But he has drained the rosy hues from the Bushies' cheeks. They're so scared of Dubya's war record that they've preemptively appropriated Kerry's defense of Clinton's draft-dodging. The foreign policy irrelevance of a Bush/Kerry contest aside, this could be a...
Looking over at the main page just now, I see that 589 people have contributed $22,414 to the Antiwar.com pledge drive. That breaks down to about $38 each. At that rate, we need 332 more contributors to break $35,000. Hey, blog readers, have you pledged yet?
Two cheers for satirical media: Julian Sanchez gives props to Daily Show correspondent Mo Rocca, and Brian Dunaway pronounces Jon Stewart brighter than Richard Perle. In other comedy news, Bill Maher's demotion to pay cable has made him much easier for those of us in...
Radley Balko donates a new orifice to liberventionism. By the way, if you don't know what "liberventionism" means and why I use the term with contempt, just check out the piece Balko refers to and the comments beneath.
Yeah, that Boris Johnson of Lord Black's stable purees the Hutton report: Let us remember how this affair began. On Tuesday September 24, 2002, Tony Blair stood in the House and waved a document of which he had high hopes. "The threat of Saddam and weapons of mass...
Jacob Sullum on the White House's "noble" facades: Last June New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman counted four reasons for the war: the stated reason (Saddam had WMDs and might give them to terrorists for an attack on the U.S.); the moral reason (saving Iraqis and...
Andrew Higgins of The War Street Journal seems to think he's stumbled across an original insight. In today's opening installment of a series called "Power & Peril: America's Supremacy and Its Limits,” Higgins profiles Morocco (sorry, not available for free). The...
The inability to make distinctions, or the belief that one's audience is so unable. R. Emmett Tyrrell begins his defense of Oxyconservative Rush Limbaugh as follows: Really, it is not very amazing that a government vendetta has been launched against Rush Limbaugh, the...
It's an affront to every cynical bone and iconoclastic nerve in my body, but here goes: Jeremy Scahill kicks ass. Read this interview with Wesley Clark and tell me I'm wrong. Jeremy Scahill for the White House (press corps)!
Your moment of Zen, courtesy of John Ashcroft: Weapons of mass destruction, including evil chemistry and evil biology, are all matters of great concern, not only to the United States, but also to the world community. Think Ashcroft just let that slip? He has already...
