Gee, I'm so glad that we sacrificed 1,700-plus dead, thousands more horribly wounded, and hundreds of billions of dollars -- for this: "Physicians have been beaten for treating female patients. Liquor salesmen have been killed. Even barbers have faced threats for...
There's a wave of "tagging" washing through the blogosphere: the idea is to stimulate discussion of books by "tagging" someone you know to reveal what books they've read recently, how many books they own, the five top books that went into forming their views, etc....
The Turkish Weekly reports (hat tip: Juan Cole): "Eighty two Iraqi lawmakers from across the political spectrum have pressed for the withdrawal of the US-led occupation troops from their country. "The Shiite, Kurdish, Sunni Arab, Christian and communist legislators...
Hey, check out a promising website devoted to organizing the Antiwar League, a left-right alliance against the Iraq war. (Hat tip: Mark Brady). From their website: "What is lacking today is a permanent, populist, broad-based political force to challenge the worldview...
John McCain -- possibly the worst, most persistent warmonger of them all -- is running for President, again, and he's on "Meet the Press" right this moment, telling the American people that they're wrong about Iraq -- we aren't totally losing. No, the insurgency isn't...
'I'll be on "Connected Coast to Coast" hosted by Ron Reagan and Monica Crowley, on Friday(noon EST/9am PST). It's a segment about military recruiting.. and why the numbers are so low. (Duh!) Right-wing nut-bar Cliff Kincaid (of "Accuracy" in Media) is going to...
News-wise, this week sure is starting out with a bang -- and, hey, Monday isn't even over yet! No, I don't mean the Jackson verdict. It looks like there's going to be breaking news on the Bolton nomination around 10:30 tomorrow morning. Stay tuned ... The minute I...
Billmon, writing in his brilliant weblong, Whiskey Bar: "If the symbol of the Roman state was a statue of a she wolf suckling the city's founders, Romulus and Remus, then I think America should have one of a sow, suckling every defense contractor, hack politician and...
That's right: conservatives are now apologizing for espionage. The arrest of Pentagon analyst Larry Franklin is just the beginning of the dramatic court case that will expose Israel's amen corner in the U.S. as a fifth column in the service of a foreign power -- with...
The War Street Journal recently published an op ed piece by one Debra Burlingame, in which the author claims that the Freedom Center planned for the re-built WTC -- re-dubbed the "Freedom Tower" -- has been "hijacked" by those gosh-darned America-hating left-wingers,...
