Month: July 2008

AFRICOM eyeing Ghana w/ drugs & torture

Drug War Expands to Western Africa When Ghana had military governments they regulated the price of cocoa. Then the military smuggled cocoa across the border and sold it for higher prices, and officers pocketed the profits. There...

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Open Thread

Wimbledon tennis is more entertaining than Meet the Press. But Meet the Press doesn’t have rain delays.

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Let McCain Do a Little Gay-Bashing

Fred Barnes was apparently unconvinced by my advice to let John McCain be John McCain and has some advice of his own: BARNES: In particular, gays in the military for one. We know Barack Obama is for allowing gays in the...

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Don’t Micromanage McCain

I think there are probably techniques that you can use to successfully sell dogshit to people. I’m not sure what those techniques are, but I know that if they exist they will do certain things. First, they’ll...

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