Glenn Reynolds’ Warning

Jonathan Schwarz has some important thoughts on Glenn Reynolds' warning to antiwar Americans, particularly his stunning update, here. And let's be perfectly clear about this: Ingemi and Reynolds are warning us to shut the f*ck up about war crimes or face the armed...

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So That’s ‘The Real Danger’?

After a whiny Hugh Hewitt quotation about Haditha coverage in the Emm Ess Emm – which, by the way, lost two members in Iraq on Monday, as the warbloggers slathered on suntan lotion – Glenn Reynolds shares a rather disturbing letter from a reader. Read the whole...

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Kids These Days

It's always amusing to watch the authoritarian Right respond to evidence of U.S. military atrocities. The same people who scream "Guilty!" and erect the gallows every time a sensational crime makes it into the Fox News rotation suddenly get all Phil Donahue on us when...

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Long-Tailed Cats in a Room Full of Rockers

From Reuters: A five-hour security scare at the U.S. House of Representatives Rayburn office building on Friday was likely triggered by noise made by construction workers, police said. "The cause of the loud sound appears to have come from construction workers in the...

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All in a Day’s Work

When our public servants aren't slaughtering Iraqi civilians, they're telling Gitmo detainees not to trust their Jewish lawyers. (Note how in the first link, a retired general says public reaction to the Haditha investigations "will be worse than Abu Ghraib –...

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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...

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