Sitemap - 2007 - The Dark Side of the Moon

The CIA Was Right to Be Afraid of What We Would Think

Taking a Tool and Making It Absolutely Miserable to Use

Maintaining Critically Important Health Benefits--by Ending Them

A Whole New Meaning to a "Bubbling" Economy

Israelis Investigate Self--Find Self Innocent

Quietly Ignoring Bad Law--Which Is Historically How We Respond

The EPA--Too Easy a Target; Dick Cheney--Too Crooked a Dealer

Making 2nd Class Citizens of Non-Christians, Agnostics and Atheists

Upon Request by Your Employer

In Another Federal Laugher, the Feds Decide Which Bet Is Good-Good and Which Is a No-No

Last Man in (as in Close the Doors, I'm Here Now)--First Man Out

Ker-Chunk; The Sound of Another Democratic Head Falling into the "Vows" Basket

One Iceberg--Two Tips

Lockheed's F-35, a $300 Billion Trip to Nowhere

How about an "Abstinence Only" Plan for the Telecom Industry?

Thank God We Now Have a "Climate Roadmap" or We Might Not Know How to Find Our Climate

When the Fed Refers to Their Clients, They Are Not Talking about Consumers, They Are Talking about Banks

A Swoon or a Tumble? Get Ready for the Mother of All Tsunamis

Mutt & Jeff Try the Village Idiots--as Terrorists

A Doggle in Search of a Boon

And Yet Pete Rose Can't Be in the Hall of Fame

A Massive Bank Fraud that Calls for Jail Terms

Contempt of Congress--a Problem We All Have in Common

John Dillinger Named "Banker of the Year"

A Thoroughly Discredited Congress Gets Ready for Christmas

"Prudent and Logical for the Banks That Sold This Toxic Waste to Buy It Back and for a Lot of People to Go to Prison"

Bernanke "Kisses His Sister," Increasing Uncertainty about What Will Happen Next

It Would Be Nice If the Appropriations Bill Came Apart over Principle--but It Failed over Pork

Inner-City Public Transport Should Be Free

An Encouraging Decision by a Very Conservative Court

Jay Rockefeller Ought to Recuse Himself from Anything to Do with Destroyed CIA Tapes

Thanks and Don’t Call Us, We’ll Call You

Harry Reid, Inept, Crooked and Way over His Head

Friendly Community Banks Have Morphed--by Government Deregulation--into Monsters under the Bed

What They Don't (and Never Will) Teach You in School

"Closer to 9-11" Is a Pretty Damned Thin Ethical Excuse

Ing Bank--Wooden Shoes Clattering down the Halls of American Net Banking

Democrats Trade Our Troops in Iraq for Drought Relief and Domestic Spending Increases

ING Bank Totally Screws NetBank Customers in Takeover

Rumsfeld's Wet Dream--the War We'd like to Fight

The CIA--Caught with Its Pants around Its Ankles--Again

Bank of England Slows Inflation by Speeding up Inflation

It May Not Be 1929, but It Sure Feels Like 1928

Your New and Improved Spy Agencies--Actually Touting Caution and Convergence

Drawn and Quartered--Destroying American Business, Quarter by Quarter

Cronyism Trumps Expertise One More Time as Wolfowitz Joins State Department

Paulson Weasels Out of Fixing a Crooked Deal

Bush-Cheney Were Right--except They Weren't Right--and Nearly Took Us to Another War

I Thought This Was a Spoof--There Is No Way It Could Be True of My Country

Dereliction of Duty--the Army Fails Another One among Thousands

A Guest Column

Milton Friedman Unmasked--as Malawi Ignores Free Market Policies to Enrich Itself

Helping Wall Street Survive and Calling It Help for Homeowners

Sidestepping Diplomatic Protocol, One Sees the American Hand in Colombian Hostage Negotiation

Another Reason We Need a Good, Solid Bust

An Iraq Going to Hell Described by the Washington Post as Making 'Slow Gains'

"Headwinds for the Consumer" the Fed's Ben Bernanke Describes a Huge Finnancial Crime as a "Headwind"

