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Are We Talking About the Same Democrats?
Posted by Mike on November 17, 2008 Apparently, Al-Queda is quite…concerned about having Democrats in power. By way of maha, I found this David Ignatius op-ed, who quotes Sheik Yusuf al-Qaradhawi (italics mine):
Palin Refuses to Call Bombers of Women’s Health Clinics Terrorists
Posted by Mike on October 25, 2008 From the Oxdown Gazette comes this interview transcript with Sarah Palin:
The Rage of the Obama Haters Will Get Out of Control
Posted by Mike on October 20, 2008 From Fayetteville, NC:
William Ayers and G. Gordon Liddy
Posted by Mike on October 12, 2008 If Obama has a ‘Ayers problem’, why doesn’t McCain have a ‘G. Gordon Liddy problem?’ From Jamison Foser:
FBI to Published Anthrax Evidence
Posted by Mike on August 21, 2008 This is a good start:
OK, Now I’m Convinced There Isn’t an Anthrax Mixture
Posted by Mike on August 7, 2008 Yesterday, I mentioned my doubts about there being two anthrax strains used in the 2001 attacks. Thanks to an article identified by reader TomJoe, I’m convinced that there was only one anthrax strain involved, if the only evidence for the existence of two strains is that there is a DNA inversion.
Was the Anthrax Attack Really a Mixture of Two Strains?
Posted by Mike on August 6, 2008 In reading this NY Times story about the anthrax investigation, this statement about how the presence of an inversion (a region of flipped DNA) puzzled me (italics mine):
How the Bush Administration Makes Tinfoil Helmet Terrority Seem Sane
Posted by Mike on August 5, 2008 Glenn Greenwald asks a lot of good questions about the recent turns in the anthrax case. I’ll get to Greenwald’s specific questions at the end of the post, but all of Greenwald’s questions could have innocuous answers.
Anthrax: The Disconnect Between the Investigation and the Iraq War Supporters
Posted by Mike on August 3, 2008 Glenn Greenwald’s recent post about the botched anthrax investigation reminds me of a colleague who was investigated by the FBI after the anthrax attacks (and check out the letter claiming that Bruce Ivins was yet another scientist wrongfully accused).
Wildfires and the Failure of Our Security Infrastructure
Posted by Mike on July 9, 2008 More DHS follies. In this case, what we have here is a failure to communicate. From a Californian living near the wildfires (the good folks at skippy don’t like capital letters):