If you want to discuss the hidden costs of the Iraq war, you better have your cup on, because you WILL get kicked in the nuts.
Think Progress » White House Smears Nobel Economist: ‘Lacks Courage’ For Ignoring ‘Cost Of Failure’ In Iraq
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Right wing talk radio has become the last bastion for the eternally self-deluded in the face of overwhelming evidence that the Modern Bush Republican ideology has been a colossal disaster. In the familiar world of Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh’s radio-reality, down is still up and that is just the salve for the sucking chest wound that is Iraq and the US Economy.

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Juan Cole has a great post on the Iran Speedboat video controversy that erupted after the US charged that Iranians were intimidating naval vessels and threatening to blow them up…

That sounds pretty bad… Then, we saw and HEARD the video…

In a accent somewhere between Steve Martin’s “Wild & Crazy Guys” SNL character and that cuban guy who rolls cigars on Miami Beach, the ominous voice is heard saying: “I am coming to YOU…” and “You will explode after a few minutes…”.

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Seems Karl Rove is not going to be sitting quietly on the sidelines. Indeed, it’s hard to figure out what to make of the new, available, accessible, public and on the record Karl Rove, columnist, talking head and blogger.
Rove may have royally screwed the pooch with his revisionist version of the lead up to war […]

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Citizen_of_Earth left an amazing and important comment on ThinkProgress this morning in response to a ridiculous article by Family Security Matters claiming that “multiculturalism exposes the U.S to terrorism“. It’s one that everyone should read, so I’m posting the comment here:

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TP has the story on a RIDICULOUS tirade about the Eagle’s new album, “Long Road Out of Eden“, their first new studio album since 1979. Incredibly, Newsbusters whines about the lack of attention paid to islamofacism and the plight of women in the war torn middle-east(!).
It’s well worth a read for a laugh. We participated […]

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In the department of “It’s About Time…”, fallen soldier Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder’s father has filed suit against Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church for disrupting his son’s funeral.
The Evening Sun has the full story.
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It NEVER fails…
Just walked by CNN regurgitating the latest story about Al-Qaeda coming to the US and stopped for second, wondering out loud, “How long before the Terrorists On Monkey Bars Clip comes on…”
We shit you not, 5 seconds later, there it is… You know the one:

It is the universal Al-Qaeda training camp […]

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Cute as a bug White House spokesperson Dana Perino insists Congress was “fully briefed” on secret torture opinion.

However, Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman John Rockefeller (D-WV) was more than a little pissed about discovering, from the New York Times, that the WH gave the CIA secret approval in 2005.
Now, Rockefeller is demanding copies of all […]

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Surprise! White House Investigator Comes Up Short on Funding
In the department of who didn’t see this one coming, Scott Bloch’s Office of Special Counsel investigation was launched with great bravado and no dough…
Equally shocking is the notion that Mr. Bloch is not highly regarded by his peers:
Ex DOJ wrote on September 17, 2007 11:56 PM:
Scott […]

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