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A Very Interesting Thing Happened on the Way to Justice

Wandering Through a Morass of Money—The Quagmire Called Procurement

Dick Cheney's Fingerprints

A War That We Now Find Ourselves In

With the Best of Intentions, But Wrong Again

Whistling Past the Graveyard

Cancer Strikes the Business Model

Trying Desperately Not to ‘Lose’ What is Already Lost

Not On the Breakfast Menu—Humble Pie

A Bigger Threat Than Terrorism

Back Off a Bit, You’re Breaking My Leg

Twelve Days to the Wheels Coming Off

The Airline Industry, Following Detroit Down the Tube

Mark Nord Gives ‘Security’ a New Definition

See No Opinion, Hear No Opinion, Speak No Opinion

Suddenly a “Great Opportunity”

Relief is Palpable in Europe

Secrecy—a Death Blow to Oversight--a Cover for Incompetence

A Made-to-Order Exit Policy in Iraq

Good Bye Username and Password

Finally, a Frank Assessment From the State Department

After Pat’s Birthday

At What Cost Victory and How is it Defined?

Rhymes With Hobbyist

Promoting Peace, a Hope at a Time

Mike Chertoff Invites You to Pick a Target

The Difference Between Winning and Watching the Other Guy Lose

A Little Song, a Little Dance

Seeing Things, Hearing Things, That Only He Can See and Hear

Stepping Up to the Plate in October

“The Way It Is, Not the Way Somebody Would Hope It Would Be”

Protections From Washington’s ‘Ethical Undertow’

Wal-Mart Does What Congress Won’t

In a Rush to Make Things Worse

A Sell-Out Masquerades as Compromise

Running Jurisprudence Through the Shredder

Getting Back to Teaching in the Primary and Secondary Schools

Securing Baghdad Cuts Both Ways

Nancy Pelosi and Eight Great Tomatoes

Bo Derek and Willie Nelson, Horses of a Different Color

I Get Over the Flu and Bush Memorializes 9-11

Hewlett Packard Needs to Ask For Another Resignation

Meanwhile, In the ‘Logical Interpretations’ Department

Scared Witless and Playing the Patriot Card

Conserving Scenery, Natural Historic Objects and the Wildlife Therein

Crying Foul At the Hitler Reference

Nursultan “The Thumb” Nazarbayev Gets the Bush Red Carpet

Blogging From the Front and War Will Never Be the Same

Among the Policies That Don’t Work, Add the Drug War

The Last Throes and The Final Stretch—Defining an Administration

Carry-On Luggage? Who Needs It?

Pat Buchanan, Racist Extraordinaire

Dumb Luck Will Have To Be Good Enough

Are Political Pundits Smart Enough to Advise the Nation?

Rearranging the Digital Furniture

Is Sixty Years Too Long a Wait?

Welcoming Israel to the Club

It’s Hard to See What Joe Wants, Except That Joe Wants It

Newt Gingrich Has Said Some Interesting Things, But This Wasn’t One of Them

Inflammatory Bandying About of Hot-Button Words

What Happened to PragueWriter?

Lessons Still Not Learned; Hamas and Hezbollah

‘In the Family’s Best Interest,’ Ohio Style

A Tale of Two Editorials

Does the Tour de France Matter Anymore?

Gone Fishin’

State Fairs and Butter-Cows

Pandering Their Way to the Mid-Terms

Arithmetic and General Motors; Just Too Many Zeros

The Middle East as ‘Tinderbox’

What Are We To Think?

Another Clarion Call From the House of Shame

A Nation of Law, Unless It’s Inconvenient

Privatizing the Public Pocket

Congress Bravely Salutes the Flag of Expedience

Why Detroit Doesn’t Deserve to Survive in Automobile Manufacturing

Maybe Time to Take Another Look at the Military Draft

Didn’t Martha Go to the Slammer for This?

Resurrect J. Edgar Hoover

Taking His Name in Vain

They Canned My Favorite Judge

Why Not Just Shoot Network TV and Get it Over With

You Can Tell the War in Iraq is Winding Down

Congress, America’s Tajikistan

An Administration That Just Doesn’t Get the Purpose of Law

About to Maybe Get Close to Thinking About Possibly . . .

Ted Turner, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and Andrew Carnegie

A Pig is Worth More After It’s Butchered

Veering For Sure, But Veering Back

Betrayed, the Raid on Medicaid

At Veterans Affairs, Another Hopelessly Amateur Screw-Up

Driver’s License, American Express and National ID

Same Old Perle Before the Same Old Swine

Emergency Rooms, the New Primary-Care Centers

Bio-Mass-Hysteria

The Sustainable Mind

Real Estate Prices and Martin Luther King, Jr.

