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From Reuters:
WASHINGTON - Charges will be brought against U.S. Marines if an investigation into the alleged killing of unarmed Iraqi civilians uncovers wrongdoing, the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff said on Monday.
Marine Gen. Peter Pace also told CNN that he still did not know why it had taken nearly three months […]

From CNN:
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi sent a letter Wednesday to U.S. Rep. William Jefferson asking him to resign from the House Ways and Means Committee days after FBI agents raided his Capitol Hill office… Jefferson, a Louisiana Democrat, quickly wrote back that he would not give up his post on the committee.
The lawmaker’s office […]

Don’t panic. Comments will be fixed, hopefully by tomorrow. I’m attempting to upgrade and fix things all by myself, which, in retrospect, might not be the most brilliant thing I’ve ever done (I rank it up there with “refusing to get out of the way of Johnny’s croquet mallet on principle,” which was […]

This site is changing.
Change is inevitable and natural, unless you believe in an Intelligent Designer (and one look at the way the site works should put that idea to rest). So, failing an intervention by the all-loving Lobster, I may need some help.
As I’ve mentioned a few times, I will soon begin work on […]

Remember early 2004? Those heady, optimistic days? Sure, we’d just discovered that there were probably no WMD’s in Iraq, but at least we were winning, or at least we hadn’t started losing, or at least most people didn’t think we were losing. It was only two years after 9/11, and although we […]

As promised, today I am unveiling the website for my forthcoming and highly-anticipated new novel.
Let me just throw this switch over here… the one near all the exposed, sparking wires hanging over all those puddles and piles of oily rags… fssssszzztttFMP!!
People of the worldwide web, I give you the Schrödinger’s Ball website.
Cunningly designed by Russell […]

From CNN:
WASHINGTON (CNN) — President Bush will call for the deployment of “less than 10,000″ National Guard troops to the U.S.-Mexico border to serve a “supportive role” in the mission to keep people from entering the United States illegally, a senior administration official said Monday.

From the Times (via IHT):

So far, seven states have amendments against […]

I just returned from Chicago. Two notes:
- I think you’ll really want to hear this week’s “Wait Wait.” It’s our 1st anniversary of the “live in Chicago” format, and Tom Hanks is our guest. This one’ll be a keeper (if you “keep” such things).
- I will soon be launching a website […]

INT. JEB ‘08 HEADQUARTERS - DAY
[The HQ is a beehive of activity. Staffers are hurrying around everywhere - squeezing past one another, exchanging quick and information-rich sentences, gulping coffee, posting charts, amending whiteboards, sticking pins into maps, shouting into cell phones, crunching numbers, typing emails at blinding speed. Occasionally someone looks up […]