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John Cole started Balloon Juice early in 2002. Those who have followed along know that this has been quite the journey.
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Did Matt Welch forget to bail Ken Layne out of jail after the weekend?
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“OK- Let’s see here. I need to praise the enemy.”
In case you haven’t noticed, the people running Al Qaeda are smart. Saturday’s bombing in Bali, presumably carried out by a group connected to Al Qaeda, was monstrously evil. It was also, I’m sorry to say, very clever. And it reinforces the sinking feeling that our leaders, who seem determined to have themselves a conventional war, are playing right into the terrorists’ hands.
“Now I need to throw in some shit so people think I know what I am talking about. What can I say about their economy- oh, this will do.”
Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim country, has not been a major breeding ground for terrorists. It is, however, a nation with severe economic, social and political problems
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This is truly impressive from the self-annointed Begala admirer- an EIGHT paragraph ad hominem against Insight magazine. I guess he does not like their politics or something, therefore everything they write is irrelevant.
Which means I can stop reading the Nation, the NY Times, Josh, the Boston Globe, etc.
The arrogance of the left is unlimited.
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By a growing margin, more than twice as many Americans feel U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton should never run for president, according to a poll released Monday.
The Marist Institute for Public Opinion found 69 percent of Americans said the Democratic former first lady should never run for president. Twenty-six percent said she should run “someday.” That’s a steady decline in support since March 2001 when the poll found 30 percent felt she should run for president someday.
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Signs of Aging
If you leave your lights on, your car battery is dead, and your first thought is:
“Damn. I am going to have to redo all my AM news channel presets.”
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President Bush says: “Obviously, the attack on our marines in Kuwait was a terrorist attack,” Mr. Bush told political reporters on the South Lawn of the White House before leaving for a political trip here.
That’s completely absurd. If an al Qaida attack on armed, uniformed, active-duty military personnel employed by a country that describes itself as “at war” with al Qaida is a terrorist attack, then everything is a terrorist attack. Indeed, what happened in Kuwait was almost the reverse of a terrorist attack. Which doesn’t make it okay. In fact, it was very bad. But it was very bad because al Qaida is a very bad organization with very bad goals and it would be a terrible thing if they accomplished those goals. Trying to seize some kind of procedural high-ground where we label their every action as some kind of illegitimate terrorist atrocity is both pointless and self-defeating. Bush needs to stand up and say what everybody knows