Lawyers for the William Morris Agency apparently pressed a domain name registrar to drop service for a site that was critical of outspoken Hollywood liberals, forcing the site to shut down.

Ironically, the site criticized people like Tim Robbins, who recently cried censorship when the Baseball Hall of Fame exercised its right to disinvite him. (Apparently, the Hall did not want to risk Tim Robbins hijacking an apolitical event to make a political speech. I guess shutting down this website is not censorship because, well, it didn’t publish opinions palatable to people like Tim Robbins.)

While William Morris claims the suit was motivated by a desire to protect itself and its clients from unwanted e-mail, it wasn’t the website that was sending the spam; it was the site’s visitors.

Andrew Sullivan sums it up nicely in The Washington Times.

Update: 
The site is once again online. It sounds as though they found a registrar willing to take a stand. We’ll see if William Morris tries to take additional action.

Yet more evidence that the United Nations is not yet finished plumbing the depths of hypocrisy: While the worry-warts in the valuable occupied territory on Manhattan’s East Side wring their hands over looting in Iraq, they engaged in some of their own larcenous behavior. Saying that “what ensued was nothing short of Baghdad style chaos,” Time Magazine describes a rampage at the U.N. headquarters in New York City that was sparked by—get this—a lack of food service workers. Silverware was stolen, booze was boosted, and kitchens were stripped bare.

Documents dug up in Baghdad by British paper The Telegraph show incontrovertibly the connections between Saddam Hussein’s regime and al Qaeda.

Other documents found in Baghdad describe how the French provided briefings to Iraq about its foreign policy discussions with the U.S.

And still more documents implicate a prominent British anti-war politician in an Iraqi bribery scheme. The documents show that George Galloway, a Labor Party member of British Parliament, apparently accepted payments totaling more than $10 million from Saddam Hussein’s government. The payments started shortly after the first Gulf War.

Makes one wonder what other outspoken peace advocates were really paid spokesmen for Saddam Hussein.

This 7-point plan from David Plotz on Slate makes some brilliant observations of how the seeds of long-term freedom can be sown in Iraq. However, I couldn’t disagree more with point 6. Still, it is 86% correct...I hope I’m right that often.

Whether you prefer Eminem or Saddam Hussein, you can’t help getting a laugh out of this animated song parody. (Safe for office viewing, assuming music won’t get you in trouble.)

Despite the nauseating display of Clinton-idolatry and the tiresome reiteration of Bush-is-not-an-intellectual condescension, Ben Macintyre in The Times (U.K.) has a few worthy insights into what is one of the world’s more intriguing triangles: Bill Clinton, Tony Blair and George W. Bush.

If there’s a better explanation of the inherent unfairness of the federal tax system, I haven’t seen it. A spot-on illustration of the flawed logic employed by those who say tax cuts must only be targeted towards lower income scales. (The Tampa Tribune)