The wedge strategy is in play. The White House has now denounced Pat Robertson calling his comments about Ariel Sharon “wholly inappropriate and offensive.” Now let’s see if we can get the Israeli government to strip from Pat Robertson and his allies the right to build a “biblical theme park by the Sea of Gallilee”….
Who and what will be blamed when Pat Robertson is finally “struck down”? Today on CBN’s The 700 Club, Robertson said that God struck down Ariel Sharon and Yitzhak Rabin for dividing his land: ROBERTSON: I have said last year that Israel was entering into the most dangerous period of its entire existence as a…
Howard Fineman has a punchy, interesting piece on who loses and wins in the wake of the Abramoff guilty plea. He notes that one of the big losers is Abramoff’s best buddy Tom DeLay.
The “powers” of Israel’s Prime Minister’s Office have transferred to Ariel Sharon’s Deputy Ehud Olmert after hospital officials announced that Sharon has suffered a “significant stroke.” More here.
Doug Bandow offers a realistic picture of the shoddy state of think tank and public intellectual punditry in Washington in this confessionary op-ed today in the Los Angeles Times.
TWN has been inundated with emails asking why I have not written more about revelations about non-court approved NSA intercepts of electronic phone and email transmissions within the United States and the connection to John Bolton’s requests for NSA intercept material when he served as Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security….
Thanks to all who sent materials, articles, and other materials relating to the Saudi political world. My trip there has been postponed, until perhaps next year.
If there are any PowerBook G4 experts out there who know about Microsoft Entourage and downloading contact and other data via an Exchange Server from Microsoft Outlook 2003, I’d love to speak with you. I have the Exchange Server account set up, verified, and all that — but it still does not seem to work….
The President’s ongoing defense of a routenized system of unauthorized electronic eavesdropping is presenting one of the best opportunities for Democrat’s 2006 electoral chances. Most Republicans — at their core — also hate this kind of “big brother” behavior that their party leader is defending.
David Sanger has a stinging article in the New York Times today basically ridiculing President Bush’s notions of Iraq-related legacy building.
