Many months ago when I was writing something about health care I ran across a blog that had a number of entries on the subject, one of which I used in my piece. That web page and 70-some others are still open in my browser, which in retaliation is now consuming most of my computer’s […]

It’s not just Iraqis, or even Muslims. Christian militarism has been getting along just fine for centuries now, even turning on each other when there was no non-Christian enemy to bring to Jesus at the point of a sword. When it comes to war, Christian militarists – I also like the term Christian fascists, and […]

What could possibly go wrong with a scheme to introduce tens of thousands of young, stressed out soldiers fighting a guerrilla war in a Muslim country to a particularly bloody-minded brand of aggressively evangelical apocalyptic Christianity? As Max Blumenthal reports in The Nation, the Pentagon is on a quest — one might say a crusade […]

Susie Madrak at Surburban Guerrilla neatly illustrates the educational clout blogs bring to the masses when she links to this post at Boing-Boing, which explains the genesis of the Bush-Cheney policy toward Iran. The vice-president, under the bedsheet, with a flashlight …

The Guardian published a story on Sunday detailing concern about Afghanistan among Britain’s military, […]

At Hullabaloo, Digby takes note that former administration toady Andrew Sullivan is now calling, in the wake of the Scooter Libby verdict, for the investigation and, should he not cooperate, the possible impeachment of Cheney in connection with the administration’s assault on Joe Wilson and the outing of his wife as a covert CIA agent. […]

This is inside bloggy baseball, so if tempests in the world of raging individualistic prose warriors doesn’t interest you, be forewarned.
I belong to an organization called the Media Bloggers Association. You can find the raison d’etre of its founder and board members here. The chairman, Robert Cox, worked with the district court in Washington to […]

Imagine if you will a portrait of George W. Bush wearing a bibulous nose, an Alfred E. Neuman expression and a helmet made of Jack Kemp’s epoxied hair. And then imagine it captioned with the memorable phrase, “The Colossus of Crawford.” If you can’t, which is perfectly normal, not to worry: the original is here, […]

“Why do they hate us? Is it somehow connected to the way we cut off their limbs with chainsaws?” That’s Jonathon Schwarz’s question, and by golly it’s a good one. He’s referring to the exhumation of butchered bodies from a mass grave near a Colombian village that was attacked by chainsaw-wielding right wing paramilitaries who […]

Steve Clemons at The Washington Note earns a ticket behind the curtain and finds that the Wizard is depressed. After attending a dinner populated with “a few former Secretaries of State and foreign ministers, top intelligence officials, think tank chiefs, Senators and House Members, former National Security Advisors and Secretaries of Defense,” Clemons says that […]

Meet Mark Halperin, world’s most pathetic journalist. Halperin, who runs ABC’s conventional wisdom assembly line, The Note, co-wrote a book with the Washington Post’s John Harris ironically entitled The Way to Win. Regardless what the book says, Halperin’s winning strategy appears to involve publicly debasing yourself beyond any hope of redemption. Glenn Greenwald, whose […]