Wikileaks is a website which divulges leaked information. Recently, they released half a million pager messages that were sent on 9/11 (back when people had pagers). As the site explains: Text pagers are usualy carried by persons operating in an official capacity. Messages in the archive range from Pentagon, FBI, FEMA and New York Police Department exchanges, to computers reporting … Read More
The Afghanistan Decision
Yesterday, Barack Obama had Michael Moore attacking his Afghanistan troop buildup from the left, in an open letter posted on his Web site ("If you go to West Point tomorrow night … and announce that you are increasing, rather than withdrawing, the troops in Afghanistan, … you will do the worst possible thing you could do…"), and today, as he's … Read More
Potential Terrorist Caught In Ohio Making Bomb
You know why you haven't heard this story? Because the would-be terrorist wasn't Muslim and didn't have a funny-sounding name. He was an extreme right-winger teabagging anti-government type: CUYAHOGA FALLS, Ohio – Following a pipe bomb explosion Monday night, police and federal law enforcement officials are trying to figure why a Center Avenue man turned his apartment into a bomb … Read More
Can Someone Factcheck This?
From Raw Story: In an interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity Tuesday night, the onetime Bush spokesperson attacked President Barack Obama's administration for not labeling the recent killings at Ft. Hood a terrorist attack. She then took one step further — and claimed there had been no terrorist attacks under President George W. Bush. "We did not have a terrorist … Read More
On Trying Suspected Terrorists In Civilian Trials In NYC
Andrew Sullivan gives the background: When you listen to the Fox News right speak about this, they reveal amazing levels of fear. They have been truly spooked by these men with long beards and chilling eyes. They are so scared of them they are willing to drop any and all legal principles that the West has historically used with respect … Read More
We Get Emails
I received this email from Erick Erickson, proprietor of Redstate, the pre-eminent right wing blog: Today Barack Obama is going to announce that the terrorist mastermind of September 11th, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, will be sent to New York City for a criminal trial in a civilian court. In that trial, the terrorist will get all the rights afforded an American citizen … Read More
In Which I Get All Politically Incorrect And Puffed Up About Veteran’s Day
You know what? I'm not going to go up to a veteran and thank him for protecting my freedom. You know why? Because unless he is a hundred years old, chances are that that ex-soldier didn't do a damn thing to preserve and protect my freedom. Don't get me wrong. I have nothing but respect and admiration for those who choose … Read More
Fort Hood Shooting
I guess everyone will have their own theories about why Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan opened fire at Fort Hood, killing 13, and wounding dozens. How much of it had to do with the fact that he was a Muslim? How much of it had to do with the fact that he was taunted as a Muslim? How much of it … Read More
Pop Quiz
Today, President Obama, decided not to deploy a long-range missile defense system in eastern Europe and instead, deploy a short-range missile defense system to dampen the possible threat of short-range missiles coming from Iran, because Iran is nowhere near capable of developing long-range missles The conservative blog reaction can best be described as: (1) Thoughtful consideration of the facts and intelligence and … Read More
9/11 Tributes Gone Horrible Distasteful
In my book, the tribute honor today goes to Cakewreck, the website featuring poorly designed pastry and cakes. Example 1: "If you don't eat donut holes, the terrorists win" Also, they appear only to be red and white — no blue — so I guess it's for Swiss or Canadian patriots or something. Or maybe it's symbolic of blood. Eewwww! Here's something macabre: … Read More
The Terrorists Won
Dudes, when the Coast Guard conducts a training exercise on 9/11, and no shots are fired, and it causes a major freakout in the right-wing blogs, that just shows that the terrorists won. Because the piss-in-the-pants rightwing bloggers are clearly terrorized. One gets the sense that they walk around in fear all day, especially on 9/11 anniversaries.
The Chris Wallace-Dick Cheney Interview
"Tell me, Mr. Cheney. Are you and everyone in the Bush Administration totally awesome, or just somewhat awesome?" That's the kind of interview it was. Or, as Sully quips, it was not unlike a teenage girl interfiewing the Jonas Brothers. I'm talking, of course, about the hour-long interview of Dick Cheney by Chris Wallace on (where else?) Fox News this … Read More
Thomas Paine Weighs In On Torture
GOP Congressman Peter King — the ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee — had said this today regarding Eric Holder's decision to investigate whether laws were broken by the Bush administration's torture: "It’s bulls***. It’s disgraceful. You wonder which side they’re on. [It's' a] declaration of war against the CIA, and against common sense…" Yeah. Well, one can be "not … Read More
The Torture
I don't have much to say about this… WASHINGTON – With just two weeks of training, or about half the time it takes to become a truck driver, the CIA certified its spies as interrogation experts after 9/11 and handed them the keys to the most coercive tactics in the agency's arsenal. It was a haphazard process, cobbled together in … Read More
Remembering 9/11 In The Obama Years
It amazes me what conservatives decide to get in a tizzy about. The latest? Obama signed into law a measure in April that designated Sept. 11 as a National Day of Service. OMG!!! Here's how a conservative wrote about this in The American Spectator. This is an actual quote, not — I repeat, not — a parody: The plan is … Read More