Meet today’s government figure to resign in disgrace – Air Force Col. Michael Murphy: A top Air Force lawyer who served at the White House and in a senior position in Iraq turns out to have been practicing law for 23 years without a license. Col. Michael D. Murphy was most recently commander of the …
Archives for December 2006
“We came to change Washington, and Washington changed us”
GOP Congressmen and Senators reflect on twelve years of Congressional leadership in tomorrow’s Washington Post. Newt Gingrich sets the tone: “It’s a mixed bag,” said former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.), the architect of the 1994 revolution. “In a three-year period, we changed things fairly dramatically. We, candidly, then failed.” A sad coda for the …
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Slouching Towards Baghdad
Yesterday von made an excellent point at Obsidian Wings: Best sign that Jim Baker hasn’t lost his political touch? Somehow, he managed to co-author a report on Iraq that Democrats, Republicans, alleged Libertarians, and even Andrew-freakin’-Sullivan can claim, like, totally validates at least one of their dearly-held positions. Sure, they all find problems to pick …
The ISG
Since I haven’t weighed in on the ISG, let me throw up a few quick thoughts: 1.) It is all pointless anyway. Bush will not listen, and if he does, it will be only to nip around the edges of the suggestions so as to look as if he was adhering to them (see signing …
Disaster
Not Iraq. This: The University of Alabama appeared to move much closer to hiring West Virginia coach Rich Rodriguez on Thursday night. While day-long negotiations in Tuscaloosa between the two sides did not conclude with an agreement in writing, representatives of both sides said that the university will deliver a contract to Rodriguez on Friday …
Open Thread
Here’s an interesting exercise while the blog’s proprietors try to keep afloat during the academic silly season: come up with one time that you have been completely, embarrassingly wrong about something. Ironic evasion, e.g. “I was arong to give Bush the benefit of the doubt” won’t cut it unless you really did and you were …
Water On Mars?
This could be very cool. Striking images taken by NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft suggest the presence of liquid water on the Martian surface, a tantalizing find for scientists wondering if the Red Planet might harbor life. The orbiting U.S. spacecraft enabled scientists to detect changes in the walls of two craters in the southern …