Month: November 2005

Cross-posted at Political Cortex Facing mounting opposition to the War at home and  Iraqi requests for a timetable for a draw-down of US forces, Pentagon and Administration officials have begun to float the idea that it...

If this happened in Baghdad it wouldn’t surprise me. The fact that it is happening in Baltimore is pretty startling: Given that they stand some 30 feet tall, their disappearance is attracting a good deal of attention here...

“Live nude dancers” is what the sign said outside the bar. I didn’t want to go in, but my friends were expecting me. They were dancers and they wanted me to see them perform.The apartment building was older...

The life of the Blair Government is drawing slowly to a close. The comparisons between the last year of the Thatcher administration and the current position are becoming stronger. This is not entirely connected with the 15th...

Gadfly is Marty Aussenberg, a columnist for the weekly Memphis Flyer. Marty is a former SEC enforcement official, currently in private law practice in Memphis, Tennessee. (A full bio is below the fold.) An earlier version is...