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August 2004

August 02, 2004

Darfur

The Guardian's Simon Jeffery today offers a helpful Q&A backgrounder on the humanitarian crisis in...

July 2004

July 19, 2004

A Confession

OK, it's time to come clean. I forged the documents claiming that Iraq was attempting...

July 13, 2004

Denial is a happy place

From a report on President Bush's visit to Lancaster County, Pa., in Lancaster New Era:...

June 2004

June 22, 2004

Afghanistan: Tuesday’s paper

His senior year at Indian River High School in Frankford, Del., Russell White was the...

June 22, 2004

Afghanistan: Monday’s paper

Sometimes photographers capture the whole story and reporters just fill out the rest of the...

June 18, 2004

Going back a decade

So you run into this guy who, ten years ago back in college, dated this...

June 09, 2004

Chalabi and Miami

I've just finished Jane Mayer's looong New Yorker article on Ahmad Chalabi, "The Manipulator," about...

June 09, 2004

Moral equivalency

"He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become...

June 03, 2004

Drinking buddies

The AP's John Solomon offers one of those handy AP stories summarizing what others have...

June 03, 2004

No apologies

I’ve been dreaming of a time when To be English Is not to be baneful...

June 01, 2004

Eavesdropping on the president

There's an old joke about racist jokes that asks "How does every joke in [insert...

June 01, 2004

Costly souvenirs

Item: "A Saddam Souvenir," by Matthew Cooper in Time. When Saddam Hussein was rousted from...

May 2004

May 26, 2004

Spy Games

Via Cursor I read this very interesting piece by The Guardian's Julian Borger on the...

May 25, 2004

Actionable Items

President Bush yesterday traveled to the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pa. The War...

May 14, 2004

Stop promoting democracy

Promoting democracy abroad has become a cornerstone of American foreign policy -- or at least...

May 13, 2004

Falling Down

The 1993 movie Falling Down doesn't quite add up. Ebbe Roe Smith's screenplay wants to...

May 12, 2004

Faith and works

Sen. John McCain said several things last night on CNN's Larry King Live that bear...

May 11, 2004

No planning = unjust war

Like the pope, I opposed the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq because, among other reasons, I...

May 11, 2004

Eldorado

Matthew Yglesias finds himself lately thinking about the following bit of dialogue from Apocalypse Now:...

May 10, 2004

The L Word

Officials at the Defense Department are also said to be "livid," and well aware of...

May 07, 2004

Primal Scream

Timothy Burke, just up the road at Swarthmore, lets loose a primal scream. (You could...

May 04, 2004

House of Horrors

Last April, American troops helped Iraqis topple a statue of Saddam Hussein in downtown Baghdad....

April 2004

April 30, 2004

Censoring Abe Lincoln

Speaking of The Gettysburg Address, one has to wonder whether the Sinclair Broadcast Group would...

April 30, 2004

Misunderestimation

Wolfowitz short on US casualties ASKED how many American troops have died in Iraq, the...

April 24, 2004

Draft day

The unsigned editorials in our paper tend to be conservative. Not in the sense of...

April 20, 2004

Severe imprecision

... I am in blood Stepp'd in so far that, should I wade no more,...

April 19, 2004

Saddam vs. the ED-209

Also in the April 13 press conference, President Bush repeated this characterization of the decision...

April 19, 2004

Irrelevant and indispensable

QUESTION: ... And, Mr. President, who will you be handing the Iraqi government over to...

April 13, 2004

Is there a plan?

Here's Tucker Carlson yesterday on CNN: John Kerry hasn't even decided whether we should transfer...

April 06, 2004

The Simplicity of Freedom

The news from Iraq over the past several days has been bad and getting worse....