Here’s the latest evidence that the American media has utterly failed us. Most Americans now favor an attack on Iran:
More than half of likely voters in the United States would support a U.S. military strike against Iran to prevent it from building a nuclear weapon, according to a Zogby poll released Monday. The poll found […]
According to the Roman Catholic Church, which of these organisms has a soul? (answer below)
A recent study by the Guttmacher Institute, published in the Lancet, shows that abortion rates have declined worldwide, but outlawing abortion does not lead to a discernible decline in abortion rates:
For every 1,000 women of childbearing age (15–44) worldwide, 29 were […]
British troops destroy a building in Basra
From the Telegraph (UK):
It was as astonishing an admission as any that has emerged from the lips of a British officer in the four and a half years since the tanks rolled over the Iraqi border. The British Army, said the man sitting in a prefab hut in Britain’s […]
It looks like former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales may soon be facing prosecution for his various crimes:
There was no reason for Gonzales to leave when he did—he’d likely gotten away with turning the whole Justice Department into the president’s personal playground, then covering it all up with half-truths. But maybe he didn’t get away with […]
I’m claiming credit for this one. On this post by John Cole, about how the Republican Presidential candidates want to prove there is no immoral act they wouldn’t do to stop a terrorist attack, I was the first to ask:
Would you have sex with a man if that would stop a terrorist attack?
Cole used the […]
Why would a stealth bomber be necessary in Iraq or Afghanistan?
From Reuters:
Some Democratic lawmakers questioned on Wednesday whether a new Bush administration request for $88 million to fit “bunker-busting” bombs to B-2 stealth bombers was part of preparations for an attack on Iran.
The proposal was included as part of a nearly $200 billion request for […]
Jackson, Mississippi mayor Frank Melton and his nemesis, District Attorney Faye Peterson
Reason magazine makes a pretty good case for naming Frank Melton of Jackson, Mississippi America’s Worst Mayor. He takes in troubled youths, some of them minors and some of them with arrest warrants, rather than turning them over to the police. He uses these […]
Shukri Abu Baker, former president of the Holy Land Foundation
From the New York Times:
A federal judge declared a mistrial on Monday in what was widely seen as the government’s flagship terrorism-financing case after prosecutors failed to persuade a jury to convict five leaders of a Muslim charity on any charges, or even to reach a […]
From Raw Story (VIDEO):
Did al Qaeda start the California wildfires? As more than a million people escaped the flames, Fox News anchors couldn’t help speculating about a terrorism link to the blazes ravaging southern California.
Correspondent Adam Housley said he’s received “hundreds of comments” from readers of his Fox News blog speculating about a link […]
I am so not surprised. From Raw Story:
More than 100,000 pages of newly released government documents demonstrate how US military interrogators “abused, tortured or killed” scores of prisoners rounded up since Sept. 11, 2001, including some who were not even suspected of having terrorist ties, according to a just-published book.
Most of the documents on […]