All posts by Rand Simberg

It Doesn’t Take A Village

…to con a publishing house.

Hillary’s book–you know, the one that she received a record multi-million advance for?–is overdue, according to Drudge. It’s supposed to come out in August, and the publisher hasn’t even seen a title, let alone a manuscript.

I’ve always thought that the advance was a bribe of some kind, albeit a legal one.

It Doesn’t Take A Village

…to con a publishing house.

Hillary’s book–you know, the one that she received a record multi-million advance for?–is overdue, according to Drudge. It’s supposed to come out in August, and the publisher hasn’t even seen a title, let alone a manuscript.

I’ve always thought that the advance was a bribe of some kind, albeit a legal one.

Islamic Reformation?

In today’s Journal, Amir Tehari says that we have opened up a schism in the Shia branch of Islam, pitting a thankful and powerful Iraqi sect against the revolutionary anti-America sect in Iran. This could be the beginning of the end for the Tehran mullahs.

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Uprising?

The Command Post still has nothing on this, but Fox is reporting that Kuwaiti and Iranian news sources are describing an uprising in east Baghdad and Basra of Shia civilians agains the regime.

I don’t have any sympathy for the Fedayeen and Ba’athist officials who will no doubt meet their well-deserved fates here, but I suspect their end will be much nastier than if they’d simply been killed by coalition forces. And hopefully many of the foreigner jihadis will meet a timely denouement as well.

[Update at 8:50 PDT]

Here’s a link to the story from the Kuwaiti news agency.

Careful With That Thing

Jim Oberg emails to point out that many people in the Saddam-on-the-street video are holding and waving weapons. It’s inconceivable that the real Saddam would allow people to be that close to him at all, let alone with automatic rifles. It would be too easy for someone to solve the Iraqi peoples’ problem with a single burst.

Though, I suppose they could have issued guns with empty clips.