Archive for April, 2006
So That’s Why The Free-Staters Picked New Hampshire…
NH residents say hell no to the Real ID. Check out the video here.
Stephen Colbert Hosts Dinner Thingy – Makes Fool of Bush
Who apparently had his feelings hurt. Crooks and Liars has the video.
Let’s See Them Enforce It
Charlie Savage at the Boston Globe says this ain’t far from dictatorship as Bush chooses which laws to enforce and which to ignore (more than 750 so far). It seems to me that the president does have the authority to refuse to enforce laws he believes are unconstitutional. Which of us wouldn’t pardon all the [...]
Argue the Point
My friend Jeff Frazee, former staffer to Congressman Ron Paul and graduate student at Texas A&M, has written a great op-ed piece in defense of the right of academic types like John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt to write articles critical of American foreign policy toward Israel without being called a couple of Nazis. I tend [...]
New Yorkers
Must have forgotton September 11th.
Bill Kristol on Colbert Nation
“You’re a member of the Project for the New American Century.” “Yes.” “How’s that project going?” Crooks and Liars has the video.
2,401
American Dead in Iraq. No one knows how many Iraqis. Did anyone ever answer Cindy’s question?
Social Psycology Experiment – Your Life in the Balance
Two weeks ago I wrote up a little diddy called “Indict the Department of Justice” about the criminal nature of every single one of America’s post-9/11 terrorism cases, and ending with the question of whether the State could get a conviction of the father and son in Lodi, California (later updated, answer “Yes” for the [...]
Total Information Awareness Lives On
But you knew that right? Here’s Technology Review, the National Journal, D Now!, and this is pretty good too. I wonder if this blog entry is going in my permanent record…
Dead Soldier Posts Farewell Note on MySpace
Before committing suicide. Before signing off his webpage on MySpace.com Monday, Army Pvt. Dylan Meyer typed a farewell note to the world.”Jesus, I don’t know if any of you have heard what has happened to me yet, but I just want to remind you not to be sad. Laugh, that’s what lifes about,” Meyer wrote. [...]
Depose and Conquer
Check out this NYT review of the new book Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change From Hawaii to Iraq by Stephen Kinzer. “What’s most depressing about Kinzer’s book, however, is not the drastic clash it describes between professed American morality and actual American behavior. For, after all, the historical record of other democratic imperial powers, [...]
US Should Butt Out of China-Taiwan Conflict
Says the great Alan Bock in his review of Ted Galen Carpenter’s new book America’s Coming War With China. Wow, did you guys realize that, like Israel, Taiwan is not a state in the Union? That makes them none of our government’s business.
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