8 Articles

Friday, August 8, 2008
A dream press conference with John McCain
(1 comments) John McCain is held accountable for past statements in an imaginary press conference.

Saturday, September 15, 2007
Checking Bush's numbers
(5 comments) Bush in his September 13 speech thanked the 36 countries that are providing troops on the ground. Unfortunately, data from the Brookings Institution show only 7 countries with combat troops, and only 3 of those have 1000 troops or more. How to account for the difference?

Friday, March 30, 2007
March Madness: or the amazing disappearing story
(3 comments) Last Friday, the Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq was seriously injured in a suicide bombing that killed 20 people, including his brother. To read about this story, you are forced to go to foreign sources. Why?

Saturday, October 28, 2006
Does it matter when it's over if the truth was even right?

Wednesday, October 18, 2006
Ich Vergessen
(1 comments) There is a new wave of forgetfulness in Washington that brings to mind all of the amnesia that accompanied Watergate

Tuesday, July 25, 2006
Sure and Gomorrah
Our Congress is fighting to make it even tougher for broadcasters to say a bad word. Is this making us more moral?

Thursday, July 6, 2006
What would Mark Twain say?
(4 comments) Mark Twain wrote some of the most vehement anti-war passages in the English language. Ballard muses about what Twain would say about our current world.

Tuesday, June 13, 2006
A tale of two towns
Fox News pundit Bill O'Reilly has bragged about his boyhood in Levittown, New York. This has been called into question by others, including his own mother. New evidence from an unlikely source helps to clear up the mystery once and for all.