Did Marines Render Departed Taliban Short Arm Salute?

A video shows four purported Marine rendering due respect to purported dead Taliban fighters, from Useless Toady:

WASHINGTON (AP) – Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on Thursday condemned as “utterly deplorable” a video that purports to depict four U.S. Marines

Dumbo’s birth certificate, Dumbo, b/k/a Barack Obama as reported by George Stephanopoulos, ABC New, via ZIP, Weasel Zippers:

“I think that over the last two and a half years there’s been an effort to go at me

Fluck tolerance, as usual Dim Won, b/k/a Barack Obama, is full of a brown smelly liquid, best used for fertilizer, from Erica Werner, Associated Press

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama appealed to an unsettled nation Saturday to honor the memory

So we have here, ladies and gentlemen, Obama’s Bay of Rigs.  Obama’s Bay of Rigs has been so disastrous he’s now seen as the disappointer-in-chief by Maureen Dowd and Chris Matthews, who — get this! Last week Chris Matthews played

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• UNEMPLOYMENT AT 9.8%: That’s far worse than was estimated… about double, in fact. And if you count those who have simply giving

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This is the “Now you’ve got no excuse” edition

• LIBERAL FACIST: Jonah takes the theme of his recent book, Liberal Facisn, and runs

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This is the Unemployment Edition In honor of those who have lost their jobs thanks for Barry the O.

• DEATH PANEL:  If

We lost a great one this morning, from Sun-Times (Chicago):

Most people know the late Sun-Times columnist Robert D. Novak, who died this morning [Tuesday] from complications of a brain tumor, as a journalist. And indeed he was among the

Robert Reich, Salon, issues a warming:

The President seems to me especially thoughtful and passionate about one of the great moral questions of domestic policy today: widening inequality of income and wealth, and therefore of opportunity and political power.

Let me talk about “justice” for a moment. Is there any question around here but that this is, at root, an ethical concept? It’s about values and their disposition. Political questions (what specific acts to take in a social context