Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me a couple of dozen times, and shame on me — but also shame on what passes for journalism on television. This truism comes to mind after my appearance on “Paula Zahn Now” on CNN this week to discuss the Duke rape case. I’m not naïve about these [...]

Given that the war will not improve, what then will most likely affect electoral outcomes in the US? That’s where the unpredictability comes in. I would ask, however, that we take a couple of things into account. First, the Democratic Leadership Council – which might engineer a primary victory for Clinton; and second, aside from [...]

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From the Christian Science Monitor: While only 24 percent of likely voters nationwide approve of Mr. Bush’s handling of the war, slightly more voters say it has been worth the loss of American lives, according to a Zogby poll released Friday. “It’s now clearly a Republican war,” says pollster John Zogby, noting that 59 percent [...]

On January 18, 2007, the putative Prime Minister of Iraq, Nouri al-Maliki launched rhetorical barbs at his masters in the Bush administration, appealing for more weapons even as the Americans ignored his behind-the-scenes plea not to set him up for a war with Muqtada al-Sadr. Bush, he said, was yielding to media pressure in the [...]

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of the The Suppression of Active-Pattern-Recognition January 16th, 2007 by Stan Goff The Squirrels Where I live now, drivers are frequently obliged to stop in the middle of the street to avoid squashing squirrels. I live in North Carolina, and the Eastern gray squirrel has a scientific name, Sciurus carolinensis, that suggests I am living [...]

An analysis of the Bush “surge” in Iraq “Jodl! Is Paris burning?” —Adolf Hitler Aug. 25, 1944 Backstage The United States makes up about 5 percent of the Earth’s population, but as an aggregate we burn more than 25 percent of its fossil energy. That’s roughly true of all three main forms of fossil energy—oil, [...]

The Bush-Maliki Plan, now called The Surge, to deploy an additional 20,000 US troops to Iraq is a last-ditch effort to prevent a decisive US political defeat in Iraq. The principle purpose of this “surge” is to destroy the Mehdi Army of Muqtada al Sadr , who broke his alliance with the Maliki government after [...]

The Democrats will have their asses handed to them in the 2008 elections; and they will have deserved it. My prediction is that the Dems will lose the House, the Senate, and the White House by fairly substantial margins, and the Repugs will not even have to cheat to accomplish this result. The reason? Look [...]