Defining "Pretty Much near Un-American" in Florida

Why America Is Terrified of Joining the International Criminal Court

Breaking the American Dominance over Israeli-Palestinian Peace Negotiations

Wall Street (That Small Street) Out of Gas and Running on Rumor

France Is Not (Yet) Morocco or Algeria

Bush Makes Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations at Annapolis a Two-Legged Stool

Putin's Running of Russia "Unacceptable" to the New York Times

Caesar Chavez's City in the Jungle--What God Could Have Done If He'd Only Had the Money

Mr. Bush Is Desperate to Leave before the Wall Street Curtain Falls

The Year of the Naomis--Wolf and Klein--Both with Great Messages

If You Don't Read This Guy, You Ought To

It's Only Fun When You Have the Keys to the Car

Can Naomi Wolf Replace Paris Hilton or Do We Expire in Convulsion?

Writing on the Wall Shows Preparation for the Crash

We're Winning, in the Only Way We All Agreed Doesn't Matter

Why a Democrat President Hasn’t a Chance to Save the Nation

Teaching Iraqis about Justice--American Style

The American Dream in Nizhny Novgorod

Where Does Amit Paley Get His Information?

Whoops--Middle-East Peace?--Got a Conference about That in Four Days--Y'all Come

Conspiracy Theory--or Just More Incompetence?

Still Leading Russia, but Only by a Little

The End Result When You Put a Nation Out of Work

Amazing What You Can Accomplish When There Are No Alternatives

Stupifyingly Uninformed--the New York Times Strikes Again Editorially

Is There Anything American About America Anymore?

Trigger-Happy with Taser Guns

Institutionalizing Charity--My Old Daddy Wouldn't Approve

Why the Wall Street System Is Busted

American Hall of Shame--Iraqi Immigration

Detecting 'Hostile Intent' in a Super-hostile Environment

We Can't Talk about Secrecy, Because It's a Secret--American Courts Suddenly Become Kangaroo

We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Us

Dressing Up Space Defense in Dominatrix Clothing

The New York Times--Unsubstantiated, Uncorroborated and Blatantly False Reporting

Survival?--or the End of Choice?

Hope You Enjoy That New Car

Don't Worry World, It's Only Us

Language Isn't the Only Obstacle in Iraq

Not 'Broken' by a Damnsight, Just Incredibly Corrupt

Now the Pentagon Just Dials up Google Earth

A Difficult Ally and a Dangerous Enemy

Calming the Iran-Israeli Rhetoric

"It's Kind of Sad, but the Money Is What's Given Us Credibility, Not the Authenticity of the Ideas.”

The Next Sub-prime Scandal--Fee Harvesting

Buying Votes Is Ok, but by God There Are Rules about Lapel Pins

Diplomacy Is Not Management, but the Buck Still Stops with Rice

Fiddling the Tax Code--Again

New York Times Editorial on Kids’ Health and Tobacco—Wrong Again

Henry Paulson Is Too Smart a Man to Be Saying Such Dumb Things

And Now, for the Final Settlement-- the Envelope Please!

Another Notch on the Belt of 'Nothing Malicious or Preconceived'

Scalping--What Used to Be against the Law Is Now Just Good Business

The Shoe Finally Drops at Stanford

Shameless All Right, but Not for Big Tobacco--the NYTimes Gets It Wrong Again

It Was Nazi Joseph Goebbels Who Proved the Value of a Repeated Lie

"Inside Washington" Carries with It a Strange Kind of Reality

Our National Fortune-Cookie

We're Not Assessing Risk--Let's Call It What It Is--We're Assessing Greed

It's Complicated, Mein Fuehrer

Schumer & Co, Slopping Away at the Trough

The White House Can 'Hail' Whatever It Likes--Facts Don't Change in Europe

Nobody in Charge during a Perfect Blizzard of Theft

Mad Alan Greenspan with More Advice

The Will of the People Overturned by the Won't of the Senate

So, Let's See--If We Cut Him off at the Legs, That Ought to Help Fight Terrorism

Mad or Nuts Take Your Pick, It Might Be Irritate

The Bad Old Days Are Here Again

Just When We We're All Set to Bomb Iran, Musharraf Gets Testy in Pakistan

Bullfeathers and Big Sugar

Definition of Torture-- Watching This Useless Democratic Congress Twist in the Wind

