I keep thinking

he can't get any better. But Victor Davis Hansen keeps writing the most astute essays of our times.

Saddam's Body Guards

nabbed. Is this the beginning of the end for this monster?

The Weekly Standard

is saying that the people of Iraq are enjoying freedom of speech in the press and on the air for the first time in decades. But advocating bank robbery doesn't seem to fall in the "free speech" category:

Bremer's office has also closed Sawt Baghdad (Voice of Baghdad), a Baghdad radio station, because of its ties to Mohamed Mohsen al-Zubaidi, the self-proclaimed "mayor of Baghdad." (Al-Zubaidi had been encouraging people to rob Baghdad's banks.) In another incident, a newspaper in Najaf associated with the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq was shut down for making inflammatory comments, too. But the vast majority of the Iraqi press has followed coalition guidelines.

Has the German public

blown a mental fuse? A whole slew of them actually believe the U.S. government was behind the horror of 9/11. Read this and grit your teeth.

David Warren

smells blood. Go and read this, some of his best writing ever.

Quotation marks run amuk

at the 'Boobie Broadcasting Corporation'.

I'm not paying much attention

to my blog lately, but I couldn't pass this up. Uday and Qusay are history.