The credit crunch widens

If you don’t get your debt under control, someone else will: The easy money that led Americans to depend on credit cards to pay their bills is starting to dry up. After fostering the explosive growth of consumer debt in recent years, financial companies are reducing the credit limits on cards held by millions of […]

Babablooey

The neocons are rapidly exiting tragedy and entering the realm of farce: Following up on the alleged incident in the Strait of Hormuz with those five Iranian speedboats, remember that radioed threat supposedly coming from the Iranian side? Now they’re blaming it on – are you ready for this? – “the Filipino Monkey,” some crazy […]

A fortuitous loss

From the Washington Times: The original film footage of astronaut Neil Armstrong’s first steps on the moon, one of the most important artifacts of the 20th century, has been lost. The television broadcast seen by about 600 million people in July 1969 is preserved for posterity, but the original tapes from which the footage was […]

The rot in Denmark

Americans are increasingly skeptical of the Official Story: More than a third of the American public suspects that federal officials assisted in the 9/11 terrorist attacks or took no action to stop them so the United States could go to war in the Middle East, according to a new Scripps Howard/Ohio University poll. The national […]

Choking on sand

I thought conservatives prided themselves on substantive responses and fact-based argumentation rather than baseless emotional retorts. Jonah Goldberg writes on NRO: Morgan Reynolds has lost his marbles. Reynolds used to do great work at NCPA. Now, he’s peddling the idea that Bush orchestrated 9/11. Of course, the large tinfoil hat community in Madison is giving […]

Another brick falls out of the wall

The sanitation theory of historical disease prevention gains traction: What is surprising is that all the cases of polio that have been detected in India in the past few years, have contracted it despite being vaccinated…. Associate Professor, JNU Ritu Priya, says, “You need a twin approach. Vaccination plus sanitation, nutrition and clean drinking water. […]

The corrections department

Have you read Craig Westover’s column lately? Your column on this item was only tongue-in-cheek, right? I was wondering about the extinction of the blondes piece in the Telegraph because it seemed vaguely familiar, but I have never worried much about my responsibility for accepting a widely reported, but erroneous fact at face value. It […]

And the unraveling begins

Bomb… or just another pathetic Official Story: At least one passenger aboard American Airlines Flight 924 maintains the federal air marshals were a little too quick on the draw when they shot and killed Rigoberto Alpizar as he frantically attempted to run off the airplane shortly before take-off. “I don’t think they needed to use […]

US Sky Marshals 1, Airline Passengers 0

Fox News is reporting that a female federal agent shot and killed a man on an airplane. It’s possible the shooting might have been justified, but color me, as always, skeptical. Pay close attention to the reports now; it always takes the spinners a while to get the official story together. UPDATE: Okay, if it’s […]

Mailvox: The Republican blondes did it!

Now, wouldn’t this be fascinating if it turns out to be true? Someone emailed me a link to this story of an intriguing arrest… it’s clear that the most important unanswered question is the whereabouts of Ann Coulter on September 11, 2001! French and American intelligence agents have arrested Barbara Olson, the wife of a […]