Unqualified Offerings

Here’s the really important part of yesterday’s Christian-Science Monitor story, “Anti-US anger grows among Arab moderates“:

“Of course, our hatred of the United States will increase if America attacks Iraq,” says Mohammed Nawfal, a barber. “The Lebanese have experienced much bloodshed and there is a history of bloody American involvement in Lebanon. So we feel more […]

Neolibertarians and civil liberties-minded conservatives are aghast today at the Information Awareness Office, headed by killer clown John “Convictions Overturned on Appeal” Poindexter. First, and it gives this site no pleasure to say this, Advantage: Unqualified Offerings. UO brought the Poindexter story to the blogosphere last July, in Annals of Upward Failure and The Poindexter […]

Rich Lowry writes on NRO that

One of the more other-wordly aspects of the Iraq debate is that everyone is weighing very seriously whether we should trample Iraq’s sovereignty by invading and changing the government. But we trample Iraq’s sovereignty every day! Literally every day we fly war-planes over Iraq patrolling the no-fly zones. And we’ve […]

So Jim, you ask, is there a song on The Rising that, all by itself, refutes WashPost critic David Segal’s contention that it was a mistake for Springsteen to make a rock&roll record about the September massacres (instead of “Nebraska III”), while simultaneously demonstrating that the (major) media really does suck?
Yes, there is: “Mary’s Place.” […]

First off, apologies to this site’s early adopters for the following long damn post. It revisits many arguments made here in the last 9 months. But it can’t be helped.
Over on Live from the WTC, Jane Galt asked for people to make real, not straw-man arguments for or against war with Iraq. In response […]