“Mission Accomplished” — Tuesday is the fourth anniversary of that infamous photo op — but when President With His Head Up His Ass during a “No One Should Be Above the Law,” which he’d given earlier last week in Washington at a large gathering of activists, politicians and others to launch an noted last week, […]

It was unanimous. When asked for a show of hands not one went up to support impeachment proceedings against Prez Huha’s lineup of Democratic presidential candidates distinguish itself. House Resolution 333 — was apparently too modest to raise his own hand. video interview about HR 333 earlier this week, as posted on YouTube. And here’s […]

“You can’t keep asking young people to die for a lie,” he said this morning on Democracy Now!, where he talked about his return to public television with a new weekly series called “Bill Moyers Journal.” (Have a The first program in the series, Variety’s Bryan Lowery describes it as “a methodical, devastating, pull-no-punches recap […]

To refresh your memory: The killings in Haditha, in Anbar Province, began with a roadside bombing that killed one American marine and wounded two. Several marines then began methodically killing civilians in the area, eventually going door to door in the village and killing women and children, some in their beds, according to a Naval […]

Is it any surprise the memory lapses? Or that the pleased with the dummy’s testimony? Of course not. news photographers who covered the hearing, Don Mills among them. truth on the campaign trail in South Carolina. “Remember that old Beach Boys song ‘Bomb Iran’?” he joked, in answer to a question about sending “an airmail […]

“la machina de guerra,” as a friend puts it. This is Wolfowitz = Swaggart, chap. 1. EmailFacebookTwitterReddit

This image — received from a reader who writes, “I am surprised, too!” — has been making the rounds of the Internet for a long time as a variations (and in many left, elsewhere): “I’ve never read online” also fails to parse and is truly scary, given his

Sometimes a magazine cover is perfect.

Remember when Jay Critchley was scuttled it was. Or so it was thought. Well, a year later the So is Critchley. Only this time he’s up to no good with a new twist on an old project: “TransAmerica — Condoms with a Conscience.” It’s part of an exhibition, THE LAB in San Francisco featuring artists […]

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