Condi Rice: Anti-Empire = Racist

Dr. Rice apparently never read my "Collateral Damage" debut. Speaking before the National Association of Black Journalists: National security adviser Condoleezza Rice likened Iraq's halting steps toward self-government to black Americans' struggle for civil rights,...

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Tough Guys, Real and Imagined

An article on the cinematic tastes of U.S. presidents turns up some interesting nuggets. Bill Clinton requested the shoot-out classic High Noon over 30 times while in the White House (because of its "strong-willed leader taking a situation of imminent danger into his...

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Public Relations, Pt. II

Great article from In These Times about the licentious relationships between PR firms and the government. Isn't it interesting that the three pillars of journalism schools are public relations, reportage, and political communications? [Link taken from...

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I wouldn’t believe he existed. . .

If I didn't see his goofy visage so damn often. Clifford May, of the mega-bogus Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, lets us in on a secret. There's a small, backwards, theocratic state in the Middle East that funnels some of its massive U.S. aid back into...

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Cognitive Dissonance at Reason

Speak favorably of Antiwar.com on the Free Republic website, and you'll have your logging privileges revoked. Hey, that's their right, and closed-mindedness is by no means inconsistent with their platform. But we should be shocked when a writer at a libertarian mag...

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Baghdad Blogger

"Turning Tables" -- a US soldier "blogging" from Baghdad -- hopes that something will be found:i hope they find nuclear missile silos filled with i.c.b.m.'s spouting steam and gas from their sides...i hope we find chemical factories filled with barrels of mustard gas...

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“The War Doves”

Kris Johansen defends imperialism before his fellow pinkos in the August edition of Adbusters: Every spring the bulls charge down the narrow alleys of the Spanish town of Pamplona, their thousand-pound bodies careering around corners, hooves clattering across paving...

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I confess

This Ann Coulter parody in the Weekly Standard made me chuckle. Of course, the dragoness is more or less correct about one thing (McCarthy)--the only reason the neos have it in for her.

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