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via American Conservative Magazine:

The record, from published administration memoirs and in-depth reporting, is one of an administration with a very small group of six or eight real decision-makers, who were set on war from the beginning and who took great pains to shut out arguments from professionals in the CIA and State Department and the U.S. armed forces that contradicted their rosy scenarios about easy victory. Much has been written about the neoconservative hand guiding the Bush presidency—and it is peculiar that one who was fired from the National Security Council in the Reagan administration for suspicion of passing classified material to the Israeli embassy and another who has written position papers for an Israeli Likud Party leader have become key players in the making of American foreign policy.

Electron love dot com.

Houston is a cruel and crazy town on a filthy river in East Texas with no zoning laws and a culture of sex, money and violence. It's a shabby sprawling metropolis ruled by brazen women, crooked cops and super-rich pansexual cowboys who live by the code of the West -- which can mean just about anything you need it to mean, in a pinch.

Some conservative voices make the following observation:

Lesbian = abortion, adultery, alcoholism, and now obesity.

Shakeskin.

Maakies

Several thousand are termed "hikikomori"

There's just something about, you know, "I am running for office and I support the legalization of PCP" that does not register well with voters.

Pro-gun women on "FULL AUTO"

Constantin rushed out into his yard in his underwear to kill a noisy chicken keeping him awake at night.