Kevin Drum links to a Tacitus posting that portrays a more optimistic scenario in Iraq (Drum’s post is here, the Tacitus post is here), and then states the following: Generally speaking, I think hawks are off base when they complain that the media present an overly bleak picture of how things are going in Iraq. …
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Momma, Don’t Let your Babies Grow Up To Be Lefties
You can file this one under “Cry Me A River:” An Evergreen State College student was injured slightly Monday while demonstrating with Palestinians in the West Bank, according to news reports and his mother. Sam Tsohonis, 26, is two weeks into a two-month stay as an activist, hoping to work with Palestinian artists to create …
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This Is Infuriating
Sometimes I read the newspaper and I wonder if someone in the Bush administration is a Terry McAulife plant doing the Democrat’s bidding: When 21 freed American P.O.W.’s returned home from the Persian Gulf war in March 1991, Dick Cheney, then secretary of defense, welcomed them at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. “Every man and …
A Good Move
This is an executive order I can support wholeheartedly: President Bush signed an executive order Tuesday that bans the import of rough diamonds used to finance civil wars in Africa. The order, which goes into effect Wednesday, brings the United States — the world’s largest diamond importer — into compliance with an international agreement prohibiting …
Futures Markets
If you have clicked all the links I have provided and still don’t understand why a futures market would have been a good thing, look at the Dean phenomenon. For months now, people in the blogosphere have been talking about Dean- we pay attention to politics, we read more than your average bear, and we …
Oh No- Not a Memo!
I wonder if the DC politicians are going to have another collective aneurysm when they find out that a memo has been released predicting future terrorist activities: Terrorists operating in teams of five may be plotting suicide missions to hijack commercial airliners on the East Coast, Europe or Australia this summer, possibly using “common items …
Surprising Springer
Here is the line of the day about Jerry Springer, who is thinking about running for the Ohio Senate seat: Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., worked on Springer’s 1977 campaign for Cincinnati mayor and his 1982 race for Ohio governor. She told the Seattle Post-Intelligencer this month that people would be surprised by Springer’s intellect. “There’s …