Non-Iraq Middle East

From The Feed: Seymour Hersh confirms Bill Kristol's Iran comments

July 3, 2008 - The BBC interviews New Yorker writer Seymour Hersh...

From The Feed: Seymour Hersh tells us what we already know

June 30, 2008 - CNN interviews New Yorker writer Seymour Hersh...

If it's not McCain, someone's got to bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran

June 24, 2008 - On Fox News this past weekend, Bill Kristol suggested that if President Bush foresaw an Obama victory, he'd be more likely to move forward with military action against Iran than if McCain were set to take office. Yes, the drumbeat to war with Iran i...

From The Room: Crisis in the Middle East: Gone to the Dogs

June 19, 2008 - On the same day that a tentative Gaza truce was agreed upon by Israel and Hamas, I saw a pug taking a crap on the lawn in front of the Mag...

From The Feed: Obama speech at AIPAC conference (video)

June 4, 2008 - At the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's annual policy conference, Obama all but volunteers to spend the summer working on a Kibbutz...

From The Feed: In time for Election 2008, Fox News rolls out the "A-team of Terrorists"

May 29, 2008 - Fox News' "America's Newsroom" investigates the scary Hezbollah in lieu of covering the Israeli anti-terror forum...

From The Feed: "The View" addresses Rachel Ray's Islamic fundamentalist neckware

May 28, 2008 - On "The View" the ladies discussed the pulled "Dunkin' Donuts" ad that featured Rachel Ray wearing a scarf that resembles a kaffiyeh...

Bush's Middle East trip as successful as his Middle East war

May 20, 2008 - President Bush returned from a five day visit to the Middle East with almost nothing to show for it. His partisan speech at the Knesset was roundly criticized in the United States. He was unable to tal...

From The Room: The Proust Questionnaire: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

May 5, 2008 - WHAT IS YOUR IDEA OF PERFECT HAPPINESS? Waterskiing on Lake Abu Nidal when I was 7. WHAT IS YOUR GREATEST FEAR? Dandruff and cocaine. WHICH LIVING PERSON DO YOU MOST ADMIRE? The person who invented shoe lifts. They've added 3" to my height and got...

In the beginning, there was Paul Verhoeven's word, and it is probably not good

May 4, 2008 - It's the side of Jesus he doesn't want you to know about. Or something like that. Apparently Paul Verhoeven, director of "Basic Instinct," "RoboCop," and "Total Recall," is coming out with his own biography of Jesus entitled "Jesus of Nazareth: A...

From The Feed: Bush slain by Spanky from the "Little Rascals" (video)

April 1, 2008 - Hamas produced puppet show addresses child-on-president violent crime...

Prince Harry and Princess Bush both see some action

February 29, 2008 - It's been a rough month for descendants of English-speaking heads of state. Prince Harry, as it turns out, a has been serving his country in Afghanistan, while over here Jenna Bush answered the call of duty to attend her bachelorette party in Boca. And unfortunately, both have to...

Hey, General Pervez Musharraf...in your FACE!!!

February 19, 2008 - President Musharraf's political party lost big time in Pakistan's parliamentary elections on Monday. Many of the leading figures in the president's party were not re-elected, and it's looking as if the military leader will be forced to share power with a prime minister from an...

Hard news gets desperate in the wake of Heath Ledger's death

January 24, 2008 - Traditional media outlets have spent an inordinate amount of energy chronicling the death of actor Heath Ledger. On Tuesday—the day that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke cut interest rates by 3/4 of a percent following the collapse of international markets—the...

Perez Hilton covers the situation in Gaza

January 23, 2008 - ...