This was a disappointing development when it was announced, but fortunately, there appears to be a positive resolution. In an apparent reversal of decades of U.S. practice, recent federal Office of Foreign Assets Control regulations bar American companies from publishing works by dissident writers in countries under sanction unless they first obtain U.S. government approval. […]
Ron Wilson is quite a colorful character. The defeated Republican candidate for a South Carolina state Senate seat is perhaps best known for selling and praising anti-Semetic textbooks for homeschoolers — one of which touted the idea that Jews are working toward world domination. He’s also gained notoriety as the former commander of the Sons […]
Newsweek’s Allan Sloan is always good for a strong column, but he’s looking particularly smart this morning. A couple of weeks ago, Sloan argued that the failures of Bush’s repeated tax cuts for the wealthy will in no way deter the White House from doing the exact same thing again. My predictions, based on four […]
Following up on yesterday morning’s post about the latest failed test of the criminally wasteful missile defense system, I was struck by the boldness of the spin coming from the Pentagon. Wednesday’s two-part test called for the interceptor to be launched from the Ronald Reagan Test Site on the Kwajalein Atoll in the Central Pacific […]
The Boston Globe’s Joan Vennochi wrote a column today arguing that Donald Rumsfeld’s tenure at the Pentagon must, for everyone’s sake, end very soon. But Vennochi also noted that it’s not the left that’s giving Rumsfeld the most trouble. There is a drumbeat, and at this moment it is coming from the right, not the […]
Former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore was ultimately forced from the bench after decorating his courthouse, Taliban-style, with monuments to his religious beliefs. But while Moore was content to promote the Protestant version of the Ten Commandments with two-ton granite statues and hand-carved plaques, a fellow Alabama jurist has decided to kick things […]
The lead story on the front page of today’s Washington Times pointed to a Bush statement that probably wasn’t intended to be comical, but was. President Bush yesterday told Syria and Iran to stop meddling in Iraq, as the Iraqi defense minister accused his nation’s two neighbors of aiding a terrorist insurgency to disrupt elections […]
Sure, Election Day didn’t work out for Dems the way many of us had hoped, but you don’t have to look too hard to see some silver linings. * Out of 11 governor’s races this year, only one Dem incumbent lost. * At the U.S. House level, Dems would have actually gained seats and narrowed […]
Just a month after Arthur Finkelstein, a George Pataki confidant, complained that the Republican Party “has become the party of the Christian right more so than in any other period in modern history,” Pataki fired him and Kieran Mahoney, another top political aide. What’s Pataki up to? It depends on whom you ask. Kos wrote […]
Whenever I write about creationism, the level of email feedback seems to grow a bit. In fact, there’s always more interest in this than I expect. With this in mind, I thought I’d respond online to a few questions I received about the “intelligent-design” creationism lawsuit in Dover, Pa. First, one emailer suggested that it’s […]