Hitchens Verbally Bitch Slaps Mos Def

Mos Def went into a battle of wits completely unarmed. Mos Def went to a F-16 dog fight with a homemade helicopter made from a lawnmower engine and duct tape and Hitch brought the F-22 Joint Strike Fighter:

News, Notes and Random Musings

Some stuff I read around the World Wide Web:

Shocker! A continent that has never elected a black man but urged us to elect a black man not too suave when it it comes to discussing said black man.

Michael Barone speaks truth to power and media boos him.

Ehud Olmert calls for retreat to '67 borders. That really is a shocker.

Christopher Hitchens ain't too damn impressed with Obama's decisions thus far.

Al Gore's investment is far from making green.

Hope and change, baby. Hope. And. Change. It appears this list consists of every single prominent Washington Democrat that's still alive.

Bolton: Time to Get Tough With Iran

Former Ambassador to the UN John Bolton is pulling no punches with regard to the Iranian nuke program:

Iran has "clearly mastered the enrichment technology now...they're not stopping, they're making progress and our time is limited", he said. Economic sanctions "with pain" had to be the next step, followed by attempting to overthrow the theocratic regime and, ultimately, military action to destroy nuclear sites.

Mr Bolton's stark warning appeared to be borne out yesterday by leaks about an inspection by the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) of Iran's main nuclear installation at Natanz on Sunday.

The experts found that Iran's scientists were operating 1,312 centrifuges, the machines used to enrich uranium. If Iran can install 3,000, it will need about one year to produce enough weapons grade uranium for one nuclear bomb.

And that bomb will be aimed at either Israel or our troops in Iraq or Afghanistan. Bet on it.

The current President will not be able to muster the required backing in the country and definitely not in Congress. That, of course, would leave the attacking to those who stand to lose the most...Israel. They will require Iraqi airspace clearance to accomplish it--not a given with the Shiite al-Maliki government--and will require advanced bunker-busting technology that the US can provide.

Here's to Bolton still fighting the good fight.

More frightening reading can be found here.