Another cheery topic

There’s an interesting interview with the director of Amnesty International in Salon today. It’s mainly a critique of the anti-war movement (or at least its most visible members). But rather than start Iraq Debate Round 8072 I want to discuss these lines from the interview: “Certainly I have argued within Amnesty that in the face … Read more

Case Closed?

By Moe Lane Via Matt Yglesias’* link to LGF** following Matt’s comment on an Instapundit*** post (and doesn’t all of that seem odd to type out) there’s a copy of a Weekly Standard article by Stephen F. Hayes detailing a memo that traces the links between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda from the early 1990s … Read more

Zombies Chew Tinfoil…

The beginning of the second to last sentence of the angriest Lileks Bleat I have ever read. Not that I’m disagreeing with him about most of it, mind you. Especially about the zombis.* Moe *I had a pretty good riff going on about how I probably wasn’t going to do link posts like this one … Read more

Selective Prosecution

This is ridiculous. The Justice Department is prosecuting Greenpeace for boarding a ship to protest illegal trade of mahogany. What Greenpeace did was illegal, and they were arrested by the Coast Guard, as is routine in a non-violent civil disobedience protest like this one. What is not routine is that: 1) the Justice department is … Read more

You always hurt the ones you love.

I’m von, I’m the third poster on the site, and I’m currently consumed by the following question: What the hell has going on at Daily Kos? I used to read Daily Kos. He was an insightful commentator on the Iraq war, and it didn’t hurt that his politics and mine have certain similarities. But what … Read more

from the left…

Hi. I’m Katherine , host #2. The liberal one. I try not to froth at the mouth, and to paraphrase my mother, I don’t hate Bush, I just hate the way he’s acting. I’ve been volunteering for the Howard Dean campaign on and off since last March, which should give an idea of both my … Read more

Oh, Boy! A Post About Uzbekistan!

By Moe Lane …a title which is glaringly out of sync with the generally sober tone of this entry, but really, our corner of the world is filled with the sorts of people who would really, really want to read about Uzbekistan, as opposed to the ones outside our corner of the world, who would … Read more

Howdy, howdy, howdy

Well, it’s official: I’ve succumbed to the Dark Side of the Force and started a blog. It was probably inevitable; Lord knows I like to ramble on about things, and it’s not too surprising that I’d eventually take it up to the next level, or whatever the phrase is. So, here we are, at this … Read more