The War Party seems particularly desperate these days. For starters, our beggars for war seem just a little too eager for news of terrorism. Now we learn that the captured al Qaeda "informant" failed a lie detector test, days after every hardware store in America sold out of plastic sheeting and duct tape with which Americans can seal themselves in latter-day sarcophagi, now they finally tell us the upgraded alert was based on false information. Well, partly, they say. They have other, verified, information as well, they assure us, so there are no plans to change the alert status. And … Continue reading The Whole World Against Us