Unqualified Offerings

By Thoreau
I caught part of “To Catch a Pervert” on Dateline NBC. This show disgusts me. While I have no real sympathy for an adult who would try to have sex with a 13 year old, it seems like the reporter and his associates are getting arrogant. I’ll leave it to the [...]

Interesting article from last week about Muslim cops in Europe, some working anti-terror cases, others not.
Via Eve Tushnet.

My candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination waxes. I have John McCain on the ropes. Absurdly, liberal blogger Tim F. of Balloon Juice sees my wake and takes it for a vacuum, announcing his own candidacy. Tim doesn’t even have his own blog – he has to use John Cole’s. And let’s face it, I [...]

Oh, rock.

The article about how President Bush is bearing up under the burden of having completely screwed up the Presidenting bears an interesting omission – the only reference to “Laura” immediately precedes the surname “Ingraham.” Not a sentence about leaning on the Mrs. or being sustained by her devotion in his time of trials.
Who knows why [...]

By Mona
Nothing should shock anymore when it comes to the war supporters, but when a libertarian like McQ starts directing vitriol-laden diatribes at someone — Glenn Greenwald — criticizing reporters for dutifully parroting the government line without investigating the claims, well, one next expects to see devout Marxists celebrating [...]

By Mona
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According to Asia Times, Bush pulled Gen. Peter Pace as Chair of the JCS because he was unconfirmable in the Senate, and would be subjected to questions the Administration does not want asked (much less answered). And the neocons have every reason to fear (and thus for us to take hope?) [...]

I admit to bias, but isn’t the undercard of the “Obama beats Hillary at fundraising” story that Bill Richardson ($7M) did nearly as well as John Edwards ($9M). Both are far behind the two leaders, but surely Richardson’s dough means that he’s at least as credible an alternative to the Big Two as Edwards now. [...]

Matt Barganier has two recent ripostes regarding Andrew Sullivan – One and Two. He makes several excellent points. I think he’s too sure that Sullivan is just an Iran-war hawk waiting to happen. Nevertheless, when it comes to last week’s gas riots, Andrew should be careful what he wishes for – there’s no guarantee that [...]