Men held in Michigan suspected of plan to attack Mackinac Bridge. Federal authorities helped with the investigation into a possible terror threat to the Mackinac Bridge. The FBI office in Detroit worked with local law enforcement authorities before the police arrested three men in Caro on Friday. Officers found about 1,000 pre-paid cell phones in their van. Police in Caro arrested the three Palestinian-American men after they allegedly bought 80 of the phones at a Wal-Mart store in Caro. Full...

Well, I had planned to embed the video for you to point and click, but WordPress apparently doesn't like leaving my HTML alone... So anyway, here's the link to this video. Hyperbolic? Sure. Entertaining? You bet'cha!

From the pages of the WSJ... "Which Travelers Have 'Hostile Intent'? Biometric Device May Have the AnswerAt airport security checkpoints in Knoxville, Tenn. this summer, scores of departing passengers were chosen to step behind a curtain, sit in a metallic oval booth and don headphones. With one hand inserted into a sensor that monitors physical responses, the travelers used the other hand to answer questions on a touch screen about their plans. A machine measured biometric responses -- blood...

Robert Parry helps to describe the recent US/Israeli defeat in Lebanon: "The Israeli operation was eerily reminiscent of the disastrous U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq. Like the U.S. assault, Israel relied heavily on "shock and awe" air power and committed an inadequate number of soldiers to the battle."The month-long war has failed to achieve its goals of destroying Hezbollah forces in south Lebanon or intimidating Iran and Syria. "Instead, Hezbollah guerrillas fought Israeli troops to a...

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Watch here. Speaking of which, this is great too.

Conservatives were never good. Now they're as bad as the communists.

Antiwar.com columnist and editorial director Justin Raimondo will be a guest on KABC radio on Sunday afternoon and again on Monday evening. KABC is the ABC affiliate in Los Angeles and is available for listening on the Web. It is on AM radio in Southern California at 790AM. Justin will be on the Rob Nelson show Sunday at 4:20pm Pacific time (7:20pm Eastern). Justin will debate a representative from StandWithUs.com, a Christian group supporting Israel

Check this out: http://www.newyorker.com/printables/fact/060821fa_fact Here's a quote from Powell's guy, Dick Armitage: "According to Richard Armitage, who served as Deputy Secretary of State in Bush

Crooks and liars has the video of the Daily Show's new reporter here. Killer satire. I almost laughed myself out of my chair the other night. Thanks Matt for the link.

We've tried it the War Party's way for about 5 years now, and, with the newest suicide bomb plot, at long last, the ridiculous lie that our enemies are a finite number of "Islamic fascists" who hate us for our freedom has finally finished running its pathetic course. Or has it just received a breath of new life? The governments of the US and UK are responsible for the deaths of thousands of these "extremists" (and more than a hundred thousand innocent people) so far, and at the rate they're...

A friend in the Army passed me this post from MENAFN.com, which is an event in and of itself. There was a time he and I didn't speak for over a year because he had yet to open his eyes past the blind patriotism he'd been taught. I am extremely proud of him for finally using his God given gift of critical thinking, but that's another story... I've never heard of Mike Whitney before this post or the 'Middle East North African Financial Network' (MENAFN), but he sure has the number on what's...

From The Raw Story and to be published in the NYT today: "Its report calls for standardized tests to measure student learning, along with federal monitoring of colleges' quality." "Several higher education groups have criticized it for focusing on workforce skills and employability to the exclusion of academic goals and the education of students as citizens. The National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities has particularly singled out as an intrusion on privacy the...

I think at this point we might as well let the born agains blow up the whole world.

Eugene Jarecki has stepped up and written an article for Antiwar.com called "Truman Haunts Us," which lists a few of the dissenting officers of the day - to add to the Ike quote Jose left for us the other day. "In my movie, Why We Fight, I've been criticized for allowing Gore Vidal to suggest onscreen that the bombings were intended as much to send a message of American nuclear primacy to Stalin as to compel unconditional Japanese surrender. No claim in the film has generated more controversy...