Riverbend is blogging about the draft Iraqi constitutions.
Rockwell and Prather
Saturday on the Weekend Interview Show (6-8 pm eastern), I'll be talking with Lew Rockwell from the Mises Intitute about economics, Katrina and the war. In the second hour, I'll be talking again with Antiwar.com's own Gordon Prather about Iran and North Korea. Update:...
“We took this convention center down”
Since some of the sludge has subsided in New Orleans and some survivor stories have begun to trickle in, it's possible to find a new perspective in some of the statements made during the worst of the disaster the government made of the rescue effort. I didn't see this...
Rabid Neocon Sees Own Shadow, Cries Foul
An interesting nugget from an otherwise boring festival of self-pity:The moment you utter one positive word about the Palestinians or a negative word about Israeli policies, you are branded a Jew-hater, an Anti-Semite, and a Hitlerite-Nazi.Why yes, Michael Calderon,...
George and Jane no-show?
In June, John Conyers' mock impeachment hearing "took an awkward turn when witness Ray McGovern, a former intelligence analyst, declared that the United States went to war in Iraq for oil, Israel and military bases craved by administration 'neocons' so 'the United...
Most vacuous conversation ever
Via Alex at Martini Republic, Condoleeza Rice and Bill O'Reilly:O’Reilly: The truth of the matter is our correspondents at Fox News can’t go out for a cup of coffee in Baghdad. Rice: Bill, that’s tough. It’s tough. But what — would they have wanted to have gone out...
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Operation Enduring Boredom
Over at In These Times, Christopher Hayes has an amusing postmortem of last Sunday's Freedom Walk:When the Pentagon announced it would be staging a march on September 11, 2005, to commemorate the victims of 9/11 and show support for the troops, it was hard not to...
Galloway versus Hitchens
Galloway the Great versus Christopher "Poppinjay" Hitchens: moderated by Amy Goodman, whose "Democracy Now" has the only video and audio links that I can access. Check it out. UPDATE: Apparently, the debate is being delayed because they're running everyone in the...
No de Tocqueville
I'm such a cynic that few things can make me really angry anymore, but reading Bernard Henri-Levy's "thoughts" about Francis Fukuyama was one of them. Nonetheless, I thank Mike for posting this; it would have otherwise slipped by me. Fukuyama is a consummate statist,...
