It seems the looming confirmation hearings of Alberto "Torture is OK" Gonzales may be causing some behind the scenes turmoil, as evidenced by this article by NY Times international editor Andrew Rosenthal today, coupled with a New and Improved CYA Torture Memo from...
The end of the (tax) year is just a week away. Did you know that donations to Antiwar.com are tax-deductible? As a division of the 501(C)3 Randolph Bourne Institute, Americans may deduct the full amount of their yearly donations to Antiwar.com from their federal and...
(see 10 for introduction) 0 next A real road map for Middle East peace by John Nichols, December 30, 2004 Daily Yomiuri columnist John Jerney reporting, I'm the only one who's been paying close enough attention to bring this story to a close. It turns out that John...
After reading my post yesterday quoting Lt. Col. Paul Hastings as saying, "The terrorists are growing more desperate in their attempts to derail the elections and they're trying to put it all on the line and give it all they can," the author of the blog Hairy Fish...
Something Eli said the other day has been bugging me when I read news articles about the Iraqi resistance, because I never really noticed it before.With MacWorld approaching, I'm reminded of the famous Steve Jobs Reality Distortion Field. But Jobs has got nothing on...
Mercy Corps is a reputable aid agency that has swiftly begun providing assistance to Tsunami-damaged areas in Asia, and accepts online donations (I just donated and they acknowledged immediately and it was painless). Here is some info on what they are doing now, from...
Ralph Raico writes:On Monday, the indefatigable, indispensable Justin Raimondo gave us a column titled, The Fallacy of 39: Why is every petty tyrant dubbed the new Hitler? That is a very good question. Here is a possible answer. For many millions of Americans, the...
How can anyone be unmoved by the images of devastation? With the billions of dollars spent on deliberate destruction (wars), we should be motivated to counter with our individual help to the victims of this natural disaster. I have been most impressed with the work of...
(see 10 for introduction) 0.5 next Count the columns, John Nichols insists, but the result has been certified--that's 109 down, one to go and he'll have made it through the year without using the word "Israel." An earlier countdown entry contained a gratuitous...
Various ideas for dealing with Sunni abstinence from the elections slated to be held in Iraq have been floated recently from everyone from the USG to the current Iraqi authorities and Osama bin Laden. The problem seems to flow from the fact that the Iraqi vote,...
