September 2004

Link “I think it is plain and simple. Bush didn’t think that he had to go by the rules that others did,” says Knox.

Phil Carter has an excellent post on the radical changes to the US National Guard that have seen it go from an organisation you might join to avoid going to war – to one that certainly will send you to war. The US now has 168,915 reservists on operations overseas, largely due to reforms that…

“ATTN: PRESIDENT /CEO, > TRANPARENT ENTERPRISE. > LIBERIA. > I am ENG.VIKTOR BOUT, former special adviser on Diamond matters to the > former head of state of government of liberia President Charles Taylor. > Because of my strategic position in the former government and also being > a close confidant of the former head of…

An esteemed colleague, My Way of Thinking, has blogged reasons why, in his view, the Left should not support John Kerry. Oh God, are we on to this again? It’s a trope that some people on the left always argue that we should stand aside and let the latest bunch of bastards do as they…

All righty then, get a dose of this! “Bouffard, the Ohio document specialist, said that he had dismissed the Bush documents in an interview with The New York Times because the letters and formatting of the Bush memos did not match any of the 4,000 samples in his database. But Bouffard yesterday said that he…

The New York Times is reporting that the US Govt is increasingly concerned by the apparently increased possibility of a North Korean nuclear test. However, they are also very keen to play down the gigantic explosion reported in NK on Thursday. Of course, there is no possible way a bang that created a mushroom cloud…

Now, I’ve just spent a good hour composing a long post about the Bush documents, but Blogger had one of its increasingly frequent crappy fits and the lot vanished. So, I’ll keep this short. The fact you can recreate the documents in MS Word is no kind of argument that they were created that way.…

BBC NEWS | Politics | Downing Street hammer man arrest “A man has launched a sledgehammer attack on the security gates at the entrance of Downing Street forcing Whitehall to be closed off on Friday.” I think I can relate to that…

I have completed and submitted my dissertation! Update: a reader has requested a copy, which can be found here.

Records Say Bush Balked at Order (washingtonpost.com) Key papers concerning Bush’s (lack of)military service have been published. His CO, Lt.Col. Jerry Killian, is quoted as suspending young George from flying due to “failure to perform” and “failure to take his annual physical as ordered”. Killian also seems to have been concerned about the lad’s skiving…