Liberal Talk Radio

You don’t see many people begging to have the world’s Most Dangerous People given a new home in their backyards, but that’s how desperate Michigan has become. In a nutshell, former governor John Engler is suggesting that Michigan offer the Upper Peninsula as a new home for a prison for the suspected terrorists who have [...]

As in, “That barbecue is amazing!” Or, “I thought Neil Labute’s new play was just amazing!” So will a terror attack on D.C. hold up as similarly “amazing”? I doubt it. Nothing can surpass what has already happened this season on 24: The commander of the Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility Tuesday for a deadly assault [...]

Further proof that Americans did the right thing on November 4 comes from the most recent Al-Qaida vid.  Master of the Caveman-in-Chief’s privy chamber calls Obama names (and not nice ones): In al-Qaida’s first response to Obama’s victory, al-Zawahri .,.. called the president-elect—along with secretaries of state Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice—”house negroes.” Speaking in [...]

Will Nick Kristof follow up now that they have a body? We’ll see: A top government scientist who helped the FBI analyze samples from the 2001 anthrax attacks has died in Maryland from an apparent suicide, just as the Justice Department was about to file criminal charges against him for the attacks, the Los Angeles [...]

Continuing our Shachtman-mania here at BATP, another great article on the Army’s nascent efforts to recruit anthropologists to help understand local culture in Afghanistan and Iraq: In western Afghanistan, the 4th Brigade of the 82nd Airborne had come under a steady stream of attacks, despite “a very aggressive outreach effort to village elders,” the report [...]

The official U.S. Government definition of “terrorist group” has now been changed to “some people we really don’t like right now.” Seriously, when a state army can be defined as a terrorist group, does the phrase still have any meaning?

The L.A. Times asks the fundamental question: The president will ask the nation to pay for the next 11 months in Iraq with billions of dollars and hundreds of lives. We think this sacrifice will be in vain, because only Iraqis can heal their national wounds. And so we ask instead: What else could the [...]

Josh “Sean Penn” Feit helps Al Qaeda plot their next move. It’s a doozy. I love it.

Believe Bush’s lies (damn lies) or not if you will [I don't], but in truth there are people out there plotting to kill us. Put that in your hookah and smoke it. Once you’ve accepted this basic truth, it’s time to get a grip on your expectations. Bush and his cronies persist in the fallacy [...]

Reading more about that alleged plot at Ft. Dix, a couple of things jump out at me. First, this description of the six guys’ alleged activities strikes me as remarkably similar to the kind of 1990s Timothy McVeigh-style domestic terrorism: Dritan Duka, Eljvir Duka and Shain Duka collected weapons including handguns, shotguns and semi-automatic assault [...]