Seems I Gave Jeffrey Goldberg Too Much Credit

Jeffrey Goldberg apparently doctored his Friday post on the Norway attacks to make himself look less bigoted and ridiculous. Read "Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic, and Journalistic Ethics" and "No Shame at The Atlantic?" for details. I'll go ahead and resolve that...

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Norwegian Wood

Before Norwegian authorities arrested a sole, Norwegian suspect in today's murders, America's professional bullshitters stroked themselves into quite the, er, terrection, if you will. A sampling: Jennifer Rubin: This is a sobering reminder for those who think it’s too...

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Rethinking Afghanistan with Your Wallet

Rethinking Afghanistan asks, "How Much Did You Pay for the War this Year?" One can find the answer here. On Thursday April 14th, a bipartisan coalition of members of Congress including Walter Jones (R-N.C.), Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.), John Conyers (D-Mich.), Raul...

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Iran: Parallax view

NOAM CHOMSKY: The Brookings Institute just a few months ago released extensive polls of what Arabs think about Iran. ...They show that Arab opinion ...—holds that the major threat in the region is Israel, that’s 80 percent; the second major threat is the United...

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Why you MUST be shielded from Wikileaks!

You will know you have spoken the truth when you are angrily denounced; and you will know you have spoken both truly and well when you are visited by the police. --J. B. R. YantApparently the folks from Wikileaks.org have spoken both truly and well. Which is why you...

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Dubya was right??

From film-maker Oliver Stone's interview with former Argentine President Nestor Kirchner, we discover: Oliver Stone: "Were there any eye-to-eye moments with President Bush that day, that night?" Nestor Kirchner: "...I said that a solution to the...

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Why Are People Grudgeful?

Timothy P. Carney weighs in on the "Cato purge": [Brink] Lindsey will be portrayed as a martyr, excommunicated for his heresies from the Right's dogma. In this role, he joins neoconservative writer David Frum, who was driven from the American Enterprise Institute...

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YouTube of Iran Debate

Below is the 2 1/2 hour entirety of that Iran debate at UCR on April 1, 2010. Featured speaker was Reese Erlich. Panelists were Erlich, Larry Greenfield, Christopher Records and myself. The host was Louis Vandenberg. Thanks to Joe Briggs for putting this on his...

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