Dick Cheney's Unpopular Daughter To Run for Office in a State Where She's Despised
Liz Cheney, an aspiring politician who is unpopular among family members and constituents alike, is taking another crack at this whole power game.
George W. Bush Is the Father of the Year
On the morning of the Father of the Year Awards Luncheon, I ran out of bread enough to even make cinnamon toast for my children, and I ended up serving them some Chocolate Chex and the last apple in the house. Not that I was going there to win Father of the Year. I was merely going to watch.
CIA Director John Brennan Bravely Holds Out Against Saying "Torture"
Is the CIA physically capable of speaking the truth about its torture program? Not under conventional interrogation. About 20 minutes into CIA director John Brennan's somber-squirrel performance in his press conference yesterday, a reporter for the Associated Press asked him a pointed question: "Do you agree with…
"Rarely has a U.S. president been so wrong about so much at the expense of so many," write Richard Cheney and Liz Cheney in the Wall Street Journal, describing a "willfully blind" foreign policy leading to "thousands of slaughtered Iraqis." They mean Barack Obama. Who else would they mean?
"His critics call him Darth Vader, a war criminal, an evil genius, the puppet master behind the throne. But sitting with him, I was struck by how calm, unflappable and unbombastic he was." "But," you say?
Serbian War Criminal Ratko Mladić Arrested
A Serbian Interior Ministry official told Reuters today that a man bearing "some physical features" of Ratko Mladić — the former Chief of Staff of the Bosnian Serb Army and noted war criminal — has been arrested, pending a DNA test.
Naomi Campbell was Given 'Dirty-Looking Stones' by Alleged War Criminal
Model Naomi Campbell testified today at the war crimes trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor, and admitted she was given "dirty-looking stones" as a gift in 1997, alleged to be "blood diamonds" that fueled Sierra Leone's civil war.
'I Have Complete Contempt for Henry Kissinger,' Says Kissinger's Protege
Dr. Henry Kissinger, who is the sort of man who has protégés, hosted a book party for one named Joshua Cooper Ramo. Sadly for Hank, Ramo's book is largely about thinking Kissinger is super wrong.
Brave New World
As Mr. Kissinger said in his remarks: "I don't know what a blog is. I don't know how to find a blog." His computer, he said, is used to read newspapers.
"I thought my privacy was mine, not yours," he added somewhat feebly. Powerline's John Hinderaker shrugged and shot Kissinger a lopsided smile. "You should've known…
