Paul Krugman complains that President Bush suffers from an "infallibilty complex." To resort to a schoolyard retort (the level of Krugman's arguments): "It takes one to know one." On a related note: Over at Random Jottings, they're updating Paul Krugman's job chart.
Slate's one-trick pony, Jacob Weisberg, author of their "Bushisms" feature has stuck his foot in it again. "I'm honored to shake the hand of a brave Iraqi citizen who had his hand cut off by Saddam Hussein."—Washington, D.C., May 25, 2004 As Eugene Volokh notes, and anyone who had been following the story would know, […]
Human rights organizations, and others, often make the argument that we should follow the Geneva Conventions because if we do not, then our opponents in future wars would use that as an excuse to mistreat American soldiers that they capture. This argument is often applied (bizarrely) by human rights organizations to terrorists who do not […]