TNR: Although the Army says it has investigated Beauchamp’s article and has found it to be false, it has refused our–and others’–requests to share any information or evidence from its investigation. What’s more, the Army has rejected our requests to speak to Beauchamp himself, on the grounds that it wants “to protect his privacy.”… Scott Beauchamp is currently a 23-year-old soldier in Iraq who, for the past 15 days, has

Markos Moulwhatever — “Kos” — will be debating Harold Ford Jr on “Meet the Press” this Sunday. Kos, evidently, is going to tell us all where the “real” center of American public opinion lies. Just as he did in a Washington Post editorial. POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT: the American “center”? Turns out it aligns perfectly with the “progressive” netroots movement! Which means, of course, that Hillary Clinton and Harold Ford Jr

I’ll be off running errands much of the day (the Rockies, now with Josh Fogg as their number three starter, are all but dead, so it’s time to prep for Broncos season, which means buying a smoker and some of those big foam fingers), so I encourage you to take some time and visit the protein wisdom pub, where the links are plentiful, and the bowls of peanuts just might

heavyset woman in straw hat: ” — No, you don’t need a foosball table, Henry. Nobody needs a foosball table.” thin man in John Deere hat: “Yeah, well nobody needs a wife with an ass you can show movies on, either — yet here we are…”

From India PR Wire: Billy Quinn and Declan Moore, two archaeologists with Moore Archaeological & Environmental Services (Moore Group) in Galway, believe that an extensive brewing tradition existed in Ireland as far back as 2500 BC. In an article to be published in Archaeology Ireland next month, they detail their experiments and research into the enigmatic site that is the fulacht fiadh. These monuments (of which there are approx. 4500),

Sometimes the best defense is a good offense. Or: HOW DARE YOU QUESTION MY RECEPTIONIST’S PATRIOTISM!

From Breitbart: More than half of Americans say US news organizations are politically biased, inaccurate, and don’t care about the people they report on, a poll published Thursday showed. And poll respondents who use the Internet as their main source of news — roughly one quarter of all Americans — were even harsher with their criticism, the poll conducted by the Pew Research Center said. More than two-thirds of the

From the Guardian’s Neil Clark: […] in Iraq, it was Britain that was the aggressor, and all those who aided the occupation are complicit in what the Nuremburg judgment laid down as “the supreme international crime”: the launching of an illegal war of aggression against a sovereign state. The interpreters did not work for “us”, the British people, but for themselves – they are paid around £16 a day, an

Bill INDC emails: I’m headed back to Fallujah for at least 16 days starting August 30th, to cover the state of the Iraqi Security Forces and city prior to Petraeus’s September report. I’m accredited with Bill Roggio’s Public Multimedia citizen journalism shop, and we could sure use tax deductible donations to support these embed projects. Any links to support citizen journalism would be very much appreciated. Please see this post