Things I Found September 6, 2008

September 6 : Today In History

General Principles: While other top brass played press agents for the administration’s war, William Odom told the truth about Iraq—though few listened.

Shimon Peres warns Israel’s hawks over Iran strike: Israel's president, Shimon Peres, has warned the prime minister that a military attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities could provoke a broader conflict.

The Large Hadron Collider: End of the world, or God's own particle?: A bewildered Cole Moreton goes in search of the science behind the spin.

US-Russia tensions deepen over Georgia: Tensions between Russia and the United States over Georgia intensified Saturday with Vice President Dick Cheney casting Moscow as a brutal regime that aims to recapture its Soviet-era dominance.

Pro Libertate: Behold a Palin Horse

Pro Libertate: Behold a Palin Horse

I love it when someone gets it just right.

Yes, the prospect of an Obama presidency is terrifying — not necessarily because of the candidate himself, but because of the success the conservative movement has enjoyed in endowing the presidency with autocratic powers.

For entirely self-serving reasons, the Republican Party’s base, which until recently treated Bush the Lesser with the same slack-jawed, glassy-eyed adoration rendered to Obama by his more devoted supporters, is just now awakening to the dangers of executive aggrandizement.

But such concerns will evaporate among the GOP faithful if McCain is victorious in November. Indeed, tumultuous applause greeted every derogatory allusion to the Bill of Rights offered by Palin and her warm-up act, the Polystyrene Panderer from Massachusetts. The salient fear displayed by the Republicans is that Obama will inherit a distended office and destroy what remains of our liberty before the Republicans have a chance to finish that job themselves.

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