The lesson of Katrina is "how do you deal with the breakdown of law and order?"

She is such a jerk.

Like I said twice Friday, this tunnel plot threat is as fake as the rest of them. I'm sure Larisa won't mind if I steal her whole article: One former intelligence field officer says, and two other CIA officials confirm, that the alleged plot by Muslim extremists to bomb the Holland Tunnel in New York City was nothing more than chatter by unaffiliated individuals with no financing or training in an open forum already monitored extensively by the United States Government, RAW STORY has learned.

For example:

Salon Bush on Osama: Sometimes, it's hard to keep up. Sept. 17, 2001: George W. Bush is asked if he wants Osama bin Laden dead. "I want justice," he says. "There's an old poster out west, as I recall, that said, 'Wanted: Dead or Alive.'" March 13, 2002: At a press conference, Bush says that he doesn't know if bin Laden is dead or alive. "You know, I just don't spend that much time on him. . . . And I wouldn't necessarily say he's at the center of any command structure. And, again, I don't know...

Courtesy of Jacob Hornberger "Time

Mercury News: "largely aspirational" Independent: Had the plotters ever enacted the plan, they would have been most unlikely to succeed because the river is lower than Manhattan. ... But an American counterterrorism official said that investigators had found no evidence that the Holland tunnel was part of the plot. Mr Mershon said the group specifically mentioned only the PATH tube tunnels beneath the Hudson. London Times: FBI officials said that the plot had been in its planning stages. It...

What really happened at the Libertarian Party convention? by Brian Doherty "What happened was: The Libertarian Party's platform, which a week ago had 61 planks, now has only 15. "The LP members in convention assembled have always had the power, via paper vote, to choose to retain or delete any platform plank, outside the normal floor debate. Prior to this convention, that power had never been used once. This time it was used to get rid of almost everything. (Some of the planks still present...

"The typical American is (ideologically) sick, and the disease is nationalism. The illness is virulent, and it may prove to be terminal. (Indeed, for all too many people, here and abroad, it has proved to be terminal already.)"

9 Killed as US troops fight Sadr's Mahdi Army in Baghdad. 15 Killed in 'Tit for tat' car bombings betwenn Iraqi Sunni and Shia. Yet another fake terrorist plot. Empire Weakens America Former US soldier pleads not guilty to rape, murder of Iraqis

Earlier in the day, the FBI admitted that two people working for the agency planted the idea of blowing up government buildings, including and FBI office in Miami, with members of an alleged South Florida terror group known as the Liberty City 7. The testimony came during efforts by attorneys for the alleged terrorists to get their clients released from custody until their trial on terrorism charges. Update: Jim Bovard: "This is the same type of scam that occurred routinely during the FBI...

My new LRC article is on libertarian strategy and the folly of unnecessary compromise in principle. I wrote it before I knew anything about the Portland debacle. I might comment on the latter in more detail, when I have the time.

The following is by Matt Barganier, Editor, Antiwar.com Iraqi journalist Alaa Hassan, who reported for the international news agency IPS (Inter Press Service) and whose work often appeared on Antiwar.com, was shot and killed in Baghdad.Hassan was killed on June 28 by armed men as he drove to work. It appears he was not targeted, but was just in the wrong place at the wrong time, part of the senseless violence engulfing Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003.Hassan was one of IPS

by William Norman Grigg (Sorry Birchers, I'm stealing this whole article) Even as its talk radio auxiliaries accuse the New York Times and other media outlets of

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