Keep Your Eyes Open… …for some upcoming developments in this story: The independent 9/11 investigative commission, headed by Republican Thomas Kean, is having serious difficulty in getting the documents that it has requested from the Bush administration. Things may be coming to a head this week. From Newsweek, a couple of weeks ago: Sept. 24 […]

Plame Still On While the NYT continues to studiously minimize coverage of the Plame outing and investigation, Time Magazine keeps pounding the administration: Security agencies all over the world are now quietly running Plame’s name through their data banks, immigration records and computer hard drives as the White House leak scandal continues to percolate. Officials […]

Whaaaa? When I first saw this at Blah3, I had to check and make sure it wasn’t a link to a story from the Onion. Then a quick Google search and I found this from the Washington Times (scroll down to “Unlikely recipient”): Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, Massachusetts Democrat, who recently accused President Bush of […]

State Department Predicted Post-War Trouble According to today’s NYT: “The period immediately after regime change might offer these criminals the opportunity to engage in acts of killing, plunder and looting,” the report warned, urging American officials to “organize military patrols by coalition forces in all major cities to prevent lawlessness, especially against vital utilities and […]

Libertarians for Dean 18 Minute Gap also pointed me to this Reason editorial by Libertarian Julian Sanchez. Julian is starting to realize something: Perhaps it’s time for libertarians to stop getting starry-eyed over the candidates who write us the prettiest love poems and begin comparing policy outcomes. And, unlike most dedicated Greens I see, Julian […]

Another Shrill Economist Shrill is, of course, the word conservatives often use to label an economist when said economist makes a case that they cannot refute with logic or data. This time, it’s Columbia professor, Nobel Prize winner, and former Chief Economist of the World Bank, Joseph Stiglitz (vita), writing in the Guardian: Second, if […]

Dewey Defeats Truman! I mean “Red Sox Defeat Yankees!” I see that Rupert Murdoch’s New York Post holds its sports writing to the same standards as its news coverage: “The Yankees couldn’t get the job done,” read the [N.Y Post] editorial. “The hitting fell short and the bullpen simply didn’t deliver. It’s a crying shame […]

Winning Hearts and Minds in Iraq I’m no expert, but I’m pretty sure that this is not the way to do it: 12October, Dhuluaya. US soldiers driving bulldozers, with jazz blaring from loudspeakers, have uprooted ancient groves of date palms as well as orange and lemon trees in central Iraq as part of a new […]

Who’s next: Iran, or Syria? Christopher Dickey of Newsweek makes the following interesting argument: A COUNTDOWN has started for war between the United States and Iran. It’s quiet but persistent right now, like the ticking of a Swatch. Soon enough though, alarms will start ringing. He builds a reasonably good argument. But all of the […]

Grants v. Loans for Iraq For at least two distinct reasons, this is an interesting development: Defying weeks of intense White House lobbying, a narrowly divided Senate voted last night to convert half of President Bush’s $20.3 billion Iraq rebuilding plan into a loan that would be forgiven if other donor nations write off the […]