Defending Connecticut From Charlie

Via Timothy Noah, this alumnus chatter from the Yale Daily News:Though [John] Bolton supported the Vietnam War, he declined to enter combat duty, instead enlisting in the National Guard and attending law school after his 1970 graduation. "I confess I had no desire to...

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Napalm, Death Squads and Life-saving Carrots

I haven't done this in some time, so here's a mini-blog tour: An interesting post on the use of napalm in Iraq by lenin. Added bonus: proof once again that Ann Clwyd is a pathetic tool of the state. Special Police Commandos militia=Death Squads? swopa thinks so....

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As Lynndie England Takes the Fall…

Amelia Field of Human Rights First sends along this short flash film about torture at Abu Ghraib and elsewhere. A good introduction for friends who may not know how little has been done to address the problem. A form letter to your senators and representatives is also...

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Take Note, Viktor Yushchenko

Aw shucks, Michelle. Thanks for the link. And for lumping us in your demonology with, um, Silvio Berlusconi (who we now learn doesn't "care a whit about our soldiers' safety.") Oh well, love 'em and leave 'em. UPDATE: Malkin links at the bottom to some people...

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Happy Mondays

In addition to our regulars, Justin Raimondo and Gordon Prather, we have two special treats for Monday. Ran HaCohen returns with his analysis of this unbelievable story from Ha'aretz. Hint: read the 5th and final paragraphs. And read Ran HaCohen. Our spotlight is by...

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Bullies in the World

I had to laugh at Andrew Card's preposterous reaction to the news that North Korea has test-fired a missile which may or may not one day be armed with some sort of nuclear warhead. Card was actually heard to say "I think they're looking to kind of be bullies in the...

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Antiwar Forces, Unite

Tom Woods brings to attention an organization callled The Antiwar League, whose mission "is to promote the creation of a new Antiwar League that unites the left and the right in principled opposition to the plans of the Republicrat Warmonger Party for perpetual war."...

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Read the unredacted Sgrena shooting report

This time it's the US military wielding the black marker in the Sgrena shooting report. Fortunately for fans of complete, unredacted reports, it's far less effective to black out text distributed on a PDF file than it is to black out faces of honor guard soldiers....

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Petty Pentagon vandalism an “outrage”

From the Washington Post:From a row of silhouetted hearses on a rain-drenched tarmac to a convoy of olive-green trucks each bearing a casket, hundreds of images of flag-draped coffins of American service members killed at war were released by the Pentagon this week in...

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