Biased but very funny…. from cartoonist Barry Deutsch: [h/t Lew Rockwell blog]
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Washington Post Drops One of its Best Reporters: Dave Weigel out
Washington Post blogger David Weigel is out after someone exposed some emails he sent to a private group in DC criticizing Matt Drudge, the Washington Examiner, etc. Weigel reportedly offered to resign last night and the Post accepted today. I don’t always agree with Weigel, but he is one of the hardest working journalists I […]
Towards a More Honest Afghan Policy
Good riddance to McChrystal. His role in the coverup of the killing of Pat Tillman alone was enough to qualify him for the Pentagon Rogues Gallery of the new Millennium. Petreaus is better than McChrystal because at least we get to sometimes watch him get overwhelmed by the sheer enormity of the BS he […]
Medical Freedom Fighters: The Arnetts of West Virginia
At the Competitive Enterprise Institute dinner in DC last night, I caught up with Dr. Jerome Arnett and met his daughter, Dr. Brenda Arnett. Jerry is a prolific writer – he has done great work on the bogus threat of secondhand smoke and on other abuses of science. He is a pulmonary specialist, so I […]
How the Senate Makes Afghan Policy
< Our Afghan policy would be more honest if senators always sat in a circle. update: [[I used a truncated photo to fit into the blog space, and I think that may have blunted the point. Oh bother.]]
43rd Anniversary of Israeli Attack on USS Liberty… and the Coverup Continues
On June 8, 1967, Israeli forces knowingly attacked an American intelligence ship off the coast of Egypt. Thirty-four Americans were killed. Here is a new YouTube video that captures the spirit of the attack. The Johnson administration responded by rushing to coverup the facts. James Bamford, author of Body of Secrets, has unearthed massive evidence […]
My Greatest Culinary Fear
[from the New Yorker]
Ricardo2000
H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956):
“Nobody ever went
R R Schoettker
The utter impotent uselessness of the US congress
Texas Dan
If Waco didn't wake you up, nothing would/wil