In the wake of the 9/11 Commission’s finding that there is “no credible evidence” that Iraq and al-Qaeda ever had a “collaborative relationship” with respect to attacks against the United States, there’s been a great deal of scrambling on the right side of the blogosphere to throw all the tenuous links that have been found [...]
Archive for June 23rd, 2004
Why the Right is Wrong About Iraq and al-Qaeda
Posted in Iraq, Terrorism on June 23, 2004 | 11 Comments »
I Am A Language Nerd
Posted in I do too have a life on June 23, 2004 | 17 Comments »
There are certain expressions that always make me cringe. When someone says something is “very unique,” my skin crawls. Something either is unique, or it is not; there can be no degrees. Go ahead and give me the “language is arbitrary” argument and say that over time alternative meanings for “unique” have become acceptable, and [...]
Faith-Based Conflict of Interest
Posted in Church & State on June 23, 2004 | 3 Comments »
Gee, how could a guy like me be so unreasonable as to oppose Bush’s benign “Faith-Based” Initiative? This is how: A Philadelphia church appears to be reaping a windfall of government funds following its pastor’s endorsement of presidential candidate George W. Bush, said Americans United for Separation of Church and State. During the Republican Party’s [...]
More Al-Qaeda Saddam Link Nonsense
Posted in Iraq on June 23, 2004 | Comments Off
This seems to be going around the right wing blogoshere, offered up up as some kind of proof of the Iraq link to al-Qaeda. Except that a little bit of research demonstrates that it’s not. Here is the money quote from The Guardian: The key meeting took place in the Afghan mountains near Kandahar in [...]
Sports Rant
Posted in Sports on June 23, 2004 | 2 Comments »
This happens every year. Why doesn’t someone either move the tournament to a time when its not raining five out of every seven days (if such a time exists in England) or put a roof over the frigging courts?
Be Afraid of the Press
Posted in Culture on June 23, 2004 | 2 Comments »
Brad has a good question I have not yet figured out why so much of our elite press is so… what should I call it? Feckless. Corrupt (in the sense of well-rotted). Decadent. Why does William Saletan find it funny that Kerry tries hard to give nuanced, reasonably-complete answers to questions about issues with nuances? [...]
The Bush Torture Dump
Posted in Legal Issues on June 23, 2004 | 5 Comments »
Discourse.net points out the two most important facts about the document dump Bush reserved himself the right to declare laws and treaties null and void — that is, he put himself above the law. The documents are all form a period before the two leaked torture memos. Bush, from the start, put himself above the [...]
Ashcroft: A lying Liar Who Tells Lies?
Posted in Politics on June 23, 2004 | 1 Comment »
It is beginning to look that way: Yet, Pickard testified to the 9/11 commission that when he tried to brief Ashcroft just a week later, on July 12, about the terror threat inside the United States, he got the brush-off. “Mr. Ashcroft told you that he did not want to hear about this anymore,” Democratic [...]
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