Justus For All

Read this post by Wretchard at the Belmont Club.
He talks about how war has changed and how integral the media and public relations are to the battlefield.

Read this article about how non-violent cartoons are a BAD thing for society.
Excerpt:
One author has a better idea. In his superb and unfairly overlooked 2002 book, Killing Monsters, former comic book author Gerard Jones proposes that society needs an entirely different approach to the issue of violence in children’s entertainment. He suggests that children respond […]

Read this article about a prison simulation at Stanford in 1971.
It is chilling how eerily the actions of those taking part in the study mimicked what happened at Abu Ghraib.
Two days into the good doctor’s experiment, the normal, adjusted students were playing their prison roles with frightening reality. The “prisoners,” fed up with having roll […]

This article in the Wall Street Journal talks about evidence of Iraq having ties with Al Qaeda. Interesting stuff.
I don’t think that Saddam was directly connected to 9/11. I do think though that he had contacts with Al Qaeda and provided them some support.

Right Side Redux looks into Adam Gadahn, the one American in the FBI’s seven wanted terrorists.
It is still incredible to me how much information is literally at our fingertips, and how easy it is to find.

Check out this article about Iraqi women learning to shoot guns.
Slowly, but with gathering speed, the Iraqi people are beginning to take responsibility for their own security. I expect this to accelerate greatly after the June 30 handoff date.
via Kim Du Toit

Aric and his raging squirrels post about the rising costs of drugs.
I am not going to try to argue all the spefics in this post. I will simply refer you to this Article on Tech Central Station.
I will say this though. Whenever you insist that someone take their private property and […]

Al Gore calls for the resignation of key Bush administration figures.
In the speech at New York University, Gore singled out Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and national security adviser Condoleezza Rice.
He also included his former Clinton administration colleague, CIA Director George Tenet, even though he called Tenet “a personal friend” and “a good and decent and […]

Blackfive posts this story about an Iraqi Iman visiting a detention facitily run by the 1st Infantry Division.
Following their visit, Abass and his associates admitted that they had been pleasantly surprised at how well the detainees were treated. They said the detainees told them that they were well fed, cared for and treated with respect […]

My friend Aric, has just started a political blog. You can find it here.
Aric is a raving pinko commie liberal. Well, actually he is not quite that bad, but he is definitely left of center. Other than that he is a pretty nice guy and makes some good points occasionally. Of […]