I’m a pro-2nd Ammendment liberal. You read that right.

Monday, the assault weapon ban, passed in ‘94, will die. Although our President, George W. Bush, has presented himself as a supporter of the Second Ammendment, his promise to sign an extension of the ban shows him otherwise.

The Killian memos are being attacked as forgeries by many on the right side of the aisle. Daily Kos did a rather exhaustive research session on typewriters. If you want to be bored to death, click here. Also good to click there if you want to smack down your pro-Bush buddies when they come over and say, “Hey, those files were forgeries!”

Very much related, Andrew Sullivan taook glee in noting an AP report, which reads in part, “The White House distributed the four memos from 1972 and 1973 after obtaining them from CBS News. The White House did not question their accuracy.”

Thanks to Bob at work for pointing me in this direction. From Pat Buchanan (Deep Throat?):

Well, I think it’s something the British might say when they were driven out of Palestine, the French might say when they were driven out of Algeria. Quite simply, in this modern world, if you try to rule other peoples, even to alter them, make them democratic or force them to change their ways to conform to your own, you’re going to have a serious problem with those people. They’re going to fight, just like the American revolutionaries fought against the British Empire. We ought to know that. We were the first – we were the first people to rise up against an empire.

A lot of conservative and Republican pundits like to attack France and Germany for refusing to support our War in Iraq. These pundits whine about dead US servicemen in the Second World War, as if their understanding of the word ‘ally’ is “one who obediently follows without question.”

Has it occured to any of these pundits that the reason France and Germany didn’t support the War in Iraq was because they were both former colonial powers who learned the hard way that “Gosh, imperialism really doesn’t work.”