Excerpt from Gregg Easterbrook's Tuesday Morning Quarterback column, June 10 2003: It Takes a Village to Write a Hillary Book: Last year, TMQ pointed out that Hillary Rodham Clinton was lying when she claimed to be the author of "It Takes a Village," which was actually penned by a ghostwriter named Barbara Feinman Todd. Specifically, TMQ noted last year, "Hillary's official U.S. Senate biography states, 'In 1997, she wrote the best-selling book It Takes a Village.' This is an outright lie....

From Brian Williams interview of Ahmadinejad: Williams: And the American president says, "It's OK, keep your nuclear program to keep your homes warm. Stop enriching uranium toward weapons." How do you react? Ahmadinejad: Who is the judge for that? Any entity except for the IAEA?

Via Justin: The BBC has the video of Israeli soldiers training Kurds is preperation for war against Iran. Hersh reported it first here, Justin explained why it was "The Stab in the Back" here. Former CIA officer Philip Giraldi told me there were as many of 800 Israeli military intelligence officers in Kurdistan here.

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On immigration, he's worse than Bush.

by William Norman Grigg September 12, 2006 In early August, about 300 Alaska-based soldiers of the 172nd Stryker Brigade, shortly after returning from Iraq, were ordered to return to Iraq immediately. Because of a bureaucratic bungle, the unit was not informed while in Iraq that its tour of duty had been extended. As a result, the soldiers and their families, relieved and grateful for their safe return, were torn apart once again without adequate time to prepare.Shortly thereafter the Bush...

Huh. Did I forget to blog about this? U.S. war prisons legal vacuum for 14,000 Paul Craig Roberts, when he isn't going off the deep end about 9/11, writes some pretty good stuff - such as in this case.

Well, no shit. RAWSTORY: British Army expert casts doubt on 'liquid explosives' threat, Al Qaeda network in UK Identified Lieutenant-Colonel (ret.) Nigel Wylde, a former senior British Army Intelligence Officer, has suggested that the police and government story about the "terror plot" revealed on 10th August was part of a "pattern of lies and deceit." British and American government officials have described the operation which resulting in the arrest of 24 mostly British Muslim suspects, as a...

They are worried that they could be prosecuted for torturing people.

From a summary of a new Time story: Full article here The first message was routine enough: a "Prepare to Deploy Order" sent through Naval communications channels to a submarine, an Aegis-class cruiser, two minesweepers and two minehunters. The orders didn't actually command the ships out of port; they just said be ready to move by October 1. A deployment of minesweepers to the east coast of Iran would seem to suggest that a much discussed, but until now largely theoretical, prospect has...

From a summary of a new Time story: Full article here The first message was routine enough: a "Prepare to Deploy Order" sent through Naval communications channels to a submarine, an Aegis-class cruiser, two minesweepers and two minehunters. The orders didn't actually command the ships out of port; they just said be ready to move by October 1. A deployment of minesweepers to the east coast of Iran would seem to suggest that a much discussed, but until now largely theoretical, prospect has...

There's a new documentary about Sibel Edmonds, the famously gagged whistle-blower, who found out too much about the criminals who occupy the highest levels of power in this country and others. It's called Kill the Messanger. Make sure to follow the links to Lukery and Mike Mejia. Lukery's http://sibeledmonds.blogspot.com/ is already full of tons of information as well as his wotisitgood4.blogspot.com Watch the trailer here.

Everyone join the celebration! Jim bovard has a few ideas for how to get this party started: 1) Wiretap your neighbor.

From the Battalion Chief Kenahan of the FDNY Safety Battalion debriefing of firefighter Banaciski: "They told us to get out of there because they were worried about 7 World Trade Center, which is right behind it, coming down. We were up on the upper floors of the Verizon building looking at it. You could just see the whole bottom corner of the building was gone. We could look right out over to where the Trade Centers were because we were that high up. Looking over the smaller buildings. "I...

As we say at Antiwar.com, the best way to spread the best parts of the American way - the rights of the individual, free markets, self-government and so forth - is by example. That when we export our way with force, we lose our own liberty and, by killing people overseas and setting a bad example for those who would like to emulate us, we make matters worse for the average foreigner. As John Quincy Adams put it in 1821: "[America] has seen that probably for centuries to come, all the contests...