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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished

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Monday evening, December 7, protestors supporting Navy SEALS accused of abusing prisoners gather in front of the North Church in Market Square, Portsmouth. Tuesday, December 22, 2009 — New Hampshire’s First Congressional District has been a travesty of representative government for at least 30 of the last 40 years. We’ll reserve judgment on Norm D’Amours (1975 – 1985) for the moment, but the men who held the seat for the other 30 years, Louis Wyman, Bob Smith, Bill Zeliff, John E. Sununu and Jeb Bradley, did nothing but carry water for the fat cats running this country. As Ron Dellums put it years ago, we …

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Thanks for Clearing That Up

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Monday, December 21, 2009 — This ought to forever resolve the question of whether libertarians understand anything. “We’ll all have more leisure time to spend with our loved ones.” Jesus wept.

An Irrelevant Distraction

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Tuesday, December 1, 2009 — Any hour now, our Commander in Chief will deliver a stirring call to further sacrifice in Afghanistan. Because victory is just around the corner … or just a little further down the tunnel. Forty some-odd years ago, the editor of This Olde Rag would be called upon from time to time to fill in for the Vietnamese guard of a medical lab in Saigon, who had the habit of disappearing from his post whenever a free-range chicken would wander, clucking, past his little bunker. But surely that’s all irrelevant now.

Facts Be Damned

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Friday, November 20, 2009 — This is a lot like firing on a barrel of fish with a machine gun, but it’s publication day, and we haven’t the time right now to do anything substantive. A year ago, Snopes.com let nearly all the air out of the “Pelosi’s self-indulgent use of a huge jet” meme. Perhaps Publius never heard of snopes.com. Or perhaps he’s too busy powdering his wig to check it out. Most likely he just doesn’t give a damn. It’s only reality, after all.

David Ignatius — Chickenhawk

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Thursday, November 12, 2009 — We were going to give ourselves a day off from the chickenhawks today, but this piece by David Ignatius was more than we could ignore. name: David R. Ignatius rank: Chickenhawk First Class with Distinguished Fleeing Cross date-of-birth: May 26, 1950 home state: Washington, DC missed opportunity: Vietnam War occupation: Propagandist David Ignatius turned 18 in 1968 — the year of the Tet Offensive. That year, 296,406 men were drafted. Not David. He went to Harvard. At the time, his daddy was Secretary of the Navy under Lyndon Johnson. So, yesterday, Veterans Day, 2009, this distinguished and deeply experienced individual …

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The New, Improved Chickenhawk Database is Now Online!

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Wednesday, November 11, 2009 — We are pleased to announce that our new and improved Chickenhawk Database is now online. Finally. We extend sincere thanks to all those who commented here for their patience. We hope they feel it was worth the wait. There are those who will not approve of our building and maintaining this renewed repository of right-wing pusillanimity. We would have them know that some of the fury we bring to this fight comes from the bitter knowledge that these Chickenhawks don’t just “support” wars in which they will not serve, they eagerly suppress and repudiate the anti-war views of those who …

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