Arthur Silber paraphrases notable warbots Bill O’Reilly, John Derbyshire, and VD Hanson. Sample: O’Reilly, “If the United States is going to defeat the terrorists, we need to have a total commitment to crushing the bastards. My study of history indicates that the role model we ought to adopt is that provided by one of the most noted liberators of the oppressed and a noble exemplar of freedom and individual rights. I speak, of course, of Genghis Khan.”
Tim Swanson on Minnesota’s crackdown on low gas prices, “Whew, I’m so glad cheapskates like Murphy Oil are being fined and punished, after all, if other companies use this evil business strategy, prices of goods and services would decline en masse, saving individuals and families so much money that they would probably start funding terrorism just so they wouldn’t feel guilty about having so much more wealth laying around.”
Laura Rozen is doing a good job keeping up with the Washington neocons and the unfolding Chalabi mess.
Steve Gilliard says Allawi is a Dead Man Walking. Josh Marshall and Spencer Ackerman also have good info up on, as Ackerman calls it, The Zipless Coup.
Bush Announces Twelve Step Plan For Iraq
The Libertarian Jackass outs himself in The American Conservative, and Stephen Carson at LRC blog helpfully links him up for all of us who don’t get TAC on dead tree. You’d think an article about blogs would be webbed.
Reggie Rivers writes an article in the Denver Post equating military service with slavery, pointing out that you aren’t a volunteer anymore if you can’t quit. Jonah Goldberg can’t figure out why he disagrees with this argument (“Unless I’m in the dark about why this isn’t moronic, I’ll just let it speak for itself.” Then he doesn’t.) but he’s so on Jingo Autopilot that he can’t let anyone advance even this argument without breaking out his little plastic patriot flag and he condescendingly accuses Reggie of implying all soldiers are “buffoons.” “Shame on you, Reggie,” says Jonah in his kindergarten teacher voice. Goldberg, ” But if for some reason people think this guy’s onto something we can have a nice long conversation in here about why joining the army of your own free will in order to serve your country in exchange for A) money B) education C) experience D) training E) a lifetime of benefits and the respect of your country is ever-so-slightly different than slavery.” You’d almost think Jonah is saying that slavery would be OK if you could get a good education, money and benefits as a slave. He makes it sound so good that it’s even more of a mystery than ever why Jonah isn’t wearing his master’s uniform.
WHY THE HELL ARE YOU STILL READING US? DOES JUDITH MILLER HAVE TO KILL YOU HERSELF? Thanks to michael at Reading A1 for the toon.