Month: May 2005

to the National Press Club, a major policy speech, and hardly anybody reports it, has he made a sound? Ok, that’s a rhetorical question.  But did you know that Harry Reid gave a major policy speech just 2 days ago at...

[Update] New excerpt from Memorial Day column by Jay Bookman, below in comments. Cynthia Tucker, Atlanta Journal-Constitution These days, Americans seem to want any war prosecuted by U.S. troops to be pristine — swift,...

Confidential Minutes of UK Intel Briefing, July 23, 2003 SECRET AND STRICTLY PERSONAL – UK EYES ONLY IRAQ: PRIME MINISTER’S MEETING, 23 JULY 2002. SECRET AND STRICTLY PERSONAL: This record is extremely sensitive. No...

The two most famous cheesesteak joints are right across the street from each other. They sit on the intersection of Passyunk Ave. and 9th Street, in South Philadelphia. Pat’s cheesesteak recipe They don’t just serve...

As the only country in the world, Sweden in 1998 made it illegal to pay for sex but not to offer it for sale. For my occasional Saturday series of translations from the Scandinavian press, I have rendered an op-ed by a Swedish...