Let me follow up on a point from my Monday Thread below: what exactly does it mean if al Qaeda decides that it doesn’t need the Republicans anymore? What is this phase two that Kevin Drum mentioned? Recall that al Qaeda’s overall mission statement doesn’t specifically involve killing Americans. Like most terrorist groups Bin Laden …
Archives for October 2006
Monday Thread
My time is limited today, but these deserve a wider airing: * The Army only recorded the serial numbers of just over 12,000 out of 500,000 weapons delivered to the Iraqi departments of Interior and Defense. No paper trail, nada. That means that any Iraqi who turns around and sells US heavy weapons to his …
Why Do Republicans Hate the Marine Corps?
Since the Marine Corps is recommending that officers read Jim Webb’s book, and Red State thinks it is nothing but filth and perversion and disgusting, I think what we all need to know is: “Why do Republicans and Red State hate the Marine Corps?”
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The Say Anything Party
Say Anything was a cute, innocent 80’s movie about teenage angst and romance. The Say Anything party came to power in the 80’s and 90’s and has been slowly rotting from the top down ever since. Today’s latest installment from Red State: Attention Virginia. Sure, John Mark Karr’s Jim Webb’s supporters can hide behind the …
RIP, Red Auerbach
He had a good run: Red Auerbach, who built the Boston Celtics into one of the greatest dynasties in sports, presiding over 16 National Basketball Association championship teams as a coach, general manager and club president, died yesterday in the Washington area. He was 89. His death was announced by the Celtics. The cause was …
The Solution to Corporate Crime
Is apparently to make it impossible to prosecute: Frustrated with laws and regulations that have made companies and accounting firms more open to lawsuits from investors and the government, corporate America — with the encouragement of the Bush administration — is preparing to fight back. Now that corruption cases like Enron and WorldCom are falling …
Swan Song
The liberal secular scientists and their friends in the media are at it again: For decades, the arrival of the first V-shaped flights of Bewick’s swans in Britain’s wetlands after a 2,000-mile journey from Siberia heralded the arrival of winter. This year, a dramatic decline in numbers of the distinctive yellow-billed swans skidding into their …