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Archive: Jun 2007

Wonkette on America’s Favorite Marine

His name is Adam Kokesh, and among other things, he’s the man who kept the famous tally on Alberto Gonzales’s convenient memory lapses during his Senate Judiciary Committee testimony. Now…

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The Rise of the Mercenary

How is the Iraq War unlike every other war fought in America’s history? Among other things, in that it is a war pursued by the United States with private soldiers…

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VFW Decries Harassment of Iraq Vet

As noted previously, the Bush Administration has a now well established double track policy on soldiers who wear uniforms at political functions, including rallies for or against the Iraq War.…

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Peggy Noonan Awakes

Noonan may have been Reagan’s best speechwriter, but recently she seems to have lost her way. I remember that embarrassingly infantile, giggly piece she wrote after Bush’s “Mission Accomplished” speech…

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U.S. Attorney Scandal—Birmingham, Cont’d

Something’s rotten in the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Heart of Dixie Edition, continued. Seems that the New York Times has now secured the full text of the affidavit which is quoted…

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U.S. Attorneys Scandal—Birmingham

Some months ago one of my Alabama relations mentioned that she had been tracking the prosecution of Governor Don Siegelman, a Democrat. “There’s something awfully fishy about this whole prosecution.…

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We have met the enemy…

Pogo was a comic-strip figure created by Walt Kelly which flourished in newspaper syndication in the era between Truman and Nixon. The title character was a ferral denizen of the…

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U.S. Attorneys Scandal—Little Rock and Kansas City

The more we track the still-unfolding U.S. attorneys scandal, the more it appears to be in its essence something different: a massive scheme to corrupt the elections process. Today’s National…

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Intelligent Oversight

After five years in which Congress abdicated its Constitutional duties of oversight–with the most disastrous consequences, and nowhere more sorely missed than in the field of intelligence–we witness the first…

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The Rhetoric-Major President

We’re at peak commencement season right now, and so far we’ve paused in this column to note several speeches by administration figures – Cheney’s disgraceful speech at West Point, Gates’s…

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A Return to ‘The Age of Scandal’

T.H. White, The Age of Scandal: An Excursion Through a Minor Period (1950) A common plot of the science fiction genre first put forward by the fertile imagination of H.G.…

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