Greenwald: Dealing From Half a Deck

It is amazing to me how often Glenn Greenwald can trip over his own tounge and still be convinced he’s smarter than everyone else. This one’s going to require some background.

As Bruce McQuain noted the other day, the

The Houston Chronicle:

WASHINGTON — Hoping to defy more expectations, Rep. Ron Paul is ratcheting up his maverick Republican presidential campaign by launching TV and radio commercials in early primary states and setting an ambitious $12 million fundraising goal.

For

It is tragic and funny.  Jan Raath,  Times (UK):

When Nomatter Tagarira, a spirit medium, claimed that she could conjure refined diesel out of a rock by striking it with her staff, ministers in Robert Mugabe’s Government believed that they

If there’s anyone in talk radio that has a lower credibility than Err America, it’s Alex Jones.

So, when we find Captain Ed asking the question..

Why is Ron Paul’s campaign paying Alex Jones?

… it just clicks.

The

Interesting how this stuff keeps coming up. It’s almost like… she’s like… GUILTY or something.

WASHINGTON —Fox-  One gift that Hillary Clinton is unlikely to enjoy on her 60th birthday Friday is the premiere of “Hillary Uncensored,” a scathing documentary

Forbes magazine is speculating that the BDS Times may be on the block. I was told a long time ago what the purpose of a newspaper is by Adam Kelly, who once was the only conservative columnist in West Virginia.

Garry Gross has an interesting article revealing democrat corruption in the Pennsylvania House:

I’ve written alot about the Pennsylvania House Democratic Office of Legislative Research scandal. Tracie Mauriello is the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reporter who’s uncovered alot of this information.

1. I do not question Ron Paul’s patriotism.  Rather, I have questioned Paul’s sanity, or lack thereof same.   Lone Star Times,  report Paul is taking campaign contributions from neo-nazis:

A LoneStarTimes.com investigation has conclusively established that a leading figure

You do know that Hillary Clinton has been trying to buy the support of bloggers, don’t you? CNS News:

Call it “Bloggergate” … the subversion of the blogospand here by Democrat money.

To be more precise, Bloggergate is the subsidizing

Jessica Holzer over at The Hill

House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.) unveiled a sweeping tax overhaul on Thursday that he hailed as a fairer way to spread tax relief, but Republicans attacked the move as a

That site that Israel bombed, was apparently correctly identified in the news reports that we all saw last evening.  This is a before and after shot:

As to the official reaction of Syria, Bruce McQuain makes an excellent point:

Seems

I have been saying for years that the fight over health care and who runs it was a financial battle.  No, not a financial battle for the “little guy”.  Just a couple of big ones. Michelle Malkin reports on one

—  WASHINGTON — George W. Bush, despite all his recent bravado about being an apostle of small government and budget-slashing, is the biggest spending president since Lyndon B. Johnson.  In fact, he’s arguably an even bigger spender than LBJ.

Well,

Megan McArdle:

Ezra and Brian are complaining that it’s hard to get anything done these days:

I think it’s almost certainly wrong that we’re not overwhelmed by the volume of tragedy in the world — there’d have to be something

James Joyner: (Link repaired)

Reason‘s Dave Weigel takes to the pages of The American Conservative to warn Republicans that they’re not going to win in 2008 simply by bashing Hillary Clinton.

…

While negative campaigning and pointing out the