After a whiny Hugh Hewitt quotation about Haditha coverage in the Emm Ess Emm – which, by the way, lost two members in Iraq on Monday, as the warbloggers slathered on suntan lotion – Glenn Reynolds shares a rather disturbing letter from a reader. Read the whole...
Kids These Days
It's always amusing to watch the authoritarian Right respond to evidence of U.S. military atrocities. The same people who scream "Guilty!" and erect the gallows every time a sensational crime makes it into the Fox News rotation suddenly get all Phil Donahue on us when...
Weekend Reading
Now that you have some time to yourself, this Memorial Day weekend, and can while away the hours reading, a few blog recommendations: Bill Kauffman is a writer who defies categorization, which is only appropriate because people who defy categorization happens to be...
Let Freedom Ring
Bush to West Point graduates: "This is only the beginning," Bush said. "The message has spread from Damascus to Tehran that the future belongs to freedom, and we will not rest until the promise of liberty reaches every people in every nation." Today in Iraq: An Iraqi...
Scary Reunion
The Bush administration is moving aggressively from a policy aimed at neutralizing Iran's alleged nuclear ambitions to one of regime change, according to a fascinating piece by the indispensable Laura Rozen, whose blog, "War and Piece," is one of my faves. David...
Long-Tailed Cats in a Room Full of Rockers
From Reuters: A five-hour security scare at the U.S. House of Representatives Rayburn office building on Friday was likely triggered by noise made by construction workers, police said. "The cause of the loud sound appears to have come from construction workers in the...
It’s Funny Because It’s True, Right?
I'm not sure I've ever heard a more appropriate allegory of the Israel lobby's tactics than this. Thank you, Jonah.
All in a Day’s Work
When our public servants aren't slaughtering Iraqi civilians, they're telling Gitmo detainees not to trust their Jewish lawyers. (Note how in the first link, a retired general says public reaction to the Haditha investigations "will be worse than Abu Ghraib –...
“Anything They Want To Know”
Brian Ross at ABC News says that guilty-pleaders Rep. "Duke" Cunningham and Jack Abramoff have been singing like Lemmy about the corruption of other Republican friends of theirs - including the number one recipient of Abramoff money, the Speaker of the House of...
Cleansed; Cleaned Out
From Amman, Jordan, Iraqis hope their stories of dispossession will reach "honest American people" while in North Freedom, Wisconsin, a father wonders if there are any.


