Surprise! You’ve been Nuked!

A radical shift in US war planning towards preemptive surprise attacks of a purely technological nature (bombing, space weapons) is the subject of a new article by William M. Arkin in the Washington Post. It seems that Washington is moving towards conflict resolution...

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Kamal Nawash Republican Campaign Rally

All right, what's the deal with this weird rally? Glenn Reynolds is flogging it, so there's a clue. The other vector appears to be Horowitz. Hussein Ibish, pointing out the absurd list of "sponsors" (Like Free Republic's RighTalk, a dress shop in Arizona and a couple...

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Team Bush sends Rice to Iraq

Well, I guess since Rumsfeld's lecture didn't work, those recalcitrant Iraqis are in for a real scolding now. Team Bush is sending in the Big Nanny:ARBIL : US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made a surprise visit to Iraq to bolster the country's fledgling...

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Bizarro World Weekend

You heard the man. Look who's talking (scroll down to last item). You got that right. Duh! Oh-my-GOD! Karen Hughes -- call your office. Remember when.... Buttcheeks Bolton?

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Mona Charen, scourge of the “liberal media”

Is conservative right-wingnuttiness a degenerative disease? From deep within the echo chamber, Charen rolls out the stock conservative whining points on the Iraqi Oil-For-Food wannabe-scandal (to prove she's objective, it's titled "Friends of Saddam"):Good morning,...

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The Sith and US Empire

What do Ancient Rome, Revolutionary France, The British Empire, The War Between the States, Nazi Germany, Vietnam, the "election" of Viktor Yushchenko and the war on terrorism have to do with Star Wars? All will be explained on the Weekend Interview Show, Sat. 4-6...

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Sgt. Benderman goes to court

Report by Debbie ClarkOn Thursday, May 12, 2005, I attended the new Art. 32 investigative hearing at Fort Stewart, Georgia of the case against Sgt. Kevin Benderman, a soldier who requested conscientious objector status subsequent to serving in the invasion of Iraq in...

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Feith in the New Yorker

A Little Learning What Douglas Feith knew, and when he knew it. by Jeffery Goldberg Wow, it turns out that Douglas J. Feith is indeed "the fu***ng stupidest guy on the face of the earth.”One afternoon, I asked Feith what had gone wrong in Iraq. “Your assumption is...

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