Answer Me!

From this week in Antiwar.com, seven questions for the warmongers: 1. What is "harassment & interdiction"? 2. How much mustard gas would it take to level a city? 3. Is any nation on earth safe from the president's new and improved doctrine of preemption? 4. Why do we...

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Forget the WMD; Show Me the Shredder

Brendan O'Neill plucks some aged Belgian babies off of bayonets in this outstanding piece on Saddam's fabled people shredder. Among the story's propagators who have yet to comment on O'Neill's article are Glenn Reynolds (see also this) and National Review's James S....

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Back in the USSA

In today's "Best of the Web," James Taranto pokes fun at Mikhail Gorbachev for finally admitting the obvious about the Soviet war on Afghanistan; now, I'll poke fun at Taranto for failing to see the obvious parallels: The Soviet Union's 10-year invasion of Afghanistan...

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When Did Saddam Hussein Become a Dictator?

He was apparently just first among equals back in 1991, when the U.S. government deliberately destroyed Iraq's infrastructure: Among the justifications offered now [shortly after Gulf War I], particularly by the Air Force in recent briefings, is that Iraqi civilians...

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Dimwits Passing in the Night

Beautiful: just as Anthony Gancarski jumps aboard the Bush train, Bill freaking O'Reilly hints at jumping off. For a guy who thinks himself the second coming of Vladimir Nabokov, he might not be that bright.

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Our Very Own David Brock

Can't David Horowitz afford some fact-checkers? He'll need a couple if he's going to keep Anthony Gancarski in his stable. From Gancarski's aforementioned tirade: I couldn’t imagine Pat Buchanan throwing his support to the man who made it a feature of his stump speech...

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Who’s Afraid of Glenn Reynolds?

I've been waiting all weekend to update you on my correspondence with the King of the Bloggers, but the King has cut and run. In response to my last query, Reynolds wrote the following: Rape all the Sunnis? Which one is that? The linked post seemed to me to be...

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Glenn Reynolds Responds

From: Glenn Reynolds pundit@instapundit.com I've been following that story for a long time. Just search "zeyad" in my search engine. Antiwar either knows this, and is trolling, or is a bunch of idiots. Or both. My reply: You have not commented on the post linked to,...

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Glenn, Jeff–Why So Quiet?

Hey, Glenn Reynolds, Jeff Jarvis: When ya gonna comment on this post by Iraqi blogger Zeyad? Too hot to handle? Could Zeyad work his way back into your good graces by calling for more rape and murder? (For what it's worth, here's Instapundit's free-for-all debunking...

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