What a Bunch of Sissies

"Mindless snark." A "cheap shot." That's how Glenn Reynolds and his sorority sisters have characterized the following blog post by Jesse Walker of Reason:The Past Is Another Planet Glenn Reynolds, writing in Reason in 1999: [O]ur current situation–with so many foreign...

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Tonight We’re Going to Argue Like It’s 1999

Jesse Walker finds a Glenn Reynolds statement from 1999 that could easily appear on Antiwar.com:[O]ur current situation – with so many foreign troop deployments that even military buffs can't keep track of them all and with wars initiated essentially on presidential...

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Peña at GWU Tuesday

Antiwar.com columnist Charles Peña will be at the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University tomorrow to launch his new book, Winning the Un-War: A New Strategy for the War on Terrorism. Details are available here.

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Indict the Department of Justice!

Has there been a single terrorism case post-9/11 that wasn't a complete farce? Remember the scary paintball terrorists? (innocent - convicted anyway) How about the falsely convicted and later released in the Detroit Case? You know, the one where the prosecutor is now...

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Underlying Causes, Warbot Edition

The wimp still won't link to Antiwar.com, but today he offers an etiology of Dubya's youthful delinquency – and, apparently, his adult worldview. Under the heading "Bush Insulter Dies," James Taranto relates the following story about recently deceased Yale chaplain...

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Hersh on CNN/D-Now!

Two great interviews of Seymour Hersh regarding his new article "The Iran Plans," about the "consideration" by the Air Force and White House of the use of nuclear weapons against Iran's empty Natanz facility. Crooks and Liars has the video of Hersh on Wolf Blitzer's...

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James Taranto, Wimp

From James Taranto's "The Ugly Side of Libertarianism":[David Bernstein] probably thinks of [libertarians] as cute little nerds who have basically sound (if somewhat extreme) ideas about economics along with various eccentric enthusiasms: private toll roads,...

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