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I loved this one from Bush's resume: "Set all-time record for biggest drop in the history of the stock market." In one item, the writer manages to blame Bush for the mania market and 9/11 - and also gives the facts a hefty nudge. It's similar to the repeated use of the term "bankrupt" -...

Yes. Shaq opened the trash can, Kobe stuffed 'em in (personally disposing of them). That's what Shaq told me last night at the club. I said, "Shaq, you're being too modest," but he gave me one of those Shaq looks so we changed the subject.

Dude, you read too much into post-game interviews. He had just personally disposed of Minnesota - obviously, with a lot of help, but from the big DUNK to the 2nd half streaks he put up, it was clear that there was no one else on either team who was on like he was. As Dominique pointed out on...

May and others appear to believe that European anti-Americanism may have peaked during the lead-up to the war, at least temporarily, and that a natural counterreaction has set in, accelerated by multiple factors that go far beyond embarrassment over mis-calling the war's play-by-play. In this...

Another piece from Collin May: The rest of this post observes French media and elite intellectual reaction to the war and early reconstruction efforts - noting something approaching an embarrassed silence, followed by a shift in tone (partly as a reaction to the unexpected ease of victory)...

But the big question: Will the Jailblazers put Don Nelson under the knife? Four (4) points from Nowitzki? Zero (0) from Nash a couple games ago? How is that possible? How is it even conceivable? Maybe the Blazers are just the kind of (highly talented) head cases to be the first team...

Typically excellent "boring rightwing crap" and "nonsense" from Victor Davis Hanson: May 2, 2003 8:15 a.m. Geriatric Teenagers The Paris-Berlin-Moscow axis needs some tough love. http://www.nationalreview.com/hanson/hanson050203.asp EXCERPTS: (Even on ET!) In the rest of the...

I'll beat the skeptics to the punch, and point out that this article appeared in a pro-Administration weekly. All the same, the article reads to me like credible reporting, however, especially where it describes how "mainstream" journalists operate. I would be more skeptical if the...

By the same reasoning, if oil prices fall partly as a result of successful foreign policy, then we all would owe the poor oil companies rebates. Why should they suffer, when everyone else would be benefiting? Should they be penalized simply because they had past connections to the current...

Should Morpheus have taken his cause to the UN?

First, you agree with De Villepin's blanket denial of the existence of any anti-Americanism in France. Now, you admit its existence, but deny that it's very significant, cling to some peculiar personal definition (it only really counts if everyone feels it very strongly and passionately against...

http://www.lepoint.fr/edito/document.html?did=129302 Le bloc-notes de Bernard-Hneri Lévy Chirac et Villepin auront-ils le courage de désavouer l'antiaméricanisme qui déferle ? EXCERPTS: Translation into English, from Cinderallabloggerfeller...

To say that there is no anti-Americanism in France is an obvious absurdity. Books have been written on the subject. It is a time-honored French tradition - not, by any means, the only French tradition on America, but to deny that reflexive dislike of American influences, products, policies...

Due to the formatting of your post - I missed this stuff the first time around: [b] Yes. Why shouldn't I? [b] I don't require instructions from you as to what aspects of Saddam's terror regime justified the war - though I consider the internal and external aggressiveness of his...

The primary betrayal was clear: The French joined the US and the rest of the permanent and rotating Security Council members passing UN Resolution 1441 15-0, calling for "full and immediate compliance" with disarmament and related resolutions, vs. "serious consequences." No one ever claimed...

In the sense you describe, then all 24 million Iraqis were already "victims" of Saddam's terror. Of course, millions have aready been victims in the more serious sense that the German and other alarmists - of whom there were many, several quoted in the article, not just "one guy" -...

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/05/01/MN306600.DTL

I think that ypur obviously exaggerated caricature is unfair to Den Beste, and to Americans more generally: Without a doubt, there were and are many moronic bigots, and boosterism and aggressive outrage as in the song that LongShot so helpfully, ahem, quoted above are natural, but, from the top...

I disagree. If the analysis 's based on objective factors and material measures, then it's not racist or taboo speech, anywhere. It's not racist to say that Africa suffers especially badly from the global AIDS epidemic and that most African countries are a mess. The same or similar analyses...

I don't think I've commented on this thread before, because in general I don't have anything against non-Americans offering their points of view on matters that concern American national interests. It also seemed right during the lead-up to the war to stand up at every opportunity against the...