It has been a long time for an entry in The Duh! Files, but terrorist Zarqawi earned his place of honor with this one: Iraq’s al Qaeda leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi denounced the new Iraqi government, saying it was set up to help Washington find a way out of its predicament in Iraq.. Well,.. umm,… […]

The NY Times has just discovered that brutal, homicidal dictators have a lot to fear from the people they oppress: The episode was just one of many incidents, described in a classified United States military report, other documents and in interviews, that demonstrate how Mr. Hussein was so preoccupied about the threat from within his […]

My sincere apologies to all the Bush critics on the UAE port deal – but I mean really: Stewart A. Baker, assistant secretary for policy at the Department of Homeland Security, said at a news conference yesterday that Dubai Ports World, which won a takeover battle for a British firm now operating terminals in the […]

We all know the Iranian leadership are mad hatters bent on military confrontation with the West, and the US specidfically. In a country were I am assuming (I have not done the math yet) Iran could get away with 2-5 nuclear power plants easily for the next half century word comes out they want at […]

From Editor & Publisher NEW YORK In an argument sure to be challenged in certain sectors of the blogosphere, a story in The New York Times magazine coming up this Sunday declares that conservative blogs continue to best liberal blogs in political and electoral influence. The title of the piece by Michael Crowley in the […]

Kathleen Blanco has been named one of the worst Governors in the Nation by Time Magazine [hat tip Michelle]. Anybody dropping by The Strata-Sphere would know that by know. But Time really rakes the indecisive and back stabbing Blanco over the coals. But first Time needs to begin their piece with an outright lie: Failures […]

The AP is a source for late breaking, critical news that informs the American citizen about events they may not be aware of, but need to know about. Today we have a classice example of this important, up to the minute information service provided by the AP: Study Says There Is More Sex on TV […]

Folks, in a stunning break-through scientist have just figured out a major component in Global Warming. This new discovery will require a re-alignment of all the computer models to take into account something that before now escaped scientists’ attention. Folks, it is now known that a possible major factor in the warming of the Earth […]

Somedays you wonder how you too could make living writing this stuff. From the NY Times we have this story, and this lead from their main page: Some parents of troops killed in Iraq appear as divided as the rest of the nation in their opinions of Cindy Sheehan and the antiwar encampment named for […]

As I posted yesterday, the recent stem cell breakthrough at Harvard makes the harvesting of stem cells from young human beings, sorry – embryos, irrelevant and unnecessary. So how does the liberal Washington Post present this great news? A Harvard University advance in generating embryonic stem cells may have the unintended consequence of hindering congressional […]