Unqualified Offerings

I just did two hours on the fluid trainer and boy are my cheeks tired . . .
And sore! And my neck is stiff, you know? Grumble grumble.
Today’s workout is my longest of the season in any discipline and my longest in almost two years, fwiw. Boy do I have to get real tri shorts, [...]

By Thoreau
My wife and I just saw Ron Paul on CNN.  She liked what he had to say and so I told her “He’s also against torture.”  She said “Really?  That’s good.”
And then I realized that we live in the sort of country where you actually have to check whether a candidate is opposed to [...]

By Mona
This cretin is still ranting that the librul Emm Ess Emm has been hiding the existence of an Al Qaeda torture manual (and quotes another inanity from Glenn Reynolds on the subject), when it has been shown that CNN broke the story. But worse, and disgustingly, he likens our efforts to [...]

By Mona
Newsweek uncovers in an extraordinary piece that in March of 2004 up to 30 arch-conservative Bush loyalists in the Dept. of Justice — including director of the FBI, Robert Mueller — were poised to resign, en masse, over Bush’s lawlessness and attempts to secure a signature endorsing the Administration’s illegalities [...]

Couple weeks ago the New York Sun’s Eli Lake treated us to “a counterterrorism win for us,” about an interrogation by Iraqi security forces in Diyala province in which, at the climactic moment, up jumped the US representative with the crucial fact that kept an innocent man from detention:
It turns out that the Expray test [...]

Speaking of Jim Lobe, a few days ago he had an interesting chronicle of the eternal recurrence of Elliott Abrams.
If that scenario [recent feelers and spoilers involving Syria] sounds familiar, your foreign policy memory dates back at least to 1987, when, despite intensified regional peace-making efforts for which Costa Rican President Oscar Arias won that [...]

By Thoreau
Jim blogged some of Andrew Bacevich’s comments on the death of his son in Iraq. There are a few other things worth noting in the article that he wrote, immediately prior to the part quoted by Jim:
After my son’s death, my state’s senators, Edward M. Kennedy and John F. Kerry, telephoned to express [...]

By Thoreau
This is probably old news to some, but I only learned yesterday that Stanley Miller, who performed the classic experiment of generating amino acids from a “primordial soup”, passed away on May 20 at the age of 77.  His experiments set the ball rolling on a line of research that continues to this day, [...]

Jim Lobe has a blog now. Lobe has been an acute analyst of American foreign policy for years, on behalf of Inter Press Service. And now he blogs. This is good.
Via Washington Note via Antiwar.com blog.

I’ve seen a couple of headlines about Tony Blair’s proposals for sweeping new police prerogative, and they each have at least one true reading:
Police to get tough new terror powers
Yup. That has the right of it. (Via OTB.)
More stop and quiz terror powers
This one too can be read in an accurate way. (Via Crooked Timber.) [...]