Just a minute or 2 ago. And he kicked ass. Here's the Youtube - I can never get the embedding to work. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qD9eO7qToTk&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fblog%2Elewrockwell%2Ecom%2F

War Czar? WTF? ‘I don’t think any of the founding fathers looked to the Russian model,’ said James Bovard, a libertarian writer and lecturer whose contemptuous essay in 2000, ‘Ten Thousand Czars,’ made him something of an ‘anti-czar czar.’ Mr. Bovard dismisses the appointment of General Lute as ‘the same old scam that politicians have used for a long time whenever there is a failing policy.’

It was at the Texas History Museum, Jimmy Vaughn played and there was a pretty good turnout, though better advertising may have brought even more. I figure it was at least a couple thousand at $100 bucks or more a head. It ain't Lockheed money, but I think that he'll run a really good campaign. In the short stump speech he gave, he said he has been absolutely amazed by the amount of support and that it is growing. He said he's stay in as long as that was true. I wish I was an expert in...

I hate to be such a Canadian here, but the team that plays a mere 10 minutes away from the building where I work in Kanata (AKA Silicon Valley North) has advanced to the Stanley Cup Finals. The Senators have been a dominant team for years, but this is their first trip to the finals. Fittingly, the winning goal, scored in overtime, came from Daniel Alfredsson, who has been the franchise player almost since the team was founded in 1992. The Sens will now face the winner of the Detroit/Anaheim...

Of all the resolutions passed by the 109th US Congress, the two single most despicable must be the following ones: HR 6166, or the Military Commissions Act of 2006, which lifted the long-held Habeas Corpus rights from non-residents, and the HR 921 in support of Israel's war crimes in Lebanon (it included the following language: "recognizes Israel's longstanding commitment to minimizing civilian loss and welcomes Israel's continued efforts to prevent civilian casualties"). To my great surprize,...

Featuring my stickers! Check it out here: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2530515614183984710 (Ozzy, if you can embed the video here, please do.) Thanks Jimmy!

It's a good thing Jim Lobe is around.

Washington Post: MIAMI, May 18 -- Somewhere in Kandahar, Afghanistan, shortly after the U.S. invasion in the fall of 2001, a man driving a Toyota twin-cab pickup pulled up at a CIA post to deliver thousands of pages of documents. Amid the notebooks and papers, authorities found a document that would become what may be the single most important piece of physical evidence against terrorism suspect Jose Padilla. The five-page "Mujahideen Identification Form" -- basically a personnel application...

by Scott Horton "There are a lot of things that are different now [that the U.S. occupies Iraq], and one that has gone by almost unnoticed — but it's huge — is that ... we can now remove almost all of our forces from Saudi Arabia. Their presence there over the last 12 years has been a source of enormous difficulty for a friendly government. It's been a huge recruiting device for al-Qaeda. "In fact if you look at bin Laden, one of his principle grievances was the presence of so-called crusader...

for today: Listen here buddy, 1st hour: Michael Scheuer 2nd hour: Thomas E. Woods

Never in recent history has US Middle East policy been subject to such a barrage of conflicting pressures from erstwhile allies, clients as well as adversaries. The points of contention involve fundamental issues of war and peace, foremost of which are divergent responses to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the US-Iranian confrontation, the US occupation of Iraq as well as the US-Ethiopian proxy invasion and occupation of Somalia. The major contenders for influence in the making of US policy...

Chalmers Johnson, author of Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic discusses America's dissent down the path of militarism, secrecy, empire, authoritarianism and destruction, the role of the military industrial complex and the mass media and hope for a mass movement to restore the constitution.