Wolf Blitzer: Congressman Ron Paul, you're a doctor. If a 30-year-old man in Libya refuses to buy health insurance and can't afford the Viagra he needs to keep raping, why haven't we bombed him yet?
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If You’ve Been Saving Those Moonie Jokes…
Use them now, because Washington Times reporter Eli Lake is moving on up to Newsweek. Lake is the latest Iraq hack and all-purpose neocon instrument to demonstrate the one rule of post-9/11 journalism: there's always work if you're always pro-war. All jokes aside, I'm...
Hawk-Dove Time Machine
A quick follow-up to my last post. I always see a certain response to criticisms of Iraq superhawks who have moderated or dropped their enthusiasm for the war: Why are you focusing on what she said in 2003 instead of what she said last month? My answer: What a person...
NY Times Editor Finally Justifies His Existence; TAC Debuts New Blog
Bill Keller provides a handy list of people who should have been eternally discredited by their behavior after 9/11: During the months of public argument about how to deal with Saddam Hussein, I christened an imaginary association of pundits the...
Exceptionalist Takes Exception to Other Exceptionalist’s Supposed Unexceptionalism
For years and contrary to all the evidence, many opponents of Obama have denied that he accepted American exceptionalism, and they have tried to interpret everything he has done according to this completely false assumption. - Daniel Larison, March 29, 2011 For some...
Chimerical Cartography
A headline on the front page reads "Netanyahu possibly drawing own peace map." A source close to the prime minister has provided me with an early draft (click to enlarge):
You Can Be My Wingman Any Time
Here's David Sirota on the Hollywood-Pentagon bromance: In June, the Army negotiated a first-of-its-kind sponsorship deal with the producers of “X-Men: First Class,” backing it up with ads telling potential recruits that they could live out superhero fantasies on...
Less Hawkish in the Hawkeye State?
The Ames Straw Poll, which actually has some predictive value, gave noninterventionists some reasons to smile. Rep. Ron Paul of Texas placed second with 28 percent, just behind Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota (29 percent). After finishing third with 14 percent,...
The Ass Saw the Angel, the A-holes Reached for the Whip
And Balaam rose up in the morning and saddled his ass, and went with the princes of Moab. And God's anger was kindled because he went, and the angel of the Lord stood in the way as an adversary against him. Now he was riding upon his ass, and his two servants were...
Can Norway Avoid Adopting a Post-9/11 Mentality?
Reuters: Norwegians believe penalties for serious crimes in their country should be tightened in the wake of a shooting and bomb attack that killed 77 people in July, an opinion poll showed Monday. In a survey of 1,283 people conducted six days after the July 22...
