Month: January 2007

A short post to let y’all know (if you already didn’t) that The Koufax Awards nomination period for 2006 has started this past week. The good news is that once again, The Pond has been nominated for a Koufax Award in...

The debate over sending more troops to Iraq is descending into the same Rovewellian jaw jacking that got us bow down in a sand dune from the get-go. On MSNBC Friday morning, Senator Jon Kyle (R-Arizona) made boo noise about the...

Bill Nelson and Jim Webb sit on both the Foreign Relations and the Armed Services committees. Yesterday they questioned Condi Rice as part of Joe Biden’s Foreign Relations committee. Today they questioned Robert Gates and...

John McCain has been yammering about troop increases for as long as I’ve had the displeasure of seeing him in front of t.v. cameras.  While the vast majority of U.S.-born Americans are opposed to the escalation of...

While nearly everyone (rightfully so) is discussing the baffling decision to send more troops down the Iraq sinkhole, there has been some little noticed but still very important events going on around the world which are at the...