Archive for June, 2006

Wednesday, June 28th, 2006

How To Argue Like A Fool

Joe Conason is our volunteer:
In the acrid debate over Iraq, the President’s supporters will say anything. They will question the patriotism of those who disagree with “staying the course.” They will insinuate cowardice on the part of those who would “cut and run.” Even though they avoided military service, they will denigrate the records of […]

2 Comments » - Posted in POTUS, Iraq, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots® by Mark

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Wednesday, June 28th, 2006

Hitch Hands Out The Assignments

Christopher has 4 projects the anti-war Left can busy themselves with - if they truly wish to make a difference…

1 Comment » - Posted in Hitchens the Great, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots® by Mark

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Tuesday, June 27th, 2006

More 9/11 Conspiracy Poppycock - And A Question

In the spirit of the belief that the truth has nothing to fear from lies, and that exposure is the best remedy against nonsense of this sort, I present the following:
According to Dylan Avery, a 22-year-old filmmaker in upstate New York, no terrorists hijacked United Airlines Flight 93 on the morning of Sept. 11, […]

20 Comments » - Posted in POTUS, Radical Islam / GWOT, Iraq by Mark

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Tuesday, June 27th, 2006

And Then There Were Eight…

France looked a bit like the glorious champions of 1998 as they finished off Spain 3-1 to make the quarterfinal lineup of the 2006 World Cup complete (and if you could watch Zidane score that last goal without a smile on your face, you either hate France or don’t know the man’s history).  We have […]

4 Comments » - Posted in Foreign Affairs, Celebrities / Pop Culture / Sports by Mark

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Tuesday, June 27th, 2006

Roberts Asks DNI For Damage Assessment From Media Disclosures

The Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Pat Roberts, has written John Negroponte, the Director of National Intelligence, to request a damage assessment from media revelations of classified antiterrorist measures:
Numerous, recent unauthorized disclosures of sensitive intelligence programs have directly threatened important efforts in the war against terrorism.
Whether the President’s Terrorist Surveillance Program or […]

2 Comments » - Posted in Radical Islam / GWOT, NY Times/Media Watch by Mark

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Tuesday, June 27th, 2006

This Is Progress(?)

I don’t know…I suppose it is, of a sort:
The Islamist group Hamas has reached agreement with other Palestinian factions on a statehood initiative that implictly recognises Israel’s right to exist.
The agreement came after weeks of negotiations on a document penned by Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. Of the various Palestinian factions, […]

No Comments » - Posted in Radical Islam / GWOT, Foreign Affairs by Mark

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Tuesday, June 27th, 2006

GOOOAAALLLL!

And for Ronaldo, it’s #15…
As in 15 World Cup goals…
As in the new record.  Congrats, as Brazil goes up 1-0 in the 5th minute on the last day of the 2006 World Cup’s second round….

No Comments » - Posted in Foreign Affairs, Celebrities / Pop Culture / Sports by Mark

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Tuesday, June 27th, 2006

On Journalism, State Secrets, and Prosecution

Personally, I prefer that the leakers be prosecuted and Bill Keller fired, but Gabriel Schoenfeld says the NY Times does face the prospect of prosecution, but not necessarily from the commonly referred to Espionage Act of 1917:
CAN JOURNALISTS REALLY BE PROSECUTED for publishing national security secrets? In the wake of a series of New York […]

48 Comments » - Posted in Domestic Affairs, Radical Islam / GWOT, NY Times/Media Watch by Mark

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Tuesday, June 27th, 2006

Churchill One Step Closer - To Gone

Well, this is certainly well overdue:
The University of Colorado announced Monday that it will dismiss controversial professor Ward Churchill.
“Today, I issued to Professor Churchill a notice of intent to dismiss him from his faculty position at the University of Colorado Boulder,” CU Interim Chancellor Phil DiStefano said Monday afternoon.Churchill has 10 days to appeal, which […]

No Comments » - Posted in Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots® by Mark

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Monday, June 26th, 2006

John Snow’s Remarkable Open Letter To Bill Keller

The Treasury Secretary says it all, really:

Mr. Bill Keller, Managing Editor
The New York Times
229 West 43rd Street
New York, NY 10036
Dear Mr. Keller:
The New York Times’ decision to disclose the Terrorist Finance Tracking Program, a robust and classified effort to map terrorist networks through the use of financial data, was irresponsible and harmful to the security […]

9 Comments » - Posted in Radical Islam / GWOT, NY Times/Media Watch by Mark

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Monday, June 26th, 2006

Ego, Thy Name Is Jane

The great Hamsher:
I wish I could impute nefarious intent to the effort of traditional media types to make the blogosphere’s opposition Joe-nertia “all about the war,” but if I had to guess I’d say it was more due to abject laziness and a lack of native curiosity. As I’ve written many, many times before, […]

5 Comments » - Posted in Election 2006, Joe Lieberman, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots®, Democratic Candidates by Mark

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Monday, June 26th, 2006

Kaus: Kosola Hits The Big Time - Is Mark Warner Listening?

