What money can’t buy in Iraq

Here’s a good illustration for Charley Reese’s column, featured on AntiWar.com today: United States aircraft dropped leaflets on the rebellious Iraqi city of Fallujah on Tuesday, warning residents they will lose $102-million (about R637-million) in...

From the Cellar

Notable lower page news you might have missed today: *We reported earlier this week that Canadian authorities had approved al-Jazeera for broadcast, but the conditions are apparently prohibitive. Will David Frum finally go home now? *You thought MREs were bad...

Madison/Rafah: Disconnect

It was closer than anyone could have expected, but Madison failed to do “something no other city has had the guts to do…form an official sister city relationship with a Palestinian city.” A city council member was reduced to tears by “how...

Madison/Rafah: National Guard Deployed As Vote Looms?

Well, I’m kidding, Madison wasn’t really considering asking for a National Guard presence at the city council meeting which will decide the fate of the Rafah Sister City proposal. And it has decided not to deploy the police, even though the emotion will be...

Saturday Blog Tour

Commenter Bill Kelsey writes about the unintended consequences of interventionism on Catallarchy. Lounsbury on the uselessness of airstrikes as a counter insurgency method. The Bush Administration is having problems controlling the press. From idleworm: Ever notice...