Who is lying about Saddam Hussein’s WMD program here? You know, Saddam Hussein has got to be delighted with what he’s hearing here today and what he’s seen in the last days, because he’s winning. His strategy is working. Make no mistake about it, his strategy is not to lift the sanctions. His strategy is …
Must Read
Go read BOTW, immediately (I almost wrote the same damned thing this morning when I went to my first left website and read something that nearly gave me an aneurysm): When someone says a politician is “dishonest,” it usually means one of two things. One is that he is corrupt–that he uses his office to …
The Cover Up Continues
Things like this just infuriate me. While the New York Times is spending 2-3 days devoting numerous precious column inches to the Department of Justice’s OWN report saying there were mistakes made with post 9/11 detainees, the knuckleheads are COMPLETELY missing this cover-up: One of the 19 suspects in last month’s terrorist bombings in Saudi …
Assholes Among Us
Sometimes I think public floggings are a damn good idea: A man running late for his flight to Phoenix called in a phony bomb threat Monday in hopes that the plane would be delayed long enough for him to get on board, police said. America West clerks at the Rogue Valley International-Medford Airport became suspicious …
Ted Barlow is Back
Ted Barlow is back from one of his bi-monthly breaks.
Good Post
Here is a good how-to on how to be an honest blogger– go read Kevin Drum discussing Medical Malpractice. On reading the report more carefully, I now note that all these figures are for median payouts, which wouldn’t be affected at all by a few huge awards. I’m not sure what’s going on, but this …
Close To Home
This hit close to home: Four soldiers from the Army’s 1092nd Engineer Company, a civilian Army contractor, two civilian captains and two boat drivers were sailing up the Shatt al Arab waterway in the al Faw peninsula Sunday to pick up Iraqi South Oil Co. personnel when they were taken by force by Iranians, a …