Jacob Hornberger of the Future of Freedom Foundation is throwing a heck of a party at the Hyatt Regency in Reston, Virginia with a view toward dismantling America’s permanent Warfare State and the threat it poses to our liberty.
The Conference starts this Friday the first of June. All details can be found at the FFF [...]
America’s Counter-Productive Pakistan Policy
The Padilla Trial So Far
Fake Terrorists and Real Ones
Oprah’s going to Israel at Elie Wiesel’s invitation. Fine by me. But then there’s this:
Israel’s UN Ambassador Danny Gillerman, who attended the event, said that a visit of a figure with such influence on the international media could help bring an end to the indifference towards the terror threat faced by Israelis.
Yeah, that’s some indifference.
(Ynet [...]
Via Michael Ledeen’s blog, I see that the look-how-many-Iraqi-potholes-we’ve-filled meme lives on in the pro-war blogosphere, long after even Arthur Chrenkoff quit, um, “Chrenkin’ off”:
Glenn Reynolds has an email from Michael Yon, the great milblogger and photographer who may have been the first reporter to suggest that there was a “civil war” going on [...]
As the Pentagon announced the deaths of 10 more US soldiers in Iraq on Memorial Day, May has become the worst month since 2004.
At the end of the month, May 2007 had the highest death toll for US troops (124) since November 2004.
With White House plans to double the number of combat troops in Iraq [...]
Iraqis Are People, It is Wrong to Kill Them
The Alabama Department of Homeland Security has shut down a Web site it operated that that included antiwar, pro-life, and gay rights organizations in a list of groups that could include terrorists.
The Web site identified different types of terrorists, and included a list of groups it believed could spawn terrorists. The list also included environmentalists, [...]
The Opus cartoon in Sunday’s paper is one of the finest Memorial Day tributes I have seen anywhere.
Cartoonist Berkeley Breathed ruled the 1980s with Bloom County, and today’s cartoon is one of his best since then.
(Comments et al. welcome at my blog entry on the cartoon here).
First, Ron Paul on Bill Maher’s show.
While Maher deserves props for giving Paul a chance to make his case, he doesn’t seem to get Paul’s fundamental point. Yes, Bush’s response to 9/11 has been horrible, but the policies that led to 9/11 didn’t begin when Bush took office. As Paul notes, American meddling in [...]
Tucked away in an Associated Press story this morning:
Meanwhile, in Kut, 160 kilometers (100 miles) southeast of Baghdad, 70 police officers resigned Sunday morning and handed over their weapons. They cited their fears of being targeted by Mahdi Army militants, police said.
