"...experience shows that most foreign terrorists who infiltrate the U.S. are either illegal aliens or temporary legal immigrants."

Does this even make sense? How many "foreign terrorists" have infiltrated the U. S. in their "experience?" Were any of them naturalized citzens? Out of the millions of illegal aliens and temporary legal immigrants in the U. S., how many have been proven to be "foreign terrorists?"

Why would anyone single out the blog sadlyno.com for misrepresentation? All they do is point out the absurdity of RWA bloviators. To my mind, only someone who has been the target of that blog's ridicule would feel it necessary to lie about the nature of the postings there.

"We actually spend more money on the Israelis than we do on American healthcare or education."

This is almost as believable as the idea that someone can tell who's jewish and who's not by looking at pictures and reading lists of names.

It must be a rare gift, indeed, to be able to determine if an American soldier is black or jewish (if not both) simply by reading their last name. I would love to learn how to do this. Please explain, so that I can benefit from your knowledge.

Do you only do "nuance" when its a non-jewish ox being gored? There are Jewish Italians, Irish Jews and Jewish African-Americans, as well. There are also Jewish soldiers fighting and dying (needlessly, I scarce need to add) in Iraq and Afghanistan.

I'm going to take a page from the bethincary playbook and declare that I'm sick and tired of the Irish yelling at the Jews and Italians and African-Americans about getting abortions. If they hate abortion so much, why don't they move back to Ireland where abortion is illegal?

shooter apparently knows the right way to teach Islam about free speech. So, shooter, if you had Islam in your classroom, one-on-one, how would you teach Islam about free speech?

We replaying the Cold War inside the U. S., with the right wing ironically cast in the role of the old Soviet Union, using harsh eliminationist rhetoric (right wing spokespeople have been declaring variations of "we will bury you" to people on the left for years). A cold civil war, being fought by proxy in the media, in the government, and in various voting precincts. I pray it never grows hot. MAD, indeed.

Ease up guys. In the last 24 hours alone he has demonstrated self-awareness of the cognitive dissonance he suffers from, and admitted his preferred method of lying.

He may be close to a breakthrough, here.

Hiatt misstates ElBaradei's position as being against sanctions. And yet, here's what ElBaradei told DerSpiegel just two days ago:

"The UN sanctions against Tehran will remain in place in the interim. It's important to exert pressure. But in addition to sanctions we must also have incentives."

He doesn't sound very anti-sanctions to me. Is it possible that Fred Hiatt might tell an untruth about another person? Or that shooter tends to believe anything someone says, regardless of factual evidence to the contrary, as long as it fits in with his worldview?

Survey says yes. Heh.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,503841,00.html

"...why does anyone think that Iran will capitulate after being bombed?"

Because they suffer from the same incapacity for rational thought that leads them to believe that terror attacks represent an existential threat.

To anybody with a healthy, functioning brain, it's obvious that advocating a military withdrawal from Iraq does not mean not supporting the troops. So, let me explain to the rest of you:

When a Republican says "support the troops," in the context of the Iraq occupation, what they actually means is "support President Bush's decision to keep combat troops in Iraq." A moment of reflection would make this obvious to a normal human being. The troops are not in Iraq by choice. They have been ordered there by the Commander-in-Chief. It's possible to agitate for the President to change his orders and still admire and respect those troops as fellow human beings who have been put in a nearly impossible position due to an ill-conceived decision by their commander.

Again, anyone with a normal human capacity to think and reason should be able to understand this.