I’m not sure I understand why poor J.D. Hayworth — who, because he is running in a Republican primary against John “Gramps” McCain, and running from the far-right, to boot, is required to speak at least twice as much nonsense as McCain does — is getting so much flak for warning the nation that [...]
It’s a privilege to be in a position where you can conspire to destroy evidence in order to preserve the ugly secrets of the torture state. A proud privilege. A privilege that Senator Pat Roberts, who used to be chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee back when Bush was adding phrases like [...]
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We finally have a final resolution of the Binyam Mohamed case in the UK (backstory here):
Three of Britain’s most senior judges have ordered the government to reveal evidence of MI5 complicity in the torture of British resident Binyam Mohamed – unanimously dismissing objections by David Miliband, the foreign secretary.
In a ruling that will cause deep [...]
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Here’s the London Times, reporting on Tony Blair’s appearance before the Chilcot inquiry into Britain’s involvement in the Iraq war:
Tony Blair’s claims that Iran now poses as serious a threat as Saddam Hussein’s Iraq have been dismissed as a “piece of spin” by the British ambassador to Tehran.
Sir Richard Dalton was fiercely critical of [...]
As in “what really happened”.
In June 2006, the Bush military announced that three Guantánamo detainees had committed suicide by hanging themselves in their cells.
In November 2009, a team of students and faculty at the Seton Hall University law school analyzed a heavily redacted NCIS report of the alleged suicides, and found the official government account [...]
From time to time, the question occurs to every keen observer of the political scene: just how deeply up the bottom end of his alimentary canal is Rudy Giuliani’s head actually lodged?
Out of the goodness of his heart, Rudy has decided to clear up the matter once and for all. And he [...]
I alluded to this briefly yesterday, but it deserves a post of its own. As he trampled the economy for eight years, George Bush left some pretty messy footprints.
The Washington Post’s Neil Irwin compares the economy in the 2000s to previous decades, and concludes that “according to a wide range of data,” the last [...]
At times like New Year’s Day, do you find yourself wondering, as you take stock of your life, whether you are a member of what no less a political thinker than Newt Gingrich calls the “secular-socialist left”?
Here, in the spirit of Jeff Foxworthy, is an introspection guide. (Or, if you will, a litmus test [...]
AP has the story. (I might post on this again over the weekend.)
I’m not a great one for year-end lists, and Looking Back (sagely or otherwise) at The Year That Was. But I thought I’d share this reflection.
The biggest political story of the year, I think, should have been the huge gulf between the Obama we were sold (Obama-who-walks-on-water) and the Obama we find we actually [...]
