"Cutting and Running" revisited...
In his June 17 diary, LIsoundview Do you know jack about either cut or run? Wacked Metaphor from Bush made some interesting points about the old nautical term "cut and run," as it's now being beaten to...
View ArticleSo what was really going on on 9/11?
I was reading one of the many fine reviews of Ron Suskind's new book, "The One Percent Doctrine," when I recalled something that has bothered me ever since accounts of what happened behind the scenes...
View ArticleWithdraw Times' credentials? Big deal...
So NRO wants the Bush Administration to withdraw the New York Times' press credentials over the Times' story about, well, about every critical story they've written about the administration, I guess....
View ArticleTrifecta of evil and incompetence...
The Founders were one smart bunch of guys. When they invented our Constitution, they used a huge variety of sources and their wonderful knowledge of history to come up with what is arguably the best...
View ArticleGeorge W. Bush, Tinker Bell, and the Iraq War
Many of us have marveled at our famously incurious President. From no questions during his pre-Katrina brief to no questions during his Iraq Study Group brief, George W. Bush simply doesn’t seem...
View ArticleThe story behind the Army we had...
Former U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was famously quoted as saying a nation has to go to war with the army it has not the one it might like to have.So, according to Rumsfeld, we went to war...
View ArticleHey, dude, where’d my small town go?
As the Presidential campaign really gets moving, I predict we’ll once again start hearing candidates bemoaning the death of Small Town America. The concern over the disappearance of small towns across...
View ArticleSo how do you like living under martial law, anyway?
In this morning’s WaPo, Thomas A. Schweich has an op/ed piece that ought to make your hair stand on end. It would have done that to me had I any hair left to stand, on end or any other way. Instead, it...
View ArticleHas Kathleen Parker lost her mind?
It seems a fair question, given her column today over at the WaPo.Parker spends her allotted words today suggesting that what she terms traditional conservative ideas haven’t worked, and won’t work,...
View ArticleGuess we really do torture people, after all...
In today's WaPo, the former investigative reporter and current Village stenographer Bob Woodward reports that a Bush Administration official says straight up, with no chaser, that yes, prisoners were...
View ArticleSaving the newspaper industry: Some modest counter-proposals
I come out of the weekly newspaper biz, not the daily, and I don’t pretend to understand the odd financial imperatives of the daily world. But I’m retired now, and so I don’t feel bad about giving my...
View ArticleTorture and Obama: Let the Law Work
President Barack Obama seems awfully conflicted about the continuing debate over what to do about the torture of U.S. prisoners during the Bush Administration. There are increasing calls for a special...
View ArticleThe GOP and 'socialism's' long shelf life
The Republican Party is frantic to stem the hemorrhage of voters, who seem to be sprinting away from the party with, as JFK would have said, vigor. So this week, the GOP brain-trust (and I use the term...
View ArticleLou Dobbs' BFFs arrested for murdering brown people
I can hardly wait to see how the wingnuts spin THIS one. Seems that three members of an offshoot of the Minuteman movement broke into the home of a Hispanic family in search of drugs and the money that...
View ArticleA hip chicken barter...
Sue Lowden, a GOP candidate for U.S. Senate in Nevada--Harry Reid's putative opponent come November--has come up with a sort of "Back to the Future" plan she feels can solve the nation's healthcare...
View ArticleA modest education proposal...
I am not a teacher, or an administrator, or in any way directly involved with public education. At least not any more. But until 2008 I was a weekly newspaper editor. In the weekly game, unlike the...
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