Yesterday in the Senate, the GOP and some conservative Democrats fell just a few votes short of 60 in an effort to invoke cloture on the nomination of John Bolton to be the U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Several Democrats, including Harry Reid, John Kerry, Joe Biden and Chris Dodd were quick to claim that […]
Today's Washington Post front page Koran story with the provocative headline: Pentagon Confirms Koran Incidents 'Mishandling' Cases Preceded Guidelines Established in 2003 Oh! Confirmation of Koran de toilette? No, not exactly. He said most of the 13 cases involved accidental or inadvertent touching of the Koran by guards and interrogators -- such as someone bumping […]