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Tweet Did the story of Jamie Leigh Jones provoke outrage? No really, I’m actually asking? Because seeing her story come up again in today’s L.A. Times, I wonder. I mean it’s not like I didn’t hear about it, [somewhere between Brittany’s gone bat-shit episodes] and its not like it didn’t piss me off when I did

Tweet“What [makes] Power’s argument so bracing–and cemented its place as one of the decade’s most important books on U.S. foreign policy–was her verdict that, far from ignoring genocide, three generations of American leaders knowingly and deliberately decided it was not in the country’s interest to stop it. “One of the most important conclusions I have

Tweet“167 bodies have been found in Baghdad in the first six days of June, according to an official at the Interior Ministry. The numbers remain below the average seen before the rise in American forces but are much higher than the levels recorded in March and April. As the rising body count stoked new concerns

TweetCourtesy of your newest old friend and as always humble narrator here’s the full text of Senator (and presidential hopeful) Barack Obama’s “remarks” at the Ebenezer church in Atlanta this morning  … enjoy: ****   The Scripture tells us that when Joshua and the Israelites arrived at the gates of Jericho, they could not enter.

TweetIn case you don’t already know, Bremmer’s the author of that book The J Curve.