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  • Jack Hensley

    Came across this website on Blogs of War also, please go and donate – Jackhensley.org As Blogs of War note: While everyone who knew Jack grieves at such a senseless loss of life, it is with his daughter Sara our thoughts reside. The loss of a father can never truly be healed, but it is…

  • Don't mess with the Bushes: Kitty Kelley

    Salon do an interview with author Kitty Kelley, among the highlights of her now book, they choose this curious insight into George Bush’s university time from one of his old friends: But, as one of W’s Yalie frat brothers tells Kelley, it’s not the substance abuse in Bush’s past that’s disturbing, it’s the “lack of…

  • William Safire: Those memos are frauds

    Dick over at BSD has been covering this story at length, I have been reading all about it, but just don’t feel motivated enough to blog about it. Safire believes the memos to be frauds, though CBS is sticking to their guns. I note the use of the word “bloggers” without the usual paragraph explaining…

  • Bush's Lost Year

    James Fallows in the Atlantic. Read it.

  • McGreevy and his lover

    Crooked Timber points out that Jeff Jarvies is pointing out that NJ media may have known about the sexuality of the Governer McGreevy, and the apparent appointment of his lover to a State job should have prompted them to report. It is illegal is it not? It’s great that McGreevey came right out and told…

  • Colin Powell on the Beatles and knowing Elvis

    Another good exerpt from the interview. P. J. O’ROURKE: Ok, well, this is the key one. Which is your favorite Beatle? I actually asked Bill Clinton that. When he was running for President, I interviewed him and I said, “Which one’s your favorite Beatle?” And he looked quite surprised because he thought only policy questions…

  • A Conversation With Colin Powell

    PJ O’Rourke interviews Colin Powell. Here’s a good sample: P. J. O’ROURKE: The powers that are on our side, why aren’t they pulling on their oars? I mean, the EU has as big an economy and as big a population as we do. SECRETARY POWELL: First of all, I do think they’re on our side.…

  • Ferguson on whether America is an empire

    It’s [America] an empire that has all the functions of military empire, if you like. It has the capacity to project itself in terms of force over vast geographical distances. It’s an empire that is remarkably adept at spreading its culture globally. In that sense, it’s an empire with almost unrivaled military and cultural power.…

  • Nixon on the Irish

    In this months Atlantic monthly some interesting exerpts from the latest tranche of Nixon tapes released this year. This is what Nixon had to say about the Irish, after Bloody Sunday, and just after the British Embassy in Dublin was burned down on February 2, 1972. Speaking to William Rogers (Secretary of State) ‘Cause you…

  • Bill O'Reilly versus Michael Moore

    I managed to miss this earlier, but here is the transcript. You can watch it on video too if you click the video link.