Good Analogy

Oh my, some "repulsive characters" from a "coven of fringe libertarians" are "crucifying" Conrad Black. Well, if voicing a little schadenfreude as one of the biggest statists of our time is harassed by the state amounts to crucifixion, then call me Pilate. As an act...

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Finally, an Ignoble Lie

Upset by Pentagon propaganda in Iraq, Christopher Hitchens crawls to his porcelain throne at Slate and upchucks on his own reflection:I remember reading, decades ago, of a moment when Richard Nixon had made some desperate speech from his bunker and had then arranged...

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Around the blogs

Fun link: A Short Play Starring Christopher Hitchens, by Jonathan Schwarz. Speaking of troublemakers... It all began with a recommendation to celebrate Veteran's Day with a donation to AntiWar.com. Well, at least that was the proximate cause of this round. Be sure and...

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Shoe(t)ing at Allawi

An astute AntiWar.com reader explains why Allawi would rather claim to have been the victim of gun-wielding assassins than an angry mob throwing tomatoes and shoes:In Arab culture its more acceptable to a man to be hit by a bullet rather than a shoe -or even worse!-by...

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The colour of honour

Why do Bush-boosting, pro-war Americans especially seem to find it impossible to imagine walking in another's shoes?  Via Jim Henley and Patrick Nielsen Hayden, you'll recognize the typically American Bushie right-winger attitude in the following Al Jazeera post:...

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Najaf mob tries to assassinate Allawi with shoes?

Who to believe? Here's Allawi's account: Iraq's former prime minister Iyad Allawi said gunmen tried to assassinate him in Shi'ite Islam's holiest shrine on Sunday, forcing him to cut short an election campaign visit pursued by an angry mob. "It appeared to be an...

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Propagandists in Pajamas?

Hey, I'm not saying Tony's necessarily completely right about this - now im not saying that Charles Johnson and Roger L. Simon are in bed with the Bush Administration, or the Instapundit. those guys are fair and balanced. any time the Republicans make horrible...

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Your Tax Dollars At Work

Via the HuffPuff: "The United States Agency for International Development is seeking applications for an Assistance Agreement from qualified sources to design and implement a social and economic stabilization program impacting ten Strategic Cities, identified by the...

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Russia and the Boomerang Effect

Nikolas Gvosdev, editor of The National Interest, takes down Reason magazine's Cathy ""there are no true libertarians in times of terrorist attacks" Young: "How easily Americans play hard and fast with the truth. History is now being rewritten so that all...

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