"a narrative is the key to everything."

Last year the old narrative about the Middle East conflict was still dominant: Israel is an innocent victim, doing only what it must do to defend itself against the Palestinians. Today, that narrative is beginning to lose its grip on Americans.

"CIA ex-chief Hayden blames bloggers for damage caused by his policies."

Hayden is just pissed because he could find a way to Mighty Wurlitzer-ize you DFH bloggers.

...only Clarence Thomas believed that the strip search in this case did not violate the Constitution.

What is it with that creep?

"These judges deserve to be killed.”

In his posting, Turner wrote “Let me be the first to say this plainly: These judges deserve to be killed.”

That statement alone might not be enough to cross the line established by the Supreme Court in 1969 in Brandenburg v. Ohio as advocating imminent violence. Violent speech is protected under the Constitution absent such a threat of imminent violence.

Well that's a relief.

Dear E Pluribus Unum:

WAAAAA!!! WAAAAAA!! (sob, sob, sob) WAAAAA!!

Faux Spews (R - Scumbag)

Domestic Right Wing Terrorist arrested for threatening the lives of Federal Judges.

A white supremacist blogger and internet radio host was arrested and charged Wednesday with threatening to kill judges, the authorities said.

In recent weeks, media outlets have misidentified as Democrats several Republicans facing scandal, poor poll numbers

unFair & unBalanced.

“hiking the Appalachian trail” and “flying to Argentina” are now going to have new meaning culturally

An affair, maybe. Scandal definitely.

Weaponized Keynesianism

These arguments will come from the very people who denied that the economic recovery plan created any jobs. We have a very odd economic philosophy in Washington: It’s called weaponized Keynesianism. It is the view that the government does not create jobs when it funds the building of bridges or important research or retrains workers, but when it builds airplanes that are never going to be used in combat, that is of course economic salvation.

Iran trigged the election

In other words, a bet that the numbers are clean is a one in two-hundred long shot.

Anti-Choice

The Marines V-22 is an expensive useless piece of shit.

The Government Accountability Office, a nonpartisan congressional agency that audits federal programs, reviewed the aircraft's Iraq mission reports, interviewed pilots and concluded last month that the Marines ought to revisit the Osprey and look for alternatives.

Twenty-six Marines and four civilians have been killed in Osprey crashes since the 1990s. As defense secretary under President George H.W. Bush, Dick Cheney tried repeatedly to kill the program.

There were problems mounting a gun on the front of the Osprey. It couldn't fly well at altitudes above 8,000 feet or in extreme heat.

NASA experts told the Marines years ago that the aircraft had great difficulty landing on aircraft carriers in the rolling open seas.

"The U.S. Marine Corps leadership has shown little or no concern over this issue," A.R. Rivolo, an aviation expert and critic of the Osprey, testified Tuesday. "I believe this is reprehensible. It's a stand the Marine Corps leadership should never have taken."

With the 30-year program projected to cost nearly $75 billion, the GAO recommended a new analysis of the military's needs. It found that in Iraq, the aircraft was capable of conducting missions less than two-thirds of the time because of weather obstacles or breakdowns.