National Review's Rod Dreher on Rep. John Murtha's change of heart:Don't know how many of you caught Rep. John Murtha's very angry, very moving speech just now in which he called on the White House to institute an immediate withdrawal of US troops from Iraq. CNN...
Jonah Goldberg gets off to a bold start at the LA Times:What if Bush did lie, big time? What, exactly, would that mean? If you listen to Bush's critics, serious and moonbat alike, the answer is obvious: He'd be a criminal warmonger, a failed president and -- most...
They're not much exercised about prewar lies, but exposing US gulags – well, they're not having any of that:Congress's top Republican leaders yesterday demanded an immediate joint House and Senate investigation into the disclosure of classified information to The...
Good news! Everything's swell in Iraq, and getting better – so long as the U.S. stays put. How do I know? I read Cathy Young's latest. How does she know? She read The Weekly Standard, The New Republic, and Andrew Sullivan. That's right – after canvassing the gamut of...
But these people have issues. And they have made the projection of their obsession onto others a matter of national policy. (Libby link via Matt Welch.)
The Christian Science Monitor rounds up all the latest on Italy, including this:"I have never been convinced war was the best way to succeed in making a country democratic and extract it from [a] ... bloody dictatorship," [Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi] says. "I...
Be sure to read Russ Baker's latest article at TomPaine.com.
After prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald's indictment of Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Congress needs to wake up and smell the phony prewar "intelligence." Here's a link where you can write to express your concerns to your representative and senators. It helps to be polite and...
Now that the soporific Harriet Miers flap is at an end, I hope (and the White House fears) that we can all focus on the real reason for the season: indictments. I also hope this laughter reported by the NY Daily News was of a "Bwahahahaha" nature:While White House...
As you may already know, Saddam Hussein is being tried for the 1982 massacre of 143 people in Shi'ite Dujail after a failed assassination attempt -- not for much larger crimes committed during the Iran-Iraq war (including against Kurdish civilians at Halabja) or...
