What Is It With Neocons and Libel?

They're a litigious bunch: Richard Perle, Michael Ledeen, and now Conrad Black:Conrad Black said Friday he will file a $871 million libel suit in Canada against the Hollinger International Inc. special committee that issued a report contending he and other former top...

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Damned Defeatist Wall Street Journal

Just in case today's spotlight piqued your interest, here's the e-mail circulated by Wall Street Journal Baghdad correspondent Farnaz Fassihi. Not-so-shockingly, the warbloggers, who lap up every syllable of WSJ op-eds, have thus far left this one alone.

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Al Lorentz to Get 20 Years?!

Antiwar.com contributor Al Lorentz, whose troubles I discussed here, gets a write-up in Salon. I'm looking forward to the enormous support Sgt. Lorentz is sure to receive from the "Support Our Troops" crowd.

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Novak on the National Intelligence Estimate

From Bob Novak's column of today:A few hours after George W. Bush dismissed a pessimistic CIA report on Iraq as ''just guessing,'' the analyst who identified himself as its author told a private dinner last week of secret, unheeded warnings years ago about going to...

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Wow

I normally try to excerpt the good stuff, but I'll just reprint this in full and let all you anti-Semites chew on it (bolding mine):Blame It on Neo Don't call me a "neocon" unless you are a friend. BY JULIA GORIN Last week Pat Buchanan appeared on Comedy Central's...

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Somebody Get Richard Perle a Spacesuit

Given the Bush administration's fondness for failed Soviet initiatives, they may want to consider another one that has just come to light: putting a military base on the moon. From The Moscow News:In the days of the Cold War Soviet commanders and their best scientists...

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Yep, It’s Anti-Semitism

What will the Taiwan lobby scream?Ex-State Official Charged in Taiwan Trip A former high-ranking State Department official who is one of the nation's leading experts on China passed documents to Taiwanese intelligence agents and was charged yesterday with concealing a...

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Does My Exasperation Count as Blowback?

One of the worst things about this war (and the cluster of quasi-libertarian arguments used to justify it) has been the incredible mental toll it has inflicted on libertarianism. Instead of tending our own garden – working to smash, reduce, or at least slow the state...

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Bush Document Scandal! Must Credit Antiwar.com!

On George W. Bush's National Guard documents, scroll down to page 17, and you'll find something askew that the big boys refuse to touch. What I want to know is: has our commander-in-chief had his cholera shots???? During the summer of '68, when he was shooting up...

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