The Daily Dish (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
Phillip Carter questions Army Lt. Gen. James Dubik's optimism about Iraqi troop readiness: ...it's important to note the forces he's not talking about -- namely, the local Iraqi police, the Iraqi national police, and all of the Iraqi government institutions...
Medical,Health News and Articles (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Seven former HHS secretaries and two other individuals have sent a letter to members of Congress asking lawmakers to add menthol to the list of flavorings that would be banned under a bill (HR 1108/S 625) to give FDA authority to regulate tobacco, the New York Times reports. Three out of four black smokers use [...]
Mr. Irrelevant (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Jason Taylor is good, Jason Taylor is old and Jason Taylor is a Washington Redskin. He doesn’t come cheap either, costing the reigning NFC Wild Card — it’s a big deal! — a second-rounder in ‘09 and a sixth in ‘10. And, after it all comes out in the wash, I like it a lot. [...]
Pajiba (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
Superhero Movie Ruins Sleepwalking This Week's DVD Releases / The Pajiba Staff...
Theodore's World (Free subscription) | 07/13/2008
. Obama Refusing to Meet McCain for Foreign Policy Town Hall Meeting Before Military Audience Obama is refusing to meet John McCain for a debate on Foreign Policy before a Town Hall Meeting audience composed of veterans, military service...
Blogger News Network (Free subscription) | 07/12/2008
Today, I read an article from the New York Times entitled “Obama won’t commit to event at military base.” The article was written, presumably after a press release announcing the event was disseminated, and states that Senator Obama will not commit to a Presidential Town Hall slated to be convened at the Bell County Expo [...]
Flopping Aces (Free subscription) | 07/12/2008
The man who wants to be the leader of the free world is backing down…again…from standing in front of a crowd with McCain and answering questions. Cough…coward….cough A coalition of military groups is planning a nationally televised town-hall-style meeting with the presidential candidates near Fort Hood, Tex., the largest active-duty military installation in the country. But so [...]
Crooks and Liars (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008 | Politics
In order to determine whether or not “water boarding” is indeed torture, Vanity Fair’s Christopher Hitchens decided to do the most logical thing: experience it first hand. Download | Play Download | Play (h/t Logan) “If waterboarding does not constitute torture, then there is no such thing as torture.” Vanity Fair: Arms already lost to me, I wasn’t able to [...]
Election Law (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008 | Politics
Today's Supreme Court opinion in FEC v. Davis nominally deals with a relatively tangential portion of the McCain-Feingold law; but the 5-4 decision has much broader implications, laying the groundwork for striking down limits on spending by corporations and unions....
Seattle Pos (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
The expedition that found the bodies of three Seattle snowboarders killed in an avalanche in December started with a simple blog post from a stranger.
KOMO - News - Local (Free subscription) | 06/22/2008
Searchers have found the bodies of three snowboarders missing since early December in the Cascades near Crystal Mountain, a skiing area northeast of Mount Rainier in Washington state's Cascade Range.
Hogs Haven (Free subscription) | 06/18/2008
Redskins 360 takes an early stab at the defensive depth chart and notices that we're going to lose at least one deserving player on the defensive line somewhere along the way. He says: Defensive line (9) Set: Phillip Daniels, Cornelius Griffin, Andre Carter, Anthony Montgomery, Kedric Golston, Demetric Evans and Lorenzo Alexander. Competition: A bunch of players for two spots -- Chris Wilson, Erasmus...
Histori-blogography (Free subscription) | 06/13/2008 | Politics
'cause i already know the compass is a liar Phil Carter posts about the U.S. Army's distribution of C.S.A. talking points to its troops. Which is worth noticing, sure, and I've written before about the use of government platforms to inflict dimwitted propaganda on people in the military. But whatever -- my own view is that we should have long since started identifying most senior military officials...
I must be dreaming (Free subscription) | 06/13/2008
Today’s Washington Post is quite the spectacle. Opinion blogger Phillip Carter, who evidently writes on ”national security and the military,” has written a piece entitled, “Army Shows Its Colors.” I suppose I should have known better, since I found the initial link on the Huffington Post, under the title: “Army Spreads Partisan Attacks Against Obama,” but [...]
Think Progress (Free subscription) | 06/12/2008 | Other
The Army public affairs office publishes a daily roundup of Army-related news, mostly linking to “mainstream media articles, Army press releases, foreign media stories and blogs.” A link in Tuesday’s round-up, however, was “unusual” for its “patent political bias.” It read: “Obama: World peace thru surrender (KDIHH).” Phillip Carter at the Washington Post notes what’s [...]
