Plead the First

A friend pointed this out to me yesterday – apparently, Karl Rove has an October surprise up his sleeve for the elections this year: In the past week, Karl Rove has been promising Republican insiders an “October surprise” to help win the November congressional elections … Rove is not saying what the October surprise will […]

Key judgements from the “Trends in Global Terrorism” National Intelligence Estimate have been declassified and placed online. At least from this portion of it, the report sounds less damning than the original news articles suggested. Iraq is but one of several reasons listed for the spread of Islamic radicalism: Four underlying factors are fueling the […]

A recent National Intelligence Estimate reportedly claims that the war in Iraq is actually increasing the risk posed to us by Islamic terrorism: The classified National Intelligence Estimate attributes a more direct role to the Iraq war in fueling radicalism than that presented either in recent White House documents or in a report released Wednesday […]

“Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.” – Mark Twain Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington has released a report on the 20 most corrupt members of Congress. You can read the full report at their site, or click on a name in the […]

I haven’t ever participated in one of these memes before, but then again, I’ve never been asked. Now I find that Billy has tagged Joel and Joel has tagged me. So here are the questions, and my answers: 1: Do you like the look and the contents of your blog? Yes. There are some tweaks […]

Ed Brayton has a great post up at Dispatches From the Culture Wars. It deals with the way people draw unnecessary battle lines based on attributes such as religion, when in reality we often find that many of the truly important issues tend to make those battle lines irrelevant and even harmful. One passage stood […]

ConvergeSouth is coming soon. Ben asked if I’d be interested in creating a short promo video for it. At first I said “no” because while I enjoy making home movies, I’d never made a video that didn’t involve small babies and family members. Eventually, I decided to give it a try. Here’s the result: I’m […]