I have been skeptical about the likelihood of a military draft in the near future, but I am starting to think it is inevitable. In the Washington Monthly, Phillip Carter and Paul Glastris give a very persuasive case for the draft, given a commitment to an...
Enemy Combatants, Neocons and Oilmen, and the Sorrows of Empire
Saturday on the Weekend Interview Show, civil rights attorney Elaine Cassel will return to discuss the legal status of Ahmed Omar Abu Ali and Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri, Greg Palast will be back to discuss his Harper's piece about the conflict between the oilmen and...
‘Discovering the Network’
The little libelers over at "Discover the network" – David Horowitz’s hilariously inept datatbase of subversion – are demanding that I publish my "anti-Al Qaeda bona fides" – at least that’s how one Jacob Laksin puts it. Obviously unacquainted with...
“Jeff Gannon” – Bulldog was a fake Marine
"I enlisted in the military more as a challenge to myself than anything, but got so much more than I ever expected. I learned the importance of self-discipline and self-reliance."......J.D. Guckert, TheConservativeGuy Fake Marine.
A big fish story from Iraq
If "one the most hopeful signs we've gotten yet from Iraq" turns out to be a hoax, what does that say about the entire project?
Conservatives Should Shun Horowitz
I love reading David Horowitz's Frontpage website, I have to confess, in part because it confirms my very low opinion of the War Party: I mean, where else could someone be so utterly clueless as to name his own blog "Moonbat Central"? Does Horowitz really mean to...
A Peek Inside the Mind of a Lunatic
Stephen Schwartz sends a very telling assessment of "who's taken seriously":BTW, when I knocked Hunter Thompson I got 65 nasty emails. When I blasted Cat Stevens I got 50 nasty emails. When I got into this ridiculous exchange with you goofs over links etc. I got seven...
Stephen Schwartz Lawsuit Watch Week 119
With apologies to Slate, I now inaugurate Antiwar.com's Stephen Schwartz Lawsuit Watch. As you probably already know, Schwartz threatened to sue us last week for hyperlinking to a photograph of him on The Atlantic Web site. After being laughed out of town for that by...
Fact-Free Frontpagemag
In today's centersmear at Frontpagemag, a Steven Plaut writes:In a New York Times editorial, [Juan] Cole said that he saw the elections in Syria as a model for other Arab countries to follow: “The last thing the Arab people need is a red herring like ‘free and open...
Uh, Stephen, if You Insist…
... on bombarding someone with spam, why not try Matt Welch, who issued this haymaker about you and your ilk a few weeks back:God, if there's something I'm tired of, it's former Trotskyites, or Castro-huggers, or Weathermen-sympathizers, lecturing me or anyone else...


