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March 2007

March 19, 2007

Worst-case scenarios

Since before the American-led invasion of Iraq four years ago, I have written more than...

March 01, 2007

Dulce et decorum est

Last month, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., spoke at a rally in Ames, Iowa, and said:...

February 2007

February 20, 2007

His master’s voice

So here's an editorial in today's paper. Odd. I hadn't heard of this secret plan...

January 2007

January 23, 2007

Blame Canada

"Retired Generals Criticize Bush’s Plan for Iraq," The New York Times reports on a Senate...

January 20, 2007

The record, for the record

Avedon Carol takes issue with: Jonathan Chait's dopey article in which he again babbles about...

January 13, 2007

Sound familiar?

June, 2002: "Save your breath. The president has already made up his mind." --...

January 12, 2007

Useful Web tool

After reading this and this (both via), I found myself fooling around with the interactive...

January 11, 2007

Everybody Knows

Last night I aked, "Will that fool anybody?" Today, according to an AP-Ipsos poll, the...

January 10, 2007

Before the speech

So it looks like President Bush is going ahead with tonight's "major speech" on the...

January 01, 2007

Going well

I have friends and relatives who fervently believe that the war in Iraq is going...

December 2006

December 31, 2006

A surge of “more”

In the movie Magnolia the narrator (Ricky Jay) says, "And the book says, 'We may...

October 2006

October 23, 2006

Somehow

From 2002 through 2005, Kevin Tillman served as an Army Ranger in Afghanistan and in...

October 04, 2006

Behindsight and bias

Shankar Vendantam is a stupid, lazy amnesiac, which is to say a reporter for The...

September 2006

September 25, 2006

Unmitigated gall

"Unmitigated gall" is a cliched phrase. You'll rarely hear anyone speak of gall without describing...

August 2006

August 25, 2006

Looking forward to this

The Sept. print edition of Mother Jones' includes an impressive, dismaying timeline of the Iraq...

August 15, 2006

PowerPoint sucks

September, 2002, here on slacktivist: PowerPoint sucks. August, 2006 on Crooked Timber: PowerPoint Corrupts the...

August 14, 2006

Flypaper Theory

I don't know if this is to be believed -- it appears legitimate but cannot...

July 2006

July 05, 2006

When is a war not a war?

For the Fourth of July, the paper ran a profile of a man named Sergio...

June 2006

June 08, 2006

Two-legged man killed

Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has reportedly been killed. "Reportedly" is the ultimate journalist's weasel-word, translating roughly...

April 2006

April 25, 2006

Red leader

Marine Gen. (ret.) Paul Van Riper has joined the chorus of retired generals calling for...

March 2006

March 13, 2006

We few, we happy few

"I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member." -- Groucho...

January 2006

January 25, 2006

Micaiah Moore

"I will go out and be a lying spirit in the mouths of all his...

January 04, 2006

Broken News (cont’d.)

Greg Mitchell of Editor & Publisher offers a good summary of today's press debacle: "Media...

December 2005

December 15, 2005

Suffering Fools

The previous post is, intentionally, not very charitable. Allow me to explain why. Andrew Natsios...

December 14, 2005

Andrew Natsios is a fool

News today that the Pentagon is preparing to request another $100 billion for operations in...

November 2005

November 03, 2005

Operation Desert Fox

Interesting posts on both Eschaton and Seeing the Forest on "Operation Desert Fox" -- the...

September 2005

September 28, 2005

Reap the whirlwind

It's possible that I'm taking Tom Friedman out of context here. I hope so. I...

September 22, 2005

War Bonds

President Bush has committed to spending $200 billion for the rebuilding of New Orleans and...

September 19, 2005

Terror-bait

On one level, the "flypaper" theory seems to be working. Here's Saturday's news: Four days...

August 2005

August 22, 2005

You can copy off mine

Item: BAGHDAD (AP) — With a midnight deadline only hours away, Iraq's political leaders met...