Hmm. Petty? Yes. Ineffectual? Yes. Infuriating and off-putting? Yes. Counterproductive? Yes. It's got to be a product of the French Foreign Ministry.

Diplomacy has more to do with (credible) threats than with sweet reason. And threats from America are a lot more credible, nowadays.

Bush is quite vulnerable if the Democrats pick the right issues. So far, though, they've shown their usual tendency to go for the capillary.

Never trust anyone who calls himself a libertarian socialist. They're bound to be deeply confused, at best.

I can't say I'm surprised: the grassroots antiwar movement keeps turning out to be MoveOn/A.N.S.W.E.R. astroturf.

Where the U.N. is concerned, accountability is very thin on the ground in general.

Democrats don't represent the taxpayers, they represent the tax-consumers...

The new racism is anything that might hurt a Democrat politically.

Imagine what things would be like if the news media actually sided with civilization.