The disinformation army, from the officers to the grunts, is already blasting away with the latest anti-Iran propaganda. Jihad Watch unironically introduces a passage from the Jerusalem Post article I parsed last night, "1938 Alert from the Jerusalem Post…"...
Virtually every story on the death of Lloyd Bentsen has focused on the quote most people remember him for in his debate with Dan Quayle: "Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy." I remember Lloyd Bentsen for another quote – older and I think more significant: "I propose...
Read the headline of this Jerusalem Post article: "Iran Test-Fires Long-Range Missile." Duck and cover, Newark! Stock up on tins of tuna, Atlanta! Good-bye, Gotham! Now read the very first sentence: Iran conducted a test launch Tuesday night of the Shihab-3...
Living in Iran ain't exactly a picnic for anybody, especially women, gays, political dissidents, or those accused of breaking one of the trillion laws issued weekly by the Islamic Republic. But is life particularly hard for the native Jewish population? Yes,...
Unlike certain bigshot libertarians we could mention, Jim Henley knows how to read, as well as how to use this here Internet thingie. He's been kicking ass on the whole Iran-forcing-Jews-to-wear-yellow-stars disinfo campaign. Read up: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
This recent email exchange between Knight Ridder military affairs reporter Joe Galloway and Rumsfeld's spokeshack is not to be missed. Pat Lang has it in .pdf and .doc form here, but Larry Johnson has put it online in an easy to read format here. An excerpt: i can...
The National Rifle Association recently held its annual banquet. The keynote speaker? Gen. Tommy Franks. From an AP account of Franks' speech: Those who count the increasing number of dead American soldiers in Iraq are missing the bigger picture, retired Gen. Tommy...
Here is an anti-war song sent to me from a reader. He says that it was written and sung by the British in protest to that Empire's wars around the turn of the century. The song was revived for WWI. It then became "Americanized," and was used to protest the USA being...
We have installed a new blogging software. While I work out the bugs and move it back to the old format, please be patient. Thanks! UPDATE: All the old posts should redirect to the new ones. If you find one that doesn't, please email me at mike at this domain dot com...
Saddam's Mercedes Federal agents seized a Mercedes-Benz from an Army reservist who said the armor-plated, bulletproof luxury car probably belonged to Saddam Hussein. First Sgt. William von Zehle said he bought the car while serving in Iraq. U.S. Immigration and...
