Looks like a single bomber. Actually, the explosion was bigger than I thought, based on the reports: Link: sevenload.com
For The Record, I Left NYC On Sunday
Blast Damages Times Square Recruiting Station Fortunately, nobody was hurt. And the explosion wasn’t that large. That area is covered with security cameras, so you know they’re going to find the guy. Probably some nut. Of course, the rightwing blogosphere are all acting like junior CSI-ers: From the choice of target, lack of shrapnel, and low amount of explosives used, … Read More
15 Years Ago Today
I am republishing a portion from an earlier post (written in September 2006): February 26, 1993 I was a third-year law student at NYU in 1993. As any third-year law student will tell you, a 3L’s focus in the second semester is not so much on completing law school and passing law school exams, but preparing for the impending bar … Read More
The Obama Faux Outrage Of The Day
I’ll let Yglesius explain: Conservatives have been all over Barack Obama (here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here) for telling the following anecdote during last night’s debate: You know, I’ve heard from an Army captain who was the head of a rifle platoon — supposed to have 39 … Read More
Cuba And The Candidates
For those who think that all politicians are the same — take a gander on the statements of Obama, Clinton, and McCain on Cuba, now that Castro has resigned. In a nutshell, Obama wants to move toward normalizing relations, starting with allowing Cuban Americans to travel freely to Cuba and send money to their family members back there (Bush disallowed … Read More
Bye Bye Castro
Well, it was to be expected I suppose. Fifty years if a pretty good run. What this means, or should mean, is that we get to visit the lovely island of Cuba (or, if you are JFK, "Cuber"). On this point, I think Steve Clemons is right: Of all the low cost opportunities to demonstrate a new and different US … Read More
Where In The World Is Osama Bin Laden?
Looks like Spurlock’s new "documentary" is pretty funny:
North Carolinians Pee Their Pants
A Muslim woman in Raleigh, wearing the traditional burqa, went to the movies to see "Atonement". And from that, there is a nationwide email going around claiming (without foundation, I must add) that dozens hundreds thousands of Muslim women are swarming the country’s movie theaters, getting ready to launch massive suicide attacks. Get the story. Thank you, Michelle Malkin for … Read More
I Detect A Pattern….
Not sure what it’s about, but something is fishy: January 31: A pair of undersea fiber optic cables (which provide Internet to the Middle East) are "accidentally" cut, presumably by some ship’s anchor. February 3: A third cable is cut. Egyptian authorities revise their earlier speculation about a ship causing the first two cuts, not say "no ship was in … Read More
But At Least Iraq Is Safe
Military not ready for attack on US: The U.S. military isn’t ready for a catastrophic attack on the country, and National Guard forces don’t have the equipment or training they need for the job, according to a report. Even fewer Army National Guard units are combat-ready today than were nearly a year ago when the Commission on the National Guard … Read More
No Terrorist Attacks Since 9/11?
In his State of the Union address last night, Bush said, "We are grateful that there has not been another attack on our soil since 9/11." Oh, really? Carpetbagger adds: I’m not trying to play a cute semantics game; I know what conservatives mean when they talk about “terrorist attacks.” They’re describing devastating, cataclysmic events that kill a lot of … Read More
Bush Lied (Many Many Times); People Died
Not news, really: A study by two nonprofit journalism organizations found that President Bush and top administration officials issued hundreds of false statements about the national security threat from Iraq in the two years following the 2001 terrorist attacks. The study concluded that the statements "were part of an orchestrated campaign that effectively galvanized public opinion and, in the process, … Read More
Tough on Terrorism
Former Republican Congressman indicted on terrorism charges: A former congressman and delegate to the United Nations was indicted Wednesday as part of a terrorist fundraising ring that allegedly sent more than $130,000 to an al Qaeda and Taliban supporter who has threatened U.S. and international troops in Afghanistan. The former Republican congressman from Michigan, Mark Deli Siljander, was charged with … Read More
Meanwhile In Iraq…
They say that things are going very well there; that is, the surge is "working", even though nobody bothers to give a definition of what "working" actually means in this case. Remember, the whole point of the surge was to give the Iraq government more breathing room to coalesce its government, and so that Iraqi troops could train and eventually … Read More
The Posthumous Post of A U.S. Soldier In Iraq
Here’s a post from Andrew Olmstead (posting as G’Kar) on a blog I regularly read, called Obsidian Wings. The post is dated Sept. 22, 2007: Let me begin with the standard disclaimers, despite which I am certain that at least one commenter will complain that I am in some way attempting to justify the Iraq War, the surge, the presidency … Read More