On George W. Bush's National Guard documents, scroll down to page 17, and you'll find something askew that the big boys refuse to touch. What I want to know is: has our commander-in-chief had his cholera shots???? During the summer of '68, when he was shooting up...
I understand the sentiment and the political message behind demonstrations like this, but every time I see a news account about Americans mourning the "grim milestone" of over a thousand dead in the Iraq War-of-Choice, I can't help but resent the fact that no...
Oh, this is just wonderful. Via Abu Aardvark, we read: Two intense military insurgencies in Iraq, with the Sunnis and Shia, not enough for you? Do you agree that everyone wants to fight in Fallujah, but only real men want to go to Kirkuk? Do you think that if a spot...
Max Borders, program director at the Institute for Humane Studies, has penned one of the most bizarre (and condescending) arguments for liberventionism I have ever seen. Jeffrey Tucker at the Mises Institute has put up a lengthy posthumous rebuttal from IHS founder...
Speaking of Al Qaeda, Al Jazeera is playing a new Ayman Al-Zawahri video, in which he taunts the US:Al-Qaida number two Ayman al-Zawahri has forecast a US "defeat" in Iraq and Afghanistan, in a videotape aired on Aljazeera television. "The American defeat in Iraq and...
In addition to Ed Kihane's Plea for the Abducted Iraqi and Italian Bridges to Baghdad aid workers, Voices in the Wilderness has posted a Bridges to Baghdad collection which includes a link to freeourfriends.blogspot which has a petition to sign and a statement of...
The attention paid to President Bush's recent interview on the Today Show focused on his comments that the war on terror could not be won. In that same interview he made another revealing comment: President Bush: I guess because I made some hard decisions. And we've...
Lawrence of Cyberia writes: In case you're not sure what you're looking at in the first photograph, the white ribbon around the residential center of Qalqilya is Israel's Wall. The brown areas to the north and south of the town, and outside the wall, are where...
The Forward of August 27 has an interesting pairing of op-ed pieces. In the first, the Jewish weekly expresses its dismay re the Bush administration's approval of a new Israel settlement construction project. The approval comes at a time when Israel's attorney general...
As the death total in Iraq inches towards 1000, the Department of Defense press corps has started to work on weekends. DoD press releases have almost always been sent out on weekdays, presumably when the government is at "work." This weekend however, the DoD released...
