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The PKK is trying to make it impossible for the Turks not to invade Iraq. Let me be clear – if the Turkish government asked me what to do about their Kurdish problem, I’d say “Let ‘em go. It’s not worth it. It never is.” But the Turks are one more government that doesn’t seek [...]

By Thoreau
Something just hit me about all the Team Blue fanboy excuses: “Well, why introduce a bill if it won’t pass?” “Why vote against the nominee if they’ll just send another bad one?” “Why pass the bill if it will be vetoed?” “Why pass a law if he’ll break it?”
Yes, there [...]

Steven D at Booman on Ron Paul’s “American Freedom Agenda Act of 2007″:
Why wasn’t this the first piece of legislation proposed by Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid when they assumed control over the House and Senate, respectively? Eliminate the Military Commissions Act. No more torture. No more secret CIA prisons overseas. No more signing statements [...]

By Thoreau
On the one hand: Cheney announces that “We will not allow Iran to get a nuclear weapon.” Sure, that could mean a few different things, but considering the source it would seem to mean one thing in particular: War.
On the other hand: The first of the baby boomers has just [...]

Hunh? The 1900s did not put “Bring the Good Boys Home” on their first CD (now streaming in its entirety)? That just makes no sense at all.
Note: You’ll still like it if – you enjoy Belle and Sebastien’s “The Life Pursuit” or the late-60s/early-70s pop (e.g. The Association; Fifth Dimension; “Incense and Peppermints”) inspiring that [...]

Tom Englehardt’s magisterial review of the Bush Administration’s compulsive documentation of its own war crimes needs to be read in its entirety. Maybe the most intriguing byway of the lengthy article is the section on “Article 98 agreements.” About these it must be said, this one of a hundred events of the last six years [...]