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View Article  Thermite and 9/11

A brief note to all who are concerned about misconceptions regarding the attacks of 9/11:

Go to the Free Encyclopedia ...   more »

View Article  Why the Palestinian Authority lost

Given the isolation of Palestine and the forces massed against it, internal corruption was inevitable. The purpose of this short ...   more »

View Article  This White House is a security breach

If the White House were even halfway sincere about counteracting terrorist guerrilla tactics and hostile spying, it would move swiftly ...   more »

View Article  Belated note on Stratesec, Inc, from a former insider

The following is a December 2003 electronic communication from a former employee of Stratesec, Inc. Stratesec, formerly named Securacom, now ...   more »

View Article  “Ex-Embassy Driver Admits Smuggling Aliens”

Here is the link to a short article, boxed well inside last Tuesday’s WashPost and was pointed out to me ...   more »

View Article  1st lie about the State Dept: foreign service officers must "NOW" serve in hardship posts

The full transcript of Condoleezza Rice’s statement on “transformational” moves to reshuffle the State Dept is here:

http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2006/59306.htm

 

As ...   more »

View Article  Administration desperation

You know they're desperate when they uncork Osama bin Laden.

Funny how those UBL tapes -- audio and/or video -- ...   more »

View Article  Letter from a U.S. soldier who committed suicide

Here is a letter from January 2005, posted at Scoop New Zealand and archived in Bradblog. I am posting it ...   more »

View Article  Administration helped Iranian hardliner get elected

Ali Hashemi Rafsanjani, the only major Iranian figure who advocated reaching out to America, made indirect overtures to the Bush ...   more »

View Article  Asking the wrong question about Alito and CAP

Given that Judge Alito was hastily named to the highest court in the land within a very few days of ...   more »

View Article  Another William A. Rusher group launches the smear against Murtha

Another William A. Rusher group – Choosing this moment to attack Murtha’s medals. 

Why, just when the membership of ...   more »

View Article  Excellent blog about CAP from a Princeton alum

Someone who actually remembers the infamous CAP entity from Princeton has clarified it, somewhat:

http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2005/11/alito_and_cap.html

Following are highlights:

"CAP was ...   more »

View Article  Leapfrogging onto a federal appeals court

First a quick review:  the U.S. federal court system has three main levels of court, with other courts for ...   more »

View Article  "The fight was out of the room today" - news media throw in the towel

CBS evening news is determined to represent Judge Alito as a winner. Jan Crawford Greenburg said, "The fight was out ...   more »

View Article  Alito's financial disclosures and the Federalist Society

Alito's answers to the judicial questionnaire are posted here:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/30/AR2005113001237_pf.html

 

His financial disclosure form is posted here:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/documents/alitofinancials.pdf

Alito ...   more »

View Article  The Kennedy-Specter exchange - Alito hearing January 11

Before lunch, today: Sen Kennedy (D-Mass.) said he had requested, in a Dec 22 letter to Arlen Specter, that a cache of ...   more »

View Article  Senators Brownback and Hatch - Alito hearing January 11

Sen Sam Brownback (R-Kansas) did not make Judge Alito look happy this morning. Brownback went on for quite a few ...   more »

View Article  The Alito hearings and that television question - January 11

Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) tossed out a last-minute question for Judge Alito regarding having television in the Supreme Court. I ...   more »

View Article  The Tuesday Alito hearings, January 10

I'm no Robert Novak, but it did not seem to me that today went very well for Judge Alito. Some of ...   more »

View Article  Judge Alito and "foreign law"

Senator Jon Kyl (R-Ariz. ), one of the White House point men in Congress, posed a question for Judge Alito ...   more »

View Article  More on those Las Vegas flights . . .

 . . . And less.

 

Just recently, as luck would have it, I published a column on those ...   more »

View Article  Attacking habeas corpus

Republican Senator Lindsey O. Graham of So. Carolina is not up for re-election until 2008, and I cannot find that ...   more »

View Article  Flying out of Atlanta on September 11, 2001 (part 2)

After more than four years, most Americans still do not know that a commercial airplane flew out of Atlanta on ...   more »