Via a link on the Freakonomics Blog, we learn that occasionally journalists write about “pilotless drones.” To be sure, this is a redundancy but one guy put way too much emotion into making that point. I also wanted to point… Continue Reading
The President gave a speech last night. I didn’t hear it; I was out teaching my class. I read that there was something about ethanol, and more of the same with a different name in Iraq. I keep on hoping… Continue Reading
I guess I’m in a cynical mood after last night’s dinner guests expressed similar contempt for our national leadership as I read in some ironic invective from the Reality-Based Community. A surge of 20,000 “new” troops is the answer? They’re… Continue Reading
TL, I read your last post about the Iraq Study Group. You sure seem cynical about it. Yup. Why are you such a hater? Don’t you think these people really tried to help find a solution to a really difficult… Continue Reading
The Iraq Study Group, whose report was released to the White House today, is part of a rather underpublicized governmental think tank with the Orwellian name “United States Institute of Peace“. So now you know that our government is trying… Continue Reading
The day before the election, Donald Rumsfeld sent George W. Bush a memo about our continuing activity in Iraq that said a few remarkable things: “In my view it is time for a major adjustment … Clearly, what U.S. forces… Continue Reading
In 2001, the explicit warnings of Colin Powell that we were being fed a line about invading Iraq were ignored, and the President put his faith in Donald Rumsfeld’s assurances that Iraq could be converted into a steadfast ally formed… Continue Reading
This morning, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki (who earlier warned America that he was “not your man in Iraq”) bowed to pressure from the warlord Moktada al-Sadr, and ordered American troops to lift their checkpointed seige of Sadr City,… Continue Reading
As my good friend at the Valley Press points out in an unsigned editorial (that I know perfectly well he wrote) it’s clear that the Republicans in the Administration have made a bloody, awful mess of things. But no one… Continue Reading
Apparently,in the view of at least one judge, this man was not a dictator. He was just surrounded by people who made him look like one. Oh, I see. Here, I thought a guy who held absolute power himself, maintained… Continue Reading