Little Gidding – T.S. Eliot We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. Looking at our average monthly fatal casualties in Iraq, the effect of the SURGE is clear enough. There is a baseline armed […]
Cheney lawyer claims Congress has no authority over vice-president The lawyer for US vice-president Dick Cheney claimed today that the Congress lacks any authority to examine his behaviour on the job. The exception claimed by Cheney’s counsel came in response to requests from congressional Democrats that David Addington, the vice-president’s chief of staff, testify about […]
Gates Says Second Carrier In Gulf Is a ‘Reminder’ to Iran Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said yesterday that the Navy has added a second aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf. Asked if the carrier move went hand in hand with rising Bush administration rhetoric against Iran, Gates said: “I don’t see it as an […]
Hamas serving as Iran’s ‘proxy warriors,’ Rice says Palestinian Hamas militants are serving as the "proxy warriors" for an Iran bent on acquiring an atomic bomb and destroying Israel, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said here Tuesday. In a speech to American Jews in Washington, Rice promoted the US policy of isolating Hamas which […]
TPM points us to this: Lurita Doan finally forced out at GSA Lurita Doan, head of the General Services Administration, was forced to offer her resignation tonight, according to an e-mail she sent out this evening. Doan was appointed in late May, 2006, becoming the first woman to serve as GSA Administrator. With 12,000 employees and […]
Parting With the Pastor: "But Mr. Obama is right when he says that his entire career is antithetical to the divisiveness of the Rev. Wright’s comments. We’ve found things to cheer and things to criticize about Mr. Obama during this long campaign, but we don’t see how anyone could question his commitment to transcending old […]
Saying Times Are Tough, Bush Urges Congress to Act “If there was a magic wand to wave, I’d be waving it, of course,” Mr. Bush said, referring specifically to gasoline prices, which have climbed $1.40 a gallon in 18 months. “But there is no magic wand to wave right now. It took us a while […]
The Hudson Institute is one of the Neoconservative Think Tanks. They had a panel on [my favorite] Doug Feith’s book, War and Decision with Paul Wolfowitz as a discussant. Wolfowitz Concedes He Was ‘Clueless,’But Still Contends Shinseki Was Wrong On Postwar Troop Levels WOLFOWITZ: “I think a sensible counterinsurgency strategy would not have been to […]
Barak Obama has had his work cut out for him in this campaign. He’s stayed with the game, and made his share of three pointers. But this campaign has been like the finals in Madison Square Garden from the opening buzzer…
AL KIBAR, SYRIA latitude 35.707810° longitude 39.833369° DIMONA, ISRAEL latitude 31.003138° longitude 35.146744° NATANZ, IRAN latitude 33.723558° longitude 51.728395° The Middle Eastern deserts have grown a lot of these stark desert blooms, visible for all to see on Google Earth ®. They’re Uranium Enrichment Plants. The top one was bombed out of existence by Israel […]