Mr. Plame Game himself, Tom McGuire has a well written argument about the fact that if anyone wanted to positively date Valerie (Liar, liar) Plame’s overseas service, they only need look at her records.
“So, did Ms. Plame perform service abroad for the CIA after July 1998? One place to look would be her CIA [...]

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This will take away your depression on a Sunday:
“Columnist and author Eric Alterman has been released after being arrested Sunday night inside the debate spin room. He was charged with criminal trespass after police say he refused repeated orders to leave.
Goffstown, N.H. police said Alterman was in the spin room as a guest of the [...]

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This is reposted from my primary blog, Crazy Politico’s Rantings. Normally I don’t do reposts here at Mac’s place, but since he’s such a national security guy, I figured he wouldn’t mind this.
Brigid Schulte of the Washington Post has an interesting, but easy to answer question, as the premise of an article today. “Why Won’t [...]

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People who voted for Democrats thinking that they were really going to clean up the corruption and waste in Washington have got to be filing mugging reports today.
“After promising unprecedented openness regarding Congress’ pork barrel practices, House Democrats are moving in the opposite direction as they draw up spending bills for the upcoming budget year.
Democrats [...]

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As if we didn’t know how he felt:
“Iran’s president said on Sunday the Lebanese and the Palestinians had pressed a “countdown button” to bring an end to Israel.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who triggered outrage in the West two years ago when he said Israel should be “wiped off the map”, has often referred to the destruction [...]

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He would make a crappy President:
“Former vice president Al Gore said Friday that he still hasn’t ruled out a presidential bid in 2008, but he doesn’t expect to run and might not possess the skills necessary to be elected president now.
Gore spoke to The Tennessean today before signing copies of his new book, The Assault [...]

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