From the Telegraph (India): The Pakistan foreign office had paid tens of thousands of dollars to lobbyists in the US to get anti-Pakistan references dropped from the 9/11 inquiry commission report, The Friday Times has claimed. The Pakistani weekly said its story is based on disclosures made by foreign service officials to the Public Accounts Committee at a secret meeting in Islamabad on Tuesday. It claimed that some of the

Via ABCNews 11: The suspect in this month’s attack on the UNC-CH campus has written a letter to ABC11 Eyewitness News. Eyewitness News received the letter Monday, in response to our request for an interview. It was sent from Central Prison in Raleigh and dated Friday, March 10. Addressed to ABC11 Eyewitness News anchor Amber Rupinta, the two-page letter includes Taheri-azar’s explanation of what he was trying to accomplish in

[ed’s note:  my response to Glenn Greenwald’s latest attempt to engage in easy, simplistic, disingenuous, and bold-stroked narrative fantasy is here; if Glenn’s post is what brought you here, please relegate your comments to the new thread.] ******begin original post “Russ Feingold reveals what many Democrats really want.” From the WSJ: Republicans are denouncing Senator Russ Feingold’s proposal to “censure” President Bush for his warrantless wiretaps on al Qaeda, but

Cathy Young, whose libertarian/feminist pronouncements on such matters are always important, weighs in on “Roe v. Wade for Men”: Whatever the merit of Dubay’s and the NCM’s legal claim, I do think that the case illustrates rather strongly the unfairness to men of the current legal regime. With legal abortion, a woman who gets pregnant can get out of this situation with minimal consequences (unless you believe that an abortion

Agora emails: The brave people who signed the Manifesto against Totalitarianism have just had their first serious death threat. Links to the manifesto and a petition to support the manifesto are in the main article. What follows are some excerpts from Agora’s translation of the original Jyllands-Posten article by Jørgen Ullerup.  From “Death Threat against signers of Manifesto”: According to one of the signers, the French writer Caroline Fourest, the