As usual, the Hitch has penned an especially elegant analysis of recent events in the Middle East: From Beirut to Baghdad: The ghastly predictability of nihilist violence.
Many considerations, including intense inter-Islamic Shiite-Sunni hatred, divide Ahmadinejad and Assad from the forces of al-Qaida, which would also prefer to see Iraq, Lebanon, and Afghanistan in ruins than [...]

Remember when Osama bin Laden started repeating points from Michael Moore late last year? Well, the trend continues. Hamas leader Mahmoud Zahar sez:
They [the Bush administration] are criminals, they left the black classes in New Orleans to be killed by a natural disaster and they did not interfere. They are real “terrorists,” it is a [...]

Thanks to Greg Palast, George Galloway’s new moniker is “Swamp Thing”.
If you missed the debate between him and Christopher Hitchens, you can listen to it here (alternate download site here). Many, many thanks go out to Liz Ard for the recording, which is of great help to those of us (namely, me) whose internet connections [...]

…are now in this thread. Example:
Tyler: If we are a country based on “Reason, Rights and Science” then why oh why are we talking about teaching Intelligent Design in our school systems?
Travis: Because I am not in office yet.
Tyler and Travis have been having a great debate over there. Check it out!