And especially, congratulations to Dave Andreychuk. For those who were rooting for Calgary, it’s all too easy to blame the whole mess on the goal-that-wasn’t in game 6, but that wouldn’t be fair. The truth is, Calgary blew it in many ways, and should have won despite that goal being disqualified. If they don’t take [...]
Archive for June 7th, 2004
Congratulations to the Lightning
Posted in Politics on June 7, 2004 | 3 Comments »
Pentagon: President is Above the Law
Posted in Legal Issues, Politics on June 7, 2004 | 6 Comments »
When Kevin wrote this post concerning the Pentagon’s report on torture, he only had the BBC’s summary of the WSJ story, and not the whole story. Josh Marshall has the whole story, and points out something big that Kevin didn’t see: But that whole discussion is different in kind from one passage in the report. [...]
Hitchens Wrong Again
Posted in Politics on June 7, 2004 | 2 Comments »
Hitchens’ column today is supposed to be devastating, one imagines. He starts by listing all the truly idiotic things Reagan said in public, thinking, perhaps to lull his liberal readers into a sense of complacency. He then pivots, and equates LaRouche followers to “intellectuals” because of their opposition to Reagan’s foreign policy. Then comes what [...]
Not the Most Popular President
Posted in Politics on June 7, 2004 | 3 Comments »
Every has probably already heard Reagan described as “the most popular president”, and everyone has probably already seen this chart proving that it just isn’t so (compare the Clinton numbers to the Reagan numbers): (image courtesy of Poll Katz Click on the image for a larger version.) But the graph does raise another question — [...]
Pentagon Report Said Torture Legal
Posted in Politics on June 7, 2004 | 1 Comment »
According to the Wall Street journal, the Pentagon prepared a report stating that the US was not bound by laws prohibiting torture, and that anyone conducting torture under the orders of the president could not be prosecuted. In the words of the document: The draft argued that because nothing was more important than “obtaining intelligence [...]
Remember Fallujah?
Posted in Iraq on June 7, 2004 | 1 Comment »
Remember how the US worked a deal to put Iraqi troops and Iraqi police back on the streets? Well, it does not seem to have worked very well It was not supposed to be like this. Under an agreement made last month with U.S. Marine commanders, a new force called the Fallujah Brigade, led by [...]
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