Tête-à-Tête-Tête

… but the declassified documents (PDF) make it look like a conspiracy fact. Via Reality Me, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and other high-level kooks in the government really planned - and recommended their plan to JFK and McNamara - to fake a pretext for war with Cuba, including ideas for faking terrorists attacks against [...]

Dear Mr. Bolten,
It was with great interest and disappointment that I read your September 5 replyto Senate Democrats’ September 4 communication to President Bush. I had hoped that you would acknowledge the failures of the overall strategy and specific tactics the President and Pentagon have adopted so far in Iraq, and reassure not [...]

A couple more notes on the big decision from yesterday.
Normally I don’t read Eugene “Public Torture is Desirable” Volokh at all… Because I prefer my legal ‘experts’ to have shred of moral fiber somewhere in their body. But folks have been a’linkin’ to his posts about yesterday’s historic verdict holding law-breaking to be [...]

I really don’t like writing about the whole Israel/Hezbollah thing. It’s too difficult for my small brain. But, I can’t help commenting when I chance upon dumb stuff - that even I can see is dumb - written by a premiere right-wing blog. Especially when that dumb comes alongside some pretty sorry [...]

I sometimes have a bad habit of being optimistic, and I guess this is one of those times. Tim F., the Balloon Juice lefty is not a Middle East Expert, so it must be that his analysis leaves room for optimism, and that it is apparently consistent with the facts as they have been [...]