The sad fact is that we have just passed the 2,000 mark for U.S. fatalities in Iraq. This grim tally surely gives us pause to ask once more: why? The pretexts for war given to us by the Administration have all long ago been exposed as either misleading or wrongheaded: there were no weapons of […]

Now it turns out [at least according to the New York times] that Libby learned Valerie Plame’s name from Dick Cheney and not from reporters. Whoops, looks like Dick’s in deeper than even I thought! All these leaks of information in the last week or so of a hitherto lips-sealed investigation are mighty fishy: sounds […]