The London Times says so, and quotes some jerk from WINEP to that effect as well. "America is going to have to learn to live with a nuclear Iran, US intelligence analysts have concluded at a secret meeting near Washington. ... "Bombing Iran

There's a browser called Flock, and it's one hell of a good idea. It makes review and comment on new articles easier than I've ever seen. It combines Firefox's web browsing with an expanded RSS reader and a blogging tool. You have the ability to quickly write and publish a piece on whatever you're reading. There's also a "web snippets" feature, anchored in the bottom right corner, that allows for copy-pasting photos and text from the article(s) for quick use in the blog post. Flock is built...

AKA Firefox 2. It's still unstable, but they're up to RC1, so it's getting there. There are a lot of new features, including: * A new theme that updates Firefox

USA Today: Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, who is defending President Bush's anti-terrorism tactics in multiple court battles, said Friday that federal judges should not substitute their personal views for the president's judgments in wartime. He said the Constitution makes the president commander in chief and the Supreme Court has long recognized the president's pre-eminent role in foreign affairs. "The Constitution, by contrast, provides the courts with relatively few tools to superintend...

Foley, as chairman of the Missing and Exploited Children's Caucus, had introduced legislation in July to protect children from exploitation by adults over the Internet. He also sponsored other legislation designed to protect minors from abuse and neglect. ''We track library books better than we do sexual predators,'' Foley has said.

Sorry to distract from all the Dictatorship Day celebrations, but nuclear physicist and Antiwar.com regular contributor, Gordon Prather, reminds us that the Middle Eastern countries being targeted (Iraq, Iran, Syria) in this Phony "Global War on Terror" - so that they won't "give nukes to terrorists" - have nukes or the capability to make them. The only Muslim nation with nuclear weapons is Pakistan - our ally - and if terrorists ever get a nuke, that country is its most likely origin. (Not...

The New York Times: The U.S. Senate approved a measure on Thursday on the interrogations and trials of terrorism suspects, establishing far-reaching rules to deal with what President George W. Bush has called the most dangerous combatants in a different type of war. The vote was 65 to 34. It was cast after more than 10 hours of often impassioned debate that touched on the Constitution, the horrors of Sept. 11 and the role of the United States in the world. Both parties also positioned...

From the Free Liberal via Norman Singleton at LRC: "On September 20, 2006, Venezuela's president Hugo Chavez spoke to the General Assembly of the United Nations, calling U.S. president George Bush a "devil." Crossing himself, his face revealing a hint of smile, Chavez said, "This table from where I speak still smells like sulfur." On Trinidad television, a news reporter sought reactions from the people of Venezuela. An elderly woman in Caracas said to the reporter, "Chavez is correct to call...

Read this whole thing. Trust me.

Hey everyone, check out this great article by Vedran Vuk from Mises.org, via LRC, about the disasterous effects of government "welfare" in post-hurricane New Orleans.

Laura Rozen has the the story.

Declassified Key Judgments of the National Intelligence Estimate .Trends in Global Terrorism: Implications for the United States. dated April 2006[.pdf] Key Judgments United States-led counterterrorism efforts have seriously damaged the leadership of al-Qa

Today at 5pm central time on 95.9 and 92.7 FM in Austin, TX and streaming live at KAOS959.com. Today's show will be about terrorism, torture and the upcoming war against Iran. Archive here or here.

You can only make matters worse. Article by Brendan O'Neill.

In today's addition of his bi-weekly column, "The Wartime Economist," Antiwar.com's David R. Henderson takes on George Shultz of the Committee on the Present Danger and the best case the War Party can make for continuing the failed "war on terror." Tough luck there George. David's article reminds me of retired Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski's story about Shultz's fax to Secretary of Wars Rumsfeld in the summer of 2002. As she recounted to C-SPAN's Brian Lamb, "I