I'm a little sick of hearing how Iran is to blame for rising oil prices. This week we've gotten a crystal clear indicator of the true cause, and it can be summed up elegantly over the past two trading days. Yesterday: Iranian President Ahmadinejad sends a...
While we're on the subject of the NSA and intercepting international emails, I'm surprised how few people remember ECHELON. It's about five years old now, but the reports of the intercepts of global communications data were troubling enough to spark an investigation...
In case you haven't heard yet, or were confused by our titles from late last night like "Bush Won't Discuss Report of NSA Spying" and "Rice Denies Illegal Domestic Spying"... Bush has since 'acknowledged approving eavesdropping'. I'll spare you any further commentary...
George W. Bush has been named Time Magazine's Person of the Year, joining such luminaries as Ted Turner, Josef Stalin, and Adolf Hitler.
Who'd think the US Department of Health and Human Services would make for such interesting fodder? While its not near so glamorous as the resignation of, say, John Ashcroft or Tom Ridge, the closing comments of the outgoing Tommy Thompson raise some compelling...
Sorry I haven't blogged anything in awhile, but this is something most of you will probably get a kick out of. How to Avoid Becoming an Anti-American
It took him a little more than the 24 hours one emailer predicted, but G.W. has indeed waffled on yesterday's proclamation that we can't win the terror war. In his best impersonation of Matt Hasselbeck, George has now promised a victory he can't possibly deliver. The...
George W. Bush was on the Today Show today. During the course of talking about how we mustn't dare end the war on terror... ever, because it'd make us look weak, he was asked "Can we win?". In a rare moment of candor, Bush admitted no, "I don't think you can win it"....
I hadn't even originally planned on doing a blog entry this week, but I can't pass up a chance like this: Timeline on Jonathan "call me Jack" Idema: July 7: Three Americans and four Afghans arrested for operating private prison July 8:One of these men is identified as...
Those of you who are regular readers probably saw the story where the BBC crew was held hostage in Nablus by Israeli Troops. Now, finally, we get their story, fresh from the BBC Website. Apparently storming the homes of random civilians and using them to shoot...