Mickey Kaus, commenting on the David Brooks piece on Kosola:
Kos responds to David Brooks’ column, with characteristic attention to the merits:
They can praise us, they can trash us, they can ignore us, and ultimately none of that will matter as long as we keep doing what we’ve been doing.
Whether we succeed or not will […]

No Comments » - Posted in Mark Warner, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots®, NY Times/Media Watch, Democratic Candidates by Mark

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Monday, June 26th, 2006

Wizbang: Shorter Bill Keller

This about sums it up:
Dear Reader:
1) We have no reason to believe the program was illegal in any way.
2) We have every reason to believe it was effective at catching terrorists.
3) We ran the story anyway, screw you.
Bill Keller

Any questions?…

1 Comment » - Posted in POTUS, Radical Islam / GWOT, NY Times/Media Watch by Mark

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Monday, June 26th, 2006

Bush On The SWIFT Leak: ‘Disgraceful’

The President of the United States:
President Bush on Monday sharply condemned the disclosure of a program to secretly monitor the financial transactions of suspected terrorists. “The disclosure of this program is disgraceful,” he said.
“For people to leak that program and for a newspaper to publish it does great harm to the United States of […]

1 Comment » - Posted in POTUS, Radical Islam / GWOT, NY Times/Media Watch by Mark

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Monday, June 26th, 2006

Hewitt Takes Down Keller

Hugh Hewitt has more on the incredibly lame letter New York Times executive editor Bill Keller wrote in defense of his latest attempt to derail the Bush presidency. Some highlights:
There is no charge –none– that the program disclosed by the paper last week needed “legislation” to authorize it. And “fully briefed” is a wonderful […]

4 Comments » - Posted in POTUS, Radical Islam / GWOT, NY Times/Media Watch by Mark

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Monday, June 26th, 2006

George Will: Lieberman One Of The Last Jacksonian Democrats

George Will becomes the latest to weigh in on the Nutroots® challenge to Joe Lieberman, and he sees through the red herrings to the central issue: Lieberman is being punished for supporting the War in Iraq.
…[T]his dust-up among Democrats is about the war, and Connecticut’s political market is working. Lamont, who says a deadline for […]

No Comments » - Posted in Election 2006, Joe Lieberman, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots®, Democratic Candidates by Mark

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Monday, June 26th, 2006

Times Newsroom Evacuated As Bill Keller’s Ego Threatens To Explode

The executive editor of the Times is taking on a bit of a messiah complex:
Some of the incoming mail quotes the angry words of conservative bloggers and TV or radio pundits who say that drawing attention to the government’s anti-terror measures is unpatriotic and dangerous. (I could ask, if that’s the case, why they […]

26 Comments » - Posted in POTUS, Radical Islam / GWOT, NY Times/Media Watch by Mark

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Sunday, June 25th, 2006

Gilliard-Gate: The New Stephen Glass Responds

Okay, Glenn Greenwald (wow, how did I spend so much of my weekend blogging about him?) was right; Steve Gilliard did not compose the third email quoted by Jason Zengerle in his expose of the ‘Townhouse’ request by Kos to keep mum on Jerome Armstrong’s troubles with the SEC (if you’re completely confused, refreshers are […]

6 Comments » - Posted in Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots® by Mark

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Sunday, June 25th, 2006

The Most Dynamic City In The World?

I’ve certainly made a few contributions to its economy…

1 Comment » - Posted in Domestic Affairs, Foreign Affairs by Mark

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Sunday, June 25th, 2006

Kosola Hits The Big Time

From this week’s Newsweek:
The talk of the blogosphere last week was “Kosola”—allegations that Moulitsas wrote favorably about candidates with whom he or his close friend and coauthor Jerome Armstrong had financial relationships. Moulitsas swore the charges were baseless (Armstrong, too, has denied impropriety), but they clearly got under his skin. When The New Republic’s Web […]

2 Comments » - Posted in Election 2006, Joe Lieberman, Progressive Nonsense / Nutroots®, Democratic Candidates by Mark

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