Glenn Greenwald: The Unhinged Mind

The mind is such a terrible thing to waste, and with Glenn Greenwald there is a lot of wasted gray matter.  Alas

Greenwald loses it:

One of the lowest and most dishonest tactics is to attempt to smear and

The subject of motorcycles and accidents thereon has come up over at Billy’s place.

Here is something that I think is true: people who have never been in a bike crash have a very difficult — nearly impossible — time

Michiael Gerson, at the end of last month at the WaPo, posted a column that I think should be read into the record in both houses of Congress as a warning… for those who think that our pulling out

Jackie Calmes at the WSJ is reporting:

WASHINGTON — Sen. John McCain’s media team has resigned, an indication that a campaign shake-up two weeks ago is continuing to backfire and further imperil the Arizona Republican’s presidential candidacy.

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When Eliot Spitzer played the Sheriff of Wall Street, his targets lacked the ability to fight back.  Well Spitzer has learned that his new target, State Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno, has the power to fight back and intends to

Derb says at The Corner:

Jonah: Your argument on Iraq—basically, that, as some Secretary of State or other said, we broke it, so we oughta fix it—is nontrivial.  It lacks general appeal, though, and is probably a big vote-loser.

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Should a law be established, with penalties in the form of fines and incarceration, which dictates that individuals are legally bound to dial 911 if they stumble upon a situation wherein an innocent individual’s life is in danger of being

Interesting response from NATO, to the questioning of Chuck Simmins, about why they don’t publish numbers of enemy dead.

It is ISAF policy not to release enemy lossses. This is not a measure of success for us.

Ummmmm…. Yeah….

About time…

WaPo- NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell yesterday ordered quarterback Michael Vick not to report to training camp with the Atlanta Falcons until the league has reviewed his legal troubles stemming from federal dogfighting charges.

Vick’s playing status is to

James Taranto has an op ed up as of yesterday that will interest those of you who noted our posting on the Joe Bruno/Elliot Spitzer/Andrew Cuomo thing here in NY, yesterday.

Culture of Corruption
Imagine if top aides to President

We were warned, last year, that we were going to have a monster of a hurricane season.  The proximate cause, we were told, was global warming.  Of course, that fizzled.  And the beginning of 2017 along, and the usual suspects

The Global War on Terror, on the home front:

WASHINGTON (AP) – The Bush administration took action Tuesday against an Iran-based foundation, including its U.S. branch, for allegedly providing support to Hezbollah, a terrorist group the United States

Spitzer denies any knowledge of what his closes aide was doing, which seems improbable.

But hang on. Even he didn’t know, isn’t this the same guy who wants corporate executives held criminally liable for the mistakes of their underlings, even

• If one more person asks me what my “carbon footprint” is, they’re going to be able to take measurements of my carbon footprint on their own backsides.  Idiots.
• Speaking of carbon footprints, I’m willing to bet this guy left a

By way of McQ, we see John Bambernek at Blog Critics… well, I’ll let him say it:

Today I filed an Federal Election Commission (FEC) complaint against Kos Media, LLC., better known as DailyKos.com.  I allege that they