Giraldi on Nuking Iran, CIA, Shi’ite Revenge

The American Conservative briefing by Philip Giraldi that has been getting all the attention is now available online. Former CIA officer Giraldi discusses the Pentagon's plans to nuke Iran, details of an internal CIA review of George Tenet, and the Shi'ite revenge...

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What’s New at National Review?

Over on the blog, John Derbyshire – of whom Gene Healy once wrote, "It's almost as if a team of genetic scientists took a mouth-breathing, beer-swilling, Pak-bashing specimen of pure Cockney trash and raised his IQ by 100 points." – keeps it real:I would much rather...

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Sgt. Benderman Gets 15 Months for Lesser Charge

Debbie Clark covering the court-martial for Antiwar.com from Fort Stewart, Georgia, reports that judge Col. Donna M. Wright has convicted Sgt. Kevin Benderman of the charge of missing movement," failing to convict on the charge of desertion. Updated: Judge Wright...

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My First PodCast

It’s funny the way I did my first podcast. The software had just come in, and I was experimenting with the editing function. A copy of The Double Axe, by Robinson Jeffers, was on my desk, by happenstance, and I picked it up: it seemed to me that poetry and podcasting...

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Liars Don’t Link

In the aforementioned post by Glenn Reynolds about the contras and Antiwar.com (with bonus balderdash from Stephen Schwartz), Reynolds writes:Yeah, the refrain's a familiar one, since it's always the same: Our guys are the bad guys, the only atrocities are by our...

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Nuke Iran?

Tuesday at 5pm eastern time, I will be filling in on the boss's show, and talking with former CIA man Philip Giraldi about this curious bit he wrote in the American Conservative (not online) among other things:The Pentagon, acting under instructions from Vice...

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Choosing Tyranny

This guy is a big pro-war blogger and a vocal advocate of "spreading democracy and freedom" to Iraq. Search me : I say it's a good thing that New York police will start random bag searches on the subways. Oh, I know it will be inconvenient when I'm late for a meeting...

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