The above headline isn't even the half of it. After the attacks were known to all, James Carville told assembled Washington reporters at a hotel conference room breakfast where he and Democratic pollster Stanley Greenberg spoke (photo is from the May 20, 2004 Christian Science Monitor) to "Disr...

newVideoPlayer("/arichrisfight.flv", 506, 423,""); Oh man. Who even knows why this happened, but Chris Matthews and former Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer had a hilarious bitchy fight a few minutes ago. Ari calls Chris "shameful" and says "how dare you" and then they talk over each other for a fe...

    I have watched with mild amusement this week the self-immolation of the Republican Party as it bows before the altar of Rush Limbaugh, begging for mercy, pleading for forgiveness, breathlessly seeking guidance and wisdom from The Oracle.     President Obam...

A Los Angeles Times front-pager portrays an anxious LA Muslim community riven between those who accept the need for heightened surveillance since 9/11/01 and those who fear hounding of the innocent.  Some Muslims say they are refraining from free speech, charitable giving and even avoiding mos...

When is an apology not an apology? When it is a sick game. But that guy does not care. Bishop Richard Williamson apologized today for nothing. He did not retract his Holocaust denial or his lifetime of antisemitic preaching and teaching. To an antisocial personality like Williamson everything is a g...

The Twin Towers March 2001 (Image from Wikipedia ) I spent this morning explaining to my NYC cyber-friend Malcolm Pollack a question that I had earlier posed to him, and since I'm out of time as a consequence of my explanation, I'll post that exchange here in lieu of some other blog entry that I mig...

The consequences of the so-called "war on terror" as personified in the gruesome experience of Binyam Mohammed: Mohammed arrived in Britain in 1994. He lived in Wornington Road, North Kensington, and studied at Paddington Green College. For most of this time, said his brother, he rarely went to a mo...

On Tuesday nights, now through late April, you can catch visiting filmmakers and movie industry pros discussing and screening their work at MSU's annual Film Forum. Upcoming speakers include producers Tia Lessin and Carl Deal ("Fahrenheit 9/11," "Bowling for Columbine"). On Mar. 10, they'll present ...

I just heard a song today, listening to my iPod while my wife and I were eating dinner, and she said, "Is this song about Islam?" I looked it up. Sure enough. It is from a not-very-popular album by Leonard Cohen. The song is called "On That Day." Here are the lyrics: Some people sayIt's what we dese...

The Wall Street Journal editors note recent stances taken by President 44 and see more continuity than change we can believe in" as to anti-terror policy.  They note this astonishing exchange in a federal court case on "extraordinary rendition" that began under Bush 43: In this ...