One Can Only Hope California Has the Good Sense Not to Prosecute

Needed--Ten Letter Medical Care--Socialized

Say It Isn't So

A Crock of Shit, by Any Other Name, Would Smell as Foul

Forgive Us Our Sins--Even Though We Intend to Go on Sinning

Endangering the Program Is What It's All About

Not to Worry about Iranian Influence in Iraq--It's Already Evident

How Rummy Made Us Leaner and Meaner

The Democrat Dilemma over Mukasey--Courage May Be Actually Called for Instead of Merely Promised

Not Much of a Return on Investment

Old Age and Treachery Always Overcomes Youth and Skill

The Dog Ate My Homework

Washington Post Dead-Wrong in Child Porno Editorial

The Price of the War against Drugs Has Escalated from Lost Kids to Lost Nations

Another Dumb Solution by the New York Times

Which Is Fine Unless You Are Actually a Small Nuclear Power

They're Probably Going to Let This One Slide

Put On the Cuffs, I’m Guilty as Charged

The Master Liquidity Enhancement Con (duit)

70% American Opinion Be Damned, but Oil Markets May Keep Us from Iranian Attack

Not Able to Protect Ourselves Overseas Anymore--a Bush Legacy

Rich as Rockefeller Not the Same as Right as Rain

An Idea Whose Time May Have Come for America

Hold on, There's Already a Hold on That Bill

Back on Tippy-Toe, to See If the Coast Is Clear

Another Terrorist Case Bites the Dust

The Cost of Not Firing a Traitor

Ah What a Tangled Web We Weave . . .

Pssst, Nobody's Looking

And This Is a Surprise?

Two Sides of a Very Different Farming Story

Dennis Can't Wait to Get down to the Real Business--Lobbying

Senator Leahy's New Standards of Excellence

And on the 3rd Day, Congress Went to Sleep

Who'd Have Thought It from Kansas?

750,000 Americans Get Their Soc. Sec. Payments Cut in Half

Wondering How Much We Paid for This?

The Newest Game for Pilots

Unprepared in Iran, the Follow-Up to Unprepared in Iraq

Kicking the Last Leg Out From Under the Iraqi Chair

Nancy Pelosi, Worst House Speaker Ever

A Way to Absolutely, Positively Establish a Death List

Impossible to Cripple What You Can't Define

One of the Millions of Reasons for National Health Care

The Same Lesson, War after War

Bush Bullying, Putin Not Buying

An Interesting Definition of 'Right Place at the Right Time'

There's Always an Upside

Congress Drops White House Demands Along With Its Pants

At Last, a Cheaper Way to Pollute

Only in Texas

Forget Thursday, It's Already Friday

What Is It Mike Hayden Doesn't Understand about Heat and Kitchens?

Gore Wins Nobel--Supreme Court Rules He Cannot Accept

You Got to Ac-centuate the Positive, E-liminate the Negative

Part of Why Mukasey Doesn't Belong as Attorney General

Exhibit #287 in an Administration that Can't Get Anything Right

Are There No Successes in this Two-Term Presidency?

Wrong 90 Yeras Ago, Wrong Today, Wrong Tomorrow

A Second Shaming of America by the Supreme Court

Dems Get Their Marching Orders

Now, Find the Leak in the Administration and Waterboard Him or Her

So, NOW What the Hell are We Doing Here?

Press Freedom to Tout Their Candidate

The Cost of Presidential Travel

Free Speech Becoming Too Expensive

Smithsonian--‘Nations Attic'--Leaking Badly

"In their contracts, it says they are supposed to report, but whether they do or not is up to them"

Mis-Adventuring and Expecting a Different Outcome

Vladimir Putin, Russian President, then Premier, then President Again

Anne Applebaum--A Columnist Who Doesn't Get It

Perfect Environment for Multiple Mai Lais

Looks Like Joe Biden Hit a Nerve

A Republican Ralph Nader

Give 'Em All Guns and Hope For the Best

Sorry 'Bout That, Gamal, You Should've Had a Sub-Prime Loan

A Nice, Safe and Stable Mid-East Nuclear Power

Young, Brave and Vulnerable, with no Advocates

Classic Case of Feeding a Dog that Won't Hunt

What the Hell, It's Only the National Attic

Charles Krauthammer’s Refreshing Dip Into Selective History

Building a House You Can't Live in

Harry Reid--Pathetic Senate Majority 'Leader'

Disingenuous Legislation

Where's My Home in the Mountains, Dude?"

