hell’s handmaiden

Jason Kuznicki, at Positive Liberty, comments on our great nation’s use of kidnapping on the battlefield. “What?” you say. “Not us!” We’re the good guys. Oh?

U.S. forces in Iraq, in two instances described in military documents, took custody of the wives of men believed to be insurgents in an apparent attempt to pressure the suspects into giving themselves up.

Both incidents occurred in 2004. In one, members of a shadowy military task force seized a mother who had three young children, still nursing the youngest, “in order to leverage” her husband’s surrender, according to an account by a civilian Defense Intelligence Agency intelligence officer.

Top Ten things Bush won’t Tell you About the State of the Nation

1. US economic growth during the last quarter was an anemic 1.1%, the worst in 3 years.

2. The US inflation rate has jumped to 3.4 percent, the highest rate in 5 years.

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Read Juan Cole. Read Juan Cole.

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You’d have to be an idiot to think that this is what critics mean when they ask for a clear definition of Intelligent Design.

Robert Crowther, posting at Evolution News and Views, writes:

In the debate over intelligent design one of the more annoying problems is the media’s predilection to misdefine ID, and to avoid reporting the positive case scientists make for the theory based on scientific evidence. Stephen Meyer, CSC Director, this weekend penned a clear and concise description of the theory that everyone –especially journalists– should read and remember.

I want to take a moment to quickly show some of AiG’s attempts to destroy the processes thought. Dr. David Menton, writing for Answers in Genesis, has taken an interest in some footprints found in Mexico by Sylvia Gonzales.

What has drawn a lot of attention to this report is that the footprints were dated by optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) to be 40,000 years old. Naturally, this age is unacceptable to biblical creationists who will see these footprints, and the conditions surrounding their formation, as compelling evidence of Noah’s Flood over 4,000 years ago. But as we shall see, a 40,000-year age for human footprints in Mexico is also a problem for most evolutionists.

Its short, so I’ve quoted the whole thing.

A WHITE House leak claims Tony Blair and George Bush plotted to go to war against Iraq without United Nations backing at a secret meeting.

A new edition of a book insists the two leaders went through the motions of getting UN support for military action - but were united on invasion even if the UN failed to back them.

The book, by London University law professor Phillipe Sands, said Mr Blair gave his total support to Mr Bush at the secret White House meeting in January 2003. After the meeting, the two leaders gave a press conference where Mr Bush appeared to support going for a second UN resolution to give specific approval for a war.