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Re: Republicans Hand Democrats a Wedge Issue to Counter Abortion
02/09/12 9:35 pm
I can't remember if I tweeted you this link but it's to an article by a Professor of Moral Theology at the Jesuit Marquette University. I h...Re: Republicans Hand Democrats a Wedge Issue to Counter Abortion
02/09/12 8:26 pm
The six Republican Senators who sponsored the contraception mandate consist of two women who now have Stockholm Syndrome, a man who was driv...Re: The Tea Party is Only as ‘Dead’ as Conservatism
02/08/12 11:14 am
The essence of culture war is a marching-backwards. Glenn Beck made "Leave it to Beaver" noises because his target audience is cognitively s...Re: Morning Awful: Catholic Birth Control Contention
02/08/12 10:51 am
Notice how a lot of so-called liberal Catholic MEN, like E J Dionne and Chris Matthews, are making this all about religious freedom. Bullpuc...Re: The Tea Party is Only as ‘Dead’ as Conservatism
02/08/12 10:46 am
I was six years old and in parochial school when John Kennedy ran for President. I remember my parents and family being pleased when he won,...Re: Chris Hedges on the Black Bloc “Cancer” in Occupy (but not in Anonymous)
02/08/12 2:15 am
You've seen them before at the 2009 G-20 meeting and the Battle of Seattle in 1999.Re: Morning Awful: Regressive South Carolina
02/07/12 3:17 pm
It takes an advanced degree in cognitive dissonance to deny these laws have any object other than making it harder for minorities & the ...Re: Chris Hedges on the Black Bloc “Cancer” in Occupy (but not in Anonymous)
02/07/12 7:07 am
I checked out on OWS months ago so I never heard of Black Bloc. Wow. Good to know.Re: Most Precise Bombing Campaign Ever
02/06/12 8:43 am
Applause for a simply-stated version of my own mind.
Tag Archives: military history
Most Precise Bombing Campaign Ever
Marc Garlasco helped plan the shock and awe campaign in Iraq. As soon as the war ended, he went straight to the scene of devastation to work for Human Rights Watch, standing in places he’d destroyed to meet people impacted … Continue reading
Glenn Greenwald Hates the Constitution
Many Southerners insist to this day that every confederate killed at Shiloh was the victim of a due-process free ‘targeted assassination’ — meaning that Union soldiers aimed their rifles rather than point them in random directions before pulling the trigger. … Continue reading
On Armies and Revolution
A Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) soldier stands in line during a rehearsal of the Independence Day ceremony in Juba, Sudan, on July 5, 2011. The last king of France had blown his treasury on foreign wars, including the American … Continue reading
Drone Hysteria is Stupid
The Reaper drone above is fitted for death and destruction by retail. The weapons mounted on those wings are designed for accurate destruction of specific targets, not carpet-bombing a valley. Anyone who raves about a Reaper drone annihilating entire villages … Continue reading
War: the Lethal Custom Part 4
Episode Four, The Deadly Game of Nations
War: the Lethal Custom Part 3
Episode Three, The Profession of Arms
War: the Lethal Custom Part 2
Episode Two, Anybody’s Son Will Do
War: the Lethal Custom Part 1
Episode One, The Road to Total War
Electronic Warfare
Iran’s captured drone certainly didn’t land without a bump, as you can see in this still I took from the video released yesterday: that ding is the kind of mark a small tree or bush leaves on an aircraft. Flat … Continue reading
Morning Awful: The First Pearl Harbor
December 7th, 1941, has done far more than “live in infamy:” the shock and surprise of Japan’s attack drove the invention of our modern security apparatus. During the Cold War, fears of a ‘bolt from the blue’ Russian nuclear attack … Continue reading
Saturday Afternoon TV: Worse Than War
What’s worse than war? Not being able to fight back. A two-hour BBC documentary about a problem from Hell:
