Posted Tuesday, August 5, 2008 at 2:11 pm by Dillon MacRae
A startling new book released today and reviewed on Politico offers perhaps the most disturbing account yet of the gross malfeasance that a growing parade of critics and ex-insiders alike say seems to permeate the current executive branch of our government. “The Way of the World,” written by author and Pulitzer Prize-winning former Wall Street Journal reporter Ron Suskind, goes far beyond various past accounts that have claimed the White House in the run-up to Operation Iraqi Freedom intentionally ignored any intelligence or evidence that interfered with its own predetermined war mindset. If only they had stopped there. Read full post »
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Filed under: Foreign Policy, Military, National Security
Posted Saturday, August 2, 2008 at 8:32 am by Dillon MacRae
When U.S. biodefense scientist Bruce Ivins apparently committed suicide this week as federal investigators were preparing to charge him with five counts of murder in the 2001 anthrax attacks, the questions he left behind may prove to be as unnerving as the incident itself. Read full post »
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Filed under: National Security
Posted Wednesday, July 30, 2008 at 11:54 am by Dillon MacRae
Slightly off the political trail but fully pertinent nonetheless amid today’s saber rattling, the August issue of National Geographic features a fascinating look at the Iranian nation — largely through the prism of its rich and storied past as (ready for this?) the world’s first real superpower. Read full post »
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Filed under: Foreign Policy
Posted Sunday, July 20, 2008 at 2:39 pm by Dillon MacRae
Whoever wins the presidency in November may not feel like much of a winner at all once the ship of state is handed over to him Jan. 20. To say that ship is sailing on some mighty rough waters is an obvious understatement; clearly he will have his work cut out for him. Read full post »
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Filed under: 2008 Campaign, Economy
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