Is this for real? I'm still incredulous of what I have just read. Rep. Silvestre Reyes (D-TX), has been appointed the new chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, on which he has served for the last six years. This is a person you'd expect to be more than...
Antiwar Radio: Robert Dreyfuss Tuesday, December 12, 2006 Announcing the debut of Antiwar Radio, to run regularly at Antiwar.com and Radio KAOS 95.9 and 92.7 FM in Austin, Texas. For the first show, I interviewed the great investigative reporter and author Robert...
From The Economist -- "Ethiopia and Somalia: The rumbling rumours of war": ... The spectre of a hostile Christian Ethiopia bearing down on Somalia has rallied Somalis behind the Islamists. Somalia's Islamists have spread a similar fear among Ethiopians, giving succour...
I have posted online the full text of my American Conservative article (12/18 issue) on Bush's dictatorial powers and torture abuses.  Bush apparently secretly authorized harsh interrogation methods that may have amounted to torture. If this Bush secret letter...
I really must object to Matt's post "Urban Idiocy," which I assume is a swipe at New Yorkers and their supposedly (but not actually) sophisticated world view. First of all, nobody reads the Post. Any time I have ever seen it being read was on the subway, and people...
Via Reuters: Robert Gates, the incoming U.S. secretary of defense, won plaudits in Washington this week for his candor on the Iraq war. Some Israelis were less pleased, however, to hear Gates mention with equal frankness what U.S. administrations have long avoided...
Oh, those sophisticated neocons! Via Jonah Goldberg.
Thursday morning, Democratic Rep. Silvestre Reyes, the incoming head of the House Intelligence Panel, will appear on C-Span's Washington Journal. He is scheduled for 8:00-8:30am Eastern Time. Yesterday, Reyes suggested that the US needs to send another 30,000 troops...
A New Jersey mother of a soldier is sending tons of Silly String, that colorful stringy stuff that sprays out of cans, to troops in Iraq. Silly String brand has also offered to send some free of charge. "Before entering a building, troops squirt the plastic goo, which...
I didn't know I had a Wikipedia entry until about a year ago. I discovered it by googling my name -- a vice that I'm sure most writers indulge in, some more than others. I tried to abstain, or, at least, not indulge too often, but the temptation to go back and see how...
