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July 6, 2005

the Omega post

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“The c. 1849 Manifest Destiny post” (from the protein wisdom conceptual series)

So, whaddya think?  Hawaii next?

Oh, say can you see? / By the dawn’s surly light (with apologies to Jay McInerney)

The Boston Globe’s James Carroll—still upset that an endless barrage of sparklers and fire crackers wielded by spoiled bourgeois strip mall brats ruined his own July 4th celebration of a career spent highlighting America’s failings—pulls out his angry, flaccid little post-Independence Day penis and pisses all over the country whose armed forces have fought for his right to condemn them, even as he pretends to speak in their interests: The

The relativity of wartime transgressions

From the Washington Post: The U.S. military is holding five U.S. citizens suspected of insurgent activities in Iraq, a Pentagon spokesman said Wednesday. They were captured separately and don’t appear to have ties to one another, spokesman Bryan Whitman said. He declined to identify them, citing a Pentagon policy that prohibits identification of detainees. Three of those being detained are Iraqi-Americans; another is an Iranian-American; the fifth is a Jordanian-American,

Of Mice and Men (and Women)

Oh well.  Looks like my several pleas of last week calling for substantial discussion on Iraq (in lieu of the kind of silly, canned chickenhawk rhetoric so fetishized by the anti-war left) has fallen on deaf ears.  But no worries:  Blackfive, Armed Liberal, Baldilocks, James Joyner, Tigerhawk, the Indepundit, and Donald Sensing have taken up the cause. For my part, I’ve decided that if you truly believe that the most

Feel it, idiot minion!

Feel the rich, cool salve of healing!* **** update:  “WHY ARE YOU SO AFRAID OF THE DIALOGUE, YOU FILTHY NAZI ENABLER YOU?”