Unqualified Offerings

The Post’s Jeff Smith throws the last bit of dirt on the remains of the “Saddam supported al-Qaeda!” case and tamps the mound flat:
Captured Iraqi documents and intelligence interrogations of Saddam Hussein and two former aides “all confirmed” that Hussein’s regime was not directly cooperating with al-Qaeda before the U.S. invasion of Iraq, according to [...]

Mithras picks up the health-care market talk downblog and runs with it. I won’t quote here because I think it’s worth reading his argument entire because – and I mean no disrespect here – it seems a pretty efficient restatement of the standard managerial-liberal critique. I’ll suggest a few places where I think he goes [...]

Bush said the following about Iraq today:
“It [an incident where terrorists put bombs in a car with children to get it past a checkpoint] makes me realize the nature of the enemy we face, which hardens my resolve to protect the American people,” Bush said. “People who do that are not – it’s not a [...]

Or, tracking the Inactivist diaspora. D.A. Ridgely, quondam co-blogger of Alex and Mona, has started his own blog, named D.A. Ridgely.

By Mona
A Literary Theorist at Sadly, No! deconstructs the hermeneutics of Redstate’s intentionalism, and concludes:

“The hegemonic binary of ’success’ and ‘failure’ traumatizes the (re)interpretive possibilities of an ethos of jouissance regarding the War in Iraq.”

By Mona
You go, Ariannna. She writes a very fine post regarding the myriad inequities and outrages generated by the “war” on (people who use some) drugs, and asks why it is not “an issue Democratic presidential candidates deem worthy of their attention?”
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However, in the interest of balance, I also give you [...]

By Sane Mona
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The faux outrage over Speaker Pelosi’s head gear continues.
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Mona Charen — who last I checked was not a Christian and certainly not a Catholic — chimes in today at The Corner about photos of Pelosi’s scarfed-head, and denounces them as:

…a disgrace. She had no business conducting her [...]

“Joan of Arc bones” really those of an Egyptian mummy.
Via the Arabist.