After a whiny Hugh Hewitt quotation about Haditha coverage in the Emm Ess Emm – which, by the way, lost two members in Iraq on Monday, as the warbloggers slathered on suntan lotion – Glenn Reynolds shares a rather disturbing letter from a reader. Read the whole thing, but don’t miss the conclusion (emphasis mine):
The [...]
It’s always amusing to watch the authoritarian Right respond to evidence of U.S. military atrocities. The same people who scream “Guilty!” and erect the gallows every time a sensational crime makes it into the Fox News rotation suddenly get all Phil Donahue on us when the accused is GI Joe. Rush to judgment! Context! Mitigating [...]
Now that you have some time to yourself, this Memorial Day weekend, and can while away the hours reading, a few blog recommendations: Bill Kauffman is a writer who defies categorization, which is only appropriate because people who defy categorization happens to be his favorite subject: his latest book, Look Homeward, America: In Search of [...]
Bush to West Point graduates:
“This is only the beginning,” Bush said. “The message has spread from Damascus to Tehran that the future belongs to freedom, and we will not rest until the promise of liberty reaches every people in every nation.”
Today in Iraq:
An Iraqi tennis coach and two of his players were shot to death [...]
The Bush administration is moving aggressively from a policy aimed at neutralizing Iran’s alleged nuclear ambitions to one of regime change, according to a fascinating piece by the indispensable Laura Rozen, whose blog, “War and Piece,” is one of my faves. David Denehy, of the International Republican Institute, has been put in charge of a [...]
From Reuters:
A five-hour security scare at the U.S. House of Representatives Rayburn office building on Friday was likely triggered by noise made by construction workers, police said.
“The cause of the loud sound appears to have come from construction workers in the area during the course of their routine work,” said Capitol police spokeswoman Kimberly Schneider.
Iraqi [...]
I’m not sure I’ve ever heard a more appropriate allegory of the Israel lobby’s tactics than this. Thank you, Jonah.
When our public servants aren’t slaughtering Iraqi civilians, they’re telling Gitmo detainees not to trust their Jewish lawyers. (Note how in the first link, a retired general says public reaction to the Haditha investigations “will be worse than Abu Ghraib – nobody was killed at Abu Ghraib.” This guy was obviously just taking a nap.)
Brian Ross at ABC News says that guilty-pleaders Rep. “Duke” Cunningham and Jack Abramoff have been singing like Lemmy about the corruption of other Republican friends of theirs – including the number one recipient of Abramoff money, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dennis Hastert.
“Whether they like it or not, members of Congress, including [...]
From Amman, Jordan, Iraqis hope their stories of dispossession will reach “honest American people” while in North Freedom, Wisconsin, a father wonders if there are any.
Jonathan Schwarz takes on the whiny college professors and snobby Hollywood elitists and gay-married Saddam-lovers who accuse our president of lying about wiretaps.
Also commenting on the Iranian missile test is The Strata-Sphere (cute, huh?):
I seriously doubt Iran is so crazy they would launch missiles at US or Israeli targets (though I would not bet $1 on that premise), but the missiles do represent a very tough defense against military action by the West, whether it is pre-emptive [...]
