From (appropriately) WorldNetDaily:President Bush plans to unveil next month a sweeping mental health initiative that recommends screening for every citizen and promotes the use of expensive antidepressants and antipsychotic drugs favored by supporters of the...
“Chickenhawk” Is More Than Mere Ad Hominem
Gene Healy finds this long lost glimpse into the sick mind of Fred Barnes:In an essay in the Feb. 24 [1997] Weekly Standard, Barnes laments the current "ennui" in Washington and confesses his longings for the glory days of old -- you know, the Golden Age commonly...
Erez to close. Minds to open?
The Erez Industrial Zone in Gaza is notorious as a borderline industrial slave labor camp (on occupied land), though of course its creation has long been touted as a supreme act of benevolence by Israel, which of course wishes only to show how much it wants friendship...
Hitchens Rant
Christopher Hitchens apparently ran out of booze and got mad, launching a vicious 4298 word attack on Michael Moore, and his new flick Fahrenheit 9/11 – and a defence of the Iraq war. Hitchens believes that, if not for the good ol’ USA, Hussein would have...
Stuck in Iraqi sewage
Billmon says this picture is the perfect metaphor: A crowd of Iraqis gather to watch as a U.S. armored vehicle is stuck in sewage after is slipped into a ditch during a patrol in Baghdad, Iraq Monday June 21, 2004. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
An Appeal From South Korea
From a representative of People's Action Against the Dispatch of Korean Combat Troops to Iraq:An Appeal by 365 Korean Organizations to the Iraqi Group Holding a Korean National We appeal for the release of the Korean national Kim Seon Il. Today the Korean people were...
Marines executed in Ramadi
Now, here's a really bizarre story. (06-21-2004) - Four U.S. service members were killed Monday - shot repeatedly in the head during an ambush while they were on patrol in the Sunni Muslim stronghold of Ramadi. [...] The four Americans killed in Ramadi had failed to...
Your Papers, Please
How come the more wars we fight to defend freedom, the less there is left to defend? I'm just now trying to imagine what my new identity patch will look like. How to depict a cheese-eating surrender monkey? The patches needn't all be ethnic, of course. Sure,...
Thrill of War is Gone
A letter from a KBR civilian employee in Iraq: The thrill of war is gone Imagine explosions without warning 24-7. Mortar attacks are unpredictable. They're in the minds of every person who lives on the forward operation bases in Iraq. They kill, wound, bloody and...
Putin’s warning
President Putin really stunned the world, and especially the State Department, when he recently stated that Russian intelligence had warned Bush before the war that Saddam had oodles of terrorists in Iraq just waiting in the wings to attack America and the world....


