The Sky Is Falling
At a conference of army leaders from 38 European nations organized by the chief of U.S. Army Europe in Heidelberg, Germany yesterday, United States Defense Secretary Robert Gates decried the commitment of European nations to winning the War on Terror.
Referring specifically to the mission in Afghanistan, Mr. Gates said the outcome there — as well […]
Roll Over, Beethoven
Speaking on condition of anonymity, aides to unnamed officials at the U.S. Geological Survey confirmed recent upticks in measurable seismic activity from people spinning in their graves worldwide.
The USGS has been keeping so-called crypt-tic data since the early 1980s, when the Reagan administration’s purported small-government policies resulted in major increases in the size of government […]
The Trouble With Congress
Both Digby and Glenn Greenwald beat me to the punch, but Dana Milbank was out Wednesday in The Washington Post with a little piece on Nancy Pelosi’s performance at a recent lunch with reporters in D.C. that shows clearly why, as David Byrne put it so well, “this is not my beautiful wife!”
Does anyone remember […]
Choosing Sides
Steven Stills wrote half a lifetime ago: “there’s battle lines being drawn.”
Tuesday, in a hearing room convened by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Georgia Republican Representative Lynn Westmoreland — apparently no relation to the General of Vientam era fame — distilled American anti-war sentiment to a critique by people who “[don’t] like companies […]