The New York Times opines: Under Republican control, Congress has exercised virtually no oversight of the administration’s misconduct of the war, and the new Democratic leadership is eager to hold extensive hearings. The public deserves a full accounting (backed by subpoenas, if necessary) of how prewar intelligence was cooked, why American troops were sent to war without adequate armor, and where billions of dollars in reconstruction aid disappeared to. A

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006): Incredibly entertaining movie.  See it.

I just learned an Afghan security offical I worked with while S-5 of TF Eagle was killed a while back.  Gul Zaman worked a really wild area – the Koh-e Safi.  I didn’t really go to the place much, as I contented myself with almost blowing up in a minefield on the border of the Koh-e Safi (in Ashrafkhel). The report says it was Taliban, but it easily could have

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006): I sure hope this is funny enough to justify all the hype.  That wacky Ali G!

Last week, I described a nightmare scenario in which the Republicans won the midterm prompting the president, high on mandate juice, to form the Department of Shut The F*** Up, headed by a sock puppet named Secretary Fiddlesticks. Now that the Democrats have taken back the Congress and 51+ percent of America finally has a voice in government again, I think it’s time to seriously let fly. So at the

Republican Sen. John McCain intends to take the first formal step toward a White House run next week by launching a presidential exploratory committee, GOP officials say. The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity to avoid pre-empting a public statement from the four-term Arizona senator, who is considered the front-runner for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination. McCain, the GOP maverick who unsuccessfully sought his party’s nomination in 2000, already

From the morons at crooksandliars: On page 344, Woodward describes the doings at the White House in the early morning hours of Wednesday, the day after the ‘04 election. Apparently, Kerry had decided not to concede. There were 250,000 outstanding ballots in Ohio. So Kerry decides to fight. In fact, he considers going to Ohio to camp out with his voters until there is a recount. This is the last

Here. Frankfurt, 80 km (50 miles) east of Berlin on the Oder river, is in Brandenburg, one of three ex-communist states where far-right parties won enough votes for state parliament seats. The federal government has called a rise in anti-Semitic violence worrying. Police said last month attacks by far-right groups rose 20 percent in the first eight months of 2006. In July, extremists in the neighbouring state of Saxony-Anhalt burned

(Cross-posted from Bloody Scott) The University of Wisconsin is now offering instruction in Conspiracy Theory. The time to jump into this fast-growing field is now, when you can get in on the ground floor. Learn the rhetorical and evidentiary techniques that will undoubtedly be in demand under the coming regime of pan-Islamism. The future is approaching; do you wish to be part of it? I like this one: Conspiracy Theory

The following is a paper I wrote in college about the Battle of the Bulge.  I offer it on this Veteran’s Day as a thanks to my father and his friend Eric Wood, who served together in WWII, and to all veterans everywhere.  I also offer it as a reminder to those who think that this current war we’re in isn’t a battle for the survival of the nation every