I'm watching Senator George Voinovich lambasting John Bolton, the admnistration's nominee for U.S. representative to the United Nations: one almost feels sorry for Bolton. Almost, but not quite. "A poster child for what a diplomat should not be" is among the least of...
Thanks for the memories, chump. Condolences to David Horowitz.
Hospitals in Iraq are in terrible shape, as Eric Umansky reminds us. If Baghdad's biggest hospital actually runs out of sutures, what is the likely state of hospitals in more isolated areas? At least one Iraqi blogger is doing something to address the situation. Raed...
Iraqi resistance wipes out entire squad of Marines The Washington Post reports: The explosion enveloped the armored vehicle in flames, sending orange balls of fire bubbling above the trees along the Euphrates River near the Syrian border. Marines in surrounding...
Gordon Prather saw my previous blog entry and forwarded this column on the same subject. Prather notes that while "The scare-monger battle cry is that terrorists are planning to use various weapons of mass destruction on each and everyone of you." this is a fraud,...
In Arnaud de Borchgrave's spotlight piece today, he mentions the need for the United States and Russia to work together on the Nuclear question;Russia and America need each other today on several critical fronts, from transnational terrorism to the security of...
NPR has posted the unedited Sites video of the Fallujah mosque shooting, as well as an audio interview with Sites. The interview begins with a discussion of the reasons the US military declined to prosecute the Marine who shot the unarmed wounded Iraqi on tape. Four...
So? It's a week old. I missed it, maybe you did too. The Washington Times: House moves to raise U.S. debt ceilingWashington, DC, May. 3 (UPI) -- The U.S. House has sent legislation to the Senate that would raise the federal debt limit to nearly $9 trillion, a $781...
As soon as the final touches of translation are completed, Venezuela is to formally submit a request for the extradition of Luis Posada Carriles, accused (and pretty much known even by the CIA) of bombing a Cuban airliner in 1976, killing the 73 people on board. He is...
The idea of replacing the felled twin towers of the World Trade Center with a "Freedom Tower" -- the design of which seems, at least to this eye, self-consciously grandiose -- always was a bit ... overblown. Now we learn that the design originally approved by the city...
