A few weeks back I finished Jon Krakauer’s latest, Where Men Win Glory, which focused on the life and death (and subsequent coverup) of Pat Tillman. Like other Krakauer books, the text is engaging and (at least to me) moving. Some of Krakauer’s back story regarding the Afghanistan war with the Soviet Union seemed familiar, [...]

I’m not usually one for speculation, but when Laura Rozen starts tossing up

Several New Mexico bloggers have already hit on the absurdity of a B-52 flying hafway across the country with nuclear weapons aboard, but Larry Johnson at TPM Cafe starts asking the right questions: So I called a old friend and retired B-52 pilot and asked him. What he told me offers one compelling case of [...]

The usually insightful Clay Benntt, at the Christian Science Monitor. Josh Marshall has some incredible insights of his own, regarding Bush Co. attempts to mislead us into another war cook the intelligence again prove Iran is supplying arms to our enemies in Iraq: Now, given the black market traffic in arms in Iraq right now, [...]

This is a little out of the neighborhood, but Ken Silverstein has the first of a three-part series online regarding the possibility of war with Iran. Today features thoughts from independent analysts. A. Richard Norton: Remember that in 1990–91 and then again in 2003 the very fact that the United States assembled a formidable array [...]

Seeing as how the state Republican party says I’m always “bashing Republicans” on this blog, here’s some Democrat bashing for you, courtesy of Charles Pierce at TAPPED: You worthless passel of cowards. They’re laughing at you. You know that, right? The national Democratic Party is no longer worth the cement needed to sink it to [...]

I’ll be working in District Court again all day, so I thought I ‘d send you up north, where Democracy for New Mexico has info on Heather Wilson and her “independence” from Bush: As reported in an article published by The Hill, headlined, “Revolt over Wilson bill rocks panel,” a number of moderate Republicans on [...]

I haven’t seen this anywhere else yet, so I thought I’d include a snippet here: Bill Richardson has won international acclaim for his unique diplomatic efforts over the years. He’s won the release of Americans held captive in the most difficult global hot spots – a U.S. pilot shot down over North Korea, three Red [...]

This statement was just released from Richardson’s office: “I am very concerned about reports I have heard of fictional events inserted into ABC’s upcoming “Path to 9/11” film. As a former senior member of the Clinton Administration, I know first hand of the efforts that were made to capture and eliminate Osama bin Laden. This [...]

Spencer Ackerman (via War and Piece): All Guantánamo detainees, according to the Supreme Court, have the right to at least some access to the U.S. legal system. [Khalid Shaikh Mohammed], therefore, will pose an interesting test: Should his probable trial reflect the legal doctrine of the “fruit of the poisoned tree”–that is, will evidence obtained [...]

Via digby comes Marc Lynch’s anaylsis of the talks in Rome: I don’t know anyone who will be surprised that the Rome conference failed – it seems to have been designed to fail, to give the US the chance to appear to be “doing something” while giving Israel the time it wants to continue its [...]