“I think it’s past time for there to be a changing of the guard in black leadership in America. People like Farrakhan, Sharpton and Jackson are no better than hustlers, bigots, and crooks. There are hundreds of black leaders who believe in improving the lives of black Americans, and America in general, but the media keeps giving time to the Axis of Irrelevancy.” – Oliver Willis. I thought there had been a change in black leadership. Don’t Oprah Winfrey, Barack Obama, and Condi Rice count?
MAGGIE ON VOLOKH: Maggie Gallagher is guest-blogging about civil marriage and procreation at Volokh. Her posts start here. Dale Carpenter will follow her.
THE INSIDE STORY: Jeremy Greenstock was Britain’s U.N. ambassador during the run-up to the Iraq war. He knows a lot, which is presumably why his book has been suppressed by the British government. Somehow, I think we will find out more and more about what really went on in the coming months and years. I’m still very reluctant to believe that there was conscious pre-meditated deception by Blair or Bush on the subject of Saddam’s alleged WMD arsenal. I think they were very cautious, as any democratic leader after 9/11 should have been. Misreading intelligence is not the same as deliberate distortion. But censoring memoirs of very respected public servants is not exactly going to increase public confidence, is it?
The Dish 