Discovering the obvious with the trivial
seems hardly worth the effort.
Nothing in this story matters.
It’s hardly significant that any agency
is slow to count the plaques it awards.
Why give credence […]

Litmus test on Cause of Action —
google the site for:
1. Drones — zero results
2. Nuclear warheads — zero results
3. Acorn [no longer extant} — a dozen or more results

Even if “Cause of Action” isn’t just another O’Keefe O’Scam,
this little game is not a serious exercise.
There are FOIA requests that matter, plaques and doodads don’t.

Seriously?
“spending on promotional items like plaques and commemorative items” —
you sure this isn’t from the Onion?

Seriously?
“spending on promotional items like plaques and commemorative items” —
you sure this isn’t from the Onion?

Syria os a lose/lose opportunity
for American interventionism.

Rubio suggests what Obama authorized in August for Syria?

Way to go.

to Drew Martin — no need to get ad hominem
(which isn’t an argument anyway).
While I certainly hope there’s no war with Iran,
I don’t think Paul is the only one with that hope.
You referred to […]

What numbers?

Your specific about Rand Paul are attention-getting,
and I don’t dispute any of it (not knowing).
What pre-emptive wars did he hold up?
So much of what you list is much to be desired,
but almost none of […]

Interesting response, and of course we’ll see if your —
is it optimism? — turns out to be correct.
Surely seems possible, but such impact within the Republican world
may not be much impact in the real […]

None of that is to say that they won’t be prominent (or more)
in 2016 Republican politics (assuming no 2014 sea change)
but that’s just another perspective on American politics
and its widespread lack of […]

Both these guys are ambitious lightweights,
but Paul is the more dangerous because
he has his rap down pat and seems to believe it,
whereas Rubio is still looking for a hand to be the puppet on.

That’s not to say I don’t believe the Times version,
or that of others — could be true — I’m agnostic.
There’s too many credible explanations for almost any version of this
for one to accept any of them […]

That would mean, for example, characterizing accusations as “accusations,”
using phrases like “no independent confirmation,” etc —
I suspect you know what I mean.
Detachment is strength.
Saying more […]

Now THAT’s a very reasonable and cogent response
that is quite at odds with your lead
which accepts one version of events as the true version of events,
but with no reliable basis for doing so (as I think we […]

Is there any technical reason the attacks,
if they’re real
[how do we know?],
couldn’t ALL be coming from Iranians [or anyone else]
posing as Chinese or Americans?
Or maybe Anonymous, posing as […]

This is a story with current cachet,
but no matter who tells it, there never seems to be
any coherent context — namely
(1) HOW does anyone know the Chinese are doing what people say they are?
(getting to […]

And why would I carry on so about something like this?
IVN bills itself as a vehicle for
“Unfiltered News. For You. By You.”
In this case, the news was filtered, and not by me,
and not with any […]

Just noticed an “allegedly” that was
heedlessly added in the second graf, as in:
“… who allegedly used his taser to kill Macadam Mason…”
In fact, there is nothing alleged about this act or its result. […]

As for the rest of the last sentence, I disown it,
I didn’t write it, and it’s not what I meant.
What I wrote was that — as the story shows —
Vermont’s Governor, Attorney General, and State Police
have […]

An excess of editorial timidity apparently
added the word “potentially”
to my last sentence, which read in part:
“… a poor dead artist with epilepsy
who was tasered to death by a Vermont State […]

It’s an excellent tool.

Needs more carnage to go viral….

Here’s the thing:
if he doesn’t block this now,
when it’s so easy to do conceptually and procedurally,
when does he begin to defend the already compromised future?

Of course if one believes Hansen and […]

Of course, byt KXL is what’s in play now
and this is what Hansen considers a watershed.
Either Obama will
(1) block it,
(2) delay it,
or
(3) cave