Month: December 2009

If there’s one book I wish President Obama would read over the holidays, it is JFK and the Unspeakable. Obama, like President John F. Kennedy, has had his first encounters with the permanent warfare establishment, and so...

I’m glad that Jane Hamsher clarified her odd timeline because I couldn’t figure out why she was attributing a July article about events in January to February 2009. But she doesn’t quite address my point....

It was actually William Congreve, not William Shakespeare, who wrote, “Heav’n has no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn’d, Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn’d.” But perhaps more appropriate to Joe...

. Tony Blair says Iraq war was necessary, even without WMD (DW-world) – In an interview with the BBC, Blair said the US-led invasion was needed to topple Saddam Hussein, who he believed was dangerous even if he did not...

If Joe Lieberman won’t vote for a reasonable health care bill, it really makes more sense to just use the budget reconciliation process, even though that will mean that we can’t move on to other things like jobs and...