Let’s use the parenthesis of the weekend to squeeze in a piece of cheery news from across the pond. Former Argentine President Isabel Peron, 75, has been arrested by Spanish police as part of a deepening probe into death squad murders of the 1970′s. It took long enough, but better late than never. She now [...]

Maybe someone should download that old Dino classic onto GW Bush’s I-Pod. After Bush’s speech last nite I predicted it would only galvanize opinion against him. Though, Hotline former editor Chuck Crawford put it more directly on MSNBC: Bush looked the guy who was drilling a hole in the bottom of his boat to get [...]

I went to last sleep chuckling over CNN’s post-Bush pundit show. Those invited to react? Andrew Sullivan. Joe Klein. and David Gergen. Not only do the first two look alike, but all three have nearly identical politics. In the interests of slightly broadening the debate over the war, I offer the testimony of one “Momma [...]

I just watched Bush’s Big Speech on Iraq from the perfect vantage point: a motel room on the outskirts of Greeley, Colorado. I could look out my 3rd story window and see nothing but vast, sprawling and near empty snow-covered fields. Then I could shift my gaze toward the President on TV and see pretty [...]

I’ve been waiting a long time to write something in which I could squeeze the words Hugo Chavez and pendejo into the same sentence. Now thanks to the latest outburst from El Companero Presidente, I can.  The Spanish word pendejo doesn’t have an exact translation into English. The most literal version would be “ass hair.” [...]

Who’s gonna blink first? Wednesday night President Bush, against all odds and in spite of all expert advice, will announce his escalation of the war in Iraq. Meanwhile, leading Democrats continue to crabwalk toward confrontation, suggesting more openly that they might, maybe, perhaps will try to block funding for Bush’s move. We at least have [...]

Time to dust off your scratched-up Tom Paxton LP’s and start replaying his classic “Lyndon Johnson Told The Nation:” Lyndon Johnson told the nation, “Have no fear of escalation. I am trying everyone to please. Though it isn’t really war, We’re sending fifty thousand more, To help save Viet nam from Viet Namese.” OK, maybe [...]

It’s taken two months since they were granted a congressional majority by American voters, but Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi have finally worked up the nerve to publicly oppose George W. Bush’s impending troop surge escalation  of the war in Iraq. Better late than never, I suppose. As the NYTimes points out, it remains to [...]

I can’t decide which event was more over-hyped by CNN. The funeral of Gerald Ford? Or the self-glorification rites of Pelosi’s Congressional Democrats? Choose either one and you come to the same conclusion. Americans — or at least their cable networks– are totally bereft of historic memory. Ford was an unelected lackluster President who had [...]

By the time you read this sometime Thursday the new Democratic-majority congress will be seated. And with much ballyhoo, Speaker Pelosi’s first 100 hours of reform will be underway. [Yawn] Yes, there are real limits and constraints on how much the Democrats can achieve. They face executive vetoes, a faction of their party that are [...]

A new name in the news: Mowaffak al-Rubaie. The Iraqi Prime Minister’s National Security Advisor and… apparently— Chief Holder of the Cell Phone Camera. Josh Marshall has the most complete run-down of al-Rubaie’s constantly shifting story on who did what in the Saddam snuff video.

I’ve polished off my long-deserved winter break by meditating on the grim circumstances portrayed in the Saddam execution video bouncing around the net.  I can’t take credit for coming up with the line, but the most appropriate description I read was it that looked just like one of the snuff videos from a black-hooded jihadist [...]