24 – 12:00 midnight til 1am open thread
Apologies for the light blogging today. Have been in the middle of several things, including a lengthy online argument on whether or not prostitution should be legalized.
Obama’s Associate Deputy AG vindicates John Yoo and Jay Bybee
The WSJ reports and editorializes on a significant story you may not have heard about thanks to it (conveniently) being dumped on the news media on a Friday night:
A retrospective on the war on Iraq
If you read nothing else today, please read David Bellavia’s poignant piece on Iraq: Our Mission is Finally Accomplished… Anyone Care? It’s mostly directed at the doubters and naysayers, those who didn’t believe the US could and would win there, but it’s also an important read for those of us stateside who never gave up believing the mission could be accomplished, who never had a doubt that our men and women and our allies would make it happen.
An answer to Keith “People of Color” Olbermann
Take it away, Randy Haddock:
Liberals are maddening! (OPEN THREAD)
That is all.
The lastest far left smear attack on Senator Brown
They’ve thrown everything they can at him, from the kitchen sink to the fact that his wife and daughters wear bikinis (scandalous!), and nothing has stuck, but that doesn’t keep them from trying. The latest far left ‘scandal’ on Senator Brown is that, rather than being forcefully condemning, he is a sympathetic b*stard trying to make excuses for the so-called “Tea Party plane crasher (more here).” In essence, they’re saying he was “sympathetic” to a “far right domestic terrorist.”