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Did Bush misspeak on this also?
In his famed 2002 State of the Union 'Axis of Evil' speech, President Bush stated: "Our discoveries in Afghanistan confirmed our worst fears, and show us the true scope of the task ahead...we have found diagrams of American nuclear power plants and public water...
Dimwits Passing in the Night
Beautiful: just as Anthony Gancarski jumps aboard the Bush train, Bill freaking O'Reilly hints at jumping off. For a guy who thinks himself the second coming of Vladimir Nabokov, he might not be that bright.
Afghanistan’s newest misery
President Karzai certainly has pressing political reasons to control the exponentially increasing harvests of opium poppies which are supplying his opposition with the wealth necessary to maintain militias, purchase weaponry and threaten the stability of the country....
Now They Tell Us
One of the best critiques I have read of the media and how they helped lead us into war. From the New York Review of Books' feature story, "Now They Tell Us" by Michael Massing. If nothing else, the Iraq saga should cause journalists to examine the breadth of their...
Revealed: the Axis of Allies
As weird as it seems in the current everybody-hates-us environment, back in the ‘90s political pundits argued that the US’s popularity demonstrated an American exception to balance of power theory. See, according to standard geopolitical theory nations should ally...
Our Very Own David Brock
Can't David Horowitz afford some fact-checkers? He'll need a couple if he's going to keep Anthony Gancarski in his stable. From Gancarski's aforementioned tirade: I couldn’t imagine Pat Buchanan throwing his support to the man who made it a feature of his stump speech...
Goodbye, Gancarski – and Good Riddance
Traumatized by rejection, our former columnist assumes a new – and weird -- personaMany writers have trouble taking rejection well. They’re sensitive souls, after all, and don’t like being told that their work, in a word, sucks. Anthony Gancarski, author of...
Who’s Afraid of Glenn Reynolds?
I've been waiting all weekend to update you on my correspondence with the King of the Bloggers, but the King has cut and run. In response to my last query, Reynolds wrote the following: Rape all the Sunnis? Which one is that? The linked post seemed to me to be...
Baghdad’s graffiti wars
From The Daily Star (Lebanon), a verbal tour of a city's hopes and fears: Each dawn, Baghdadis discover the helpless victims of the city’s nightly battles: its walls, scarred by a ferocious war of words. In a city where graffiti was once punishable by death, there’s...


