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Surrounding himself with the best people R emember when George W. Bush was running for president the first time. Remember how he couldn'...

The Custer Doctrine Apparently the U.S. Navy has taken its rules of engagement either from the Japanese defenders of Okinawa who fought to t...

And speaking of clueless neofacists... Debito has the kind of roundup I'm too lazy to put together on the charming Japanese Foreign Mini...

By any other name.. . If Stephen Harper were Mr. Potatohead, he'd be a dick-tater. Scott Feschuk nails it down with his advice to Stepha...

Dis and dat The most dangerous professor to ever play wing, maximum leader and president for life of the We Are All Giant Nuclear Fireball N...

IN YOUR EAR Kevin Wood / Daily Yomiuri Staff Writer RY COODER My Name is Buddy Warner, 2,680 yen Call it a folk opera, a roots ...

"comfort women" - the story that will not die Japanese politicians keep harping on the same nonsensical point about how there ...

Major (General) Dick "I do not believe the United States is well served by a policy that says it is okay to be immoral in any way....

Welcome home Nine-year-old Canadian Kevin Yourdkhani will soon be coming home to Toronto from the Hutto detention facility where he and Iran...

Blonde hair, brown shirts Not content with using schoolyard bullying tactics and eliminationist rhetoric against those on the left, Ann ...

Presented without comment I have kids to feed and house payments to make so I'm not going to talk about the Japanese media vis a vis Pri...

Don't mention the war "I mentioned it once, but I think I got away with it" Continued employment precludes my commenting at le...

The hills are alive with the sound of merciless imperialistic hegemony Accidentally , my eye! I always suspected those Swiss were up to some...

Swiftboater on the rocks Remember back in 2004, when "swiftboating" became shorthand for flinging enough total horseshit that som...

Best. Lede. Ever. The only thing missing is a politician and a domestic animal of some sort. "A jazz musician was injured Friday after ...

Fresh meat Welcome to the blogroll Kung Fu Monkey, to whom we have linked before and who has the definitive smackdown of FOX's "com...

The Age of Dumb As ususal, we had CNN on in the newsroom today and I was, as usual, reminded just how crappy the "News Network of Reco...

Standing up for Canada Peter McKay is supposed to be hobnobbing with Condi Rice this weekend - do you think this family's case is likel...

Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes Some updating going on in the blogroll and elsewhere. We bid a sorrowful adieu to three fantastic blogs: Michael Berube, Bi...