I stopped by the Visitors Center at Manassas Battlefield Park last month and was struck by a quote capturing Georgia private B. M. Zettler’s reaction to being enmeshed in the battle of Bull Run: “I felt that I was in the presence of death. My first thought was,...
David Weigel has a good piece in the Washington Independent today on Ron Paul 's rising influence in Washington. The articles mentions that Ron Paul has been bringing in some folks to have lunch and discuss ideas with some of his Republican colleagues. The article...
At a Holocaust Remembrance Day at the Capitol on Thursday, President Obama called for "fighting the silence that is evil's greatest co-conspirator." On the same day, Obama decided to oppose creation of a truth commission to vigorously investigate and expose U.S....
Congresswoman Jane Harman is indignant. A National Security Agency wiretap reportedly picked up her conversation seeking favors from a suspected Israeli agent in return for Harman lobbying the Justice Department to drop the lawsuit against AIPAC's former top...
Obama proudly declared yesterday that ours is a "nation of laws" at the same time he announced that CIA torturers would not be prosecuted for their crimes. Life in Washington is one damn paradox after another. Kudos to the American Civil Liberties Union for their...
Republican senators are threatening to block confirmation of key Obama nominees if the Obama administration makes public the Bush administration Justice Department memos that explicitly authorized torture and other barbaric relics. Human rights/constitutional lawyer...
Not all terrorists are equally damndable, apparently. The Washington Post has an article today on the Iraqi government's plan to shut down the camp of the Mujaheddin-e Khalq, or MEK. This is a violent Marxist organization that was designated by the State Department as...
The London Police department is launching a new ad campaign to keep people frightened and submissive. The campaign includes a bizarre poster which encourages people to view as a terrorist suspect anyone who looks closely at government surveillance cameras. Here is the...
Former President George W. Bush announced in Calgary yesterday that he is planning to write a memoir "so when the history of this administration is written at least there's an authoritarian voice saying exactly what happened." Bush did not reveal if John Yoo would be...
The Conservative Political Action Conference in DC wrapped up today. I tromped down there Friday and got a few photos. There were heaps of books on Sarah Palin and several organizations touting her political future. Joe the Plumber was there, along with lots of people...
