We have too many veterans. Mainly because we have had too many wars and interventions. On this Veterans Day let us not remember those in the military who "defend our freedoms" by invading other countries. Instead, let us never forget that it began as Armistice Day,...
Chalabi will visit wounded U.S. soldiers at Walter Reed Army Hospital. Is there no limit to the absurdities visited upon us? Senator Dick Durbin came out today for the FBI picking up this scamster for questioning: after all, we raidedhis headquarters last year looking...
UPDATE: Judy, Judy, Judy, looking for hits already! Here's Judy Miller's "Farewell Letter" and embedded within it is a link to her website, all stocked and ready to go with rebuttals to everyone who's been mean to her lately. Judith Miller retires from New...
From TalkLeft: Breaking: Senator Lindsay Graham is introducing an Amendment to the defense appropriations bill pending in the Senate (S. 1092) that would strip those designated by the Administration as enemy combatants of the ability to seek habeas review in federal...
By a strong 60-40 margin San Francisco voters approved Proposition I, which bans military recruiters from public schools. The measure also asks the city government to consider funding scholarships for education and training that could provide an alternative to...
They're not much exercised about prewar lies, but exposing US gulags – well, they're not having any of that:Congress's top Republican leaders yesterday demanded an immediate joint House and Senate investigation into the disclosure of classified information to The...
Writing in 1968, Will Durant, in his The Lessons of History, says that "in the last 3,421 years of recorded history only 268 have seen no war." And then this gem: "When the states of Europe freed themselves from papal overlordship and protection, each state encouraged...
Josh Marshall posts:Someone was willing to say it: Chalabi deserves a subpoena, not photo-ops with administration bigwigs. See Rep. Miller's (D-CA) speech on the floor of the House just yesterday.Yeah, well, I said it first.
An interesting torture story developing today. From publius:According to Drudge (always a shaky way to start), Frist and Hastert are going to announce an investigation not into our mini-gulag in Eastern Europe, but into the leak of the black sites to the Post. This is...
Michael Ledeen is whining about reports that supposedly accuse him of forging the fake Niger documents. There's just one problem, though: no one that I have read on the subject is making any such accusation. The La Repubblica series by Carlo Bonini and Giuseppe...