Even a Blind Pig Occasionally Finds an Acorn

The Myopia of 'High Level Oversight Committees"

"The Only Thing that Worries Me is Your Optimism"

A Chairman, a Chairman and a Secretary in a Senate Brawl

Bollinger Embarrases Columbia

Let's Just Close Down the Baseball Hall of Fame

Only Republicans Know How to Legislate

Continuing to Chase the Wrong Rabbit

Back in the Days when we had a Military, it Protected the State Department

A Stunning Instinct for Doing the Wrong Thing

Mary Peters--the Next Alberto Gonzales

Economic Credentials from the Cracker-Jack Box

Figueres Don't Lie, but Liars Figure

This Sad Replica of a Once Proud Military that Rumsfeld Left as His Legacy

What Sets Them Apart is What Sets Them Off

GM $51 Thousand-Million Short at the Table

The Unkindest Cut

Why Not Just Paint 'Em Orange?

Automated Targeting, Cruise-Control for What Hitler Had to Do By Hand

And How Would You Like the Shirts?

With or Without Laura Bush

What the Hell has happened to the Marines?

Automated Targeting System--THAT'S ME AND YOU, BABY

In Search of a New York Times Argument

1/400th of the Way to Accounting for the Accounting

A Rush to Judgement

Define "Sensitive Foreign Investment"

Side Benefit #143 to the Iraq War

Living in Absurdistan--the State of American Health Care

There Goes the Service Call-Center

Senator Schumer, Playing to the Crowd

Panic, Patchwork and Permissions--Blackwater, USA

And We Keep Blaming DEMOCRATS

Jim Moran, the Courtesy Man

What a Lovely Path That Would Be

Florida Sows Pistols and Reaps Assault Rifles

Interesting to See if This Holds Up

It's Not the Party of Many Republicans Anymore

Lesson #588 in Sports Personalities Out of Control

Hillary Clinton Genuflects to the Health Insurance Industry

Mike Chertoff, the Man Who Never Fails to Fail

What 'Impeachment is off the Table' Really Means

Alan Greenspin Finally Writes His CYA Memoir

We Can't Handle Iraq, So Why Not Take On Iran?

What's Missing in This Picture?

Playing the Anti-Semite Card Again

A Little Self- Criticism Would be More Appropriate, Alan

Running on Empty

Veto THIS, George

The Conservative View Simply Cannot Accept Debate

Sidelining Federal (lack of) Health Care

Martha Stewart Gets a Free Page One Plug?

We Know Whose War this Is

Another Bogeyman in the Middle East

Just Google It

A Sensible Veto

Letters from Our Senators—Dianne Feinstein—One of a Hundred

Investors Buoyed by the Big Mac

Head in the Sand (or somewhere else) On Dollar Decline

Yes, We Have No Bananas

Two Nations--Similar Problem--Different Outcome

The General’s Thoughts Aside, What Do Iraqis Think?

Would You Like That With a Honda or Toyota?

Practicing a Speech Instead of Quitting a War

At Last--An Environmentally Friendly Bomb

Conjuring a Functional Iraqi Government

What We Can't Not Know

Whack-A-Mole in International Drug Traffic

The Buyout BOOM Before the Buyout BUST

Slanting the Poll

Bureau of Idiocy, Posing as the Bureau of Prisons

Modest Goals, Modestly Presented

It's a Long, Long Way from July to September

Pulling the Plug--the Final Disconnect

Get that Stick Out of My Eye

The Current Status of 'Deals With the Devil'

In the "Reaping as We Sow" Department

In the Absurd Argument Department

Who Paid for this Study?

