Month: February 2007

It all started with a 15-year-old’s discovery. Over a century of bloodshed would follow. Somewhere between December, 1866, and February, 1867, a 15-year-old boy named Stephanus Erasmus Jacobs found a shiny white pebble on...

I am extremely psyched about this: U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton ruled Monday morning that those tapes must be made public. In a victory for the news media, the judge said he had little choice under the law as applied in the...

We should have some fireworks in the Senate this afternoon. Or not. It all depends on whether Mitch McConnell succeeds in blocking debate on a non-binding resolution. If he succeeds I guess we won’t see many fireworks. But...

Also at DKos.   Should we feel sorry for our Secretary of State?  Helene Cooper of the New York Times notes that Condi Rice now feels the kind of heat once aimed at Donald Rumsfeld. She caught holy Hezbollah in recent...

Do you know who this man is?  He is Matthew J. Bryza. His official biography is here.  His Wikipedia entry is here, with a bit more information. Chances are you’ve never heard of this young man but he is the Bush...