You and I Should Be ‘Stuck’ Like This

An Exciting Example of Assertive Action

Teddy Kennedy’s Suicide Squeeze

A Law Not Enforced Is No Law At All

A Hat-Trick For Pharmaceutical Killing

For Pfizer, Killing You is an Inconvenient Side Effect

Flat-Tax and Flat-Earth, Two Disproved Theories

The Hastert Legacy to Representative Government

Impressing the Inner Circle--A Lesson in Wealth, Ability and Power

A Constitutional Right to Thievery and Deceit

Glacially, the New York Times Enters This Century

An Indecent Proposal From Senator Bill Frist

It’s Never About What It’s About

Taxes Are No Longer About Income For Government

A Leak in Everything, That’s How the Light Gets In

No Fly—No Work--No Damned Good

Trying to Get My Mind Around Barbaro

Shooting the Horse They Rode In On

Make Mine Extra Crispy

Flogging the Base and Losing the Majority

The Most Chilling Thing Is, We Will Be Told It Works

Another Incredible Failure of Vision

Major Explosions in the Middle East

Michael Chertoff Trips Up His President Again

Michael Chertoff Trips Up His President Again

Mint Juleps and the Smell of Kentucky Bluegrass

Retribution May Not Play All That Well

We’re Off To See the Wizard

Four-Dollar Gasoline? Get Over It

The Good Hands People are Washing Their Hands

Stand and Deliver

Outraged Against Themselves, Congress Throws a Tantrum

A Writer, Not Necessarily an Author

Mowing Down a Marketing Bonanza

Fiddling While Baghdad Burns

The World According to Melvin Laird

Welcome to International Politics, to Deal With China, Press 9

Angry As Hell for Not Paying Attention

Hell Breaking Loose, in a General Sort of Way

Dick Cheney’s Fingerprints

An Open Letter to George Soros

If Iranians Don’t Cooperate, I’ll Shoot Myself In the Other Foot

Lessons Forgotten From My Old Daddy

The Flow of Charles Krauthammer’s River

‘Selective’ Freedom of Speech?

The Iraqi Concept of Time

A Wake-Up Call Over Arrogance and Power

A Possible 'Third Way' To Use Wild Lands

The New Americans

Thinking the Unthinkable, An American-Mexican Barricade

The Guy-Child. Lost In Space?

Iran Proposes Nuclear Destruction of the Dollar

Another ‘War’ On This Or That

Senior Fellows, the Cookings at Brookings

Sebastian and Me

Needing the Cash To Keep On Needing the Cash

Starting With a Clean Sheet

Whoa Now, Let’s Back Up a Bit

Janet Jackson’s Breast vs Jack Abramoff’s Bust

Hacked To Death, New Notes On the New Terrorism

Sitting Up In the Coffin

The Problem With Show Trials

The Smoke and Mirrors Behind the Smoke and Mirrors

Everybody Knows

Sometimes It's Interesting to Look Back

A Quiet Little Deal By Uncle Pat

A Whale Of a Controversy Over Sonar

As Angry As I Have Ever Been

DeLay and Rostenkowski, No Surprises There

To Watch It All a Second Time, Press 9

Dubai or Not to Buy, That is the Question

It’s All Just Too Bizarre

A Golden Parachute For George Walker Bush

Parenting Kids and Occasionally, When Needed, Our Country

Enough of This Nonsense

A Baseball-Player Senator With No Stuff On His Pitch

I Have a Hunch There Will Be No More Karl Roves

Vaudeville and the Great White Way Comes to Washington

Something Way Out of Whack (and I Just Patented Whack)

If You Hold a Shell to Your Ear, You Can Hear Ted Kennedy

The Bureau of Land Damagment

Secretary of State Rice, a Surgeon in Galoshes

Re-defining Exclusive

The Intellect Elects Not to Connect All the Dots

So Much for Democratic Elections

It’s Always Canada and the U.S. in the Final . . Or is It?

Condi Rice's Diplomacy of Ever-Increasing Pressure

A Stick in the Chinese Eye

The Romanian Answer to Dictators

Cheap-Shot at Cheney-Shot

A Prison Poet Steps Across My E-mail

Trade Gaps, Tax Cuts and Deficits, Details at 11

Democrats Sobbing Into Their Pillows

Darwin and the Agency-Disasters Game

Small Again, It’s Small, You Dummies

Paul Farhi’s Turn to Be An Absurdist

Things I Learn On the Way to Other Things

Ramping Up the ‘China Threat’

Goin’ to the Mat for Scooter (Libby’s Liberal Litigation Fund)

Somewhere, Over the Rainbow

Some Things Just Don’t Work Out

Business Targets Law Enforcement

Man Refuses to Sell Big Mac, Sues McDonald’s For Loss of Job

Eliminate the “State of the Union” Address? What’s Left Then?

Taking a Poll Instead of a Position

Democracy With a Lid On It

The Blogs Are Alive With the Sound of Democrats

Nuclear Proliferation Has Its Place

The Man Offered Me Money, the Crook

The Photo Flap--Who, Me?

Missing the Point on the Jack Abramoff Scandal

Health Issues Take to the Street

The Tokyo Exchange Spotlights a Potential Disaster

If You Can’t Stand the Heat . . .

On the Outside, Looking In

Two Weeks Away? So, What’s New?

Pressing Business in Italy

Roe, Roe, Roe Your Boat