From One Justin to Another

While I am grateful for tex's ardent and closely reasoned defense of my views, I'd like to make a few more points about the issues Justin Logan raises here. After graciously complimenting Antiwar.com as a useful educational tool, he takes up the cudgels on behalf of...

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The Palmer Plan

Tom Palmer of the Cato Institute has a plan for withdrawing from Iraq, one that is loaded down with so many conditions that it amounts to support for continuing and even escalating U.S. military operations. For a while Palmer has been fulminating against Antiwar.com,...

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A deeper problem

A former foreign fighter in Iraq testifies that the U.S.-backed Iraqi "police force" let Zarqawi slip right through their slippery little finger: "While he was awaiting his mission, he says, he was told that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of a terrorist network...

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Khalq- culation

The brouhaha sparked by Seymour Hersh's recent piece exposing Pentagon plans to attack Iran was generated, in part, by his revelation that American agents had crossed the border and were spying on the Iranians on their own territory: Tony Blankley got so bent out of...

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They Hate Us Because We’re So Darned Free

The New York Post, in a Saturday editorial, called for punishing Doubleday, the book publisher, for putting out The Al Qaeda Reader, a compendium of writings by Osama bin Laden & his gang: "Americans are right to wonder if Bertelsmann is on their side in the War on...

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Blogging McLaughlin

Even Tony Blankley is heading for the exits on the President's Trotskyite inaugural speech: "Utopian" and "unsustainable" are a few of the kindest characterizations he had to offer on "The McLaughlin Group." Pat had the best line: "He's Woodrow Wilson on...

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Now do you feel safer?

Cryptome.org, the indispensable website for those who want to penetrate the U.S. government's veil of secrecy, has gotten its hot little hands on a series of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) daily morning briefs, a weird mixture of the comical ... "8. (FOUO)...

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X-rated entry

Chris Matthews just called Andrew Sullivan "a cock-eyed optimist" for insisting that the Shi'ite-dominated Iraqi election is going to be a resounding success. He's got the first syllable right....

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Bring back Kate

I never thought I'd miss party-lining neocon Kate O'Beirne's absence from "Capital Gang," but all i can say to Ramesh Ponnuru is: You got that right .

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