I have posted online the full text of my American Conservative article (12/18 issue) on Bush's dictatorial powers and torture abuses.  Bush apparently secretly authorized harsh interrogation methods that may have amounted to torture. If this Bush secret letter...
I really must object to Matt's post "Urban Idiocy," which I assume is a swipe at New Yorkers and their supposedly (but not actually) sophisticated world view. First of all, nobody reads the Post. Any time I have ever seen it being read was on the subway, and people...
Via Reuters: Robert Gates, the incoming U.S. secretary of defense, won plaudits in Washington this week for his candor on the Iraq war. Some Israelis were less pleased, however, to hear Gates mention with equal frankness what U.S. administrations have long avoided...
Oh, those sophisticated neocons! Via Jonah Goldberg.
Thursday morning, Democratic Rep. Silvestre Reyes, the incoming head of the House Intelligence Panel, will appear on C-Span's Washington Journal. He is scheduled for 8:00-8:30am Eastern Time. Yesterday, Reyes suggested that the US needs to send another 30,000 troops...
A New Jersey mother of a soldier is sending tons of Silly String, that colorful stringy stuff that sprays out of cans, to troops in Iraq. Silly String brand has also offered to send some free of charge. "Before entering a building, troops squirt the plastic goo, which...
I didn't know I had a Wikipedia entry until about a year ago. I discovered it by googling my name -- a vice that I'm sure most writers indulge in, some more than others. I tried to abstain, or, at least, not indulge too often, but the temptation to go back and see how...
This just in: "In a surprise twist in the debate over Iraq, Rep. Silvestre Reyes, the soon-to-be chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said he wants to see an increase of 20,000 to 30,000 U.S. troops as part of a stepped up effort to “dismantle the...
Last week, someone slipped New York Times reporters Michael R. Gordon and David S. Cloud the secret memo finished by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld just two days before he "resigned." It was the last in a flurry of famed Rumsfeldian "snowflakes" that have...
Wind-breaking news, that is.
