The David Frum Defense Fund

David Frum complains about CAIR's attempted suppression of his free speech. Maybe Frum would like to team up with Juan Cole to protest such tactics. Drop him a line and let's see: dfrum@aei.org Frum also writes the following:Speaking of free societies: The faking of...

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Michael Ledeen Libel of the Day

Regarding my post on Michael Ledeen, James Knechtmann of General Staff Library writes:This story about Tandey and Hitler is contrived propaganda nonsense from World War II. The source is an article in the Coventry Sunday Graphic from December 1940 (see...

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Kill ‘Em All

How else am I to read this?Consider the story of Henry Tandey, a British infantryman in the Duke of Wellington Regiment in the First World War. On September 28, 1918, Tandey participated in an attack against enemy trenches near the small French town of Marcoing. The...

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Do Not Adjust Your Monitor

Saturday's spotlight may be a first in Antiwar.com history. It's called "Raising the Debt Limit: A Disgrace," and it does not contain any of the following words: Iraq, Iran, Israel, neoconservative, Bush, empire – or even war. It doesn't need to: it's about the...

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Son of N-Word

Wow. Now I understand why people use the N-word and the F-word so often – they get results. That one little blogpost got me more e-mails than any "Collateral Damage" I've ever toiled over. So much for subtlety and fine distinctions. Most of the responses were...

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Literacy Requirement Dropped From Bar Exam?

I e-mailed Glenn Reynolds my post on his pals at Little Green Footballs. Glenn's response was, well, predictable yet puzzling:Oh, fuck off. Just look at who else I blogroll. Eric Umansky? Jesus Christ that's pathetic, especially from someone who invokes...

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The N-Word & the F-Word

Scrolling down through the threads Tex linked to on FreeRepublic and Little Green Footballs, a thought I've had many times before recurred: liberals have ruined the language. By throwing the words "Nazi" and "fascist" around all these years with reckless abandon, they...

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Maybe They Should Call It “Power & Power”

Over at Liberty & Power, Aeon Skoble writes:Lileks makes two very insightful, yet amazingly economical, observations today. The first, regarding the reports that Condi Rice is likely to become the Secretary of State: "I want her to go to Saudi Arabia, and I want her...

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Reinforcements on the Way

Antiwar.com blog is glad to welcome the occasional musings of Franklin Harris, wretched scribbler. Franklin is a fellow Alabama native who, despite his unfortunate status as an Auburn Tiger (I kid, I kid), will doubtless keep things percolating around here.

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