Author: jpol

Early reports out of London yesterday morning indicated that Scotland Yard was alerted to an impending terror attack shortly before it occurred, and that a warning to the Israeli Embassy resulted in Israeli Finance Minister...

Back on February 26, 1998 a lengthy piece appeared in the New York Times: How Iraq’s Biological Weapons Program Came to Light By WILLIAM J. BROAD and JUDITH MILLER The New York Times February 26, 1998 The piece sought to...

Cross-filed at Kos Cross Posted at Kos The Kos post sourced by SusanHu certainly does raise some interesting questions about Judith Miller.  At this point it would seem that there are more questions than answers, but it is...

Just for the hell of it I decided to run a word check of Bush’s speech to see if demonstrated his usual diversity of vocabulary.  I wasn’t disappointed.Bush invoked the word “terror” or a variation...

A new Pew Global Attitudes Survey out yesterday is getting a fair amount of news coverage, much of it pointing out that our image is improving somewhat in some aspects and in some countries or regions.  On the whole,...