Liberal Talk Radio

Their mistake — a common one, for sure — was assuming that the sketchy guy at the video transfer place couldn’t care less about what you brought in. In fact, he was a concerned and patriotic citizen, and if not for him it’s unclear whether this terror plot would have been unraveled: Six men from [...]

Thank god high-level discussion among the highest reaches of government has finally caught up with plot points on this season of 24: A previously undisclosed meeting last year of President Bush’s most senior national security advisers was the highest level discussion about how to rewrite the cold war rules. The existing approach to deterrence dates [...]

Giuliani: Rudy Giuliani said if a Democrat is elected president in 2008, America will be at risk for another terrorist attack on the scale of Sept. 11, 2001. But if a Republican is elected, he said, especially if it is him, terrorist attacks can be anticipated and stopped Rudy Giuliani benefitted from a great deal [...]

David Hicks, Australia’s answer to John Walker Lindh, got his day in pseudo-court after being held in Guantanamo for 5 years without trial: Mr. Hicks’s conviction with a guilty plea provides something for each side. He admitted training with Al Qaeda, guarding a Taliban tank and scouting a closed American embassy building. But there is [...]

Andrew Sullivan’s review of Martin McDonagh’s The Pillowman is here. After over a decade in the “fringe” theater trenches, I’m increasingly wary about art’s ability to influence politics. But a production like this, now, in Washington D.C., is probably about as close as you’re likely to get.

James Kirchick flags a Joe Lieberman speech calling for a “terror tax” to fight the war on terrorism. Kirchick says this harkens back to the big-government internationalism of FDR and JFK, and wonders whether Democrats will “have the courage to come out and support this proposal.” I’ll be the first to admit that it has [...]

For the first time in decades, the 82nd Airborne no longer has a brigade on ready alert: FORT POLK, La., March 14 — For decades, the Army has kept a brigade of the 82nd Airborne Division on round-the-clock alert, poised to respond to a crisis anywhere in 18 to 72 hours. Today, the so-called ready [...]

A’ight.  This damn horse is so freaking dead that subsequent beatings produce not so much as a trickle of new blood.  Still, I can’t resist (yet another) chance to get in a dig against Bush and his damnable invasion. According to ABC, Iraqi insurgents were caught planning an attack on the U.S.: Mimicking the hijackers [...]

Remember the last time the U.S. intervened in the Horn of Africa? Yeah, that didn’t work out so well. And keep in mind that in ’91, we went into Somalia with the best of intentions, and with a kinder, gentler kind of big-stick diplomacy. There’s trouble a-brewin’ in the Horn again. War looms between Ethiopa [...]

I’ve beem meaning to write about this for a few days now, but I got sidelined by illness (still pretty sidelined, btw, but up for a blog post every now and then!). Some think that you can separate the Bush Sr. (aka Bush 43) and Bush Jr. (aka Bush 41) administrations neatly into “realists” vs. [...]