Andrew Sullivan finally catches up on the story of a porn site that allows US soldiers free entry for posting photos of dead and dismembered Iraqis and Afghans. Better late than never, I suppose, but Eric Muller did not "sound the alarm." I wrote about it here a month...
An interesting nugget from an otherwise boring festival of self-pity:The moment you utter one positive word about the Palestinians or a negative word about Israeli policies, you are branded a Jew-hater, an Anti-Semite, and a Hitlerite-Nazi.Why yes, Michael Calderon,...
Over at In These Times, Christopher Hayes has an amusing postmortem of last Sunday's Freedom Walk:When the Pentagon announced it would be staging a march on September 11, 2005, to commemorate the victims of 9/11 and show support for the troops, it was hard not to...
Oxfam America is asking for your help.
From that glorious libertopia the liberventionists promised us:Ukraine's "orange revolution" has lost its lustre, with President Viktor Yushchenko sacking his entire government after its own members accused one another of sleaze, cronyism and debilitating infighting....
Steven Plaut, wrong once more. UPDATE: A fan of Plaut's splits hairs in his defense. Give it a rest. If you refer simply to "al-Jazeera," the implication is that you're referring to the TV network or its Web site. To borrow one of Glenn Reynolds' stock phrases, Plaut...
Christopher Hitchens:What I cannot understand is why the people of Baghdad and Basra should be punished for a meteorological catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico. We should get out and leave them to their own devices. We need the stuff at home, goddamn it. This has all...
The weird get going – straight to David Horowitz. And what are the prerequisites for becoming one of Horowitz's shock troops? 1) Violent fanaticism 2) Schizophrenia Turns out Michael Lopez-Calderon, a public school teacher in Maryland who recently issued a death...
Now that most of the refugees have finally been moved out of New Orleans, and we have a better idea of where resources are most needed, I recommend a donation to the Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank. Baton Rouge has become one of the primary relocation centers and is...
As you're watching all this footage of people in Louisiana and Mississippi sleeping in overcrowded gymnasiums, their homes destroyed, loved ones missing, jobs lost… just remember that YOUR money is going to pay Gaza "settlers" $200,000 to $300,000 per family to...
