Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 5:21:14 pm
The last official combat troops are now leaving Iraq. It's the end of a long, grueling mission for the US military, and we thank them sincerely for their service and their sacrifices. It remains to be seen whether the people of Iraq will be able to take advantage of the opportunity ...

Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 11:46:31 pm
The LA Times has the complete text of President Obama's long-overdue statement on freedom of religion, the US Constitution, and the tide of prejudice that has risen up against the Cordoba House project and other mosques across the nation. The White House posted the full video: Celebrating Ramadan at the White ...

Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 8:54:25 am
The head wacko of the delusional right wing Birther movement is raging over a $20,000 sanction she was ordered to pay for filing one frivolous lawsuit after another; now she’s petitioning Clarence Thomas to block the sanction, with a rambling, paranoid 300-page brief she published on her website: Obama birth ...

Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 12:58:05 pm
Here’s a new book I’m very much looking forward to reading, reviewed by Larry Rohter in the New York Times Books section: Mark Twain’s Unexpurgated Autobiography. Twain’s autobiography has been previously published, but only after meddlesome editors removed some passages, ostensibly to protect Twain’s reputation. Versions of the autobiography have been ...

Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 3:07:01 pm
I’ve been out, so I just found out about Michael Steele’s self-inflicted foot wound: Michael Steele: Stanley McChrystal incident ‘comical’. Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele found the dismissal of Gen. Stanley McChrystal “comical” because the “one thing” the United States should not be engaged in is a “land war ...

Tue, May 18, 2010 at 10:13:19 am
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal is running for the US Senate as a Democrat, even though he has a very poor long term memory. His memory retention skills are so bad that he actually forgot he never served in Vietnam. “We have learned something important since the days that I served ...

Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 12:33:12 pm
There was good news from Iraq yesterday; the US announced through Vice President Joe Biden that the two most senior leaders of Al Qaeda in Iraq, who masterminded numerous terrorist attacks against Iraqis and Americans, have been terminated in a joint effort by Iraqi and US security forces: Statement by ...

Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 4:29:48 pm
There’s a lot of buzz on the web about this video released today by Wikileaks, showing a 2007 incident in Iraq in which a Reuters cameraman was killed by fire from an Apache helicopter, along with several other people. After the initial shooting, a group of adults and children arrive ...

Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 2:38:41 pm
In many ways I have an enormous amount of respect for Dennis Prager; unlike some of his fellow talk radio hosts, he gets deep into the issues, and for the most part refrains from demagoguery. And he and I have many things in common, particularly an understanding of the danger ...

Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 11:31:28 am
Tim Blair is still outrageously outraged that Danny Glover said global warming caused the Haitian earthquake. (He didn’t.) Blair links to a Bill O’Reilly segment that blatantly misquotes what Glover did say: [Video] Here’s the misquote: There’s all this hell because of global warming, there’s all this hell because of climate change … ...

Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 9:07:54 am
Former United Nations chief weapons inspector Scott Ritter was a fierce critic of President Clinton for not being tougher on Saddam Hussein and Iraq, but suddenly had a radical change of opinion about the dangers of Hussein immediately before the Iraq War. He became a very outspoken antiwar activist, turning ...

Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 12:00:22 pm
Here’s Sarah Palin making her debut on Fox News, admitting that during the lead-up to her 2008 vice-presidential debate with Joe Biden she “questioned” whether Iraq might have been responsible for the 9/11 terror attacks. (This is the second half of her appearance on the O’Reilly show.) [Video] Interviewed by Fox ...