Unqualified Offerings

From a superb NYT overview of Dribble-era Iraq:
There are successes. Some Iraqi commanders instill pride and discipline in their units, the Americans say. In July, one Saydia policeman, Capt. Mushtaq Hassan, rescued a 9-month-old girl from a house where a death squad had just killed her family.
That’s the most impressive success worth writing about? Cop [...]

Everyone likes the food chapter of Tyler Cowen’s Discover Your Inner Economist best, right? Most media discussion, blogs and newspapers, has focused on the discussion of finding restaurants. I like that part too – in fact, it’s inspired me to start an informal lunch project at the office, where we’re working our way through the [...]

By Mona
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You silly sheep may have thought that fanatical wretch bin Laden masterminded 9/11. Nooooooooo.
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That Bushites, neocons and the modern GOP have been obsessed with Hitler, Nazis and WWII invocations vis-a-vis the Global War on Terror and to Preserve Civilization from the Coming Caliphate, is hardly news. Until now, however, I had [...]

By Thoreau
Judge Victor Marrero.  He struck down the use of “National Security Letters” for phone, internet, and other business records.  The FBI had been using a section of the Patriot Act to seize records without a warrant and then impose gag orders on the recipients of the letters, so that they couldn’t inform customers about [...]

By Thoreau
Since I am every bit as much of a Koranic scholar as Michelle Malkin, I am hereby issuing a fatwa and all who consider themselves to be devout readers of this blog must obey:
It is hereby forbidden to shop at Home Depot until my refrigerator is delivered.  This is the will of Allah as [...]

Pat Lang has made the point that Islam lacks a hierarchy that can enforce orthodoxy. Anyone can proclaim himself an “Imam” and start issuing doctrinal claims. He will attain just as much authority as his powers of persuasion.
If you think about it, the Islamophobic Right are setting themselves up as Imams of a sort. I’m [...]

The Post reports from Colombia that the world still works very much like you think it does.
Via IOZ.