Paul Wolfowitz, architect of America’s failing foray into Iraq as Rumsfeld’s former Deputy at the Pentagon, now heads the World Bank and finally seems like his true self is coming out of the closet.
Although I disagreed with the primary thrust of Dana Priest’s book, The Mission: Waging War and Keeping Peace with America’s Military, there is little doubt that she is one of the best intelligence and defense correspondents in the business.
As I have stressed a number of times on TWN, I am not into ideological zealotry — from the right or the left.
I have to admit that I have never had a hard time constraining my enthusiasm for either Al Gore or John Kerry, but at the same time, Gore’s recent speeches have been stemwinders and offer us a glimpse into the kind of appealing president he might have been.
This piece in the Boston Globe today is well worth spending some time reading and thinking through. To share the beginning of the article: In 1973 the historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
As TWN reported a few weeks ago, we are preparing to launch a new zone in the blogosphere dedicated to reporting on the work and activities of recess-appointed U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton.
If you have the time and interest, watch for an interesting program this evening on C-Span featuring John Siegenthaler, a distinguished journalist and first editorial page editor at USA Today as well as the founder of the Freedom Forum First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University; Jim Brady, Executive Editor of Washington Post.
Despite the fact that Pat Robertson has apologized to Ariel Sharon’s son and to the Israeli and Jewish people for the “insensitivity” of the timing of his remarks that God struck down Ariel Sharon and Yitzhak Rabin because they were “dividing God’s land”, the Israeli government is going to shut Robertson out of the major…
Former Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman has the cover of tomorrow’s Nation, and I suspect that it will become the script for those on the left who will be organizing, protesting, advocating, and clamoring for George W. Bush’s impeachment. The article, “The Impeachment of George W.
At least, Oakley wears his sunglasses outside. When I went to see Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World this weekend at a Regal Cinemas event hosted by the Center for American Progress, actor and director Albert Brooks wore his sunglasses in the theatre. I really wanted to like this film. I tried hard.
