Archives for May 2004

Excellent reading on the Whitehouse dimwit: “As the president says, we misunderestimate him. He was not born stupid. He chose stupidity. Bush may look like a well-meaning dolt. On consideration, he’s something far more dangerous: a dedicated fool.” EmailFacebookTwitterReddit

Thanks to anti-liberal columnist and blogger Steve Sailer for clarifying the chart that correlated state-by-state average IQs and income with the votes for Bush or Gore in the 2000 presidential election. When we posted the item “The Spectrum from Blue to Red,” we wrote: “The chart that explains it all for you” (an homage to Christopher Durang’s […]

Thanks to a good friend who keeps us up to date on useful information, here’s how our nitwit Maximum Leader (aka “the little fucker”) blows his horn (and our mind). This is from a stump speech he gave just the other day — May 3, to be exact — in Sterling Heights, Mich.: We confronted the dangers […]

How about “Military Personnel: Don’t Read This!” As reported in Time: It’s not exactly every day that the Pentagon warns military personnel to stay away from Fox News. But that’s exactly what some hopeful soul at the Department of Defense instructed, in a memo intended to forbid Pentagon staff reading a copy of the Taguba […]

It is gratifying to see that the foreign editor of The New York Times, whose international reporting we long admired, agrees with us. May 3: “The mission [in Iraq] is not only not accomplished. It has, with the latest revelations turned into a moral defeat so shattering that the political and military nightmare (still brewing, […]

Here’s a very helpful TIMELINE, courtesy of the liberal advocacy group moveon.org and John Kerry’s campaign manager, Mary Beth Cahill, tracing events of the Iraqi prisoner scandal: Fall 2003 Bremer repeatedly raises issue of prison conditions with Rumsfeld and the President’s inner circle according to LA Times: “Bremer repeatedly raised the issue of prison conditions […]

The International Committee of the Red Cross warned many high officials in the U.S. government last January and earlier that it had observed widespread abuse of Iraqi prisoners “tantamount to torture.” The ICRC characterized this treatment not as the aberrant behavior of a few but “a pattern and a system,” which, like the Army’s own […]

We get e-mails. Here is one: Dear Jan: I’ve felt like more than a fan with you and your writings in the past. And I have been critical and judgmental of the tone and absolute leftness of your views. Now, in the past week, you’ve resorted to profanity and vilifying our President. Someone sent me […]

The dummy in the White House told the world he feels really, really sorry about the abuse of Iraqi prisoners. How sorry? So sorry that he vowed to keep his boy Rummy on the job. And we all know that Rummy, who runs the U.S. military, feels really, really sorry, too. That’s what < FONT […]

Jack Shafer’s piece, “Honey, They Shrunk the Newspaper,” is generally right about a lot of things wrong with the electronic editions (vs. the standard Web site versions) of The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times and The New York Times — and what’s right about them. (Here in miniature is what an electronic edition looks […]

The T-word — “torture” — was studiously avoided by all in more than three hours of the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Treatment of Prisoners in Iraq. Except, that is, for Sen. Edward Kennedy, who forthrightly spoke of “torture and abuse.” The closest Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld came to using the T-word was when he said […]

The tale read ’round the world: Woman harnessed like a donkey (London Evening Standard), Elderly Woman ‘Ridden Like A Donkey’ by US Troops (The Scotsman), Troops put harness on 70-year-old woman (The Australian). As reported by the Associated Press in London, it begins: “U.S. soldiers who detained an elderly Iraqi woman last year placed a harness […]

I presume you’ve seen this by now, but in case you haven’t: “Disney may block anti-Bush film.” The film at issue is Michael Moore’s latest, “Fahrenheit 9/11,” which is to have its premiere later this month at the Cannes International Film Festival. The New York Times quotes Moore’s agent as saying that Disney CEO Michael Eisner […]

The chart that explains it all for you: A state by state tabulation of the average IQ, income and winning presidential candidate in the 2000 election, according to the Ravens Advanced Progressive Matrices. The matrices are a product of The Test Agency, a well-known British publisher and distributor of psychometric tests, testing software and management training. ——————AVG IQ—AVG Income——-’00(1) Connecticut………113………$26,979……….Gore(2) Massachusetts…..111………$24,059……….Gore(3) New […]

It’s embarrassing: The U.S. State Department plans to delay the release of a human rights report (which was due out today) because, as one official put it, the report describes actions taken by the U.S. government to encourage respect for human rights by other nations, and releasing it now (in light of the American abuse […]

Since we were just speaking of freedom of expression, here (thanks to a link from Romenesko) is Ted Rall’s cartoon about the late Pat Tillman, which was killed by MSNBC.com. The news site’s editor in chief says he killed it because it’s unfair and tasteless. The “It” list, which ranks “hottest” celebrities each week according to readers’ picks, […]

None of the accounts we’ve read of Fidel Castro’s two-hour May Day speech in Havana’s Revolution Square — variously reported in The Kansas City Star, which had the most interesting account, the Financial Times, and Channel News Asia — mentioned the Cuban president’s personal remarks about the war in Iraq. Courtesy of the public relations office […]