The Show

for today: Joe Briggs of Policy Watch. Listen Live here 11-1pm Texas time.

Rep Ron Paul M.D. Thrashes the Pathetic Coward Bill O’Reilly

Don't go toe to toe with Ron Paul on the facts, he will get the best of you every time. Too bad he didn't have time to explain that a two-way border skirmish between Hezbollah and Israel gone out of control hardly amounts to Iran starting a war by any stretch, if Tehran gave a nuke to terrorists, they still have a return address, Ahmadinejad never threatened to wipe Israel off of anything, they can't make a nuke, and it's pronounced carte blanche. Maybe next time...

The Show

for today: Michael Scheuer. Listen live here 11-1pm Texas time. MP3 here.

Mike Huckabee to Compound His Mistake?

LRC Blog passes on an FMNN report that Huckabee has accepted CNN's invite for a toe to toe with Ron Paul on the terror war. Where are you going to be without Guito the gangster and Sally the Massachusetts governor at your back, punk? Update: FMNN is not a very reliable source and this would really be shooting downward for Dr. Paul dontcha think?

Understanding the Contemporary Republican Party: Authoritarians Have Taken Control

Part One in a Three-Part Series, by John Dean. At the outset of Conservatives Without Conscience, I provided a quick and highly incomplete summary of Altemeyer's findings, explaining that his empirical testing revealed "that authoritarians are frequently enemies of freedom, antidemocratic, anti-equality, highly prejudiced, mean-spirited, power hungry, Machiavellian, and amoral." To be clear, these are not assessments that Altemeyer makes himself about these people; rather, this is how those he...

The Iraqis No One Talks About…

 Assyrians Mourn Demise of Christian Churches in Iraq Phoenix -- Religious scholar Nina Shea of the U.S. Commission of International Religious Freedom recently wrote an editorial titled "Iraq's Endangered Minorities." The article is a harsh critique of the U.S. government and it's allies for not protecting minority religions of Iraq, including Iraq's Assyrian (Christian) communities. As Shea powerfully pointed out, "They don't sponsor terrorism, hold political power or have strong regional...