War correspondents are a relatively new entity on history’s battlefields, only since the middle of the 19th century have these adrenaline-driven reporters been around to point out foolish, fatal horrors of war. In the Crimean…
Under the newly-approved SOFA arrangement in Iraq, US troops have to be out by 2011. This dovetails with President-Elect Obama’s 16-month commitment to pull the plug on the Iraqi misadventure, but the way things happen,…
As the UK prepares to remove its Iraqi operations out in a couple of months — in a “humiliating” withdrawal — Decider George’s last visit to that ruined country this past weekend windows the disaster…
Quick and forceful: Decider George dodged and ducked more than some footware today. See the YouTube video here. (Illustration found here). Accordingly, one Muntadhar al-Zaidi, an Iraqi journalist with Egypt-based al-Baghdadia television network, the guy…
Everything!! (Illustration found here). Just when you figured Decider George’s blundering for near-eight years was all in the big stuff — Iraq, Katrina, the economy — think once, and maybe even think twice more. According…
Karl and George: Still up to no good. Now they’re on an exploding PR exit-strategy bandwagon to try and purify Decider George’s putrid near-eight years in office. (Illustration found here). In the closing days of…
In a flash: There’s a couple of stories out there this morning on Decider George’s legacy — both today and beyond next month. One from CNN here and the other from Juan Cole here, although…
The mouthpiece has moved beyond the mouth. Decider George’s front gal, Dana Perino, not the sharpest knife in the drawer, bit the lip of goofiness yesterday during an exchange with Helen Thomas, seemingly the only…
Nearly two years ago, the current lame-duck White House bunch were put on notice the financial system was ready to collapse, ready to fold-up more like a chair sitting a fat-ass banker than a house…
A reunion of history sipping ice tea and savoring the memories. Journalism became a celebrity job in the mid 1970s, surging upward an already-emerging elite, near-aristocratic class of news people, from the copy desk, reporters,…