By Greg Strange Jimmy Stewart, he ain’t. Al of Arabia is more like it. Ever the embittered loser of the 2000 presidential election and deprived of the position of which he believed was his birthright, Al Gore has done little or nothing to help his country since 9/11. Continuing in that vein, he recently...

Read more »

By Greg Strange Here’s a problem the Bush White House hasn’t had to face before: the vice president just shot a guy. Okay, sure, it was a hunting accident, the guy’s not seriously hurt and anyway, he’s just another fat cat lawyer so maybe Cheney actually performed a public service. But that won’t stop...

Read more »

By Greg Strange According to startling new research by Emory University’s Drew Western, the last place you should ever expect to hear any facts is in the midst of a passionate political debate. That’s right. Such debates are a complete waste of time and do absolutely nothing to enlighten anyone. This was determined by...

Read more »

By Greg Strange Remember the old Looney Tunes cartoons that so many of us grew up watching? Warner Brothers never failed to delight us with its gallery of delightful characters and their wacky antics: Bugs Buggy, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Tweety and Sylvester, the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote, and all the rest....

Read more »

There’s no doubt about it. The French are showing more backbone lately than they have since a gang of them stormed the Bastille. First, Jacques Chirac announced recently that France reserved the right to respond to a terrorist attack with nuclear weapons, no less. And now a French newspaper, France Soir, has reproduced a...

Read more »

By Greg Strange Oh happy day. Another tape from an al-Qaeda leader in hiding. This time it’s Osama sidekick Ayman al-Zawahri and apparently he’s hoppin’ mad about that recent near miss he had with some U.S. missiles in Pakistan. Complaining about some “innocents” who were killed in the strike, he called President Bush a...

Read more »

By Greg Strange Alas, but we have once again been pestered by the news of another communiqué from that insufferable boor, Osama bin Laden. Amazing how he manages to get these tapes shipped off from the bowels of whatever cave he resides in to the offices of Al-Jazeera. As in the past, this latest...

Read more »

By Greg Strange Everyone in the country now knows that Samuel Alito’s appointment to the Supreme Court is merely a matter of dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s, but the gang that couldn’t shoot straight, or at least two of them, are bandying about the “F”-word anyway. The “F” should stand for the...

Read more »

By Greg Strange There’ll soon be a new bumper sticker adorning cars in the Palestinian territories: Don’t blame me, I voted for the Fatah candidate. So, it’s official. The terrorist organization Hamas wins the Palestinian parliamentary elections. Apparently, the voters were in a throw-the-bums-out kind of mood and wanted an alternative to the ruling...

Read more »

By Greg Strange There’ll soon be a new bumper sticker adorning cars in the Palestinian territories: Don’t blame me, I voted for the Fatah candidate. So, it’s official. The terrorist organization Hamas wins the Palestinian parliamentary elections. Apparently, the voters were in a throw-the-bums-out kind of mood and wanted an alternative to the ruling...

Read more »

By Greg Strange If you want a prime example of senatorial disingenuousness in the matter of the Judge Alito confirmation hearings, then try this on for size. In a statement explaining why he can’t vote to confirm Alito, Senator Patrick Leahy (D) compared Bush’s appointments to the Supreme Court with the infamous court-packing scheme...

Read more »

By Greg Strange “Oh, Canada — you’re not really going to elect a Conservative majority on Monday, are you? That’s a joke, right?” No, Michael Moore, actually it’s not a joke, now that you’ve mentioned it in your personal statement about the Canadian election on your website. “Far be it from me, as an...

Read more »

by Greg Strange When it comes to what to do about Iran and its quest to gain nuclear weapons, there are no easy solutions, there are only less potentially catastrophic solutions, or rather, less potentially catastrophic courses of action which might or might not bring about anything remotely resembling an actual solution. Sort of...

Read more »

by Greg Strange You’ve heard the expression “Support the troops, oppose the war.” It’s generally used by antiwar types who wish to convince mainstream Americans that while they oppose the war in Iraq, they’re just gaga over and have nothing but respect for the troops who were, through no fault of their own, hoodwinked...

Read more »