Archives for October 2008

“… on Tuesday, a U.S. soldier died after his unit came under small arms fire in northern Baghdad, the U.S. military said.” He was the 25th US fatality in September. A bombing near a restaurant in the Karrada district of Baghdad marred Eid al-Fitr, the festival of the end of the month-long Ramadan fast on […]

Remember how Sarah Palin said that she explored foreign countries through books and how implausible that was? Now it turns out that she can’t even name any newspapers or magazines that she reads reqularly. Pressed by Katie Couric, she said she reads ‘all of them, any of them.’ In a 2006 Pew poll, only 40 […]

Rice led Bush administration discussions of torture techniques, according to documents secured and released by Sen. Carl Levin as part of a congressional inquiry. I can’t tell from this article how complicit Rice was in authorizing torture; that she was complicit in policy-making on the issue now seems clear. We also know what the outcome […]