Author: Rick B2

[This started as a comment and got too long.] The most recent hoax from Cheney and the Bush administration is the effort to blame the Iranians for the Explosively Formed Penetrators (EFPs) weapons that are being used against the...

Digby very kindly channels us to the wisdom of Pat Buchanan. I hope you find this juxtopostion of individuals as jarring as I do. See below the fold:    “Pat Buchanan said something quite bracing on the...

[promoted by BooMan] Our local (Fort Worth – Dallas) CBS news just announced the death of the columnist Molly Ivins. She was recently hospitalized with a recurrance of breast cancer. She was age 62. The world in general...

Iraq’s a mess. The U.S. Army and Marine ground forces will take a decade and billions to rebuild so that they are again effective. Israel, the occupied territories and Lebanon are a mess. Iran  is becoming more of a...

I just read two posts that make exactly the point Democrats need to take into the November election against Republicans everywhere. The first is (of course) Digby quoting Jim Webb from this mornings’ interview with George...