I’m just back from North Carolina, where my good friend Doug Marlette was buried on Saturday in a country churchyard near Hillsborough. Some of you may have seen this appreciation, which I wrote for the print magazine: A Southern-Fried Rebel “Y’all oughta come to Renaissance Weekend,” the anarcho-cartoonist Doug Marlette once told me. “It’s the [...]
This one from the LA Times’ Ned Parker out of Baghdad: Although Bush administration officials have frequently lashed out at Syria and Iran, accusing it of helping insurgents and militias here, the largest number of foreign fighters and suicide bombers in Iraq come from a third neighbor, Saudi Arabia, according to a senior U.S. military [...]
Some serious tension between Sens. Jim Webb and Lindsey Graham in a debate over Iraq. A highlight here: But the whole thing is well worth watching. The first half is basically civil (Webb tries to interrupt when Graham insists that al Qaeda is the “number one” enemy) but at about 15 minutes in, it gets [...]
