I’m taking a week’s vacation starting next tuesday. Who wants to guest-host here at Thudfactor? Read more »

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“Calpundit”:http://www.calpundit.com/ points out this one. Regarding the size of the American force in Afghanistan, Bush said yesterday:
bq. “We’ve got about 10,000 troops there, which is down from, obviously, major combat operations.”
However, the Post points out:
bq. In fact, the 10,000 troops in Afghanistan represent the highest number of U.S. soldiers in the country since the war [...] Read more »

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The way this game is played is like this: you comment or email that you want to be interviewed, and I send you five questions to answer and put on your own weblog. And then when people ask *you* to be interviewed, you write them five questions, and so on and so on. Here’s the [...] Read more »

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People may have short memories, but fortunately there’s a written record of history. Lest people — even those on our side — think the push to remove George W. Bush from office is about the “16 Words” or Democratic vendetta over the Supreme Court’s 2000 election decision, let me direct your attention to the Wage [...] Read more »

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You know, with so many Democratic contenders in the race so far, I’ve tried to limit my energy to following the declared candidates. But I’m hearing more and more about this “General Clark guy”:http://www.usndemvet.com/blog/archives/000854.html.
I don’t know much about his politics. What I’ve seen so far is he (like Dean) isn’t afraid to be bare-knucked [...] Read more »

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