"I just saw the spokesman for the Council on American Islamic Relations on CNN saying that the Miami cult members just arrested are not Muslims. I'd say that is a fair statement. For one thing, they are vegetarians!"It seems pretty obvious that they are just a local African-American cult which mixed Judaism, Christianity and (a little bit of) Islam. It seems to be a of vague offshoot of the Moors group founded by Dwight York. I heard on CNN that one of them talked of being Moors. And Batiste,...

by Anthony Gregory: "World War II is seen by most as the most just war, the war against Hitler and fascism, the war for the future of humankind, the war of the Greatest Generation. It is the glory of war embodied. "Vietnam is perceived as the big failure, the clearest example of military overstretch, the quagmire against which all other misguided foreign adventures are to be measured. One is war at its most righteous; the other is war at its most foolish. "But the Korean War is simply...

I'm looking for a good reason to think that the Israeli state deserves American protection. Instead, all I can find is reasons to think that the Kadima Party is run by medieval barbarians: In regards to the murder by the Israeli government of three little children in Gaza, Prime Minister Olmert said last night: "I am deeply sorry for the residents of Gaza, but the lives, security and well-being of the residents of Sderot [the Israeli border town which has borne the brunt of Qassam attacks] is...

And they may have helped, according to the Independent. Congratulations Gemans, you're becoming the Nazis again! And that is good news, because we need another Good War around here.

To discuss the Fed's monitoring of your bank account. By the way, if you haven't read Attention Deficit Democracy yet, you need to concentrate. It's Bovard's masterpiece. Update: Bovard: 1; Liberty hating foreigner: 0. Update II: Jim will be on Fox News at 9:30 EDT

The Feds have announced that they have arrested some "terrorists" in Miami. But after so many complete farces posing as terrorism investigations, how am I supposed to believe one thing these guys say. Especially when they admit up front that they had an informant on the inside all along? Update: I saw the supposed ringleader friend on the Anderson Cooper rerun last night. He said that his buddy had been approached by people offering him all the supplies and that he had refused to accept...

William Perry calls for violence from the pages of Thursday's Washington Post: "Should the United States allow a country openly hostile to it and armed with nuclear weapons to perfect an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of delivering nuclear weapons to U.S. soil? We believe not. The Bush administration has unwisely ballyhooed the doctrine of "preemption," which all previous presidents have sustained as an option rather than a dogma. It has applied the doctrine to Iraq, where the...

NBC: "A new, American-made PSA aimed at discouraging these deadly attacks is currently in production. The ad is slated to air as a 60-second spot on Iraqi television this summer. ... Onlookers were later asked to stand back as the pyrotechnic crew blew up a poor old Yugo coupe and stunt men and women, padded under their Arab garb, were thrust into the air with ropes and pulleys to simulate the impact of a bomb exploding. "We all watch it on the evening news," says 900 Frames partner Drew...

So Fox News is trumpeting claims by Rick Santorum and Peter Hoekstra that it is somehow a big deal that US troops have found 500 sarin and mustard gas shells in Iraq... that were buried in the 1980's. How sad for the Republicans that they have been reduced to this. The Post: "Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-Mich.), chairman of the House intelligence committee, and Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) told reporters yesterday that weapons of mass destruction had in fact been found in Iraq, despite acknowledgments...

Here. Signed by such War Party luminaries as William Bennett, Frank Gaffney, Newt Gingrich, David Horowitz, Michael Ledeen, Victor Davis Hansen, and Daniel Pipes. The libertarians at the Independent Institute and 500 PhDs they've rounded up have put the neocons to shame. Hat Tip: Boss Man (who wonders about the timing of the War Party's letter).

Shauna Kaye is taking the day off, so I will be joined by the lovely Angela Keaton to discuss the "Axis of Evil," and the permanent crisis here at home. 5-7 PM Central, 95.9 and 92.7 FM in Austin, KAOS959.com to stream live on the net. Update: Listen live because the recording jammer is down.

The Voice of America reports: The Defense Department says in the absence of any statement by the North Korean government it will not be possible to know whether a widely expected missile launch is a test or an attack.Spokesman Bryan Whitman would not confirm reports that North Korea is preparing to launch a long-range missile, saying he could not discuss intelligence matters. But he says if there is a launch without any advance notice from the government in Pyongyang, there will be no basis on...

Sorry for not writing anything lately, I've been working really hard on a radio thing and have been trying to catch up on a few books. I've started a review of Armed Madhouse by Greg Palast for Antiwar.com. It should be ready in a day or three I hope.

Today is the 141st anniversary of the emancipation of Galveston's privately "owned" slaves: From Wikipedia: "Though the Emancipation Proclamation had taken effect on January 1, 1863, it had little immediate effect on most slaves' day-to-day lives, particularly in Texas, which was almost entirely under Confederate control. Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, the day Union General Gordon Granger and 2,000 federal troops arrived on Galveston Island to take possession of the state and enforce...