Archives for March 2007

Here’s one of those Wall Street Journal frontpagers that ought to be required reading for its editorial board: The prosecutor’s “old Marine buddy, Michael ‘Rocks’ Horrocks, was co-pilot on United 175, the second plane to strike the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001,” Bravin writes. “The prisoner in question, Mohamedou Ould Slahi, had already […]

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This was the week to remember the “The Ides of March, 2003.” Can’t let it pass without recalling what I posted at the time on MSNBC.com, links included. (Miracle of miracles, many still work). Looking back, I see the posts are very tame. I tried not to be, but I knew I could go only […]

Text, subtext and context, As every carbon-based life form on this planet surely knows, Barack Obama, the junior Democratic senator from Illinois, is running for president. … But it’s clear that Obama also is running for an equally important unelected office, in the province of the popular imagination — the “Magic Negro.” And it ends: […]

Katrina vanden Heuvel writes: “Jan — Enjoyed “End the War (On Terror),” the latest entry in her blog BnnRpbias will accuse her of “mandating failure” of course — as if they have any right to preach about success — but it’s just another of their galling pet phrases (like “micromanaging the war”) to deflect attention […]

A friend who deals in matters of national security writes: “All the major newspapers seem to have a common, inexplicable blind spot in discussing the war in Iraq, which I find very disturbing because it obfuscates the fundamental failures, their nature, and their cause.” The most recent example is today’s editorial,

Something else to turn your stomach: The Waverly Inn in the West Village — Manhattan’s “latest clubhouse to the rich and famous under the direction of its host-with-the-mostest, Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter” — where a $50,000 mural by

It was two months ago that the “good management” to justify the Justice Department’s political purge of federal prosecutors. Now that his excuse has been exposed as one more Orwellian lie in a BnnRpbiPresident With His Head Up His Ass, the VD’s “mistakes were made” reminds me of Tortured Testimony in January of 2005. EmailFacebookTwitterReddit

government of Poland objects to Tuvia Tenenbom that documents and then satirizes the anti-Semitism still visibly thriving in Lodz, the country’s second-largest city, a half-century after the Holocaust. Staged with the simplified power of a cartoon, “Last Jew” puts Polish anti-Semites on trial by ridicule. No wonder the government protests. Self-hating Jews are not spared, […]

something else that happened. We regret not being there. It isn’t everyday that Robert Fisk picks up a But Fisk, if you don’t already know, is the veteran “The Great War for Civilisation” (see Postscript, below*) and “Iraq ousts 10,000 in security ministry.” Coincidentally, a manufacturer of armor-plating for U.S. military vehicles in Iraq pointed […]

Do I hear any bravos for Justin Davidson’s principled stand against the Vienna Philharmonic? He wrote he would not be attending the orchestra’s Carnegie Hall concerts this past weekend. For that matter, he added, “it may be years before I review it again.” This is no small thing. “Vienna is slow to change its tune,” […]