Month: May 2005

image: A boy stands next to his older brother laying in a hospital bed at the Yarmuk hospital in Baghdad, following last night’s car bomb in Mahmudiyah. Eleven people were killed, many of them children, when a car bomb...

I posted a diary yesterday about my email conversation with Colonel Bob Pappas regarding the Newsweek controversy.  If you want more details please feel free to go read it before proceeding to this diary as I won’t be...

“Widely used industrial compounds, called phthalates,” reports today’s Los Angeles Times, “are linked by researchers to changes in the reproductive organs of male infants” and reduced sperm count in...

This is the headline from an AP article this morning. I felt my bile begin to rise… again… as I recalled similar headlines from March of 2003, as Saddam lit oil fires to reinforce his crumbling elite Republican Guard...

Krugman’s latest says it all: Running Out of Bubbles [A] few pessimists, notably Stephen Roach of Morgan Stanley, argue that we have not yet paid the price for our past excesses. I’ve never fully accepted that view....