Author: Books Alive

This is going to be a treat! First time for me to see C-Span covering a Senate-House conference committee meeting. Starts about 4:30pm.

Give ’em hell, Harry offers the Senate Leader a chance to promote his own petitions. 100,000 responded to his request for signatures supporting the Supplemental funding bill. He’s just sent his thanks, saying the...

Late night browsing turns up an anonymous column in today’s Washington Post. This reports on the person’s experience with having been served one of the National Security letters. He no longer has to report to the FBI...

CNN is advertising that Sen Obama will be on Larry King on Monday, 9pm. Secondly, just saw on Balkinization that Jeremy Scahill is publishing a new book on Blackwater, the private security firm that I’m prone to post...

I just finished reading his new book. As usual for Chris, this book is provocative and eye-opening. Certain words and passages ring out with an eerie familiarity, for example, “transformation.” Awhile back, there was...