From our local paper’s “Opinion Line” (it doesn’t matter where—there’s a crank in your city with the same thought):
When J. Edgar Hoover was head of the FBI, we had no terrorist problems or anything else. He was right on top of everything.
I was worried when I was reading Castro’s comments and thinking, “Yeah, he’s got a point.” I was worried when I saw what books Castro was reading and thought, “Hmm. Well, I haven’t read those particular titles, but they’re not far off.” This is not really encouraging, is it? I don’t keep up on this [...]
Screw you too.
I’m only toning it down for the gentle readers of the blog, but don’t even get me started on what this spoiled little twat with her snotty little rich bitch gesture represents.
And yeah, I doubted it was real too, at first. But it’s a real picture: you can read about the incident [...]
from Special Correspondent T.S. deHaviland
If a homeless man walked around claiming that be believed God had called him to be president, we’d all call him crazy. But when a twice-failed oilman from a wealthy and well-connected family says the same thing, we call that “strong leadership.”
What legitimates one over the other? Is it merely that [...]
According to the New York Times’ James Risen, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has determined that the CIA is primarily at fault for not pressing its case for Iraq’s dismantling of its WMD program. The problem, in Risen’s words, was “the existence of a secret prewar CIA operation to debrief relatives of Iraqi scientists [...]
From Special Correspondent T.S. deHaviland, the MossyMonkey
A shadowy organization threatens the good ol’ U.S. in these troubled times, an organization that is situated scant miles from the seat of power, the White House, and our gloried halls of Congress.
This is an organization that has brought down governments in Asia, Africa, and South and Central [...]