I just read Jim Pinkerton’s “Coalition of the . . ?” on TechCentralStation.com and liked the jump into the future and then look back approach to thinking about this war.

Today’s New York Times reports on Kevin Sites’ blog commentary on what he filmed and saw when a U.S. Marine killed an unarmed and wounded Iraqi prisoner. Sites, who is frustrated by the hostility from many quarters about his report, wrote “An Open Letter to Devil Dogs of 3.1“. It’s sobering.

Josh Marshall has helped reveal that it was Oklahoma Congressman Ernest Istook who requested a provision in a huge omnibus spending bill that would allow Chairmen of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees review any taxpayer’s income tax returns, without restriction.

Many of you wanted to know if C-Span Book TV was covering Noah Feldman‘s recent remarks at the New America Foundation. Today at 5:45 p.m. EST (and probably repeatedly over the next several days). Noah Feldman will be speaking about his new book, What We Owe Iraq: War and the Ethics of Nation Building.

A while back, I wrote about Academy Award-winning writer and director Bill Condon who has produced a brilliant film on the life and work of sex-researcher Alfred Kinsey. Here are the first and second links to my posts about this important film and director.

In this statement, which I received from a friend on the Senate Republican Policy Committee, Porter Goss states: As the flagship component

I am convinced that if Chris Nelson ever took his very-expensive-but-worth-every-penny Nelson Report on line as a blog, all of the rest of us — including the biggies — would be out of business.

Josh Marshall poses a question regarding Perle’s comments to me last October 2002.

A friend just forwarded me the lyrics to a Steve Earle song, called “Rich Man’s War.” The question my friend poses is whether there is a backlash brewing in Red States. I’m not sure, but this song sounds like it’s tapped into a genuine Jacksonian, Fuck-Yeah American current.

This just in from UPI’s Intelligence Watch, authored by John C.K. Daly and Martin Sieff: Turmoil rocks politicized Mossad The CIA is not the only major intelligence agency rocked by resignations of senior veteran officials and charges of politicization.