Unqualified Offerings

By Thoreau
In this morning’s LA Times, there’s an interesting article by a single Iraqi in search of love in Baghdad. Sectarian divides add a whole new dimension to it. If she’s late for the date, it could be that she’s brushing you off, or it could be that the local militia killed her [...]

By Thoreau
Male terrorists are now getting “married” to each other.

By Mona
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Power Line’s Paul Mirengoff comes right out and admits he figured candidate W lied, and is glad the lies turned out to be such. (No, Mirengoff doesn’t use the word “lie,” but that’s what his euphemistic BS reduces to.) The dumb schmucks who took Bush seriously about the “compassionate conservatism”* thing, [...]

By Thoreau
I can’t decide whether to cancel my subscription to the Economist. Consider the latest print edition:
1) On the one hand (hence item #1) they seem to think that the latest summit on the Israel-Palestine situation has real potential, and that it could all work out if Bush does the right things. [...]

By Thoreau
So, I decided to check out Conservapedia (where, incidentally, I’ve been banned and instructed to “try honoring Thanksgiving for a change” for some minor edits to the Rick Santorum entry) and I noticed a link to an article on Mona’s favorite website:
If Hillary Clinton becomes president – get ready for everything we hated about [...]

I have to respect the Christian charity of Joe Gibbs, and even express gratitude. The Redskins just had their fourth fumble in a little over a quarter of play. Clearly Joe Gibbs wants me to be free to concentrate on my final revisions for the review I’m writing for reason and my NaNoWrMo writing goals [...]

Sully writes:
It does the US no good at all if the country’s international reputation is increasingly one that is at ease with kangaroo courts, is happy to detain individuals indefinitely without charges and then seeks, as in Gitmo, to construct “trials” that are mere Potemkin shows to exact revenge on enemies, real and imagined.
Plus that [...]

By Mona
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Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch have a disturbing piece in today’s WaPo on what the Ron Paul phenomenon portends:

College kids (a key bloc of Paul’s support) have seen no recent evidence that the GOP has anything to do with libertarianism. Yet there’s no reason to believe that Democrats will do anything [...]

Man is a featherless biped that likes to be right.

Working-class women like Hillary Clinton.