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July 24, 2005

Ultimate Responses and the Necessity of Pragmatism in the War on Terror

It occurs to me that I’ve yet to comment on the now infamous (and oft misrepresented) Tom Tancredo remarks concerning potential US military responses to a WMD attack on American soil—remarks that a number of rightwing bloggers (as well as just about every blogger on the left side of the ‘sphere, given the subject matter) have been quick to criticize—often quite forcefully. Thankfully, Juliette, Instapunk, Froggy, and Allah have saved

How the Right killed FREEDOM!

Blogging will of necessity be light today as I sit back and allow baseball and fresh air to act as a sort of mental sorbet, cleansing my brain of this bit of Atrios idiocy, in which the crowned prince of anti-Bush cant and his band of verbose cheerleaders manages to blame the shooting of a London terror suspect (who turned out to be nothing more than an illegal running from

A question of FREEDOM! (updated)

I wonder if all those who’ve spent the last month wringing their hands over the Valerie Plame “leak”—in particular, those thousands upon thousands of progressives suddenly so concerned with protecting “covert” CIA agents and enforcing the Espionage Act that they’re willing to do so at the expense of the free flow of information inside the beltway—are going to express their outrage over this. BECAUSEOFTHEHYPOCRISY! Sure, it’s thinly sourced story—and the