Everyone knows that from Woodrow Wilson's advocacy of minority rights guarantees at Versailles to FDR's leadership in World War II to Truman's conduct in Korea to JFK's handling of the Cuban Missile crisis to Jimmy Carter's defense of Afghan independence to Bill Clinton's prosecution of the Kosovo War that American liberals have been nothing but a bunch of unpatriotic apologists for tyranny.
Seriously, though, folks, if you can't see that moral clarity -- the project of identifying which regimes are bad and how bad they are -- seriously undetermines foreign policy -- the question of what we're supposed to do about those regimes -- there's something seriously wrong with you.

Michael Wolff received over 3,000 hate e-mails after asking Gen. Vincent Brooks at a Centcom briefing: "Why are we here? Why should we stay? What's the value of what we're learning at this million-dollar press center?" He was also told by the Centcom Uber-civilian, "a thirtyish Republican operative": "Don't f--- with things you don't understand. This is f---ing war, asshole. ...No more questions for you.

Former Vermont Gov. Howie Dean isn't surrendering even the smallest, most inconsequential segment of the Democratic Party to the likes of Sen. John Kerry or Sen. Joe Lieberman. That's why he could be found pressing the flesh, as it were, in Manhattan's Greenwich Village recently, and speaking at the Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual and Transgender Center. Dean was welcomed enthusiastically, and seemed particularly focused on Transgender voters, mentioning them several times. "Maybe he thinks they can vote twice, depending on the timing of their transgendering, or whatever you call it," says a member of the New York Conservative Party. "It's certainly a group not many politicians anywhere look to woo." Dean, who isn't expected to last long into the primary season, has seen his long shot presidential aspirations slide into oblivion in the aftermath of the successful Operation Iraqi Freedom. Dean was able to raise about $500 from his speech at the center. In the same period of time, Sen. Lieberman raised $100,000.

Emceeing Saturday night's Best Friends rock-and-roll gala at the Marriott Wardman Park -- which raised $800,000 for the 15-year-old charity benefiting inner-city schoolchildren -- the Fox News Channel star was trying to fill dead air during a lull in the entertainment.
Members of the "Best Men," as the sixth-to-eighth-grade boys in the program are called, were delayed getting onstage to perform a lip-synced rendition of the Four Tops standard "Reach Out (I'll Be There)." O'Reilly ad-libbed: "Does anyone know where the Best Men are? I hope they're not in the parking lot stealing our hubcaps." (link via altercation)

Personally I hope for a million De Genovas!!We at Columbia Students for free speech would like to heartily applaud Prof. De Genova for his uncommon courage and conviction in protesting the Iraq war, and for being the only example of true dissent in this country right now.
We would like to commend him for his purist conviction that BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY our war against Iraq must be stopped.
We applaud him for having the insight to point out the non-feasibility of patriotism as a discourse upon which to base a movement of true dissent, THE MAIN POINT OF HIS TEACH-IN SPEECH

The British will take heart from the more cautious voices coming out of Washington. Lawrence Eagleburger was Secretary of State for Bush's father, the first President Bush, and he and otherleading veterans of the first Bush administration warned last summer about the dangers of attacking Iraq. In fact they were thought to be acting as proxies for their old boss, who was said to be privately unconvinced of his son's policies. Now that the military campaign seems to be drawing to a close, we ask Mr Eagleburger if it is true that winning the peace will be much harder. In an impassioned interview, Mr Eagleburger also tells us that if George W. Bush were to take military action against Iran and Syria, he should be impeached.