Unqualified Offerings

Very many thanks to Bradrocket at Sadly No for coming to the Mona Rent Party. Seriously, you rock, Bradley.

Rudy Giuliani hired a ghostwriter to produce the requisite manifesto, “Don’t Say You Weren’t Warned,” for Foreign Affairs magazine. It’s full of lies, oversimplifications and vagueness, but makes up for all that by being very, very tedious. Because the genre requires him to name-check every part of the world – perhaps to assure the alleged [...]

By Thoreau
In a thread yesterday, I talked about how the threat against Congress, the one that got them to wet themselves and pass the East Germany Restoration Act, was at best deceitful cherry-picking of incomplete and unreliable data (see: WMD, Iraqi) and at worst a deliberate fabrication. In the comments, a wise person [...]

By Mona
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Awwww. Karl Rove, family man extraordinaire, wants to “spend more time” with his. So, he’s deserting his man Bush:

What he didn’t say is that by getting out of town he is also hoping to avoid spending any time at all with Congressional investigators.
Congress should not oblige.
The American public needs to understand the [...]