Archives: 2007 December

Hollywood is producing nothing but box-office flops about the Iraq war. Even big stars like Robert Redford, Tom Cruise Meryl Streep or Reese Witherspoon cannot mange to fill theaters. Perhaps it is because they got the story lines wrong. The truth is better than their convoluted fiction, and I have a story […]

Glenn Reynolds links to the New York Times story on the putative independent presidential candidacy of Mayor Michael Bloomberg with the tag “a nanny on horseback.” The Times article provides a preview of the high-minded themes and gasbags that would be associated with his candidacy:
Former Senator David L. Boren of Oklahoma, who organized the […]

I hear Gov. Ed Rendell is vacationing in Jamaica as the year draws to a close. He could use the rest. Rendell had the worst year ever in 2007, according to me and 52 percent of the readers who participated in my unscientific poll last week.
I asked readers of this blog to pick which of […]

There is both good and bad in the way we select our nation’s chief executive. The dominance of two political parties, a rather weird primary system, the influence of money on the process, and an electoral college system in lieu of a direct popular vote all seem to fly in the face of democratic […]

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US special forces snatch squads are on standby to seize or disable Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal in the event of a collapse of government authority or the outbreak of civil war following the assassination of Benazir Bhutto.
The troops, augmented by volunteer scientists from America’s Nuclear Emergency Search Team organisation, are under orders to take control of […]

Britain’s Channel 4 News has acquired video footage of Benazir Bhutto’s assassination that appears to establish that Ms. Bhutto was shot before the suicide bomber exploded his device. You can see the footage in Channel 4’s report below. The gunman and the bomber are both visible; they approach Bhutto’s vehicle while she is […]