Month: October 2013

A Free Hand

There was a time, not too long ago, when the president would have taken deafening criticism for his Middle East policy. If you listen very carefully, you can hear the Israelis and the Saudis howling in protest, but no one in...

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Trollers Gotta Troll

Unfortunately for Michael Shear, things on the internet never go away and posterity will point at and mock him for his concern trolling. I understand the need to write something, anything, in what is an unproductive political...

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Brawl Over DC Circuit Coming Next Week

I’ve been writing about the Senate Republicans’ total obstruction of the courts for more than a year. I covered the obstruction of the DC Circuit Court of Appeals here, last June. It will begin to come to a head next...

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These People Are Nuts

Old-age has not mellowed Richard Viguerie in the slightest. He predicts a “bloodbath” for Republican incumbents in the 2014 primaries. And now Tom DeLay is calling for the same thing.

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Policy Advice to US Senators: Dump the Israelis

. ‘I’d Dump the Israelis Tomorrow’: Ex-CIA Analyst Michael Scheuer (Times of Israel) –  One of the witnesses before Congress was an ex-CIA analyst and operations officer Michael Scheuer. In his...

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