Sources close to General Stanley McChrystal are pushing back heavily against last month’s Rolling Stone article that resulted in the general being relieved of his command over US forces in Afghanistan. Reporter Michael Hastings’s story was replete with quotes from the banter among McChrystal and his “traveling staff of 10.”…
Vice President Joe Biden, in a tv interview Wednesday, said that Israel had the right to stop an aid flotilla en route to Gaza that was intercepted by Israeli forces and resulted in the deaths of several activists. Haaretz, the Israeli daily, noted that Biden didn’t “go so far as…
Before I begin with this, I want to show you the “About Us” section of The Classiest Blogger Of All Time, who writes a blog called Uncoached. I’ve created Uncoached for the sole purpose of showing you that there are some things in this world that can’t be taught. There…
Joe Biden has been blessedly pushing for what should be an obvious policy idea to relieve our economic woes—invest in building infrastructure, especially a train system that would reduce pollution, relieve people’s spending on cars and gasoline, and employ people in the process. It’s a peculiar psychosis Americans have that…
It took me far too long to work up the enthusiasm to watch this video I just posted about Joe Biden’s and the VAWA. It was 6 minutes, and I thought I knew all I needed to know, and so I didn’t watch it until today. That was a mistake.…
Folks at my pad were having fun with this one. As you know, when candidates prep for a debate, usually they have a member of their own party stand in for the opposition, and that person tries to approximate the demeanor of the opponent to make it a realistic practice.…