Jonathan Schwarz takes on the whiny college professors and snobby Hollywood elitists and gay-married Saddam-lovers who accuse our president of lying about wiretaps.
A Warbot Lets the Truth Slip
Also commenting on the Iranian missile test is The Strata-Sphere (cute, huh?): I seriously doubt Iran is so crazy they would launch missiles at US or Israeli targets (though I would not bet $1 on that premise), but the missiles do represent a very tough defense...
They Never Miss Their Cue
The disinformation army, from the officers to the grunts, is already blasting away with the latest anti-Iran propaganda. Jihad Watch unironically introduces a passage from the Jerusalem Post article I parsed last night, "1938 Alert from the Jerusalem Post…"...
Remembering Lloyd Bentsen
Virtually every story on the death of Lloyd Bentsen has focused on the quote most people remember him for in his debate with Dan Quayle: "Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy." I remember Lloyd Bentsen for another quote – older and I think more significant: "I propose...
Iran Disinfo Campaign Heats Up
Read the headline of this Jerusalem Post article: "Iran Test-Fires Long-Range Missile." Duck and cover, Newark! Stock up on tins of tuna, Atlanta! Good-bye, Gotham! Now read the very first sentence: Iran conducted a test launch Tuesday night of the Shihab-3...
People Are Strange, When You’re a Stranger
Living in Iran ain't exactly a picnic for anybody, especially women, gays, political dissidents, or those accused of breaking one of the trillion laws issued weekly by the Islamic Republic. But is life particularly hard for the native Jewish population? Yes,...
Busted
Unlike certain bigshot libertarians we could mention, Jim Henley knows how to read, as well as how to use this here Internet thingie. He's been kicking ass on the whole Iran-forcing-Jews-to-wear-yellow-stars disinfo campaign. Read up: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
Galloway vs. DiRita: Galloway in a TKO
This recent email exchange between Knight Ridder military affairs reporter Joe Galloway and Rumsfeld's spokeshack is not to be missed. Pat Lang has it in .pdf and .doc form here, but Larry Johnson has put it online in an easy to read format here. An excerpt: i can...
What Is the NRA Doing?
The National Rifle Association recently held its annual banquet. The keynote speaker? Gen. Tommy Franks. From an AP account of Franks' speech: Those who count the increasing number of dead American soldiers in Iraq are missing the bigger picture, retired Gen. Tommy...
I Didn’t Raise My Son to Be a Soldier
Here is an anti-war song sent to me from a reader. He says that it was written and sung by the British in protest to that Empire's wars around the turn of the century. The song was revived for WWI. It then became "Americanized," and was used to protest the USA being...


