You Read It Here First

From my Monday morning column, written on Sunday: "At this dramatic turning point, bin Laden reappears with a half-hour long tape, the transcript of which can be found here, and there is something very odd about it, in that it reads like a political polemic that might...

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Huckabee: Nice Guy, or Slanderer-by-proxy?

The conventional wisdom is that Mike Huckabee is a Real Nice Guy, and his soft-spoken manner gives superficial credence to this assertion, and yet, like so much of the press corps groupthink that evolves over the course of a presidential campaign, it is a lot of...

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Is bin Laden Training US Military Forces?

Sometimes it seems like it. As the Webmaster for Antiwar.com, I get many critical letters every day. I get at least one letter from someone claiming to be a US soldier or veteran who seems to have the same philosophy as bin Laden: "If you don't agree with us, we will...

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Moveon.org’s Crisis of Conscience

Via David Freddoso, over at National Review, this gem of an email from Moveon.org: "Should we support primary challengers against some Democrats who side with the president on Iraq? It's a tough question, and one we need everybody's input on. Click below to fill out...

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Is Bush Staging Nukes for Iran?

That is the question Larry Johnson asks over at TPMCafe. Johnson is a former counter-terrorism official with the CIA and the State Department. Johnson questions the official story about the nukes being "mistakenly" flown over the US. A retired B-52 pilot reminds him...

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A Real Old-Fashioned Debate

Several years ago I watched a Canadian PM debate on TV. It bore no resemblance to an American Presidential "debate." Two guys, a few feet from each other, actually debating -- no moderator, no buzzers, just two guys arguing, vigorously. I remember a movie featuring...

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