If you'd like to know more about warbloggers, Salam, Zeyad, etc., from today's column, I recommend these two pieces, one from shortly after the Lileks debacle and another from two weeks ago. I was going to include both in the essay, but I'm trying to be conscientious...
Today is the 11th anniversary of our government's brutal gassing and incineration of "its own people" at Waco, TX, for the crime of exercising their Constitutional rights. With that in mind, Vice President Cheney's address to the National Rifle Association on Saturday...
From the forthcoming issue of National Review:Since the conclusion of the war, the Bush administration has shown a dismaying capacity to believe its own public relations. The post-war looting was explained away as the natural and understandable exuberance of a...
An editorial on the accused Marine (see also this and this) appears in today's New Orleans Times-Picayune. A snippet:The Marine Corps has investigated the matter, although it has yet to disclose its findings on the authenticity of the photo or its decision on whether...
You've never been a regular reader of Matt Yglesias, either? Arthur Silber puts our minds at ease about the opportunity costs we've incurred.
I just heard the old Kenny Rogers cornball "Coward of the County" on the radio, and the message sounded so familiar: peaceful fella mindin' his own bidness, painfully meek, suffering outrage after outrage until finally an unspeakable assault spurs him onto...
Iraqi 'beaten to death' by US troops An Iraqi has died of his wounds after US troops beat him with truncheons because he refused to remove a picture of wanted Shiite Muslim leader Moqtada Sadr from his car, police said today. The motorist was stopped late yesterday by...
So the prez doubled the amount of mustard gas actually found at that Libyan turkey farm. Really, so what? What if it had been a million tons of mustard gas? I'm gonna keep telling you this till you beg me to stop: 1. Chemical weapons are archaic, largely ineffective...
Check out this post by Glenn Reynolds. Note the initial update. He put it up immediately after I sent him the following e-mail:Glenn, Did you even read the comments beneath the link you posted? The Marine Corps has not yet settled the matter, but several...
Is the infamous "Lcpl. Boudreaux killed my Dad then he knocked up my sister" photo a fake? This guy says so, but notice all the counterclaims beneath, including by war supporters. Marine investigators apparently have yet to reach a conclusion, but I will keep you...
