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Zelikow Memo is Further Evidence of Criminal Culpability

By | 04.24.09 | 10:54 am

While much of the mainstream media — Charlie Savage at The New York Times and John MacKinnon at The Wall Street Journal, among others — were reporting yesterday on how it would be virtually impossible to prove that the Bush administration’s lawyers’ approval of torture amounted to a More…

Hating Sam Stein

By | 02.11.09 | 9:51 am

The Huffington Post’s Sam Stein gets three or four scoops before you put in your contacts in the morning, so I wasn’t surprised that he got to ask a question at President Obama’s Monday press conference. Apparently, this was a pretty controversial move by the president. The Heritage Foundation More…

TWI Leads, CNN Follows Three Weeks Later

By | 12.11.08 | 5:12 pm

There I was, moments ago, just minding my own business with CNN droning on in the background, when I heard Wolf Blitzer declare that “you have better odds of being admitted to Harvard than getting one of those plum Obama appointments.”

Gee, Wolf, what an amazing insight. However, I can’t More…

A Brief Digression on Logistics

By | 11.03.08 | 12:57 pm

I’m in the air right now, on my way to Sen. John McCain’s first stop of the day in Tampa, Fla. Next comes Blountville, TN. Then we’re off to Moon Township, PA. — sadly, not the home of a “Moon Township Victory Rally” but rather a final stab at Pittsburgh. More…