David Price nails Sean Penn in this post over at espresso roast. Go have a read, you won’t be disappointed…..

A couple of interesting editorials in today’s NY Times. John Miller succinctly demonstrates why France is not even worthy of our contempt.

France is a third-rate has been. And like any spoiled child should be ignored. It was a laugh to hear John Kerry talk about soliciting France’s support in Iraq. What do they have to offer, a broken down aircraft carrier with a few obsolete Mirage fighters? Hell, they have got more than they can handle with their unilateral, non-UN approved, intervention in Ivory Coast. France has nothing left these days but delusions of grandeur.

The other editorial was submitted by a French expat living in New York. He can’t understand why France is considered such a joke to most Americans. I guess my short answer to him would be “um, perhaps because France IS a joke.” A sad joke indeed.

Anyway, I recommend you read both editorials (and it is not often I can recommend anything in the NYT).

Sister Toldjah links to this column from the Nashville Tennessean that tells, as Paul Harvey might say, the rest of the story.

The sad thing is this shouldn’t be NEWS, but if all I read was the Washington Post I might be inclined to think nothing good was happening in Iraq these days. (From Arthur Chernkoff via Roger L. Simon)

We are about to turn the corner folks, and the next milestone will come on January 30.

UPDATE: Nice post on this topic over at Dean’s World. Go and see.

ANOTHER UPDATE: If you are REALLY interested in what’s happening in Iraq you won’t find anything more definitive than this.

Powerline has a new survey up showing where Iraqis stand on the upcoming election. Bottom line is that the so-called insurgents are failing miserably in their effort to dissuade the people of Iraq from exercising their newly won right to vote in free elections. Score one for the good guys.