A sure sign the convention is going well- the petulance and bile from the left: Now Bush is introducing Laura via satellite — he’s standing in front of a fucking softball game. A softball game. The President has traveled to a fucking late-night sandlot to show his reg’lar guy credentials and note that he too …
The Most Honest Statement To Date
Ezra inadvertantly utters the most truthful aspect of the democratic opposition to force realignment: The whole kerfluffle (hah! Jesse owes me 5 bucks) over Bush’s plan to reduce troop levels in Europe and Asia is tough. On the one hand, I’m all for diminishing outdated military commitments. We do not need to defend Germany any …
Another One Down
Score one for the good guys: Pakistan has arrested a senior al Qaeda figure with a bounty of up to $25 million on his head, Interior Minister Makhdoom Faisal Saleh Hayat told CNN television Thursday. He said the suspect had been captured during a raid in central Pakistan a few days ago. He did not …
The Sovereign State of Iraq
From Baghdad: The U.S.-led coalition transferred sovereignty to an interim Iraqi government Monday, speeding up the move by two days in an apparent bid to surprise insurgents who may have tried to sabotage the step toward self rule. Legal documents handing over sovereignty were handed over by U.S. governor L. Paul Bremer to interim Prime …
Shifting Goalposts
It’s a Pandagon twofer today! Pandagon, 22 December 2003– This, ladies and gentlemen, is the very heart of the matter. There is no evidence that Saddam was involved in September 11th. There is, however, evidence of him being a bad guy. And so supporters of the Iraqi war are never going to honestly disavow the …
Intolerable Behavior
I spent the whole day formatting my computer- reinstalling everything, hunting down all the drivers, transferring from back-up to the computer- in short, rebuilding the software side from scratch. We all know how pleasant that is and what kind of mood I am in. Then, I come here, and I find some jackass has taken …
Captions R Us
What if my liberal blogroll wrote the captions for newspapers: Long lines of liberals wait up to five hours to view the casket of the man who killed Conservatism– Matt Yglesias After standing line for hours, onlookers are allowed three minutes to jeer at the corpse of the Least Popular President of the Modern Era– …