Fukuyama got me to thinking some. The Bush Administration has tried to play to three main groups – groups that don’t have much to do with each other. The most obvious group is the moneyed elite, business leaders, corporations, that Social Registry he refers to as "my base." The second group, the heartlanders, are mostly […]
The article in today’s New York Times Magazine, After Neoconservatism by Francis Fukuyama, reaches the level of a must read. Doctor Fukuyama is at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. He occupies an unusual position in the Neoconservative history. He was a prominent member of the Project for the New American Century […]
The question about whether President Bush and his Administration lied to get us into a war in Iraq has been answered. The answer is, "Yes." It’s not that they were mislead by bad intelligence. They consciously lied. The evidence is overwhelming…
I suppose my last post was about bias, and how it influences decisions. So speaking of bias, Steve Clemmons of The Washington Note posts about outragedmoderates.org obtaining the notes from a staffer’s meeting with Donald Rumsfield on September 11, 2001 in the mid afternoon [the typed in translations are mine]: We were all crazy that […]
It’s amazing how persistently human beings hold on to their ideas. It proves that old saying, "Insanity is trying the same thing over and over, expecting different results." There are lots of forces behind our current foreign policy, but one big force has been the pseudo-scholars at the American Enterprise Institute who have been arguing […]
Among those of us who deal with our disgust with the trajectory of our country under Bush by writing about it, there are a few specialists. Eriposte of the Left Coaster is the specialist on the Niger Forgeries. Firedoglake leads the Plame watch. Glenn Greenwald is way out in front of the N.S.A. Unwarranted Domestic […]
So, it looks like the sun’s setting on the field of battle. Harry Whittington mercifully escaped mostly intact, having missed losing right his eye by a few millimeters and carrying buckshot in his heart muscle and liver into his future. Did Cheney dodge another bullet by simply ignoring all criticism? I watched a little of […]
I was going to drop the Cheney shooting, then I found myself constructing the last post. When I think about it, I think there are two reasons: It’s fun to sleuth around. The great joy of the Internet Era is that if there’s something you want to know, you can make big progress by poking […]
This is an excerpt from the Sheriff’s report of the Cheney Shooting episode [glad Officer San Miguel was comfortable]. The Cast of characters included 3 guides and 6 principals: The sun was setting in the Western Sky, just 10 degrees above the horizon. The guess-timated positions of the principals were as follows: From the […]
As we saw, if we’d put out a report Saturday night on what we heard then — one report came in that said, superficial injuries. If we’d gone with a statement at that point, we’d have been wrong. And it was also important, I thought, to get the story out as accurately as possible, and […]