Unqualified Offerings

I don’t have much of an opinion on S-CHIP. I know what I think of mob rule, though.
What we’re seeing here is the same tactics of personal destruction Movement Republicanism previously justified as necessary to winning The Greatest War Ever, now normalized as appropriate to handling a budget dispute. They wanted to get Jamil Hussein [...]

By Thoreau
Campus radicals in Tehran dared to slander their God-fearing leader, who only wants his country to be strong in the face of existential threats.
Damn kids have no appreciation for strong leaders and traditional values.  At least they weren’t wearing electric name tags, like those uppity kids at MIT.

By Thoreau
The LA Times has a nice summary of the Khaled El-Masri case today.  Not too much new information, but the Supremes are set to rule within the next few days on whether they’ll take the case.  If they do, it will be a test of the State Secrets doctrine.  The feds are, not surprisingly, [...]