This just in: "In a surprise twist in the debate over Iraq, Rep. Silvestre Reyes, the soon-to-be chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said he wants to see an increase of 20,000 to 30,000 U.S. troops as part of a stepped up effort to “dismantle the...
Last week, someone slipped New York Times reporters Michael R. Gordon and David S. Cloud the secret memo finished by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld just two days before he "resigned." It was the last in a flurry of famed Rumsfeldian "snowflakes" that have...
Wind-breaking news, that is.
In what must count as one of the slowest epiphanies of the post-Soviet era, Glenn Reynolds seems to have concluded that maybe, just maybe, the Iraq war has not been the f*cking awesomest thing ever. So what's a shameless, logorrheic warmonger to do? Host a "blog...
According to a CNN story linked to by this site today, nine U.S. troops were killed in Iraq over the weekend. Let's stop and think for a minute what this means. It means that nine families were told today by the U.S. government that their father, husband, son, or...
To see the effect of this war on the freedom of the press, note that the 2006 Press Freedom Index from Reporters Without Borders ranks the United States 53rd out of 168 countries. Finland, Iceland, Ireland, and the Netherlands tied for first place. The United States...
Amid all the hysteria emanating from the British tabloid press (or do I repeat myself?) over l'affaire Litvinenko, the facts are not fitting the original narrative of a KGB hit against a heroic "human rights" crusader. UPI reports the latest in this developing...
Robert M. Gates, the man slated to fill the "stuff happens" combat boots of Donald Rumsfeld at the Pentagon, offered his first cautious pass at the lessons of the Iraq War this week. In a questionnaire he filled out for the Senate Armed Services Committee in...
