Month: November 2006

Reminded, yet again, of the events in NYC on September 11, 2001 — a temperate autumn day in the workaday Northeast — and still astounded by the ways in which those events have transformed into a national trauma of...

Nawaf Obaid, “an adviser to the Saudi government, [who] is managing director of the Saudi National Security Assessment Project in Riyadh and an adjunct fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in...

Our own Madman posted this memorable diary a few days ago.  In Pagosa Springs, Co., it seemed that madness had taken hold and expressions of peace were to become illegal.  Or so it appeared.  Now it seems that...

It looks like Iraq is unraveling fast. I’m reading up on today’s developments and will post on it soon. I don’t think the charade will last until the new Congress is seated.

I don’t expect a lot in the way of intelligent analysis from the mainstream media.  But the response to the leaked Hadley memo has so far missed the memo’s significance to an extent I thought possible only for...