Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
Bill Clinton’s Excuses
Byron York, writing for the National Review Online today, does something awfully mean to former President Clinton’s position propped up by that temper tantrum last night (recorded Friday, as I understand). He…just checks out the facts. Not pretty.
Bill Clinton?s Excuses
No matter what he says, the record shows he failed to act against terrorism.
By Byron York?I worked hard to try and kill him,? former president Bill Clinton told Fox News Sunday. ?I tried. I tried and failed.?
?Him? is Osama bin Laden. And in his interview with Fox News? Chris Wallace, the former president based nearly his entire defense on one source: Against All Enemies: Inside America?s War on Terror, the book by former White House counterterrorism chief Richard Clarke. ?All I?m asking is if anybody wants to say I didn?t do enough, you read Richard Clarke?s book,? Clinton said at one point in the interview. ?All you have to do is read Richard Clarke?s book to look at what we did in a comprehensive systematic way to try to protect the country against terror,? he said at another. ?All you have to do is read Richard Clarke?s findings and you know it?s not true,? he said at yet another point. In all, Clinton mentioned Clarke?s name 11 times during the Fox interview.
But Clarke?s book does not, in fact, support Clinton?s claim. Judging by Clarke?s sympathetic account ? as well as by the sympathetic accounts of other former Clinton aides like Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon ? it?s not quite accurate to say that Clinton tried to kill bin Laden. Rather, he tried to convince ? as opposed to, say, order ? U.S. military and intelligence agencies to kill bin Laden. And when, on a number of occasions, those agencies refused to act, Clinton, the commander-in-chief, gave up.
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