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Following intelligence disclosures about Iranian-supplied weapons...we predicted that "a large part of Washington will pretend the evidence doesn't exist, or suggest the intelligence isn't proven, or claim that it's all the Bush Administration's fault for 'bullying' Iran." Sure enough, President Bush faced a barrage of questions Wednesday wondering whether senior Iranian leaders were aware of the weapons transfers, whether he was using "faulty intelligence," and whether the disclosures were designed to "provoke Iran." < snip > Well, here's an item that doesn't seem to have been manufactured by Dick Cheney. According to a report in Britain's Daily Telegraph, U.S. forces...

Leon Smith was all but run out of a small Texas town, not so much for what he did as for where and when he did it. After all, hundreds of others across the country did exactly the same thing at about the same time for perhaps similar reasons without noticeable consequences. Even Smith himself was able to commit his deed a second time a short drive down the road without tumult and uproar. The Lone Star Iconoclast was banned from the Coffee Station over its Kerry endorsement. (Photo by Scott Latham) ‘We yanked the Iconoclast from the store and...

A couple weeks ago I wrote about the fact that I can’t carry a gun now that I live in DC.  Unfortunately, I recently found out about another downside to life in the District: I missed out on a free ticket to Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11.  A small independent theater in my college town recently sponsored a “Republicans-only” screening of the film – so people who didn’t want to give Moore a dime could see it on the owner’s dime. But I missed out.  And since I decided lying (i.e. getting a ticket to another movie) in order to expose...

THE horrific human, financial and polit ical cost of the occupation of Iraq sug gests a need to review our nation's role in the post-9/11 world: The United States can't be the world's policeman — but must be the world's firefighter. President Bush has been quite right to articulate the need for pre-emptive action to stop terrorists from getting sufficient traction and weaponry to attack the United States. To wait for an attack to respond would be to court disaster. He also grasps, as President Bill Clinton did not and John Kerry does not, that military action to eliminate terror-sponsoring...