Unqualified Offerings

Ralph Peters goes “Back to Baghdad.” It would be comedy gold but for some very ugly undercurrents. Briefly, the agenda of the column is
a) To continue to pretend Peters wasn’t full of shit when he wrote his absurd March column, “Dude, Where’s My Civil War?”
WHEN I visited Baghdad in March, there was no civil war. [...]

Experts: Possible Explanations for Landis’ Testosterone Levels
In brief:
1. Test is prone to false positives.
2. “[A] spike in testosterone can also result from certain circumstances occuring either before or after winning games . . . ”
3. Landis’ hip condition may cause his body to release extra testosterone in an attempt to speed recovery.
Updates pending. We’ll get [...]

Is it true that most of Iraq is calm except for Baghdad and two or three other provinces, is it more like, as Eric Martin glossed swopa in comments here yesterday, “a fire engulfing a house, with an overwhelmed man racing from one end to the other wondering where to pour his lone bucket of [...]

“Why Not the GOP?,” by Lincoln Ferree of the Freedom Democrats site, is an effectively concise account of the reasons why libertarians (upper and lower-case) ought to give up on the Republican Party, if they ever put much allegiance in it. The only thing I’d add to his bill of particulars is that the Republican [...]

US and Iraq to boost troop presence in Baghdad. Per Reuters:
[President Bush] said forces would be moved to the capital from other areas of the country.
So one more grand initiative starts with great fanfare and fails. It was a little over a month ago that . . .
Iraqi and US forces began a security [...]

A funny thing happened on the way to the al-Maliki address to the US Congress:
House Democrats on Monday crafted a letter to Hastert urging him to cancel the speech by al-Maliki to the chamber. The letter, which was being circulated for signatures, argues that if the Iraqi leader’s positions are at odds with U.S. foreign [...]

Of all the words I’ve learned from my kids, I think my favorite is – “Cheaterpants!”

In Mrs. Offering’s professional opinion, yesterday’s Post article on Campaign 2006 is the best overview she’s seen of the issues and key races for this fall.

Your Talking Dog continues his superb series of interviews with counsel for various terror defendants, conversing with Michael Ratner of the Center for Constitutional Rights.

Heh. Hearst’s peroration on the virtues of capitalism did, I confess it, stir a passion in my heart. What is Odell’s con? Just being sent back to NYC and Liberia with one of Hearst’s representatives wouldn’t be much of a payoff.
Now we know that Odell was sent away very early in his life, which would [...]