In the course of defending his paper for the Democratic Leadership Council’s think tank, advocating engagement with the Muslim Brotherhood, Shadi Hamid drops this aside: The Muslim Brotherhood is not an ideal ally. They are far from liberal, something which I’ve noted in nearly every piece I’ve written on this topic. (It’s a different issue, but I don’t think the Republican party is liberal either, as they refuse to ban torture,

Sometimes you need to (retroactively) scramble a few eggs to make the perfect matriarchal omelet. **** related: When suprisingly apt metaphors attack!

Part of my duties as a CITIZEN JOURNALIST is to ask the kinds of questions that traditional journalists refuse to ask. Which is why, having learned of the University of Colorado’s hiring of a new “vice chancellor for diversity, equity and community engagement,” I hopped on my bike (which, in turns out, was unnecessary — seems Boulder still allows cars, and is, in fact, as larded up with them as

“Marine’s Charges Dropped in Iraq Deaths,” AP: A general dropped all charges Thursday against a Marine who had been accused of killing three Iraqi brothers in response to a roadside bomb attack in Haditha in 2005. “The evidence does not support a referral to a court-martial,” Lt. Gen. James Mattis wrote in his written decision. Lance Cpl. Justin L. Sharratt, 22, had been charged with the murder in the deaths

The “nutters,” they play unfairly. By, like, consulting experts on their own. And questioning the job done by TNR’s “fact checkers”. Which is not their job: BAE System’s Head of Communications over the division than manufactures the Bradley IFV was never specifically asked to comment on the claims made in “Shock Troops” by TNR’s legion of fact-checkers. When he saw the claims made in “Shock Troops,” he stated, by citing