Piling on the Jumblatteers

Yet another crazed Jumblatt quoter pops up and is efficiently dispatched by lenin. One of the Harry's Place commenters appeals for mercy for the Jumblatteers, "Oh, leave HP alone! Can't you see they're hanging to reality by their finger-nails? :)"

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FBI abandons secrecy claims against Edmonds

Sibel Edmonds is about to make life very unpleasant for the FBI; The Department of Justice has abandoned its claim that allegations made by a fired FBI translator are secret, paving the way for a court case that will air embarrassing allegations about incompetence,...

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Let’s pick a fight with Russia

Putin humiliated next to Bush "It could be that he kept his cool Thursday because he couldn't quite believe what was happening to him." Robin Shepherd, Washington Times: "It all happened following the end of bilateral talks when a televised press conference turned...

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Jumblattapalooza

Arthur Chrenkoff says that he and his neocon buddies don't consider Walid Jumblatt an authority on anything. Well, Michael Young sure does, as he has now highlighted Jumblatt's testimony in two essays (here's the first) affirming the efficacy of the Bush Doctrine in...

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Neocons forcing arms race with China

Conn Hallinan, of Foreign Policy in Focus, reports that the militant neoconservative wing of the Bush administration is pushing an extremely aggressive policy toward China. Despite the fact that; ... while China is modernizing its military, it is 20 years behind the...

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Military Recruiters Have Unrivaled Access to Schools

Michael Berg reports: Today, military recruiters have unprecedented access to public schools. The little-known Section 9528 of the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 grants the Pentagon access to directories of all public high schools (supplying them with...

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Jumblatt Denial

Arthur Chrenkoff semi-responds to my post on Walid Jumblatt. I say "semi" because he curiously excises the Jim Henley passage at the end that ties it all together:Simply start saying things useful to the Bush White House and you too can take on gravitas with Gannonite...

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Recent Letters, Feb 24

In Backtalk: Emile Meylan describes visiting his daughter Mariela at the Walter Reed Medical Center. R.T. Carpenter points out that the last Civil War widow/ pensioner died just last year. The hundreds of billions budgeted for today's wars are just the down payment....

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Don’t Neocons Read MEMRI?

As a follow-up to Justin's great myth-busting post on new neocon pinup Walid "Oil & Jews" Jumblatt, here's a partial list of the great sages (besides Michael Young, who was Jumblatt when Jumblatt wasn't cool) who now consider him an authority:Instapundit (of course)...

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Liberated Democratic Iraq

Ali, the "Free Iraqi" has written an interesting post about how the New Iraqi Democracy is working out. Apparently his comment was inspired by 4,000 Sadrist militiamen marching in the streets of Basra in a show of power today.I say no to any reconciliation with...

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