The US government is plain evil. This phony war on terror is going to ruin us all. Watch here. (Funny how it takes government TV to get it done.) : )

From his lawyer's brief [.pdf], via Glen Greenwald, via Luke the kook. "In an effort to gain Mr. Padilla

The Post: A team of American and Iraqi epidemiologists estimates that 655,000 more people have died in Iraq since coalition forces arrived in March 2003 than would have died if the invasion had not occurred. The estimate, produced by interviewing residents during a random sampling of households throughout the country, is far higher than ones produced by other groups, including Iraq's government. It is more than 20 times the estimate of 30,000 civilian deaths that President Bush gave in a...

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"Two guys found a company and sell it two years later for a billion and a half dollars." -Charles Gibson ABC News October 9th, 2006, regarding the sale of YouTube to Google. Congratulations YouTube guys!

Tuesday, October 10, 2006, at 9pm Eastern, government TV's Frontline - after all the bogus arrests on terrorism charges across this country over the last few years - will be taking on the question of whether al-Qaeda actually has people here in America at all. Frontline's splash page says they'll be looking at that poor Hamid Hayat kid out of Lodi, California, who was entrapped by a snitch and convicted of "Un-Americanism." If they do the story justice at all it will generate outrage in .001...

North Korea tests a nuke. Let us hope the War Party is somehow restrained. And, by the way, don't forget, this never would have happened if George W. Bush and his band of raving ex-Trotskyoids hadn't blown the deal secured by "Yes, we think the price is worth it" Albright and pushed North Korea into withdrawing from the NPT - which is illegitimate in the first place, but was working fine. And while we're at it, who cares if North Korea has nukes anyway? How the hell is that any of my business,...

A study conducted by grad students at Indiana University found that "Not surprisingly, a second-by-second analysis of The Daily Show's audio and visual content found considerably more humor than substance-- Stewart himself has insisted that he is a comedian and not a journalist. A similar analysis of network coverage found considerably more hype than substance in broadcast newscasts. Examples of such hype included references to polls, political endorsements and photo opportunities." Emphasis...

How al Qaeda views a long Iraq war A letter found in Iraq shows that the group sees the war as a boon for its cause. By Dan Murphy In appearances across the US, President Bush has been campaigning against withdrawing troops from Iraq, arguing that to leave now would hand a historic victory to al Qaeda and inspire new generations of jihadists to attack the US. But a letter that has been translated and released by the US military indicates that Al Qaeda itself sees the continued American...

They've been on life support for a long time, but now they've gone and fired their best writer, William Norman Grigg, for - get this - having a blog of his own. They'll be lucky to survive another year. For a decade and a half Will has been the author of the New American magazine's best stuff on American foreign policy, and helped give rise to the famous Scott Horton Bircher rule of thumb: The Birchers' "conspiracy theories" such as the state's involvement in the Oklahoma City Bombing, are...

by Anthony Gregory If the idea is to create a drug-free America, then we can safely say that after hundreds of billions of dollars spent, millions of arrests, and decades of escalating police and military efforts, the war on drugs is a complete failure. The reason is clear if you think about it. The attempt to use government force and central planning

WorldNetDaily has done it again. First they cut Lew Rockwell and Alan Bock, now Gordon Prather has finally gotten the axe from their list of columnists. He will continue to write his exclusive column for Antiwar.com every weekend. Dr. Prather, a nuclear physicist who's spent a career making nuclear weapons and advising politicians about them, has made a consistent effort over the past few years to show the people of this land the truth about Iran's nuclear capability and their rights within...

Gives me a negative opinion of the government. Check this out: Software Being Developed to Monitor Opinions of U.S. By ERIC LIPTON WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 NYT

by Anthony Gregory (Stolen from LRC) On Tuesday, Drug Enforcement Administration agents swooped down upon the premier medical marijuana club in California

The spam filter caught a fascinatingly verbose spam comment that I thought you would all enjoy looking at. Spam comments are sent out by bulk email programs or scripts designed to fill out the basic fields - name, email address, website, and the text of the comment - automatically. Typically, the remarks take the form of non-specific, pleasant, curt statements, designed to trick the site's admin into passing them along. Typical comments are "Hi! I love this place!" or "Best site I see!"....