Bad Moon Rising

National Review's Rod Dreher on Rep. John Murtha's change of heart:Don't know how many of you caught Rep. John Murtha's very angry, very moving speech just now in which he called on the White House to institute an immediate withdrawal of US troops from Iraq. CNN...

In Defense of Lying

Jonah Goldberg gets off to a bold start at the LA Times:What if Bush did lie, big time? What, exactly, would that mean? If you listen to Bush's critics, serious and moonbat alike, the answer is obvious: He'd be a criminal warmonger, a failed president and -- most...

Their Saddam, and Ours

Laura Rozen lays into Dick Cheney, and it isn't pretty: "The guy supports torture. He hides out in bunkers. He conspires with big oil to deceive the Congress. His chief of staff has been indicted for covering up that office's role in outing a CIA officer to the media...

Return of the Rational Republicans

Senator Chuck Hagel (R-Nebraska), in a November 15 speech to the Council on Foreign Relations, in Washington, D.C. "The Iraq war should not be debated in the United States on a partisan political platform. This debases our country, trivializes the seriousness of war...

Oh, Puh-leeeeeeeze, Arianna!

This headline has got to be the stupidest ever: "Bush, Schwarzenegger Flee to World's Biggest Red State"! So who is ridiculous enough to be red-baiting (albeit semi-humorously) the nation's two top Republicans? Who else but Arianna Huffington? She's plastered it in...

Willis offers cash for bin Laden

Hollywood actor Bruce Willis, expressing far more displeasure with the Bush administration's prosecution of the "War on Terror" than he cares to admit, has stepped up to the plate and offered a million dollars for information leading to the capture of al Qaeda leaders...

The New Leninism: The Theory & Practice of Bushevism

The new Evil Empire spreads its tentacles over the world: "...Fearful of future terrorist attacks and frustrated by the slow progress of intelligence-gathering from prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Pentagon officials turned to the closest thing on their organizational...

Warbloggers: suckers for the “MSM”

Arthur Silber on the warblogger pile-on to the scurrilous attack on Jimmy Massey's credibility by St. Louis Post Dispatch reporter Ron "Embedded" Harris. (and welcome back Arthur, you were missed.) From the AWC blog archives, here's Scott Horton on his interview with...

War: A Crime against Civilization

We have too many veterans. Mainly because we have had too many wars and interventions. On this Veterans Day let us not remember those in the military who "defend our freedoms" by invading other countries. Instead, let us never forget that it began as Armistice Day,...

Chalabi’s Latest Publicity Stunt: A Moral Obscenity

Chalabi will visit wounded U.S. soldiers at Walter Reed Army Hospital. Is there no limit to the absurdities visited upon us? Senator Dick Durbin came out today for the FBI picking up this scamster for questioning: after all, we raidedhis headquarters last year looking...