Month: March 2006

All These Crooks are Connected

Knight-Ridder ties together the Duke Cunningham scandal with the controversy over the Pentagon’s Joint Counter-Intelligence Field Activity’s (CIFA) spying on anti-war activists. A Pentagon intelligence agency that...

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Show a Little Grit

Back at the very end of the 1950s when I was perhaps 8 or 9 I was allowed into the front “best” room of my grandparents’ house in London. The great treat was to be allowed to play the wind-up gramophone....

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Feingold, the Dems and the Netroots

E. J. Dionne, writing in the Washington Post via WorkingforChange Friday: “Democrats, unlike Republicans, have yet to develop a healthy relationship between activists willing to test and expand the conventional limits on...

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