Strange, but for some reason, today the Washington Post decided to run the Larry Franklin plea deal story on page B-1 – the Metro section. According to the great libertarian journalist Jim Bovard, in today’s Maryland edition, It is below the fold, next to an article about a geezer from New Orleans who was re-united [...]
After spending almost three months in jail, New York Times reporter Judith Miller was released from jail today. She was released after she had a telephone conversation with the Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff, I. Lewis Libby, sources said. In that conversation, Libby reaffirmed that he had released Miller from a promise of [...]
So all the left-liberals who thought that the nomination of Bolton to the UN would mean the death of that organization — that it would unleash the U.S. to dominate the world — should consider Bolton’s latest move: opposing a bill to withhold funds to the UN. Hmmm. When will left-liberals learn that the United [...]
Writes Andrew Sullivan: This blog broke the story of more Geneva Convention violations recently: the posting of mutilated and dead Iraqis photographed by U.S. soldiers on a website also devoted to porn. Now, there’s an investigation. No other blog, to my knowledge, followed up. Well, I guess you can’t call it a follow-up, since this [...]
Joshua Frank writes: In a recent article in these pages, I criticized Cindy Sheehan for going soft on Hillary Clinton’s warmongering. Well, I was wrong. Sheehan hasn’t gone soft on Clinton; she’s attacked the New York senator for her hollow position on the Iraq conflict. At a rally outside Hillary Clinton’s office in New York, [...]
The “why the heck is Nancy Pelosi voting for the war” rally was great: thanks to United for Peace and Justice (Bay Area chapter) for making it possible. It was gratifying to see some of my readers there: they came up and introduced themselves, and I’m glad I could be of some assistance in building [...]
