While a new translation of Eli Wiesel’s Holocaust memoir, being played out in a federal court in San Francisco, where a former U.S. Army intelligence officer has testified that the man who became Pope Paul VI “helped hide and launder property that had been stolen” from Nazi victims in Yugoslavia during World War II. Ustashe […]

Did the producers of NBC’s cop show headline-making decision about assisted suicide? We don’t think so. But tonight’s episode, Yeah, yeah, we know. The court’s 6-to-3 ruling was focused on physician-assisted, not girlfriend-assisted, suicide. Just the same, before the ruling, we told our NAJP* colleague Carter Harris, left, who wrote the episode, that we’d promote […]

Martin Luther King Jr.’s you can listen to excerpts here, you realize again not just how much America lost when he was assassinated, but how much it needs him now. Substitute the word “Iraq” for “Vietnam”: “Globalizing King’s Legacy,” ought to be required reading for the pipsqueak leaders of our time, when “spitballs pass for […]

according to the New York Post. The suit claims “he was slandered for his report on a Nazi-looted painting once displayed at the museum,” the Post’s David Hafetz writes. Last July more than a dozen items posted since last March. — Tireless Staff of Thousands Postscript: Better headline: “D’Arcy Sorta Drops The Other Shoe?” He […]

We’re running out of ways to say it ourselves. So we quote (again) from the editorial page of an institution that represents the established order but hasn’t let that get in the way of expressing the truth about the “The Imperial Presidency at Work.” Which reminds us of our post of more than a year […]

By way of introduction: I typed and retyped roughly 50 words in columns from the beginning of several texts. I then proceded to read across the columns and typed them again, trusting the words only. They showed me writers who were fed up with Reality. This was the way I saw it long ago: “A […]

his review of “Dog Days,” the new novel by Ana Marie Cox: Ana Marie Cox made her name writing a political blog, Wonkette.com. I’ve never seen it. As far as I can tell, no one has. Admitting reading political blogs is like admitting watching daytime TV. Christopher Buckley writes in

How about this tasty morsel? We’re dumbfounded.

rhyme and reason made good sense to us. That’s why we posted it. This morning’s New York Times offers an endorsement with its lead editorial, Though it lacks Leon Freilich’s meter, the editorial gives more than enough reason to reject Alito’s nomination to the Supreme Court —

Edward Allen has. He’s four years old. James Moore, who’s considerably older, has been Clayton Patterson, a Lower East Side activist friend of ours with a long history of arrests, tells us “being targeted is scary. I’m not sure people understand this.” That’s experience talking, and of course they don’t. On Nov. 2, 2004,

Since the judge was sought to distance himself from conservative political opinions he once held (LA Times) and — Leon Freilich *Der Gropenfuhrer either wasn’t listening or didn’t believe Alito when he professsed that no one is “above the law.” For two decades Der Grope has been riding around on his Harley-Davidson motorcycle “even though […]

Our old friend Mugs McGuiness did us another one of his many favors. When he heard about our ‘puter meltdown he sent over a box of used books, figuring that would cheer us up. Which it did. The man has fine taste in litrichur. We picked out of the box a slim Penguin paperback with […]

Gareth Porter isn’t fooled by the American ‘ganda machine. While we were out — thanks to our Dell laptop meltdown — he rang in the New Year for the “US Military Still Runs With Dreaded Wolf Brigade,” just as the Porter — historian, national security policy analyst and author of a new book about the […]

Start the year with a

Twelve months later … Oliphant’s New Year cartoon still applies.

“I just read the incredible “And I very much appreciate Doug Ireland’s postscript comments in previously estimated, depending on how events evolve, the potential ranges from 500,000 to 1.8 million people through death or exile. This could be avoided, but if it happens, should those who caused the civil war and who armed its participants […]

“Fisk scolds U.S. journalists” is the way “Telling it like it isn’t,” an op-ed tongue-lashing in yesterday’s Los Angeles Times (which was fairly mild for Fisk). Now have a look at some excerpts from his book, [W]ho are those people? In the taboo-ridden world of Western journalism, every effort continues to be made not only […]