Unqualified Offerings

C’mon people. You know the Post only ran this piece to get links . . .

Shorter Tony Blair’s official apologists: That mean Donald Rumsfeld just – just – waaaugh!
Into the dock with all of you. We’ll take your excuses into account during the sentencing phase.
Via Belgravia Dispatch.

It’s almost all that’s left of “conservatism,” plus ramifying the state’s domestic-security prerogatives. Gene Healy says it again, with feeling, at the Agitator. Apparently what it takes to get Gene actively blogging is a guest-blogging stint somewhere beside his own blog. Had I but known!

So a US Embassy employee in Baghdad tells Leila Feidel of McClatchy Newspapers. (Via Spencer Ackerman.) Well I’ll say it. Reading all the back and forth lately between Eric Martin and Cernig about what alliances may or may not be developing among this or that faction of the opposition, or the goverment, or people in [...]

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The black guy dies! Classic! That part was a bit disappointing, as was the fact that the sequence was poorly shot and lacking in excitement. They really need to upgrade their action work next season, and if it means getting new directors, so be it.
We all caught the X3 quote as Sylar [...]

The crypto-history of Ahmed Chalabi.

By Mona
Cassopolis, Michigan is a surging bastion of radical, subversive leftism; don’t let the facts that it has a population of 1,740 and does not sit on either coast fool you. As one of the extremely influential papers in this rural area reports, on this past weekend:

CASSOPOLIS-Chanting “Stop this war, peace is the [...]

By Thoreau
In an article on Islamic dress codes, the Economist notes that Iranian cops are conducting their annual crackdown on immodestly dressed women:
Just now, police in Iran are busy with their annual spring campaign against “bad hijab”, prowling parks and stopping traffic to enforce dress codes. This year’s drive is the strictest for a decade. [...]

By Mona
As a reminder (last week I pointed it out as well) tomorrow night Frontline will be airing Spying on the Home Front. Glenn Greenwald — who at his old blog digs established himself as the blogosphere’s warrantless wiretapping at the National Security Agency in violation of FISA* expert — [...]

By Thoreau
The Department of Evil