The commander in the Middle East, Admiral Fallon, head of Centcom, has resigned. He was one of the officers who stood between us and a disastrous war with Iran. It is no secret that there are those Neocons, who are still running around, who desire this war above all else before President […]

As a founding blogger of BoB, humbly beg to report I am thoroughly disgusted at the recent narrowing down- and simpling down- of the subject focus here. Hilla should this, Barack should that.  The Dems this, the Dems that.  While my observations and transgressions in such areas are duly noted, the mashup of “engagement” and […]

Set your TiVo if you can’t tear yourself away from those magical Oscar red carpet moments, but 60 Minutes is running a long awaited piece on the damage that Bushco’s Justice Department has done to our political process. It’s harrowing. Alberto’s gang, with the active participation of Karl Rove, railroaded Alabama’s Democratic […]

In a previous post, we discussed my ideas of approaches to combating terrorism. Here is a text book case on how NOT to do it. Some “expert” came up with the idea that 5% to 10% of the Moslem population in the United States must be a terrorist. So the FBI has […]

The abuses go on. Iraq is still deadly. There is conclusive, statistical proof from two independent think tanks that Bushco lied though their teeth to get us into the war. We’re teetering on a global  financial collapse, perhaps deeper and more complex than 1929. And what do our esteemed candidates and […]

Canada has now put the US on it’s torture watch list for it’s citizen’s. So the Canadian government thinks it’s citizens are at risk to travel to the US? I cannot blame them. America has arrested and tortured so many people for no reason. And in today’s The Japan Times HS […]

Well Japan is back among the coalition of the willing. Our nearly final effort in the GWOT was to provide an oil tanker with a destroyer escort. The tanker was refueling coalition Naval vessels, primarily those of Pakistan.
The ruling LDP has seemed obsessed with passing this law, to exclusion of all else. […]

Winter came to Washington DC this week in the form of the first snow of the season. The city is beautiful when it snows, all of the white buildings looking freshly scrubbed. The theme for the day seems to be gazing over the past so I found myself looking back a bit. […]

Destroy the tapes. Feign amnesia and repeat after me, “I don’t recall.” After all, better to be thought incompetent than proved a criminal.

Scott McClellan’s revelations about the Decider and Lord Cheney didn’t energize a right wing owned “liberal media” to give l’affaire Plame legs this Thanksgiving weekend.  It’s tryptophan city… A clearly impeachable offense has turned into a cruise to nowhere.  A Hollywood movie is coming out to glorify Texas Dem and ex-congressman Charlie Wilson, who effectively created […]