In the 'Should'a Thought of That' Department

Of COURSE It's Going to Hurt the Economy

And the Band Played On

A Patriotic Act

When is $600 Million in Salary Not Enough?

Unless of Course, There Was a Better Idea

Oops!

Conduct Unfavorably Reflecting

Iraq Isn't the Only One Missing Benchmarks

Sorry to be so Late

The Report is in the Mail

In the Better-Late-Than-Never Department

Impossible to Get it Right Department

Why Not Another Actor?

A National Force in Name Only

Everything Comes (Eventually) on the Wings of Business—Even Health Care

The Unseen Hand of Immigration, Seen

What's Wrong With America, Lesson #458

In the "What Goes Round Comes Round" Department

Dividing the Pork in the Energy Pig

Being Made a Fool at the End of Life

Taking Pentagon Positions as a Matter of Faith

Courts in a State of Denial, Citizens in a State of Anarchy

Legislation Sparked by a Supreme Court in Denial

We’ll Take the Money and Run

L. Paul Bremer Takes Offense

Withdrawal is Only Difficult if You Entered Without Thinking

The Rush to Oblivion, Slowed But Not Stopped

Not Outing Gays, but Outing Hypocritical Gays

From Parliament to abu-Ghraib, Double-Quick

Who is Detroit to Blow Against the Wind?

Number 19 on the Reasons One Fights in Iraq

Army Seeks to Privatize General Petraeus

Looking at Iraq as a College Experiment

Just What Do You Suppose That Stunt Cost?

Above All Else, Comfort, a Bicycle and Convenience

Submarined by the Subprime Frenzy

Celebrating an Unconscionable Cost

Declaring Success Has Its Price

The Military, Busily Protecting Its Own (Commanders)

In the 'What You Give is What You Get' Department

Real Causes Don't uggest Real Solutions

Talking About (Blush) Breast-Feeding

44,000 Kids are a Lot of Kids

Now For a Look at the Legacy Thing

Department of Homeland Idiocy at it Again

A Class Act, Followed by a Class Act

Meanwhile, in the Feet of Clay Department

Nothing to Fear But . . . Whatever . . .

The Homophobic States of America

Senator Craig's Indictment of Himself

All We Have to Fear is the 'State Secrets' Themselves

Michael Gerson, Speechwriter Turned Strategist

May Alter Turns to Damn Well WILL Alter

Absolutely EVERYTHING from a Political Perspective

HHS--Fighting for Hucksterism and Heavy Spending

At the Very Least, Deals Will be Made

Whistling Past the Graveyard

Not Learning Their Lines and Bumping into the Furniture

PRINCIPLE? Are You Kidding?

Well, It's a Start Anyway

Bush is Writing on the Men's Room Wall at the American Legion

A Message of Hopeless Incompetence

You Can't Judge the Bottle by its Label

Forced Not to be Total Idiots

If I Were a Conspiracy Theorist

Fighting With One Arm Tied

An Unending and Tiresome Fascination--for PROFIT

A Hundred Thousand Dead Because of Carelessness

And the Times Calls this 'Analysis'

The First of Many Left to Come

Not Reckless at all

The Terrorist Case that Just Won't Go Away

The Trickle that will Become a Torrent

The Skies Will Magically Clear for 2008 Olympics

Reason #213 Why We're Failing in Afghanistan

The Terrorist State We Dare Not Name

Finally, After Six Months Swinging in the Wind

Read This--It's Worth the Time and Effort

Doonsbury's Duke Lobbying Iraqi Leadership

A Market Free of Regulation

Progress is in the Eye of the Beholder

Trying to Hold Water in Our Fingers

Another Crack in Our Broken Primary System

OSM--Office of Subterfuge & Misinformation

Bush Plans a 'Vietnam Moment' in New Orleans

A Secretary of Roads Instead of Transportation

Secular Democracy, Foundering Among the Sects

Anybody Want This Guy's Job?

Peeking Under the Intelligence Covers

The Ignorance and Stupidity of a Manhattan Mom

'Indefinite' Isn't Much of a Suspension

Exceptionally Grave Damage to America's Freedoms

British Petroleum (BP) Shames Itself With Green Ads and Disastrous Policy

Who's Watching the Store?

