Another poetic work of art from TMV's favorite poet, Michael Silverstein, aka Wall Street Poet: Condi Goes Forth To Save Lebanon To Lebanon, she boldly goes, Our diplomat-in chief; A needed cure she thinks she knows, For that tortured nation's grief. And who can doubt she'll make the place Much safer, richer, freer; Just check her record with Iraq, Iran and North … [Read more...] about Guest Poet: Condi Goes Forth To Save Lebanon

From moderate cartoonist Tom Briscoe: … [Read more...] about A Moderate Cartoon: How to Have a Mideast Crisis

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According to Haaretz, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Israel's Baalbek operation has violated the UN-backed truce and made him "deeply concerned." Since neither the UN nor the Lebanese army are willing to disarm Hezbollah and Hezbollah has not disarmed itself, the truce has been inoperative from the moment it was announced. The State of Israel has not only the right but … [Read more...] about Kofi Annan’s Ignorance and Bias Are Showing

...in SONG HERE. Done by the supremely talented Capitol Steps, whose CDs are satire and song parody classics. … [Read more...] about The NSA Wiretapping Controversy Examined

TMV's Note: This post has been been reposted from late last night. Due to its importance, we have put it up at the top of this site at this time. After you read it please SCROLL DOWN since some NEWER POSTS are below it. The worst lessons to draw from the Lebanon war would be for Hezbollah or Hamas to imagine that terrorism can destroy Israel or for Israel to continue to think … [Read more...] about Fallout of the Lebanon war

What's the loneliest job in the world? President? Noooooo. It's running as the Republican candidate for Senate in Connecticut, according to the New York Times:Facing Senator Joseph I. Lieberman’s independent candidacy, Republican officials at the state and national level have made the extraordinary decision to abandon their official candidate, and some are actively working … [Read more...] about GOP Abandons Republican Senate Candidate Schlesinger In Connecticut

It's a truly frightening tale and the VIDEO IS HERE. … [Read more...] about A Look At Mel Gibson’s Upcoming Blockbuster Movie

Another poetic work of art from TMV's favorite poet, Michael Silverstein, aka Wall Street Poet:Homeland Security I have a growing dossier In Washington, D.C., It's kept updated and refreshed By Mr. Nobody. This nameless, faceless bureaucrat Knows everything 'bout me, My life's the game he's paid to play: Homeland Security. He knows the books I like to read The places where … [Read more...] about Guest Poet: Homeland Security

Amba has the answer. More here. … [Read more...] about What is an Alarmist Moderate?

President Bush on Hezbollah: "The first reaction of course of Hezbollah and its supporters is to declare victory. I guess I would have done the same thing if I were them." With a banner, and an aircraft carrier, and a flight suit... … [Read more...] about Mission Accomplished

Just in case you thought Virginia Senator George Allen was the only person who seems tolerance-challenged and suffers from foot-in-mouth disease, think again:Atlanta Civil rights leader Andrew Young, who was hired to help Wal-Mart Stores Inc. improve its public image, said early Friday he was stepping down from his position as head of an outside support group amid criticism for … [Read more...] about Young Quits As Walmart Spokesman Amid Racial Comments Flap

The Utah politician recently suggested that electing Democrats is what the terrorists want. *sigh* I have more here on this ridiculous statement. … [Read more...] about Orrin Hatch on Terrorism and Democrats

In case you missed it, Ned Lamont had an op-ed in Wednesday's Wall Street Journal. In it, he presented "the four lessons of [his] business life" and stressed that he wants to bring a renewed entrepreneurial spirit to Washington. According to Lamont (and, needless to say, to all of us who inhabit reality), America is "bogged down in Iraq, and hamstrung in the war against … [Read more...] about The entrepreneurial Democrat

Yes, yes, I know. There's something quite juvenile about calling prominent public figures dangerous idiots -- indeed, about name-calling in general. Yesterday (at The Reaction), it was George Allen, whose buffoonery borders on dangerous idiocy, whose intentional bigotry is dangerous idiocy. And today it's Allen's Senate colleague Orrin Hatch, whose flagrant partisanship with … [Read more...] about Orrin Hatch is a dangerous idiot

So ABC News is reporting that "North Korea may be preparing for an underground test of a nuclear bomb". The evidence obtained by U.S. intelligence is circumstantial -- "the unloading of large reels of cable outside P'unggye-yok, an underground facility in northeast North Korea, cables that could "be used in nuclear testing to connect an underground test site to outside … [Read more...] about North Korea set to test nuclear bomb?

Violators could get busted. The TSA is saying tonight if you wear a gel bar for prosthetic purposes they will be allowed through security and on planes, but if you [wear] them for cosmetic reasons you'll have to pack them in a checked luggage.Darn! I have to do that? … [Read more...] about A New Worry About Security On Planes

Uh, oh. How much do you want to bet Congress re-names "French Fries" "Freedom Fries" due to this?France on Thursday rebuffed pleas by U.N. officials to make a major contribution to a peacekeeping mission in southern Lebanon, setting back efforts to deploy an international military force to help police a cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah, according to U.N. and French … [Read more...] about France Throws Monkey Wrench Into UN Peacekeeping Efforts

You don't need a sixth sense to understand this report:Teen actor Haley Joel Osment, who suffered a broken rib last month when his car struck a mailbox, faces up to six months in jail on charges that he was driving drunk and possessing marijuana, authorities said. Osment's blood-alcohol level after the July 20 crash was measured at .16 percent, twice the legal limit, said Jane … [Read more...] about “I See High People…”

In these days of instantaneous news cycles, a news media that literally needs to be fed every minute, and Internet blogs, lashing out at someone who isn't a supporter by making a joke about his race DOES does have political consequences. And it's especially damaging when you and your staff do the political macarena for days trying to find an explanation that is best accepted … [Read more...] about “Real World To Senator George Allen”