Archives for July 2005

Sir Ian Blair, the head of London’s Metropolitan Police, sounds like a well-read police chief. “Al Qaeda does not act like some classic Graham Greene cell. It has very loose affiliations …” Greene’s books — the successful terrorist bombers in “The Honorary Consul” because 1) it was tightly controlled, 2) it involved a major screw-up, […]

Lies, evasions, memory lapses, and prevarications are characteristics shared by the top U.S. Army brass and our Dear Leader’s choices for the government’s highest civilian posts. The evidence is overwhelming, and it’s no coincidence — not when it comes to the war in Iraq, torture, the regime’s foreign policy, and the nation’s highest court. From […]

Of all the theories now circulating on the Web about the strange JOHN ROBERTS’ LOST WEEKEND Can’t remember if he Was ever a Federalist? Could it possibly be The sober judge was pissed? —

Democracy Now! has a Watch the video. Ross cuts to the heart of the issue about a guy with a steel-trap mind who suddenly can’t recall whether he was, in fact, a dues-paying member of the society. The important question is not whether he paid dues as a member or not. The question really at […]

When you have a staff of thousands, you think you can relax. You believe in the nailed this somehow

Coming attractions: The theme of the Federalist Society’s 2005 National Lawyers Convention will be — nailed it.) EmailFacebookTwitterReddit

“Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr. has repeatedly said that he has no memory of belonging to the So says The Washington Post, also noting: “In conservative circles, membership in or association with the society has become a badge of ideological and political reliability.” membership. And let’s not forget, “membership in the sense of […]

The New York Times apparently decided to answer Jess Bravin’s news story by David Kirkpatrick. This morning — Saturday — buried low on page A9 deep within the print edition (as you’d expect from miffed or embarrassed editors playing catch-up), The Times points to the groundwork now being laid by Democrats to challenge the nomination […]

Try to find a discussion of “originalism” in the massive, admiring profile of John Roberts Jr., headlined We do learn that Roberts, left, “played Peppermint Patty” in his boarding school’s production of “You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown” and, during a 1980 presidential election party many years later, he put a toy elephant on top […]

“Just 25% of Americans say the White House is fully cooperating with the federal investigation into the leak of [Valerie Plame] Wilson’s identity, King Georgie Boy has renegged on earlier declarations that he’d fire anyone involved in the leak. Bear in mind, this The New York Times replied this morning to Frank Rich’s take on […]

“I can’t wait till 2008,” a vaudeville cartoon comedy cabaret act. It stars Hillary Clinton, with Bill, Kerry, Al, Jimmy, Georgie, Dickie, Nancy and “pussy-whipped” Osama in supporting roles, and Rudy, Chelsea and Michael Moore in walk-ons. Produced by Michael Hodges, unfortunately a conservative Republican who likes click, watch and listen. You won’t be disappointed. […]

If dance companies lack support in this country, as everyone agrees, you’d never have known it from the Pilobolus performances earlier this week at the Pilobolus hallmarks of gymnastic strength, playful humor, unimaginable energy and, above all, the sense that nothing human is alien to this troupe, no matter how strange. While the electrically charged […]

Is Judith Miller grandstanding? When she went to jail rather than testify about her confidential sources in the Plame case, did she go as a matter of principle or because she thought it was a good career move? Only Judy knows. But put the question that way — David Ehrenstein’s riff on “Gypsy.” “Judy’s Turn.” […]

David D’Arcy affair. At the 11th hour, before a scheduled July 7 arbitration hearing, NPR agreed to compensate staff editor Tom Cole, a member of the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, whose pay had been docked as a disciplinary measure without due process, in what AFTRA had charged was a violation of the […]