An amazingly flippant take on postwar Iraq from National Review. Alleged humorist Bruce Stockler's plan to "solve Iraq's internal problems, get our troops out of harm's way, save us $14 billion a month, and unite the rest of the world, West and East, left and right"?...
David Klinghoffer, a frequent contributor to National Review, often uses selective readings from rabbinical tradition to push neocon doctrine. Here, he has 12th c thinker Moses Maimonides arguing for National Greatness: In an "optional" war, the king needs the...
As my column for tomorrow asks, "What if you lived there?" From the Independent: The abd al-Kerim family didn't have a chance. American soldiers opened fire on their car with no warning and at close quarters. They killed the father and three of the children, one of...
The Telegraph is now using the same line about Condi Rice. Compare their dateline to my last post. I'm not out to Jayson Blair anybody!
Dr. Rice apparently never read my "Collateral Damage" debut. Speaking before the National Association of Black Journalists: National security adviser Condoleezza Rice likened Iraq's halting steps toward self-government to black Americans' struggle for civil rights,...
An article on the cinematic tastes of U.S. presidents turns up some interesting nuggets. Bill Clinton requested the shoot-out classic High Noon over 30 times while in the White House (because of its "strong-willed leader taking a situation of imminent danger into his...
Great article from In These Times about the licentious relationships between PR firms and the government. Isn't it interesting that the three pillars of journalism schools are public relations, reportage, and political communications? [Link taken from...
Colonel David Hackworth, whose Army career started at age 15, calls Donald Rumsfeld an "asshole." Not that we didn't know as much already, but it's nice to hear it from an expert.
If I didn't see his goofy visage so damn often. Clifford May, of the mega-bogus Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, lets us in on a secret. There's a small, backwards, theocratic state in the Middle East that funnels some of its massive U.S. aid back into...
David Kay isn't that kind of doctor. The oft-maligned Scott Ritter must be laughing.
