The dangers of trashing the Geneva Convention

Reading through the warblogs today, I came across this oft repeated sentiment in the Powerline blog:The first day of the Senate hearings seemed to confirm that the key Senators opposing Gonzales don’t take the war on terrorism very seriously. Democratic Senators...

Bush: No bad news

Via Arthur Silber and Yankeedoodle, we find this ominous report:BUSH REJECTS BAD NEWS The Nelson Report is a daily political tip sheet and analysis written for the past 20 years for the (US and Asian) corporate and government clients of Chris Nelson, a former Capitol...

Will the Republicans legalize torture?

Glenn Reynolds, while claiming to be personally opposed to (legal) torture (even before Alan Dershowitz was promoting it!) uses his bully pulpit to link every pro-torture argument in the known universe while offering almost no opposing argument. Reynolds even offers...

Bias Hunters strike out again

Yes, I read other blogs besides Clark’s but this is too funny: The “blog of the year” proves its worth by announcing some good news from Iraq …So, read Clark’s post and then read this one from Raed Jarrar. Clark: IT WAS REPORTED ON A...

Wolcott on Taibbi on Time

Mark Gisleson at Norwegianity directed me to this James Wolcott post, What kind of a maniac puts eagles in a Christmas tree?, that I, devoted Wolcott reader though I am, somehow missed. Here are just three sentences of Wolcott on Matt Taibbi’s Time Person of the...