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Alan Bock has a column on Bush’s State of the Union address and so does William Kristol. In some ways, they might almost be the same column, as they both interpret the speech in a substantially similar way. Only difference is that Bock is appalled while Kristol fairly quivers with joy.

about the Saudis, the Rockefellers, Justin Raimondo’s column and more. Ginger Stampley on crony capitalism and foreign policy.

A nice fellow from avant-go.com writes in regard to the recent spider infestation
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After Unqualified Offerings complained about MSN search behavior, Air Force Virginia (aka PendingPundit!) comes through again with practical suggestions:
After reading “Something Else Sucks Too” I wondered if you knew about the Google toolbar for Internet Exploiter.
http://toolbar.google.com/
I did not know about the Google toolbar. Sounds pretty cool. She then goes on to evangelize, briefly, for Mozilla. […]

After weeks of covering the Justin Raimondo beat, suddenly Unqualified Offerings discovers that it is the Justin Raimondo beat. See “Crony Capitalism and War” if you’re not a regular antiwar.com reader. No time for a response today (it was Unqualified Offerings’ gaming night), but see the archives for the piece Raimondo references, “Aim at the […]

I loved Glenn Reynolds piece tonight about missing the State of the Union address to read a Harry Potter book to his daughter:
Patrick Ruffini says it was strong and appropriately war-focused; the New York Times quickie is less sympathetic, but basically says the same thing. I’ll read the transcript and check the highlights later — […]

Unqualified Offerings is sometimes too lazy to Google, and contents itself with typing “go [keywords]” in Internet Explorer’s File–>Open… dialog. You get internet casino popunders doing that but, it’s fast. But their feature that sometimes takes you right to the “obvious” page is a very mixed blessing. Sure, if I type “go espn” I’m happy […]

More was baleful about the AFC playoffs Sunday than the Steelers’ special teams play and run-blocking. Unqualified Offerings loves and respects Sheryl Crow. She is, like most celebrities, a political idiot, especially in interviews. Put a guitar in her hand, though, and she’s one of the best social critics going, and Globe Sessions was the […]

From the much-cited WaPo article on alienation in hyperstatist Arab countries, published Friday:
Similar woes afflict millions of young people in the Middle East and North Africa, where unemployment averages 15 percent — in Algeria, it is close to 30 percent — and is particularly prevalent among the relatively well-educated. Their plight was a matter of […]

Scott Ritter doesn’t think much of the Iraqi National Congress as a source, based on his experiences on the UN inspection team in the 90s:
For example, there was the “engineer” who allegedly worked on Saddam Hussein’s palaces who spoke of a network of underground tunnels where crates of documents were allegedly hidden during inspections. Inspectors […]

Best bit from Doug Casey’s current WorldNetDaily column:
Once airport security is federalized, the airports will resemble the local DMV, with employees who are overpaid, sloppy, slow, hostile, dimwitted and impossible to fire. But, to look at the bright side, at least they’ll be armed.

A reader writes (it’s Mrs. Offering, actually)
I haven’t read Justin Raimondo’s piece about the Rockefellers and Saudi Aramco, but you are aware that Aramco is the company Dad worked for; and it’s now _Saudi_ Aramco because the Saudi gov’t bought out the American shareholders in the mid-70s. Which is not to say that the […]

is not dead! The folks who gave you “I Wanna Be a Lifeguard” and “My Baby’s the Star of a Driver’s Ed Movie” have, as don’t we all, a website.
But that’s not what I wanted to talk about.
I want to talk about something that is blotto, at least in the wasteland that is “alternative” radio: […]

goes today to Natalie Solent, of the cleverly-titled Natalie Solent blog, about Aboriginal-Australian websites linked by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation:
…there was nothing I would confidently describe as crappy about the actual aboriginal material, although much of it had the laboured, wheezy tone of a culture being muffled by subsidy.

27 users supposedly logged into the website right now and every single one of them with a third-level address from avantgo.com. Every single one of them showing dynamist.com/scene.html as a referrer. Which would suggest that Virginia Postrel’s and my sudden popularity is among robots only, or that dynamist.com is suffering a denial of service attack […]

This site has been proud to be on Virginia Postrel’s link list since around Christmas. It gets a nice bunch of referrals from there every week. Now and then VP finds some specific item worth mentioning and Unqualified Offerings sees a gratifying spike in visits. But today is something else again. UO is getting an […]

During what came to be known as “The Raimondo Dogpile” last week, Moira Breen asked for clarification of the views of various warbloggers in light of some things I wrote. I would argue that the responses she did and didn’t get , when added to what the the bloggers in question have written since […]