Lord knows, I tried to warn you: Andrew Sullivan is no peacenik. In the last 24 hours of his hysterical Iran!revolution!fascism!democracy!whiskey!sexy! typeathon, Sullivan has relapsed and rediscovered all his old drinking buddies from the...
Juan Cole presents a compelling case that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stole the Iranian presidential election altogether, pointing to the sheer lopsidedness of the results, both nationally and in specific areas, as proof of their absurdity. Robert Fisk, on the other hand,...
Rachel Maddow, on the other hand, appears to be a keeper. In the clip below, she explains how President Obama, principled opponent of prosecuting or even investigating past crimes, plans to lock people up for future crimes. Forever. To be fair, that is literally...
Antiwar.com contributor Neil Kitson will have his day in court in Vancouver Monday. Kitson is seeking information on prisoners taken by Canadian troops in Afghanistan. His requests have thus far been denied. The hearing is open to the public. For details, check out...
Patriotically correct, that is, the most common and most oppressive form of political correctness in our post-9/11 world. From this morning's speech: But the remarks [by Rev. Jeremiah Wright] that have caused this recent firestorm weren’t simply controversial. They...
From the continuing series "A Terror Tour of Israel" at Slate.com: [A]t another stop on the tour, we were introduced to Haim Ben Ami, a former head of interrogations at Shin Bet. He strolled across the stage like a movie director explaining a difficult scene to his...
Via Daniel Larison, the latest telling of what must be the biggest whopper of the 21st century: Well, we were not involved in the world before 9/11, and look what happened. That's Karl Rove, on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace. Of course, there's no reason to pick...
Sheldon Richman on the passing of William F. Buckley Jr.: Looking over his rich biography, I can't help but take away the impression that one of his goals in life was to make the pro-liberty, anti-state movement safe – unthreatening to the establishment. … The...
Various sources are reporting that New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg will not make an independent bid for president. I, for one, was hoping to witness another blandly "transpartisan," authoritarian warbot crash and burn à la Rudy Giuliani, but alas. Of course, there's...
Wikileaks.org, which has published documents such as the Rules of Engagement for Iraq and Guantanamo Camp Delta Standard Operating Procedures, has been ordered to remove its content from that URL by a California court. The court issued an injunction at the request of...
