Paul Wolfowitz is now almost certain to get booted from the World Bank. Unfortunately, the World Bank itself will probably survive. (The Washington Post frets today that the Wolfowitz scandal could “jeopardizeâ€Â efforts to squeeze more bucks out of foreign...
Bill Moyers Journal episode on "Buying the War" on PBS is a great expose on how media groveling to Bush administration falsehoods and absurdities helped lead to the Iraq war. The program focuss on the villains and bootlickers in the press. It also contained...
Congress amended the Insurrection Act last September to make it far easier for the president to declare martial law. I go into the cheery details in a piece in the April 23 issue of the American Conservative: How many pipe bombs might it take to end American...
The District of Columbia is trying to fix its image, so it is spending $150,000 to choose a new motto for the city.  A Washington Post article on the search for a catchy slogan made the mistake of permitting reader suggestions. Some of the initial proposals:...
Former US United Nations Ambassador John Bolton told the BBC today that he was “damned proud†of how the U.S. intentionally blocked efforts to achieve a ceasefire last summer when Israel was bombing Beirut and many other locales in Lebanon. The BBC summarized...
Murray Waas, one of the best investigative journalists in DC, has a new piece on Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’s role in derailing a Justice Department investigation of his own possible criminality. Waas notes at the National Journal: Shortly before Attorney...
Attorney General Gonzales is dead meat. His exit is only a question of time. (I been wrong before, but….) I think the Senate Dems will not confirm some obvious hatchet man as the replacement for Gonzales.  Bush has “benefitted†from two Attorney Generals...
It is encouraging that the jury found Scooter Libby guilty on most charges. It will be amusing to watch the conservative elite howl that the verdict is a violation of their sacred right to rule by deceit. If Libby turns state’s evidence to reduce his prison...
Will Grigg has an excellent new E-Zine, Pro Libertate, here. Will posted a piece of mine in his first issue on the collateral benefits of liberating Iran. Here's the lead - full text at his e-zine and at my blog, where comments & carping are always welcome....
The #2 Homeland Security official for Prince George’s County, Maryland recently shot two furniture delivery guys who brought a new bed to his house. The headboard had a scratch, according to local news reports.  The shooter is also a long -term employee of the...