Destroying America by Regulation

Private Industry Solving What Government Can't

So That's What's Been Going On

British Petroleum--Advertising Green, Polluting as Usual

The CLOSING of a Previously OPEN Society

Thirty Years of Memory Loss

Define 'Agency,' I Dare You

Among the Unknowns, Bob Murray's Greed is not One

Making a Hell of a Mess and then Blaming the Mess

Mike Gerson Writing About His President's Failures

No Fix for Investing Unwisely

Reaching Out by Reaching In--Our Pockets

Lurita Doan, Buying for the Government at Highest Possible Prices

15% Tax Rate for $100 Million Incomes

Administrative Moves to Keep Children Uninsured

Another Sucker Born Every Minute

Senator Leahy, Running Out the Clock

Professional Integrity or Professional Liability?

Like a School Shooting, Momentary Outrage, Then Silence

Donald Rumsfeld is the Guy Who Put Us on Crutches

Not Jumping On a Hot Stove OR a Cold Stove

Not Clear to Them, Crystal Clear to Me

Guilty or Innocent, Who the Hell Cares?

But Then That Would Take Some Actual Guts

The Real Work of Newspapers as Well

Karl Rove--the Original Short Stack

What, Again?

Missed by Heads Buried in Sand

The Free Lunch Bumps Up Against the Free Market

The Shame of America's Mass Media

A Late Choice, Made Under Considerable Pressure, But Made Correctly

Poking the Russian Bear in the Eye

Just Call Me General

Wise Move or Foolish Intervention?

George Bush Doesn’t Trust Americans

The Bushies Have Only One Tired Argument

They Must Not Teach Hard Times at Harvard

Trusting Mike Chertoff to Protect Your Civil Liberties

Dennis Hastert Opts for the Money

Gonzales, Putting Death on the Fast-Track

Michael Gerson--Temptation and Virtues

Whistling Past the Graveyard

Michael Vick Will Never Play Again

The Goldman's Sell Out

Interesting to See How This One Rides Out

A Multi-tasking World to Love and Distrust

Has Rove Been Thrown Under the Bus?

Political Correctness On the Way to the Grave

Here Today, Gone Tomorrow

A New York Times 'Disturbing Truth'

Market-Set Animal Rights

Losing Our Edge on Our Own Home Turf

Lest We Forget, That's Why We Call It a Market

A Corps of Engineers Colonel with His Dick in His Mouth

Bush Meets Sarkozy With His Usual Social Ineptness

Aronoff, Close Enough to Abramoff

Education Doesn't Seem too High a Price

It's Not a Judgment Call that Disdains Professionals

Take the Time to Read Fick's Editorial--It's Worth It

The Heartbreak and Ignorance of Cheney's War

Memo for Mike Bloomberg on Traffic Control

Absolutely Crucial that the New York Times Butt Out

A Market Rationally (but painfully) Righting Itself

Excoriating a Tax That's Already in Place

The True Magic of Markets

Adding Mexico to the Ways Our Anti-Drug Policy Fails

Not MORE Calls, But the Same Old PNAC Calls

It's a Long, Long Way Back to Bill Clinton Balanced Budgets

Time for the National Parties to Step In

A Hell of a Way to Dictate Security

Lead us not into Temptation

The Gonzales Rule, an Alberto Concerto in D-Minus

At last we know, it's the BLACKBERRY

Super Low Rates for the Super Rich

Out of Sight, Out of Mind Bridge-Wise

The Scolds at the New York Times, at it Again

Rumseld Keeps on Feelin' Bad

What is it with these Secretaries of the Army?

