Steven Plaut, an Israeli business professor and David Horowitz hanger-on whose intelligence has been unfavorably compared to that of a retarded lemur, writes:[W]e thought we’d bring you the list of countries from around the world (and overseas Red Cross offices) that...
Radley Balko on Katrina:The federal government has again failed at the one thing it's actually supposed to do: Protect us from outside threats. Perversely, this failure is the direct result of a fool's errand carried out in response to the massive failure of four...
When are Americans going to begin asking the obvious question: "Is this how the much-vaunted Homeland Security Department handles a real disaster?" WWLTV.com | News for New Orleans, Louisiana | Local News (AP) The evacuation of the Superdome was suspended Thursday...
On Wednesday, in my hometown of Austin, Texas, I took part in a march of - my best guess - a thousand or so people, from the Texas state capital building to city hall, where we met up with the buses from Cindy Sheehan's Bring Them Home Now Bus Tour. It was a quite...
Following Pat Robertson's call for the assassination of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, the station 'ABC Family' has apparently decided to run a new disclaimer at the end of the 700 Club's broadcasts. The previous message read "The preceding program was brought to...
Via James Wolcott, this prewar letter to the president from boy neocon John Podhoretz:There’s a luscious double trap in starting the war as soon as possible, Mr. President. Your enemies are delirious with excitement about the corporate-greed scandals and the effect...
Hey, Democrats: ready to show your party pride? If so, this T-shirt is a must-have: "Truman Dropped the Bomb." Via Radley Balko, who suggests some other slogans for the worst opposition party in the history of democracy:Front: "My Lai?" Back: "Brought to You by the...
I woke this morning to terrible news: Jude Wanniski is dead of a heart attack. He was 69. Jude was one of the leading ex-conservatives who had turned antiwar, and hard-core antiwar at that. His writings had been among the strongest antiwar articles featured in...
My radio show has moved to a new time (Saturdays 5-7pm), and my Weekend Interview Show fundraiser is doing rather well so far. (Any help from fans of the show is greatly appreciated.) Saturday afternoon I went to Dr. Ron Paul's birthday party / fundraiser and had a...
Senator Russ Feingold (D-Wisconsin) is stoking up an effort to increase his national visibility as a prelude to launching his White House bid, and here's a few of his talking points: "ONLY senator to vote NO on the USA PATRIOT ACT "voted NO on the War in Iraq "ONLY...
