From CQPolitics.com:
At the end of the day, only a journalist went to jail in the CIA leak investigation.
President George W. Bush’s commutation of I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby’s jail sentence means that only reporter Judy Miller spent time in the slammer — and that was for protecting Libby, the leaker. The former White House aide let […]

Prior to the ‘04 election, I predicted two paths President Bush might take if he won reelection:

No longer having to face another election to office, he would abandon the base that put him in office and finally pursue a “compassionate conservative,” or, as I was hoping, a moderate path; or
He’d get far worse because he […]

The Los Angeles Times:
The number of U.S.-paid private contractors in Iraq now exceeds that of American combat troops, newly released figures show, raising fresh questions about the privatization of the war effort and the government’s capacity to carry out military and rebuilding campaigns.
More than 180,000 civilians — including Americans, foreigners and Iraqis — are working […]

In Sunday’s The New York Times, Jeffrey Rosen questions whether the Supreme Court’s ruling (PDF) against using race as a factor in placing students in public schools will actually have an effect. As he notes in the middle of the column, there are a number of ways for school districts to get around the affirmative […]

From The Wall Street Journal:
Defense Secretary Robert Gates and some allies in the Bush administration are seeking to build bipartisan political support for a long-term U.S. presence in Iraq by moving toward withdrawing significant numbers of troops from Iraq by the end of President Bush’s term.
The complicating factor is how long the administration will […]

I’m in no hurry to get an iPhone. I’ll be surprised if I ever actually buy one, but I’m certain I’ll be using similar technology produced by some other company in the near-ish future (read: when I’m not poor).
In fact, I’m really starting believe that the Apple symbol is the Mark of the Beast.
According to […]

Let’s get something out of the way here first. I love The Tank. It’s right up there with OP-FOR and Danger Room to me. So I’m happy just to have been noticed and referred to by W. Thomas Smith Jr. — even if it is only to take me to task for this post.
I want […]

Retired Air Force Lt. Col. Buzz Patterson has a ridiculous “column” at National Review Online today. I put column in scare-quotes because the majority of it is a listing of blurbs from American soldiers blasting the anti-war left. Where do the quotes come from? Patterson’s new book, War Crimes: The Left’s Campaign to Destroy Our […]

The Wall Street Journal (sub. req’d, those mofos) is a bit tardy to the story of Army Lieutenant Colonel Paul Yingling’s blistering critique (”A failure in generalship,” Armed Forces Journal, May 2007) of America’s generals.
I think, and, according to the WSJ article, junior officers concur, his critique is generally true, especially when it focuses on […]

I love the reaction Jeff over at The Shape of Days had to the Romney-Pet-Strapped-To-The-Car-Roof story:
You know what? Fuck it. I don’t care if everybody loves Mitt Romney. I don’t care if he’s the literal embodiment of the Second Coming. I don’t care if he cures cancer with his mind, or if he promises to […]