Eric Margolis "Bombing Pakistan Back to the Stone Age" William S. Lind "Dear Jim" Via LRC.

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Helen Chenoweth-Hage has been killed in a car crash. James Bovard has written a nice obituary over at his blog.

So says Will Grigg, and I've come to respect his judgement. "On more than one occasion I have adverted to the following piece of political folk wisdom: "In Washington, there are two parties: The Stupid Party (the GOP) and The Evil Party (the Democrats). Occasionally they will collaborate to do something that is both stupid and evil. We call this

My good friend Jim Bovard, author of Lost Rights, Freedom in Chains, The Fair Trade Fraud,

I, Left Gatekeeper Why the "9/11 Truth" movement makes the "Left Behind" sci-fi series read like Shakespeare by Matt Tabbi A few weeks ago I wrote a column on the anniversary of 9/11 that offhandedly dismissed 9/11 conspiracy theorists as "clinically insane." I expected a little bit of heat in response, but nothing could have prepared me for the deluge of fuck-you mail that I actually got. Apparently every third person in the United States thinks George Bush was behind the 9/11 attacks....

"All day long today the story we've been chasing has to do with major new charges about the handling of the Iraq war - evidence that the reality is far worse than we've been led to believe." Quoth Brian Williams - Tom Brokaw's replacement as the "news anchor" on the NBC Nightly News - in his introduction to a story titled "Baghdad Under Curfew" from the night of Friday September 29th. (Watch it here.) Just one question here Brian: Who the hell is this "we"? You are the one who has been doing...

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...