings. Just good blogging My two favourite blog posts of the week: the F...

Hat Tip: Tundra Tabloids [Khaybar, Khaybar, O Jews, Muhammad's army will return] It refers to an attack by Mohammad on a Jewish society in particular in the year 629, at the oasis of Khaybar, currently Saudi Arabia. The battle ended with the Mohammed's Army killing 93 Jews and sent a large number in...

Love Twitter, do you? Think it's all the rage? Well, let me tell you a story about Twitter that will SHOCK AND ALARM YOU. For the past month or so, your editor at large took it upon himself (with the help of trusted companion Gourmet Spud) to create the "Rick Rielly" Twitter feed. Our goal: to test ...

Marcy Wheeler: Five years ago today, Andy Card and Alberto Gonzales rushed to John Ashcroft’s ICU room to try to trick him into signing the re-authorization for George Bush’s illegal wiretap program over Jim Comey’s objections. Jim Comey arrived at the hospital in time to prevent C...

...continued from Rome and Fascism : Introduction On 11 February 1929, Pietro Gasparri, Cardinal Secretary of State to Pope Pius XI, and Benito Mussolini, Duce of Fascism and Head of the Italian Government, signed the Treaties of the Lateran, bringing......

"I wish I could say everything there is to say in one word. I hate all the things that can happen between the beginning of a sentence and the end" said Leonard Cohen, seen above on the terrace of his house on the Greek island of Hydra.Leonard Cohen is a sublime poet and songwriter. But unfortunate t...

Cut Sequence A really good showing spoiled by the removal of the best joke in the film and a racist epithet. That Whites consider it reasonable to remove humour that might upset someone shows just how touchy they are now about these things. The joke of a White pretending to be Black was hilarious wh...

Speaking of Paranoid - Rich Lowry - The Corner on National Review Online Here is Robert Reich this morning: Angry right-wing populism lurks just below the surface of the terrible American economy, ready to be launched not only at Obama but also at liberals, intellectuals, gays, blacks, Jews, the mai...

Eschew the Contradictor of Contradicting Contradictions… | Cold Fury # America is capitalist and greedy — yet half of the population is subsidized. # Half of the population is subsidized — yet they think they are victims. # They think they are victims — yet their representatives run the gove...

Michelle Malkin » Obama’s new mark of the porkulus beast; Update: Photoshoppers to the rescue! Have you seen the new logo for Obama’s porkulus money? It is begging for a photoshop contest. Have at it: Let’s see some talent, Daily Punditeers! Here’s a taste: (via Cold Fury)....