Month: June 2011

I hope disgraced former Speaker Newt Gingrich enjoys his cruise in the Greek Isles because basically his entire staff has resigned in protest over it. I’m trying to think of a bigger disaster than Gingrich’s...

I had an excellent adventure today that I would like to share with y’all. It’s nothing earth-shattering, just another realization…part of a string of many others. As some of you might know, I live in a...

The funniest thing I’ve seen today? This: The Tea Party WMD stockpile is currently stored in book form: Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed, and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon. By Gretchen Morgenson,...

China and Russia allowed the UN to authorize force to protect civilians in Libya, but they are now using that operation as a pretext to oppose any UN action regarding Syria. Meanwhile, having found themselves in a stalemate in...

. U.S. Is Intensifying a Secret Campaign of Yemen Airstrikes (New York Times) June 8, 2011 – American jets killed Abu Ali al-Harithi, a midlevel Qaeda operative, and several other militant suspects in a strike in southern...