The Radar Nobody Wants in Europe

Supporting Shiites, Arming Sunnis, Selling Out the Kurds—Bush’s Personal Surge

Finally, In the Department of Desperate Moves

To Hell with Gandhi and Jesus, We've Opted for Attila

The Party’s Over

The Pentagon Budget—Breaking the Bank

Barry Bonds and Dick Cheney

The Case for Not Waiting Out This Presidency

Homeland Security Down the Toilet

Winner Take All is not the same as Democratic Process

Pointing Fingers on Human Rights Abuses

Bringing the Troops Home, Beginning with a Lieutenant Colonel

The Fate of the World as a Mere Intellectual Exercise

Finally, a Contractor Worse Than Halliburton

A Pussyfooting, Wheedling, Sniveling Approach to Confronting National Shame

First, Send Everybody Home

Dow Chemical Continues an Ad Campaign in Poor Taste

Why the Farce Continues Without Impeachment

Getting in the Game, When Representative Government No Longer Works

A National ‘American Idol,’ Boring Us to Death

Peter Pace and Colin Powell, a Commonality of Failure

Is Alberto Gonzales Approaching His Wolfowitz Moment?

‘Tarting Up’ Hasn’t a Thing to Do With Couric

Clearing Off My Desk--Again

Stop Me Before I Self-Destruct Again

The Washington Post With Egg on its Editorial Face

The A B C’s of Panic at the White House

A Reagan redux--the Bush Administration's Iran-Contra Scandal

Sanctions--the Feel-Good Solution

Kicking and Screaming Our Way to the G-8 Conference

The View of "Administration Hard Liners"

The Fed-Ex War Czar

540 Days to Go? I’m ALREADY Tired of the Candidates

Staying With No Staying-Power

Nuclear Lunacy from the Monastic Comfort of Purdue University

George Bush, Avoiding Personal Shame

Just What’s Needed, Another Road Map

Catch-22 Over at Gonzalesville

Jose Padilla, Hard to Particularize

Incompetent Sex Trumps Incompetent Governance

Bush's Finger in Putin’s Eye

Whoever Came Up With These Names?

The French Get Down to Electing

MSNBC—Descending Into Hell and Dragging Us Along

Dancing on the Head of a Pin

Wall Street Afraid of the Wrong Ghost

Beginning of the End--Richard Nixon Redux

As We (Too Many of Us) Get Poorer

The Great American Don Imus Fraud

The President Has This Bag Marked “Iraq” and Desperately Wants Someone to Hold It

Educating the Destruction of American Business

Mergers are Worthless, It’s Time to Spinoff National Security

First Cow-Tipping and Now This

Why Internet Gambling is Hazardous to Your Health

Respected, By Whom?

The War? What War?

Iraq Is Not Hopeless, But America’s Mission There Is

Lying For a Very Cushy Living

Why the King Won’t be Coming to Dinner

Unbearable, Unless You Choose to Bear It

Enjoying a George F. Will Column

Clearing Off My Desk

Limping and Stumbling, Inevitably Toward Impeachment

You Can Call It ‘The Other White Meat,’ It’s Still Pork

Education--No Lender (or brother) Left Behind

Hersh’s Journalistic Bomb—Muffled by Indifference

Just Let Me Die at the Country Club

The Burlesque of Pete Rose’s Ethical Doghouse

The Curious Case of Alberto Gonzales’ Credentials

A Symbol is Not a Cymbal

In the End, It’s Always the Almonds and Whipped Cream

Hold On to Your Hat, if You’re Invested in Mortgages

A Bronze Star and the Brush-Off

Idiots in the Driver’s Seat at FDA

Jim Nicholson’s Head on a Pike

Scolding Barry Bonds

No Child Left Behind Flogs the Wrong Horse

The Sound of One Hand Clapping

Not Seeing Forests for Trees

On the Lam With Alberto Gonzales

My First Car Was a Chrysler

Dave Horowitz’s Academic Bill of Wrongs

Stumbling Over Political Correctness

Who Feeds at This Trough?

Arming an Unknown Future--Again

The New ‘Sport-Utility’ U.S. Army

Washington Post Headlines for the Intellectually Challenged

Smithfield Foods—Driven to a Process

Frosty Hardiman, An Inconvenient Idiot

Who Says CEOs Are Worth Their Compensation?

Just in Time—a Carry-Out Arms Race

Four-Fifths of the World

A Pretty Hollow Complaint, Doctor

Calling in the Cavalry and Killer Whales

Failure Is Not an Option

It Doesn’t Matter What Maliki Says

The Legacy of Not Having Impeached Richard Nixon

Lookin’ for Loopholes

Enough Naming Everything as War