Does it bother anyone that the US government is using former Soviet gulags in Eastern Europe to torture the people they kidnap? That our leader, Dick Cheney, is actively pressuring the senate to exempt the CIA from the new torture ban as his stooge threatens to veto?...
Good news! Everything's swell in Iraq, and getting better – so long as the U.S. stays put. How do I know? I read Cathy Young's latest. How does she know? She read The Weekly Standard, The New Republic, and Andrew Sullivan. That's right – after canvassing the gamut of...
Wolcott (here and here) is all over David Corn for agreeing to join the editorial board of the odious Pajamas Media, future web home for war hacks not yet indicted. Like Michael Ledeen. Corn's response makes it clear that he has no idea what he's getting into: "I look...
Chalabi returns to the scene of the crime? What's up with that?Though his personal electoral base is limited he has forged links with fellow Shi'ite groups, including nationalist cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, and there is speculation he will put himself forward as prime...
US Senate goes into closed session: AMERICAblog: CNN just said that by invoking Rule 21, Reid just shut down the Senate, all 100 Senators are called to the Senate floor, they have to turn over their cell phones, blackberries, etc Talking Points Memo: I'm told Sen....
But these people have issues. And they have made the projection of their obsession onto others a matter of national policy. (Libby link via Matt Welch.)
