Earlier today Glen Greenwald published what he believes is an email sent to by him Colonel Steve Boylan, the spokesman for General Petraeus. Boylan – or a clever imitator – gives Greenwald grief about his ethics and objectivity, providing him a tailor-made opportunity for a righteous riposte. Greenwald eagerly exploits this by decrying the military’s…
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Make-or-break Time Coming for Paul
Ron Paul will be spending a sizable amount of his recent haul of campaign contributions on radio and television ads in New Hampshire and other early primary states: Hoping to defy more expectations, Rep. Ron Paul is ratcheting up his maverick Republican presidential campaign by launching TV and radio commercials in early primary states and setting an…
The Last Supper On-line
The Houston Chronicle says: As of today, all you need is an Internet connection. Officials put online an image of the “Last Supper” at 16 billion pixels — 1,600 times stronger than the images taken with the typical 10 million pixel digital camera. The high resolution will allow experts to examine details of the 15th…
Dodd, FISA, and the Trouble with Democrats
Christi Hardin Smith posted a transcript of a “great” speech that Christopher Dodd gave on the floor of the Senate today here. Dodd spoke passionately about a sweeping array of war-related topics, bouncing around from between FISA, Iraq, Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo Bay, Alberto Gonzales, and even Nuremberg, but that didn’t make the speech great or…
Genarlow Wilson to be Freed
As the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports, a uniquely stupid chapter in the story of the American legal system is drawing nearer to a close. The Georgia Supreme Court on Friday ordered the release of Genarlow Wilson, the Douglas County man who has been serving a controversial 10-year sentence for having consensual oral sex with a 15-year-old…
School Vouchers: Solution or Problem?
Megan McArdle says she doesn’t get angry about politics often. But fail to mention the V-word when discussing education reform and you might get on her list pretty quick! every time I see some middle class parent prattling about vouchers "destroying" the public schools by "cherry picking" the best students, when they’ve made damn sure…
Hillary Would Restore Checks and Balances
Various publications are saying that Hillary Clinton has gone on the record as saying that she would reduce presidential powers back to the pre-W levels if she is elected president. “I think you have to restore the checks and balances and the separation of powers, which means reining in the presidency,” Clinton told the Boston…
Hitchens: Islamofascism a Valid Term
At Slate, Christopher Hitchens defends the use of the term “Islamofascism” to good effect. Hitchens first takes on the faux-intellectuals who refuse to make the obvious connection between modern, radical Islam and manner of life that imposes on those unlucky enough to fall under its sway: It’s quite the done thing, in liberal academic circles,…
Womb-theft Killer Guilty, Death Penalty Next?
The Houston Chronicle reports: Jurors convicted Lisa Montgomery, 39, of kidnapping resulting in death in the 2004 attack on 23-year-old Bobbie Jo Stinnett in the northwest Missouri town of Skidmore. The jury deliberated for about four hours before rejecting Montgomery’s insanity defense. … Defense attorneys claimed Montgomery was suffering from pseudocyesis, which causes a woman…
Huckabee: Abortion is the American Holocaust
Jamie Crawford at CNN’s Political Ticker blog reports this about Mike Huckabee: “Sometimes we talk about why we’re importing so many people in our workforce,” the former Arkansas governor said. “It might be for the last 35 years, we have aborted more than a million people who would have been in our workforce had we…