BTC News: If It Says ‘News,’ It Must Be True

The London Sunday Times confirms what everyone not swooning over the accent suspected about Tony Blair’s involvement in the invasion of Iraq.
A SECRET document from the heart of government reveals today that Tony Blair privately committed Britain to war with Iraq and then set out to lure Saddam Hussein into providing the legal justification.
The […]

Apropos of something, the US handed Chalabi’s Iraqi National Congress every file they could lift from the offices of Saddam’s secret police. One may be forgiven for thinking he’s made a political living off those files ever since, particularly since he as much as said he expected to.

Great speech by Al Gore last night, and another by Biden. Gore effectively interwove the idea that the filibuster should be preserved and that the proposed judges are nutcases in a common theme: the Republicans are extremist wackos trying to overturn the democracy.
As Mindgeek has demonstrated, Biden was correct when he argued that Senate […]

By all means, let’s give this lady a job on a federal appeals court.
Just days after a bitterly divided Senate committee voted along party lines to approve her nomination as a federal appellate court judge, California Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown told an audience Sunday that people of faith were embroiled in a […]

In other words, James Dobson and his pet Congressmonkey, Bill Frist, aren’t upset because anyone is attacking Christians; they’re upset because their particular brand of Christianity is being prevented from attacking others. They join a long roster of distinguished racists, homophobes and separatists who believe their rights are being trampled upon when other people’s rights are formally recognized.

Economic guru Alan Greenspan has suddenly discovered that slashing taxes and boosting spending can lead to unsustainable budget deficits, and is expressing some annoyance that the people he encouraged to wipe out the budget surplus aren’t taking note of his hieroglyphic mutterings.
Although Mr. Greenspan in 2001 approved the tax cuts that helped take the federal […]

Is it over so soon? I must’ve said something wrong the last time I talked to Scott, because today, when I tried to get his attention during the White House press briefing, he wouldn’t even look at me. Thirty-five minutes into the briefing he abruptly said, “Thank you,” and that was that — I was […]

Rice, typically, finds the problem not to be Bolton’s behavior but the people who are talking about Bolton’s behavior.

Matt Yglesias’ post pointed me to an essay by William Galston in the Washington Monthly. Galston is an interesting figure to me because he is both a respectable philosopher (although I think he gets Rawls completely wrong) and is active in liberal Democratic politics. In that he, like Daniel Patrick Moynihan, is something of […]

The old folks were right: that there rock’n’roll will fry your brain.
“Remember the Alamo! Shoot ‘em!” he screamed to applause. “To show you how radical I am, I want carjackers dead. I want rapists dead. I want burglars dead. I want child molesters dead. I want the bad guys dead. No court case. No parole. […]