"Two hundred years ago, when the United States was a modest commercial republic, the president could take a walk down Pennsylvania Avenue

Bovard in the Boston Globe: "After the US Supreme Court's recent decision limiting military tribunals, Congress is scrambling to pass a law regarding trials for detainees at Guantanamo and elsewhere. Republicans are threatening to paint Democrats as soft on terrorism if they refuse to rubber stamp the Bush administration's existing practices, whereby special rules make it far easier to convict "enemy combatants" in tribunals than in federal courts." But, before sanctifying the tribunals,...

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Remember, Scheuer was the head analyst at the bin Laden unit from 1996-2000 "As Lebanon burns, bin Laden's words will reinforce and harden Muslim perceptions

Matt Barganier has some perspective on that for you. "Those Israeli children are no more evil than the Palestinian tots the warbloggers splash across their pages, and anyone who saw in my post support for their own reverse-Malkinism can f*ck off. What those photos

From the AP: "The House, displaying a foreign affairs solidarity lacking on issues like Iraq, voted overwhelmingly Thursday to support Israel in its confrontation with Hezbollah guerrillas.The resolution, which was passed on a 410-8 vote, also condemns enemies of the Jewish state. House Republican leader John Boehner cited Israel's "unique relationship" with the United States as a reason for his colleagues to swiftly go on record supporting Israel in the latest flare-up of violence in the...

This makes me sick. Where do we live now? Friggin' North Korea, Myanmar...? MORGAN CITY, La.

Re: Brutal Mistakes: Thank you for the insight, Jim. Remember too what effect the April 1996 Qana massacre had on one Osama bin Laden, who made particular mention of the Qana Massacre in his first "Fatwa" against the U.S. in August 1996. As intelligence reporter James Bamford explained to me in April of 2004, "[Bin Laden] freqently mentioned Qana during those times. It was a very inflaming incident in terms of his own development of his hatred for the United States, and as well for other...

Ever notice that when the Israeli government murders someone, they call them a "militant"? Now, Hamas suicide bombers and riflemen are "terrorists," but what exactly is a "militant"? It seems that if those they killed were terrorists, they would say so. I'm sticking with the definition "innocent bystander" until someone can show me different.

Ha! It's about stem cells!! Hahahahaha!

Our Dangerous Times: "The same day the story hit the street, Andrew McCarthy whined on National Review Online:

"The greatest thing to come out of [invading Iraq] for the world economy ... would be $20 a barrel for oil." Rupert Murdoch, chairman of News Corporation (which owns Fox News), February 2003 "Oil Touches Record $78 on Mideast Conflict." Headline on www.foxnews.com, July 14, 2006 "The administration's top budget official estimated today that the cost of a war with Iraq could be in the range of $50 billion to $60 billion," saying that "earlier estimates of $100 billion to $200 billion in Iraq...

FBI wanted Padilla's help, not arrest "'I didn't want to arrest him,' said Special Agent Russell Fincher said. 'I needed his cooperation.' ... "He said the agency had hoped Padilla could provide information about an al-Qaida plot to detonate a radioactive device, or so-called 'dirty bomb' on U.S. soil, and needed an insider, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported." And then when he refused, they accused him of plotting that very thing and turned him over to the military so he could not...

Thanks, Matt. Adorable, indeed.

Israeli Ground Troops Invade Lebanon Catastrophe Looms in Lebanon US to Israel: One More Week to Blast Hezbollah Rice Will Go to Mideast When 'Appropriate' Israeli PM Says Iran Behind Soldiers' Abduction Israel Capable of Air Strike on Iran Experts Challenge Bush Line on Iran's Influence Neocons Break With Bush on Foreign Policy UN: 14,338 Iraqi Civilians Killed in 6 Months, 3,149 in June Civil War Spreads Across Iraq as Bomb Kills 59 Turkey Signals It's Prepared to Invade Iraq Attacks Kill...