I can hardly wait for a certain DC liberventionist to explain this away:Ukraine's Orange Revolution was an exhilarating and joyful event. It was a classical liberal revolution for democracy and freedom and against corruption. Viktor Yushchenko became the...
The Australian Daily Telegraph reports: Mock executions – in which a prisoner is made to believe his death is imminent – are expressly prohibited by the US army's interrogation policy. The details were described in documents sought by the American Civil Liberties...
Glenn Reynolds actually has a worthwhile insight! (Sandwiched between two slabs of baloney, of course.) On the childlike chickenhawkery of Andrew "Second Thoughts" Sullivan:When Andrew was a champion of the war on terror, writing about martial spirit and fifth columns...
Oakland, CA: TheatreFIRST is producing a rare revival of playwright Robert Holman’s abstract portrait of the lingering effects of war, Making Noise Quietly. In three one-act plays, Holman gives playgoers a glimpse at war’s more rarely acknowledged consequences and...
The Rumsfeldian streamlining of the military continues. It will now be much, much easier to identify and destroy targets. Yay!
If you ever wanted to hear a bunch of US Senators get told off, here's your chance.George Galloway: Your case for war was a pack of lies.MP3 courtesy of Crooks and Liars (they have a Realplayer video version if you prefer)Are the documents implicating Galloway...
Glenn Reynolds writes: I want to add that I don't think there's anything immoral about flushing a Koran (or a Bible) down the toilet, assuming you've got a toilet that's up to that rather daunting task, and I think it's amusing to hear people who usually worry about...
While debate rages in the blogosphere about the flushability of Korans, the warbots dream of sending a much smaller document to the goldfish graveyard. More links and must-read commentary here.
The Telegraph is reporting that the RAF Hercules which crashed January 30, 2005 - the day of the Iraqi elections - was downed by an AA weapon.An interim Ministry of Defence report has ruled out almost everything apart from enemy fire and it was suggested that a...
George Lucas conceived Star Wars in part as a criticism of Nixonian America and the Vietnam War (the Endor battle scenes in Return of the Jedi are intended partly as a Vietnam sequence). Now, at the premier of Revenge of the Sith, he says "When I wrote it, Iraq (the...
