Origins of Bombs Mysterious Amid Continued Rights Clampdown in Bahrain
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There were five bomb blasts early Monday in Bahrain, but there are serious questions about who is responsible for their construction and deployment. Two street cleaners of South…
Sick Of The Election Jiz Virtually Speaking Trash Talk
If there were more days remaining, say maybe seven, perhaps there would be reason to throw some politics in here for discussion. But, no, there are, as I write this blarney, only four days left in our long national nightmare. So, enough of the…
NYT Kisses David Petraeus' Boo Boos To Make Them Better
I'm going to spoil this blowjob masquerading as profile for you. Here are the last three sentences of Scott Shane's 1,500 word "news" piece on how David Petraeus' image has taken a hit because his agency 1) missed that the militias we're partnering…
If CIA's Benghazi Annex Was So Secret, Why Were Its Personnel Being Harassed?
Of all the stories reporting David Petraeus' pushback on the Benghazi story, WSJ's was clearly the most thorough.
But I want to question this claim.
The significance of the annex was a well-kept secret in Benghazi. A neighbor said that he…
SIGAR Reports That Afghan Bases Can't Be Maintained After Handoff
The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) released its quarterly report (pdf) this week. Along with the report, it issued an audit (pdf) with the long title "Afghan National Security Forces Facilities: Concerns…
The Petraeus Barrage on Benghazi
As I noted yesterday, Jonah Goldberg was whining that not enough journalists were covering this story, which said that CIA had twice asked for help from DOD, only to be denied, and stated that several fo the security guards at the CIA annex…
And They're Off! 4 GOPers Make Bid for 2016 Over Mitt's Still-Warm Body
I'm not really sure why the pundits are wasting time deciding whether Nate Silver is a wizard or a washed out baseball junky. There's another fairly clear sign that insiders believe Obama will win this election: the number of 2016 GOP contenders…
Another Sequel in the Libyan Left Behind Series
A month ago, I marveled at the remarkable frequency with which interesting documents have a way of appearing in Libya; I dubbed it the "Libyan Left Behind" syndrome.
It has happened again. Yet more journalists--Harald Doornbos and Jenan Moussa,…
Jonah Goldberg Complains That Media Treats Boys Who Cry Wolf Like Boys Who Cry Wolf
Welcome to November. As DDay joked on Twitter last night, we've officially moved out of October Surprise month.
I guess Jonah Goldberg was thinking of the same timing when he wrote a column--posted at midnight on October 31--complaining that…
Weak State Department Response to Bahrain Ban on Protests Shows Oil Higher Priority Than Lives
On Tuesday, Bahrain banned all public protests in its continued effort to clamp down on a protest movement that began in February of last year. The State Department issued a weak condemnation of this move on Wednesday, although it is not clear…
Foxes Are to Hen House Security as Bankers Are to Occupy Wall Street
Hey, it’s me, Angry Mom. Yeah, the one who spent the last nine years in political activism. I was utterly immersed in the effort, from baking cookies to persuade voters, to writing op-eds, licking envelopes, dragging my poor kids to conventions,…
Creeping Unemployment in the New Battlegrounds: PA and MI
The big news of the campaign, once you get beyond Mitt's kabuki storm assistance and auto bashing, is that PA and MI are battlegrounds again.
Maybe.
First, Restore Our Future PAC announced $2 million ad buys in both states. The the Obama…
Why Does Mitt Hate Profit?
[I posted substantially this post yesterday, but the BlogGods ate it along the way. So I'm reposting.]
Along with the deceitful attack on Italians who make better car company owners than GOP Private Equity types and the Lee Iacocca spin,…
Sandy's Teachable Moment on Infrastructure
In a remarkable development, the devastation from Sandy now is finally moving a least a portion of the national conversation onto the very important topic of infrastructure and how we need to renew our degrading infrastructure in addition to…
Lee Iacocca: Mitt Will Make It Easier for Auto Companies to Evade Taxes on Cars Built in China
As part of its effort to pretend that Mitt would be good for the auto industry, the campaign had Lee Iacocca sum up why Mitt would be good for the auto industry.
The first paragraph of specifics reads:
When Mitt Romney is president, he will…
Italian Automaker Brings about Chrysler Success after GOP Private Equity Failure
I've been a bit tardy in responding to Mitt's latest cynical ploy, to pretend that rather than expanding production and jobs in both OH and MI, Chrysler is outsourcing production to China.
The Detroit News' David Shepardson has a good…
Provide For the Common Defense or Go Galt?
We awake to a changed and battered country this morning. CNN's headline at CNN.com currently blares "Millions wake to devastation", while AP gives us a state-by-state rundown of the effects of Hurricane (and then Superstorm) Sandy. At a time,…
Why Should We Believe Solicitors General about Warrantless Wiretapping
I'm working on a longer post about the arguments in Amnesty v. Clapper today.
But I wanted to point to this passage from the transcript, in which Solicitor General Don Verrilli responded to Justice Ginsburg's suggestion that the FISA Court…
Sandy Makes Turn, Landfall in Mid-Atlantic Expected by Monday Night
In the 8 am update from the National Hurricane Center, NOAA has announced that Hurricane Sandy is now moving to the north-northwest. In the previous update, Sandy was headed due north, so this means that the turn toward the coast of the US has…
If Hillary Named Fat Al Gore a Foreign Terrorist Organization...
I've been thinking about how things would be different if Hillary Clinton named Fat Al Gore--my metaphorical name for climate change--a Foreign Terrorist Organization.
The FTO designation, you'll recall, is the official designation that signals…
