What Do I Know?

[March 2, 2008: Taxi didn't win the best doc at the Anchorage International Film Festival, but it did win the Academy Award. Gibney ...

Say what you want, but Michael Moore knows how to frame an issue. And we all have had enough experience with US health care to know that he...

CHARLESTON, WV - The American Civil Liberties Union today announced a successful resolution of the case of Jeffery and Nicole Rank, the youn...

Nothing new here, except that there are still people who don't get it - that the most likely reason we are in Iraq is oil, and that the ...

The ADN headline today is "Murkowski returns disputed land." At least Lisa M. recognizes that some people could see this as a co...

From Scott Horton, Harper's Magazine. For those of you who missed the testimony of Alberto Gonzales before the Judiciary Committee, I’d ...

How did we get here? How is it that Gonzales is still the attorney general? What will the history books say about this administration? Ha...

Rosa Brook's July 13 piece from the LA Times helped crystallize some questions I've been having about the calls for withdrawal from...

My son is back in the T-shirt business. He designed a T-shirt when he was headed to Denmark to work several years ago. As an American in ...

On July 19, 2005, MSNBC reported President Bush said Monday that if anyone on his staff committed a crime in the CIA-leak case, that person ...

Attending and posting on the Anderson trial has kept me from addressing another important issue: the commuting of Scooter Libby's priso...

The Washington Post began a series on Dick Cheney Sunday. It's June 2007, almost six years after 9/11, and I'm sure that there ar...

It seems hard for some Americans to understand why Iraqis might not be too happy with American soldiers in their country. But what would ha...

How much do I need to know? How much time do I need to spend to keep up? Here's what the Anchorage Daily News had to say in its "...

May 01, 2007 Defeat, Retreat, and Repeat ( RealClearPolitics [The title for this at the Anchorage Daily News was "War opponents are wr...

The Barbados Free Press in a May 5th post picked up on Pete Kott's interest in a job in Barbados. “You’ll get your gas line, the gove...

Resignation of Ambassador Randall Tobias Resigned when his name came up on a list of call girl customers in Washington,DC. He was working o...

The Best and the Brightest was an incredible book that meticulously told the story of how Kennedy put together his dream cabinet, that blun...

The first response is shock. Then, as a blogger, I feel myself with nothing to say that adds anything to what has been said. What topics a...