Author: Simon Malthus

Highlighted in today’s NYTimes: “If he is seen as wearing two hats, reporters as well as the public will inevitably wonder: Is he speaking to us now as the traditional press secretary, or is he speaking to us as a...

Why Conspiracy Theory is Essential With a title like that you might imagine that this is going to be a long, perhaps convoluted, argument.  In fact it’s entirely simple.  By regarding governmental complicity in...

ok, so some of you don’t like to hear anything about dkos, because that’s there and this is here.  well, as i see it, dkos is important as a study in how ‘radical’ opinion is shoe-horned into...

Charlie Rangel has an interesting idea: “If there’s any criticism of President Bush, it should be restricted to Americans, whether they voted for him or not,” Rangel said at a Washington news conference....

hi all, this won’t be a question for any of the readers of this site, but i wrote a letter to my local paper that i figured i might as well share.  it was prompted by the following editorial comic, from that nitwit Ed...