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Category: Blogosphere

  • Carnival of Liberty XXIII

    This week’s installment of the Life, Liberty, Property community’s Carnival of Liberty is up over at Below the Beltway. Go read another fine collection of posts from a libertarian slant.

  • Looking Around the Blogroll

    I just thought I’d stall on any possible blogging tonight by throwing up a few links from some of the fine folk on my blogroll.

    War on Islamic Terror Updates

    First, the campaign in Iraq graphically compared to Viet Nam, courtesy Bastard Sword. No comparison. I may have to swipe … err … borrow this chart.

    Second, Jay Tea at Wizbang! examines the bankruptcy of strategy in Iraq, but he isn’t talking about the good guys or President Bush. Instead, he’s nailing the insurgents and terrorists. Okay, yeah, there’s a swipe or two at the Democrats.

    Third, In the Bullpen‘s Chad Evans points to a story that Iran may only be months away from atomic weapons. Well, that’s comforting.

    Fourth, Mrs. Greyhawk at the Mudville Gazette is asking for Christmastime support for our wounded soldiers via the very worthy Soldiers’ Angels.

    2005 Weblog Awards

    Finalists for the Wizbang‘s Bloggies, 2005 style, have been named and voting is open. No, Target Centermass is neither a finalist nor even a nominee (as far as I bothered to notice), and that’s quite understandable given the worthy blogs on the ballot.

    Unsurprisingly, my favorite category is the Best Military Blog. John at finalist Argghhh!!! pays a brief, humble tribute to the competition and a few not on the ballot.

    Eric of Eric’s Grumbles Before the Grave, founder of the Life, Liberty, Property community, almost sounds like a proud father listing the six members of the community that have been named finalists.

    Also, the Llama Butchers, finalists for Best Culture/Gossip Blog, have started a rather interesting campaign.

    Miscellaneous

    Protein Wisdom‘s Jeff Goldstein waxes poetic, doing that haiku voodoo that only Jeff can do so well.

  • Carnival of Liberty XXII

    This week’s installment of the Life, Liberty, Property community’s Carnival of Liberty is up over at Below the Beltway. Go read another fine collection of posts from a libertarian slant.

  • Nothing Tonight but Thanksgiving Wishes

    The shoes are shined. I’m ready for Thanksgiving with the fiancee’s family.

    I just got a good workout in, and I’m already looking forward to turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, cranberry sauce (from a can!), pumpkin and pecan pie. And then seconds. And then leftovers.

    I have a lot to be thankful for this year.

    First, thank you to my fiancee. Love ya, Doll. By the way, she and I have set a May wedding date and decided on Hawaii for the honeymoon. Any feedback on the Maui-or-Oahu decision would be appreciated.

    I’m thankful that my close friend and former tank crewmate Bill is wrapping up his tour in Iraq (more here and here).

    I’m thankful for those that stop by here and read Target Centermass, and I want to thank the members of my blogroll who have brought the world to me, its news and their views, along with a healthy dose of laughter.

    Here’s wishing y’all a happy and safe Thanksgiving.

  • Introducing the Liberty Papers

    A new libertarian group blog has launched with the debut of the Liberty Papers.

    Eric Cowperthwaite, proprietor of Eric’s Grumbles Before the Grave and founder of the Life, Liberty, Property community, has gathered together a bevy of contributors with high hopes of building a strong voice for personal freedom. Eric explains the site’s purpose with the following:

    So, why this blog? Our goal is a place where we can write on Liberty. We aim to be the place you come to when you want to read political thought from a classic liberal perspective. There’s many other places on the web you can go for freedom and liberty writing. You can visit Catallarchy for anarcho-capitalist writing, or Q And O for neo-libertarian writing (a blend, really, of neo-conservative and libertarian perspectives). So, we aim to be the place you go for liberal thought from a classic perspective. Expect to see a wide variety of writing, as we have a wide variety of contributors.

    Go give it a gander. I know I’ll certainly spend time aplenty watching it develop. Hey, if I ever get off my duff and wax political, maybe I’ll try to throw my two cents into the Liberty Papers.

  • Carnival of Liberty XXI

    This week’s installment of the Life, Liberty, Property community’s Carnival of Liberty is up over at Left Brain Female. Go read another fine collection of posts from a libertarian slant.

  • En Fuego: Eric’s Grumbles

    Having made my position our media repeatedly clear, I’ll let Eric hammer on them for their current sins of omission.

    First, he tags them with a left hook for some blatant amnesia about Clinton-era concerns about Iraq:

    For more than two years now we have continuously had it pounded into our heads that there was no real linkage between al-Qaeda and Iraq, that Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11, that Osama bin Laden detested secular Iraq and would never work with them. What you may not know, even though it is in the 9/11 Commission’s report, is that Richard Clarke, the top counter-terrorism official in the later years of the Clinton Administration, didn’t agree with that point of view. And that there is reasonable evidence to support Clarke’s point of view.

    Read it. Then Eric throws a right cross at poll-number coverage:

    So, why isn’t the media, generally, telling the story that has existed at least since August? Yes, the President’s poll numbers are low, but so is the entire mainstream political structure. Now, why do you suppose the media isn’t pointing that out every time they run a story on the poll numbers? The fact is, people are disgusted with everybody in Washington. But, interestingly, they aren’t as disgusted with the President as the Congress and the political parties. That, of course, doesn’t fit the meme being pushed by certain quarters.

    Go let Eric grumble at ya.

  • Vote for the Best Blog Post Ever

    The Politburo Diktat‘s commisar is having a little competition and is giving you, the reader, the opportunity to decide the greatest blog post written to date. The ten finalists have been named, so go, judge and vote. In the end, there can be only one.

  • Send in the Clowns

    In case you hadn’t noticed, Jeff at Beautiful Atrocities is back to blogging. The cause of his absence has been unexplained in any believable manner, but I suspect some sort of secretive martial training, a la Batman Begins, was involved.

    I highly recommend this or this as an intro to all that is atrocious.

  • Carnival of Liberty XX

    This week’s installment of the Life, Liberty, Property community’s Carnival of Liberty is up over at the site of the community’s founding father, Eric’s Grumbles Before the Grave. Go read another fine collection of posts from a libertarian slant.