Very odd. Following 9/11, over 200 Israelis were arrested, identified as likely Mossad agents, and eventually deported. The deportations without espionage charges aren’t unusual, Israeli spying in the U.S., and vis-versa, are by gentlemen’s agreement not prosecuted as such and treated as immigration status issues. That is the way it has been for many years. … Read more
FINAL UPDATE: The State GOP has admitted paying for the robocalls and Downing recieved matching funds that he is using for a robocall of his own to set the record straight. Looks like Ted stepped on some sensitive GOP toes while in the legislature. My money is on Jan Brewer as the source of this … Read more
As The Washington Note confirms, the nomination of John Bolton as U.N. Ambassador from the United States is dead. While that’s great, Bolton is dangerously angry ideologue who had no business in diplomacy, the real story is who killed him. It was the GOP Senator from Rhode Island, Lincoln Chaffee, that put the bullet in … Read more
So sue me; I was reading the Wildcat. I know that the editorials are almost universally fatuous bullshit from cocksure little undergrads whose life experience can fit in the period at the end of this sentence, but even given my low expectations, I was flabbergasted by the presumption of one Matt Stone. Here is his … Read more
I was over on the Tucson Drinking Liberally bulletin board, and one of our lushes suggested that Bush was preparing an October surprise in the form of the trial of high-level Al Qaeda members, specifically of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (OBL’s putative No. 2) who is among the 14 high-level detainees in the war on terror … Read more