The Festival of Lies Continues
Gene Callahan on We Already Know the Administration Was Lying: I think it is important to be fair to those one criticizes, so I want to consider two scenarios that might excuse those who...
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Calling You Out
Brad Spangler of Rational Review on Sooooo … whatcha gonna do 'bout it, America? Lies. Not just lies, but lies so majestically absurd in their transparency… You, Mr. and Mrs. John and Jane Q....
More on Liars
Sheldon Richman on Presidential Sophists on the Loose: The controversy over President Bush’s State of the Union allegation about President Saddam Hussein of Iraq and African uranium is a lesson in how to distinguish...
Occupation Revisited
Elaine Cassel on How Goes the Occupation of Iraq? Ask the Iraqi People: Americans and the "coalition of the willing" supposedly went into Iraq to make them free. Free for what? Free to have...
NAACP and Old Times
Max Sawicky on GROVELING BEFORE THE NAACP: the NAACP is living in a dream world. The dream is that they provide much in the way of organizational leadership and mobilization to African-Americans, so all...
Conscription
Daniel McCarthy at LewRockwell.com Blog on Military Slavery: I don't think the draft is likely to return, not short of World War III. Conscription simply elicits far too much resistance. The War Party can...
Death Toll Rises As Coverup Continues
Thomas R. Eddlem of The New American on War Under False Pretense: President Bush was able to play up the uranium issue only by ignoring his own intelligence agencies. According to CIA Director George...
Wedding in a Tin Can
Eric Hanson of The Houston Chronicle on Cosmonaut's wedding will really be out of this world: For the first time ever, a person in space will be married when Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko, now...
The Way Things Ought To Be vs. Reality
Richard Cohen of The Washington Post on …Unshakable Faith: The favorite Bush grammatical construction is the tautology: Something is bad because it's bad. A synaptic leap is made in which a certain cause will...
Two More Pay The Price For Empire
Associated Press on Bomb kills U.S. soldier, Iraqi interpreter: A roadside bomb exploded near a U.S. military convoy in north Baghdad today, killing an American soldier and his Iraqi interpreter. Three other members of...