I hesitate to take this up, because to fully fisk Greenwald/Ellison/Ellensburg/et al’s latest screed would take much more time than I have at the moment.  The Great Sock-Puppeteer is throwing down the gauntlet to the entire right-wing blogosphere over the identification of a Jamil Hussein who is indeed a police officer in Iraq and is presumably the source of various stories proffered to and published by the AP.  I wrote

is hanging out.  In an article entitled, Backsliding on Ford’s ban on assassination in the Christian Science Monitor, the Ancient Mariner Schorr discusses how Ford signed an executive order banning “political assassinations.” According to Schorr: Since then, an executive order signed by Ford has banned US government employees from engaging in, or conspiring to engage in, political assassination. But after 9/11, President Bush issued a “finding” which makes exceptions from

When Gramps died, Dad and I drove down to Crystal Lake to help pack up his stuff, and on the way back, Dad told me the story of a conversation that he’d had with his father.  Uncle Jim was off serving in the occupation of Japan, and Dad was heading off to college at Notre Dame.  Gramps said: “You know, education–if you make the most of it, you study hard,

Unidentified gunmen shot dead a Muslim cleric after he delivered a sermon in the Gaza Strip on Friday calling for an end to fierce factional fighting between Hamas and Fatah, hospital officials and local residents said. The cleric’s shooting in central Gaza came hours after Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas said he and President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah had agreed to keep rival gunmen off Gaza’s streets after