A Fox News True Believer

A Fox News True Believer:U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning said yesterday that he was unaware of reports that a unit of Army Reserve soldiers in Iraq had refused an order to deliver fuel for reasons including that their trucks were lightly armored. "I don't know anything about...

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Coulter dodges pie attack

As Coulter addressed a question about terrorism, she stopped mid-statement: "You take away the terrorism and liberals would hate…” at that Coulter gasped as she looked to her left, and began backing away from the podium. Two men ran by, on-stage, and each threw a pie...

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70-Year-Old Called Up for Iraq Duty

Updating this story: apparently Mr. Wallace played a hoax on KNTV Television. KNTV admited to KGO radio last night that they had been taken in by a hoax. I apologize for repeating a hoax story. Old story below. KNTV (NBC's San Francisco Bay Area affiliate) reports...

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Bush’s True Believers

We've all met individuals or even groups of people like this, but to see proof of the sheer size, the vastness of the....herd....is truly astonishing.Even after the final report of Charles Duelfer to Congress saying that Iraq did not have a significant WMD program,...

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“Chip” the torturer goes to prison

"Chip" Frederick, posing at left in his capacity as torturer at Abu Ghraib is was a prison guard in his other life. He's going to prison as an inmate this time. I wonder if he'll run into anyone who knows him.

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Though I detect an anti-capitalist tone in the proposal, this piece from the Rational Enquirer should warm the heart of any genuine free-marketeer. Riffing on Bush's market healthcare rhetoric, it proceeds,Okay. But if that's your "opinion", how if we apply the same...

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Desperation 2004

Some interesting election links: *Various libertarian-ish people from Reason magazine's Rolodex announce their presidential preferences. Kerry appears to be leading, with a strong showing by Badnarik. Most surprisingly emetic response goes to Nat Hentoff. *The...

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A way to help Iraqis…

Raed Jarrar has an interesting idea. If you've ever wished you could help Iraqis deal with the aftermath of sanctions and the invasion as well as the ongoing occupation, this looks like a good way:One of the last international NGOs, CARE, stopped their work in Iraq...

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Desperation 2004

Some interesting election links: *Various libertarian-ish people from Reason magazine's Rolodex announce their presidential preferences. Kerry appears to be leading, with a strong showing by Badnarik. Most surprisingly emetic response goes to Nat Hentoff. (E.g., on...

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Myth of the 10,000

It is not my intention to disparage my fellow columnist Ivan Eland's otherwise excellent book, "The Empire Has No Clothes: US Foreign Policy Exposed" (reviewed today by Anthony Gregory), but I do have to note an objection that concerns my field, such as it is....

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