For the moment I don't really care whether or not 9/11 was an inside job, or whether a jumbo jet could have managed to impact the Pentagon. Let's just assume it's all correct, just for the sake of argument. Now here is a selection of calls by Libertarians 4 Justice and its fellow travelers here and on Third Party Watch over the past few days: "The Libertarian Party has Congressional, Senatorial, and Presidential candidates on the ballot in 2008 who are all calling for a new investigation into the attacks on 9/11 until we are sure beyond a reasonable doubt that the terrorists have been brought to justice." "We want justice. Simple as that. We want the truth. We want those responsible to pay. The families deserve no less. The only way to provide this is to hold an open and public Congressional inquiry with full subpoena powers." "Libertarians For Justice want an open and public congressional inquiry." [Referring to the Popular Mechanics inves...

I really hate it when this happens. When I end up agreeing with Eric Dondero, I mean. Dondero is a self-styled Libertarian Republican who concept of Libertarianism is about as far from mine as you can get. (Take, for example, his recent article on Dubya as a Libertarian President , or his insistence "that if we flee Iraq and al Qaeda takes over in the MidEast the price of oil will be $250 a barrel and our economy and civil society will be destroyed"--which is actually a quote from Dondero's talk-show partner, but reflects his views accurately.) To put Dondero in context for Delaware non-Libertarian readers, he is to the LP as is Mike Protack to the DE GOP. But this time he's right. Third Party Watch just published a post on the Libertarians for Justice (a 9/11 Truther organization) gaining enough credibility within the party to land several presidential candidates as signatories on their petition for a new September 11 inquiry. At this point, Mary Ruwart, Steve Ku...

So you're used to seeing Hillary and Barack trade charges over who's too bitter and who didn't get shot at? Whoever thought the guys hiding in the caves would get so mad at the lunatic fringe that they'd have a press conference to deny that Israel was behind the September 11 attacks? Yeah, that's right; Al-Zawahri thinks Jesse Ventura is full of it. From Fausta's blog : Osama bin Laden's chief deputy on Tuesday denied a theory that Israel carried out the Sept. 11 attacks and blamed Iran and Shiite Hezbollah for spreading the idea to discredit the Sunni al-Qaida's strike against the U.S.... One of the questioners asked about the theory that has circulated in the Middle East and elsewhere that Israel was behind the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Al-Zawahri accused Hezbollah's Al-Manar television of starting the rumor. "The purpose of this lie is clear — (to suggest) that there are no heroes among the Sunnis who can hu...