After a campaign dominated by discussions on terrorism, war, employment, health care, and Social Security, the National Election Pool’s exit polls threw everyone a curve ball. What was the number one issue cited by voters as the most important issue of the campaign? “Moral values” came in first with 22%, followed by the economy (20%), […]
It’s bad when 377 tons of deadly explosives go missing in Iraq. It seems just about as bad when we can’t find thousands of missile antiaircraft missiles, either. Several thousand shoulder-fired missiles — the kind that could be used to shoot down aircraft — are missing in Iraq, and their disappearance has prompted U.S. military […]
When I saw the other day that the LA Times had run an op-ed by Frank Pastore, a religious-right talk-radio blowhard, I was floored. Here was yet another example of a not-so-liberal media offering a fringe extremist a high-profile platform for his lunacy. It turns out, I was too quick in my assessment. To be […]
Apropos of nothing, I was talking to someone the other day about the anthrax mailings in 2001 that scared the hell out of a whole lot of us, including me. I was working in DC at the time and my mail was going through the same post office (Brentwood) as the anthrax letters to Leahy […]
This is a lawsuit worth watching. A veteran of the first Persian Gulf War is suing the Army after it ordered him to report for duty 13 years after he was honorably discharged from active duty and eight years after he left the reserves. Kauai resident David Miyasato received word of his reactivation in September, […]
National Security Advisor Condi Rice must have unique delegating abilities because she seems to be using her time in highly questionable ways. Take last Tuesday (Election Day), for example. It had been just four days since Osama bin Laden had released another video, one day since some administration officials considered raising the terrorist threat level […]