It seems the Shia will have to have a coalition with the Kurds - at least for now. The breakdown

I love Lukery's blog.

According to an AP news article today by Ted Bridis, the FBI missed internal signs of espionage in the case of Bureau Intelligence Analyst Leandro Aragoncillo. To read the AP article go to: The Federal Bureau of Investigation has continued to make short shrift of personnel security on the heels of the well-known Robert Hanssen Spy scandal, and in the middle of a war on terrorism. Despite several IG reports, congressional inquiries, and media reports on several other recent cases of alleged...

If Osama were elected president of the United States - eh, seems a lot like a Republican to me, what with his belief in collective guilt and his religious fanaticism and all - he says in his new recorded message he knows just how to keep Americans safe from terrorists:

So here we are in 2006, and the Bush/Cheney regime, which should have been thrown out so long ago, is still sitting pretty and continues to threaten its perceived enemies with regime change. How are they being allowed to get away with this overturning of the old order without any effective opposition to them by some number or combination of the hundreds of millions of people in this country? Obviously there are many factors at work here besides that everybody's busy working on their own...

Michael Fortier, co-conspiritor in the Oklahoma City Bombing, is being released. What a sham. Developing...

Riverbend has taken the anniversary of the start of the first campaign of mass death against Iraq by the United States to examine the differences in the rebuilding efforts by Hussein's regime and the "coalition of the willing." Damn. And it turns out that the interpreter who was murdered during the kidnapping of Christian Science Monitor reporter Jill Carroll was her old friend Alan from down at the record store. I am terribly sorry for not doing a good enough job of keeping my government from...

Thomas Woods, over at the LRC Blog has put out a call for great antiwar speeches in American history, so here's a good one I remember reading in the New American. In an article called "Minding Our Own Business," Steve Bonta quotes a speech given in 1898 by Representative Richard P. Bland, a Democrat from Missouri, during the congressional fight over the annexation of Hawaii. Bland said that those promoting the American empire, "boldly assert on this floor that Hawaii is necessary to us in our...

The KAOS Report with me and Shauna Kaye. We hate the State. Listen Live Archives

Your very own Firefly? A unified field theory? Dang. Hat tip, Lew Rockwell.

but whoever wrote this speech for him didn't do a half bad job. "[T]he President has ... declared that he has a heretofore unrecognized inherent power to seize and imprison any American citizen that he alone determines to be a threat to our nation, and that, notwithstanding his American citizenship, the person imprisoned has no right to talk with a lawyer-even to argue that the President or his appointees have made a mistake and imprisoned the wrong person. The President claims that he can...

Say, folks. I think you might want to take a look at this.

The Times: 'Wrong information' blamed for Pakistan deaths AN AMERICAN airstrike targeting Ayman al-Zawahiri, the Al-Qaeda mastermind, was prompted by

Long, Singleton, Featherstone, Shaffer, and Kinsella on the relationship between lefties and liberatarians. The way I see it, liberals are no more friendly to liberty in sum than the red state fascist types. The only reason most leftists are so anti these days is not because of real principle, but because their perceived opposites are in power. The question is not which brand of socialism is the right one, but whether or not the rights of the individual are paramount. Don't get me wrong, there...