In a separate incident, a SWAT team opens fire on a fleeing drug dealer. Money line from the narration: “The suspect made a murderous attempt to escape.”
It keeps happening: police are given false information by an informant, and send in a SWAT team to break down the door of a suspected drug dealer. The suspect […]
Our ridiculous security procedures are worse than useless
From the Wall Street Journal:
Jason Steele, a technology contractor in Colorado, discovered his name was on the watch list about four years ago and fought to get a letter from Transportation Security Administration (TSA) clearing his name. The letter didn’t stop him from getting tagged as a “selectee” […]
Many Sadrists think that it’s time to end the truce
From the Associated Press:
Iraq’s Sadrists Seek to End Cease-Fire
Influential members of Muqtada al-Sadr’s movement have urged the anti-U.S. Shiite cleric not to extend a cease-fire when it expires next month, officials said Monday, a move that could jeopardize recent security gains. But U.S. and Iraqi forces […]
Remember last year’s State of the Union?
I just got through liveblogging the State of the Union address over at my own site.
There was a bit of a change of plans during the process, though, so it might not be the most informative blogging I’ve ever done, but check it out anyway.
Thatcher and Reagan conspired to elevate cold war tensions
From the Times:
MARGARET THATCHER ordered the Royal Navy to land Special Boat Service (SBS) frogmen on the coast of Sweden from British submarines pretending to be Soviet vessels, a new book has claimed. The deception involved numerous incursions by British forces into Swedish territorial waters in the […]
President Bush and Prime Minister Maliki have sharply different ideas about future role of US forces in Iraq
A couple of recent headlines show just how far apart the Bush administration and the Iraqi government are:
Iraq seeks sharp reduction in U.S. military role
U.S. Asking Iraq for Wide Rights on War
Iraqi government officials are asking that American […]
If you need any further evidence that the war in Iraq has driven the Republican Party around the bend, have a look at this video.
At the most recent Republican debate, every major candidate affirmed his belief that the US should continue to occupy Iraq. Then each went a step further, asserting that the invasion […]
Dubya’s wars may be just beginning
There were a couple of important stories lately that didn’t get enough play in the media:
Iraq’s al-Sadr warns that he may not extend cease-fire
Radical Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr put the United States and the Iraqi government on notice Friday that he may not extend a six-month cease-fire by his militia. […]
There’s apparently a civil-flame-war going on in the anti-Jihadist blogistan.
Here’s what I could gather from the links on Newshogger.com. I’ll let you bask in the schadenfreude.
A British wingnut nicknamed Lionheart living in the USA is wanted by the police in the UK. Lionheart claims he is wanted for writing against the Islamic Jihad on his […]
the dream ticket that would roll to a landslide victory in November, if it weren’t for the vast media/voting machine conspiracy
It looks like the so-called “experts” who declared that there was no voting fraud in New Hampshire have been proven wrong. Results from Nevada and South Carolina show that most of the votes were given […]