Ok so according to Summit Entertainment – the same wonderful people who’ve given us the lamentable Twilight and its lamentable sequel – there’s a “re-imagined” version of Highlander the original Highlander in the offing.  But back in 1986 Frenchman Christopher Lambert, a played Scot Conner MacLeod … Scot Sean Connery played well Sean Connery aka

Ok folks … here are the names of the Senate “Democrats” who eschewed logic, reason and logic [I like logic] to vote in support of F-22 funding: Sens. Chris Dodd (Conn.), Maria Cantwell and Patty Murray (Wash.), Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein (Calif.), Jeff Bingaman, Tom Udall (N.M.) (Udall’s Colorado cousin, Mark, voted to kill

Ok so a group of so-called centrist and conservative senators sent a letter to the Democratic and Republican leaders on Friday urging delay in consideration of health care reform. [Because it's not like it's anything we need or anything]. My anger has simply rendered me speechless … but I assume you nice people know what

“Hardly a day goes by without the op-ed page of the Washington Post carrying an article by a veteran of the Bush Administration holding forth on foreign policy. Michael Gerson, a former Bush speechwriter and policy advisor, even has a regular columnist gig. And today Yosemite Sam advocates bombing Iran. It’s as if in 1969,

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FREEGATE For some reason it looks like Freegate — popular amongst Chinese users seeking to get around the Great Firewall. What’s even better is that multiple ground reports from Iran tell me it’s even fast! With Freegate’s tiny size of 400k, people can pass this around on tiny thumb drives or grab it from one

Here’s a rough translation of her whispers of …. “Tomorrow is the Saturday of destiny….Tonight the Allaho Akbar is louder than other nights….Where is this place? A country were people have only God left to reach out to… This is a country where every night people’s scream of Allah O Akbar is louder than the

Ok so Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, spoke at Tehran University for Friday prayers, [Live-tweets from the speech are here]  he said that the elections are fair and the protests have gone far enough. According to this translation, there’s the predictable crap about “Zionist, American [and] British” interloping, and he called Ahmadinejad the “legal president”

“The State Department asked social-networking site Twitter to delay scheduled maintenance earlier this week to avoid disrupting communications among tech-savvy Iranian citizens as they took to the streets to protest Friday’s reelection of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The move illustrates the growing influence of online social-networking services as a communications media. Foreign news coverage of the