Month: November 2005

Well, according to a new story in today’s Washington Post, less than we’ve been led to believe: BAGHDAD — Before 8,500 U.S. and Iraqi soldiers methodically swept through Tall Afar two months ago in the year’s largest...

When I was much younger, I attended what was considered a very good public high school in the United States.  Yet like many schools around the world, much of what I was taught had very little to do with practical knowledge....

So, who was Keith Olbermann’s “worst person in the world” last night on his MSNBC show, Countdown? One of our perennial favorites — but this latest swindle by Rush Limbaugh will leave your mouth gaping!...

(Cross-posted at Daily Kos, my blog and My Left Wing.)My last post was generally about the ratcheting-up of defensive rhetoric by the President in two recently-delivered speeches (on Veteran’s Day and on a stopover in...

Calling the announcement “seismic,” MSNBC TV just reported that pro-defense House member John Murtha (D-Pa) has “called for the United States ‘to immediately redeploy U.S. troops consistent with the...