Col. Lounsbury whacks the idiots in the CPA, ruthlessly criticizing their utter failure from the perspective of a businessman in Baghdad trying to work with them. After reading Lounsbury's scathing commentary, you'll really appreciate this delicious skewering of Ari...
Michael Froomkin and Billmon both have good posts up about yesterday's White House and Pentagon document dump. Froomkin concentrates on the order signed by Bush on Feb. 7, 2002, which contains what Froomkin refers to as the " Royalist theory of Presidential power," in...
Great line from this Seattle Times article.
According to a Washington-based intelligence newsletter Defense and Foreign Affairs, Bosnia's viceroy "Paddy" Ashdown's eagerness to support his late friend Alija Izetbegovic resulted in a major blow to anti-terrorism intelligence efforts on the eve of the Athens...
Be sure to check out Gene Callahan's blog. I'm a little hesitant to promote a blog so narrowly fixated on "philosophy, religion, theology, economics, sociology, history, physics, mathematics, politics, current events, computers, sports, art, culture, programming...
From (appropriately) WorldNetDaily:President Bush plans to unveil next month a sweeping mental health initiative that recommends screening for every citizen and promotes the use of expensive antidepressants and antipsychotic drugs favored by supporters of the...
Gene Healy finds this long lost glimpse into the sick mind of Fred Barnes:In an essay in the Feb. 24 [1997] Weekly Standard, Barnes laments the current "ennui" in Washington and confesses his longings for the glory days of old -- you know, the Golden Age commonly...
The Erez Industrial Zone in Gaza is notorious as a borderline industrial slave labor camp (on occupied land), though of course its creation has long been touted as a supreme act of benevolence by Israel, which of course wishes only to show how much it wants friendship...
Christopher Hitchens apparently ran out of booze and got mad, launching a vicious 4298 word attack on Michael Moore, and his new flick Fahrenheit 9/11 – and a defence of the Iraq war. Hitchens believes that, if not for the good ol’ USA, Hussein would have...
Billmon says this picture is the perfect metaphor: A crowd of Iraqis gather to watch as a U.S. armored vehicle is stuck in sewage after is slipped into a ditch during a patrol in Baghdad, Iraq Monday June 21, 2004. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)
