”Oh. “…Well, what we meant to say is, there was no al Qaeda in Iraq until colonialist oilsuckers like you FORCED THEM TO ENGAGE COALITION TROOPS ON THE SIDE OF THE FREEDOM FIGHTERS!  “So you see?  Thoroughly debunked.  Again.  You lousy, warmongering Halliburton enablers.” (h/t CJ Burch) **** update:  “NO BLOOD FOR BLEEDING SORES THAT CAN ONLY BE HEALED THROUGH DIPLOMACY—AND MAYBE JUST A SCHMEAR OF NEOSPORIN!”* update 2:  “HOW

Call me paranoid, but I have a feeling many establishment feminists will frown upon this particular cause.  Because in the tortured calculus of feminist identity politics, any gain for men is a corresponding loss for women —with innocents the collateral damage sacrificed on the altar of the greater ideological good.  Much like the Duke 3, come to think of it. —Of course, maybe I’m just bitter over the upbraiding a

Garrett:  “To be honest, I hadn’t heard about that, but if it was anything like the time Meeno Peluce and I got rousted outside Cloud 9 in San Luis Obispo for ‘suspicion of public intoxication,’ I can feel for the Sheenies.  “Of course, in our case it didn’t help that Peluce was jumping up and down on the hood of a Range Rover, screaming “eat the rich” while wagging his

From the Chicago Sun-Times: The column in the student newspaper seemed innocent enough: advocating tolerance for people ‘’different than you.’’ But since sophomore Megan Chase’s words appeared Jan. 19 in the Tomahawk, the Woodlan Junior-Senior High School newspaper, her newspaper adviser has been suspended and is fighting for her job, and charges of censorship and First Amendment violations are clouding this community. At issue is whether Chase’s opinion column advocating

From Radley Balko, April’s Reason: On January 17, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the case of Bart Didden, an entrepreneur in Port Chester, New York. It thus let stand one of the more egregious abuses of eminent domain authority since the court’s infamous Kelo v. New London case of 2005, which upheld the government’s right to seize property from one private party and give it to another in

…That is, if by “debate on religious freedom,” one means “debate over where it’s proper to kill an apostate whore, Allah be praised…” From the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: A community debate over religious freedom surfaced in Western Pennsylvania last week when Dutch feminist author Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali refugee who has lived under the threat of death for denouncing her Muslim upbringing, made an appearance at the University of Pittsburgh

Let the battle over which metaphor comes to define the US quagmire begin: Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards told Michigan Democrats Saturday night that the United States must quickly get out of Iraq, which he called a “bleeding sore.” “America needs to be leaving Iraq, this is very, very simple,” said Edwards, a 53-year-old former U.S. senator from North Carolina, making his second bid for the White House. Edwards was

I’m crayoning outside of the timeline, but Jonathan Kellerman fleshes out some of the observations I’ve made about mental health policy in this country in his Opinion Journal piece today.